30th June Last night at Gourock Park saw two excellent quarter-final games in this year's Club Championship being played. Ian Brown,a former Champ at Gourock Park was playing Joda Reid,one of Gourock Parks ever improving players and in the other game last years Senior Champion,Archie Forbes was playing Jim Crawford.. The Game between Ian and Joda was close until Ian took a 10 shots to 5 lead after gaining a "four" in the 8th end.Joda replied with a single in the 9th,only for Ian to further increase his lead with a "three" in the 10th end.The next two ends saw Joda getting one more shot and Ian ganing "two" to lead 15 shots to 7 after twelve ends played. At this stage in the game,it was looking as if Ian had built up a big enough lead over his opponent and go to win the game. However,Joda,never one for giving up easily,had other ideas. Over the course of the next seven ends he played some excellent bowling as he gained twelve shots,with Ian only managing a single,to lead by 19 shots to 16 shots.Ian gained another single shot in the 20th end,but it was Joda who went on to win by 21 shots to 17 with a fine display of drawing in what was to be the last end. The Game between Archie Forbes and Jim Crawford was an excellent game to watch,only slighty spoiled by the miserable weather of heavy rain that came on for the last 30 minutes of the game. Archie started the game strongly and after seven ends he lead Jim by 8 shots to 1. Over the next six ends however,Jim did not let his spirits go down and gained "ten shots" to Archie's "two" to lead by 11 shots to 10.From then on the lead changed hands several times with it being level at 13 shots each and 14 shots each. Archie took the lead at the 20th end only to have a disaster in the next when Jim scored a maximum of "four shots" to lead by 19 shots to 16.With the rain getting worse and the playing conditions getting heavier,Archie gained "two shots" to reduce the deficit to one shot at "19 shots to 18". It was Jim that progressed to the Semi-final though with "two shots" in the 24th end Jim Crawford will now play Joda Reid in the Semi-Final with the winner playing the victor in the other semi-final between Dougie Twaddle and John Gibson. 27th June It was good to see Past President,Dougie Brown spectating at Giffnock on Sunday.Dougie recently underwent a quadruple heart bypass and all going well he should be back playing next season. The Results and some pictures from The R.B.A.Finals are now on this site I hope you will enjoy my "New Weekly Quiz" One Gourock Park member who has had a go at the quiz this week was stuck when trying to answer the following question- "In what year did Robert Grant win his 1st Club Championship at Gourock Park"? This should have been an easy question to answer! but alas this member got the question wrong. Who was this Member? I dont think you will need 3 guesses? Thanks to John Freeburn,i have been able to update both Sections of the G&D Leagues, Tonight at Gourock Park, 2 Quarter-Final games were played. In the Championship,Dougie Twaddle emerged successful over Tommy Monkhouse,but shock of the night was the result between Robert Hughes and John Kane in the Presidents Singles. The score was a massive 21 shots to 1(ONE) to John. Poor Robert just had one of those nights when nothing goes right and probably wished he at stayed at home and watched Coronation Street.John played some excellent bowling and must be a strong contender for winning The Presidents Singles. 25th June Our Triples (George Twaddle,Robert Grant & Archie Forbes) unfortunately lost in the Final of the Renfrewshire Championship at Giffnock BC on Sun 24th. They lost 15 v 11 to Blacklandmill BC in a game which was always close.Some pictures of the day and full results will be added to the site shortly.. The Greenock& District League Tables will be updated as soon as possible,I apologise for not being able to update them on a more regular basis. 22nd June I have added a new feature to the Web-Site.My new weekly quiz will give you the chance to flex your brain power on a variety of different subjects.I would also like to give you the opportunity to send in your own questions for others to try.They can be as hard or as easy as you like. Send them to me at Gary@Gourockpark.co.uk The Quiz will be updated every Sunday 20th June Gourock Park achieved their first Trophy win of the new season when they won The Fletcher Trophy. Scores were as follows--- Gourock Park 39 Shots Victoria 24 shots Gourock 20 Port Glasgow,Grosvenor & Lady Alice 14 Wellington 10 Ardgowan 9 Parklea 2 Hillend -4 Birkmyre -12 IBM -17 Fort Matilda -27 Rankin Park -36 Kilmacolm -51 18th June Gourock Park's President,Dougie Twaddle won the Singles Final against Glenn Greenway of Gourock BC at Lady Alice yesterday.Another