The Champion of Champions got underway on Monday culminating in the semi-finals and final being played at Haddington on Saturday. The quarter final line up on Friday night reads as follows: Dean Riva (EL Co-op) v Scott Kennedy (C&PS), Grant Thomson (E Linton) v Joe Mower (Haddington), Matt Osborne (Tranent) v Colin Glen (Elph) and Gordon White (Aberlady) v Sam Newlands (Athelstaneford).
A new Junior Champion of Champions tournament is also being played on Friday night and also concludes on Saturday at Haddington.
The season ending Courier Cup is also played on Saturday at Haddington with the semi-finals being drawn on the day and played at 12.30. The teams involved are Cockenzie & Port Seton, Ormiston, Tranent ‘A’ and Stenton.
The Garden County Youths were in action last Sunday in the national finals of the Andy Houston trophy at Blacklands, Kilwinning where they faced Fife, Ayrshire North and West Lothian for the title. In the opening game the Garden County youngsters recorded an eight shot win over Fife whilst in the other game Ayrshire North defeated West Lothian by ten shots. The second fixture seen East Lothian face Ayrshire North who coped with the tough combination of strong winds and a heavy green better to defeat our youngsters by 20 shots. That meant that East Lothian had to try and get a large win over West Lothian and hope Fife could help them out by defeating Ayrshire North. Our youngsters gave it their best shot and ran out winners by twenty shots and Fife also got the win over Ayrshire North but only by six shots meaning that Ayrshire North won the title by sixteen shots. The Garden County youngsters have done themselves proud being Scottish runners-up, given that they lost six players from last year’s title winning team and this was a much younger squad. Youth convenor Stuart Thomson is confident this run will have given them plenty experience for next season.
The indoor season is just around the corner with the Alex Marshall Arena, home of East Lothian Indoor Bowls, opening from 6-8pm on Monday 9th September and 12-2pm and 6-8pm each weekday the remainder of next week for bounce games and paying of membership fees prior to opening fully on Monday 16th when all leagues will commence. Members are reminded that fees can be paid via online banking with all details on the ELIBC Facebook page.
EL Labour club Open Triples draw for Saturday 7th September: 10am, George Inglis, Ross Marwick, Ian Anderson, Colin Glen, Colin Bonar, Steven Whitson, Carol Edmond, David Sands 11am, John Roland, Keiran Whitson, Paul Watson, George Gray, thanks, Ian
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