Balgownie Bowling Club

Not to be for our Gents in the Crowmallie Cup Final today. Balgownie hosted both the Ladies and Gents Finals with Ellon defeating Harlaw 35-15 and Pitmedden defeating Balgownie 33-22 respectively.

Jim Fowlie winner of the signed Aberdeen FC football at our 50th Anniversary Fun Day.
All proceeds to Balgownie B.C Charity fund which includes McMillan.

A couple of updates from today...

Earlier this morning the Final of the 2026 Senior Top 9 took place with Balgownie playing Woodend.

In what proved to be a great final for both the players and spectators, it came down to virtually the last bowl. Balgownie won the Triples by 5 shots, Woodend won the Fours by 4 shots and with the Pairs sitting at 13-14 to Woodend going into the last end, the match was on a knife edge.
Alec and Rory from Woodend played a great last end to win and it wasn't to be for the Balgownie lads. Huge congratulations to Woodend BC on a fantastic win, thoroughly deserved. 👏

Onto this afternoon and Steve had to hot foot it across the city to Whitehall BC to play the Final of the Bon Accord Senior Singles versus Charlie Jarvis of Northern BC at 1pm.

Steve got off to a flyer winning the first set 12-0 in 6 ends and although Charlie battled away in set two, Steve went onto win it 7-2 to become the first Balgownie name on the trophy.

Many thanks to the Bon Accord Vice-President Phil Anderson for conducting the trophy presentation, to Match Secretary Cameron Millar for scheduling the event to avoid clashing with Balgownie's Top 9 Final and to the Whitehall BC members who marked all the singles ties throughout the week.

Three updates for you today...

This afternoon saw the Quarter Finals and Semi Finals of the Bon Accord Senior Singles at Whitehall.
Unfortunately Gordon Dickie was beaten 2-0 by Les Coutts of Kittybrewster in the Quarter Final but Steve Buchanan won his Quarter Final 2-0 against Nicol Brown of Newhills, then played the defending champion Ken Reid of Kittybrewster in the Semi Final. Steve won the first set 8-7 and drew the second set to progress 1.5 - 0.5 to tomorrow's Final.
Good luck to Steve tomorrow, he faces Northern's Charlie Jarvis in the Final at 1pm, again at Whitehall.

Tonight at Polmuir we played the home side in the Bon Accord Top 5 Singles. Unfortunately despite a fantastic effort we lost narrowly 3-2, coming very close to causing an upset. The scores were as follows (Polmuir first):

Mark Smith 8 Gordon Dickie 21
Mark Burnett 21 Davie Main 14
Graeme Snape 15 Steve Buchanan 21
Martyn Orchard 21 Craig Stephenson 18
Callum Work 21 Martin Donald 15

Finally, tomorrow sees the final of our Senior Top 9 kindly sponsored by William Gilchrist Funeral Care at 10am, where Balgownie face Woodend.
Good luck lads.

Today saw the first two rounds of the Bon Accord Senior Singles at Whitehall and we had three sprightly seniors competing over two sets of 8 ends with a 3 end tie break.

Unfortunately Craig Stephenson lost out 2-0 to Northern's Jim Shea in Round 1.

However both Gordon Dickie and Steve Buchanan won both their respective matches and have progressed through to tomorrow's Quarter Finals.

Gordon beat Woodend's Paul Drew 2-0 in Round 1 and held his nerve in Round 2 to dispatch Ian Thomson of Seafeld 2-1 in a tie-break.

Steve faced Woodend's Brian Race in Round 1 and won 2-0 and then faced Abergeldie's Andy Dingwall in Round 2. Despite losing the first set, Steve managed to sneak set two and went on to win the tie-break 2-1.

Best of luck to both Gordon and Steve in tomorrow's Quarter Finals.

Come along on Sunday and cheer your team on 2pm Balgownie

Not to be for Gail and Dorothy in the Scott Pairs Final this afternoon but well done getting that far 👏

Well done to Gail and Dorothy on winning the Craigie Ladies Pairs at Kintore yesterday and good luck to the pair of them tomorrow in the Scott Pairs at Newhills

Some pics from today's annual BBQ 🍔🍗🍻

Score updates from the last few days:

Gents won their semi final of the Crowmalie against Newmachar to progress to the final at Balgownie on Sunday 30th August.
Unfortunately the ladies lost thier semi final last night against Harlaw with their game going to a count back.

Mainzer and Craig lost their Benachie Pairs final on Sunday 19-18 at Pitmedden with the game going to an extra end.

The Senior gents lost the final of the Dunnottar Cup on Monday at Stonehaven.

A great effort by everyone involved over the last few days.