success for Gourock Park was The Triples trio of Archie Forbes,Robert Grant and George Twaddle who have made it to the Final of The Renfrewshire Championship.. Everyone at Gourock Park was saddened to hear that one of our "Old Boys" John Grier died this week.John was a unique player and a true character and he will be sorely missed by all at Gourock Park. The Davidson Trophy is now fully booked and the draw has been made.It can be seen at the Club.It will also be placed on this site shortly. Following this year's new format to the S.B.A. District Championship,Bill Knox is looking for your thoughts on the new format,next month's "Poll" will deal with this subject.In the meantime feel free to discuss the change on the Message Board. Also from now on when I dont have time to update this Site,i will place any news on The Message Board. 12th June The Forms for "The Davidson Pairs Trophy" are now available. Entry is £5 per pair and is restricted to 48 pairs only.Entry Forms are available at the Clubhouse or from Ian Brown and the closing date for entries is the 6th July. Play commences at 10am on the 28th July. This event is sponsored by "The Crawfurd Car Centre" Gourock Park is host Club for The Renfrewshire Bowling Association Championship Semi-Finals this friday,15th June. Please come along and give your support to the players.Bar Facilities will be available as well as tea,coffee and light snacks. Pictures of the winning players will be posted on this site shortly after. The Semi-Finals due to be played are as follows- Junior Singles B Gorry (Grosvner) 16 versus 21 R Taylor (Bellahouston) Singles Peter Boyle (Lady Alice) 17 versus 21 J Glen (Meikleriggs Pairs Cardonald 19 versus 7 Kilmacolm Triples Gourock Park 20 versus 14 Clarkston Fours Grosvenor 16 versus 14 Kilbarchon Senior Fours Renfrew 4 versus 18 Bellahouston Sponsored 4's Port Glasgow 13 versus 11 Nitshill&Hurlet 11th June Gourock Park had mixed fortunes in Sundays SBA District games. The Fours lost by 2 shots against Bogleha in the quarter-final,the pairs lost 17v 14 to Ardgowan in the semi-final. However Our Singles player,Dougie Twaddle had 2 great wins to progress to the final where he will come up against a former Gourock Park Champion,Glenn Greenway of Gourock Bowling Club. The Wood Shield was won on Monday 11th by a Rink skipped by Jim Crawford with Jim McCready,Hugh Wilson and Andy Kearns. They finished 6 up against Peter Hendry,Robert Grant,John Hagen & Robert Hughes. 9th June Gourock Park's Triples have now reached the semi-final stage of the Renfrewshire Championship which will be played on Friday the 15th June at Gourock Park. League Results and current tables are still unavailable.John Freeburn is collecting all the information from each Club and as soon as I have word from John I will update those pages. Gourock Park Member Grant Ramsay has skipped a triples to the semi-final of The Edinburgh & Leith BA Championships EzBoard!!!!!!!! Message Board The Message Board on this Site is still being under used! This Board is YOUR Place to Contribute to the content of the site! So Whats keeping you? Everyone must have opinions to state,stories to share,questions needing answers,etc etc .No Registration is required to use the board! Just input a user name,ignore the password space and either reply to a message or start a new one! June 7th Gourock Park's Triples Team of George Twaddle.Robert Grant and Archie Forbes have made it through to the Quarter-Final of The Renfrewshire B.A.Championship They will play the next game on Frid 8th June SBA Results have been added to the site League Results This weeks Greenock& District League results will be available as soon as possible.The G&D Secretary,Willie Quigley, is currently in Hospital We at Gourock Park.co.uk wish Willie a speedy recovery. June 4th Dougie Twaddle(Singles) Rodger Lynn &Terry Duffy(Pairs) and The Rink of Gary Bradley,John Hagen,Jim Crawford and Robert Grant have all made it through to the quarter-finals of the SBA District Championships. Andy Loses out to Jim Again!!!! Andy Kearns lost for the second time this season to Jim Crawford. Andy went down by 21 shots to 11 June 3rd Today sees the start of The S.B.A. District Championships.Bowlers from all over the district will be hoping to win through to a coveted place at Ayr for The National Finals in August.The games will take place on various greens throughout the area and I hope that the Bowlers playing on Gourock Park find the Greens to your liking. The District Finals will be held at Lady Alice Bowling Club in Greenock on 17th June and pictures of the day will appear here on this site shortly after. |
News & Gossip June 2001 |
30th June Last night at Gourock Park saw two excellent quarter-final games in this year's Club Championship being played. Ian Brown,a former Champ at Gourock Park was playing Joda Reid,one of Gourock Parks ever improving players and in the other game last years Senior Champion,Archie Forbes was playing Jim Crawford.. The Game between Ian and Joda was close until Ian took a 10 shots to 5 lead after gaining a "four" in the 8th end.Joda replied with a single in the 9th,only for Ian to further increase his lead with a "three" in the 10th end.The next two ends saw Joda getting one more shot and Ian ganing "two" to lead 15 shots to 7 after twelve ends played. At this stage in the game,it was looking as if Ian had built up a big enough lead over his opponent and go to win the game. However,Joda,never one for giving up easily,had other ideas. Over the course of the next seven ends he played some excellent bowling as he gained twelve shots,with Ian only managing a single,to lead by 19 shots to 16 shots.Ian gained another single shot in the 20th end,but it was Joda who went on to win by 21 shots to 17 with a fine display of drawing in what was to be the last end. The Game between Archie Forbes and Jim Crawford was an excellent game to watch,only slighty spoiled by the miserable weather of heavy rain that came on for the last 30 minutes of the game. Archie started the game strongly and after seven ends he lead Jim by 8 shots to 1. Over the next six ends however,Jim did not let his spirits go down and gained "ten shots" to Archie's "two" to lead by 11 shots to 10.From then on the lead changed hands several times with it being level at 13 shots each and 14 shots each. Archie took the lead at the 20th end only to have a disaster in the next when Jim scored a maximum of "four shots" to lead by 19 shots to 16.With the rain getting worse and the playing conditions getting heavier,Archie gained "two shots" to reduce the deficit to one shot at "19 shots to 18". It was Jim that progressed to the Semi-final though with "two shots" in the 24th end Jim Crawford will now play Joda Reid in the Semi-Final with the winner playing the victor in the other semi-final between Dougie Twaddle and John Gibson. 27th June It was good to see Past President,Dougie Brown spectating at Giffnock on Sunday.Dougie recently underwent a quadruple heart bypass and all going well he should be back playing next season. The Results and some pictures from The R.B.A.Finals are now on this site I hope you will enjoy my "New Weekly Quiz" One Gourock Park member who has had a go at the quiz this week was stuck when trying to answer the following question- "In what year did Robert Grant win his 1st Club Championship at Gourock Park"? This should have been an easy question to answer! but alas this member got the question wrong. Who was this Member? I dont think you will need 3 guesses? Thanks to John Freeburn,i have been able to update both Sections of the G&D Leagues, Tonight at Gourock Park, 2 Quarter-Final games were played. In the Championship,Dougie Twaddle emerged successful over Tommy Monkhouse,but shock of the night was the result between Robert Hughes and John Kane in the Presidents Singles. The score was a massive 21 shots to 1(ONE) to John. Poor Robert just had one of those nights when nothing goes right and probably wished he at stayed at home and watched Coronation Street.John played some excellent bowling and must be a strong contender for winning The Presidents Singles. 25th June Our Triples (George Twaddle,Robert Grant & Archie Forbes) unfortunately lost in the Final of the Renfrewshire Championship at Giffnock BC on Sun 24th. They lost 15 v 11 to Blacklandmill BC in a game which was always close.Some pictures of the day and full results will be added to the site shortly.. The Greenock& District League Tables will be updated as soon as possible,I apologise for not being able to update them on a more regular basis. 22nd June I have added a new feature to the Web-Site.My new weekly quiz will give you the chance to flex your brain power on a variety of different subjects.I would also like to give you the opportunity to send in your own questions for others to try.They can be as hard or as easy as you like. Send them to me at Gary@Gourockpark.co.uk The Quiz will be updated every Sunday 20th June Gourock Park achieved their first Trophy win of the new season when they won The Fletcher Trophy. Scores were as follows--- Gourock Park 39 Shots Victoria 24 shots Gourock 20 Port Glasgow,Grosvenor & Lady Alice 14 Wellington 10 Ardgowan 9 Parklea 2 Hillend -4 Birkmyre -12 IBM -17 Fort Matilda -27 Rankin Park -36 Kilmacolm -51 18th June Gourock Park's President,Dougie Twaddle won the Singles Final against Glenn Greenway of Gourock BC at Lady Alice yesterday.Another success for Gourock Park was The Triples trio of Archie Forbes,Robert Grant and George Twaddle who have made it to the Final of The Renfrewshire Championship.. Everyone at Gourock Park was saddened to hear that one of our "Old Boys" John Grier died this week.John was a unique player and a true character and he will be sorely missed by all at Gourock Park. The Davidson Trophy is now fully booked and the draw has been made.It can be seen at the Club.It will also be placed on this site shortly. Following this year's new format to the S.B.A. District Championship,Bill Knox is looking for your thoughts on the new format,next month's "Poll" will deal with this subject.In the meantime feel free to discuss the change on the Message Board. Also from now on when I dont have time to update this Site,i will place any news on The Message Board. 12th June The Forms for "The Davidson Pairs Trophy" are now available. Entry is £5 per pair and is restricted to 48 pairs only.Entry Forms are available at the Clubhouse or from Ian Brown and the closing date for entries is the 6th July. Play commences at 10am on the 28th July. This event is sponsored by "The Crawfurd Car Centre" Gourock Park is host Club for The Renfrewshire Bowling Association Championship Semi-Finals this friday,15th June. Please come along and give your support to the players.Bar Facilities will be available as well as tea,coffee and light snacks. Pictures of the winning players will be posted on this site shortly after. The Semi-Finals due to be played are as follows- Junior Singles B Gorry (Grosvner) 16 versus 21 R Taylor (Bellahouston) Singles Peter Boyle (Lady Alice) 17 versus 21 J Glen (Meikleriggs Pairs Cardonald 19 versus 7 Kilmacolm Triples Gourock Park 20 versus 14 Clarkston Fours Grosvenor 16 versus 14 Kilbarchon Senior Fours Renfrew 4 versus 18 Bellahouston Sponsored 4's Port Glasgow 13 versus 11 Nitshill&Hurlet 11th June Gourock Park had mixed fortunes in Sundays SBA District games. The Fours lost by 2 shots against Bogleha in the quarter-final,the pairs lost 17v 14 to Ardgowan in the semi-final. However Our Singles player,Dougie Twaddle had 2 great wins to progress to the final where he will come up against a former Gourock Park Champion,Glenn Greenway of Gourock Bowling Club. The Wood Shield was won on Monday 11th by a Rink skipped by Jim Crawford with Jim McCready,Hugh Wilson and Andy Kearns. They finished 6 up against Peter Hendry,Robert Grant,John Hagen & Robert Hughes. 9th June Gourock Park's Triples have now reached the semi-final stage of the Renfrewshire Championship which will be played on Friday the 15th June at Gourock Park. League Results and current tables are still unavailable.John Freeburn is collecting all the information from each Club and as soon as I have word from John I will update those pages. Gourock Park Member Grant Ramsay has skipped a triples to the semi-final of The Edinburgh & Leith BA Championships EzBoard!!!!!!!! Message Board The Message Board on this Site is still being under used! This Board is YOUR Place to Contribute to the content of the site! So Whats keeping you? Everyone must have opinions to state,stories to share,questions needing answers,etc etc .No Registration is required to use the board! Just input a user name,ignore the password space and either reply to a message or start a new one! June 7th Gourock Park's Triples Team of George Twaddle.Robert Grant and Archie Forbes have made it through to the Quarter-Final of The Renfrewshire B.A.Championship They will play the next game on Frid 8th June SBA Results have been added to the site League Results This weeks Greenock& District League results will be available as soon as possible.The G&D Secretary,Willie Quigley, is currently in Hospital We at Gourock Park.co.uk wish Willie a speedy recovery. June 4th Dougie Twaddle(Singles) Rodger Lynn &Terry Duffy(Pairs) and The Rink of Gary Bradley,John Hagen,Jim Crawford and Robert Grant have all made it through to the quarter-finals of the SBA District Championships. Andy Loses out to Jim Again!!!! Andy Kearns lost for the second time this season to Jim Crawford. Andy went down by 21 shots to 11 June 3rd Today sees the start of The S.B.A. District Championships.Bowlers from all over the district will be hoping to win through to a coveted place at Ayr for The National Finals in August.The games will take place on various greens throughout the area and I hope that the Bowlers playing on Gourock Park find the Greens to your liking. The District Finals will be held at Lady Alice Bowling Club in Greenock on 17th June and pictures of the day will appear here on this site shortly after. |
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The highest-up triple was Gourock Park's trio of Jim Cameron,Terry Duffy& Rodger Lynn (23 Shots up) Gourock BC also had a triple finishing 23 up,but Gourock Park won one more end than Gourock |
