70 junior and senior bowlers from throughout Fife contested 12 singles titles at the 2019 Disability Sport Fife Carpet Bowls Championships held at the Michael Woods Sports & Leisure Centre and supported by Fife Sports and Leisure Trust on Wednesday 20th November.
Volunteer markers from bowls clubs in central Fife officiated at 89 singles ties. Many thanks to officials coordinators Math Thomson and Andy Mathieson from Beveridge Park Bowling Club and 14 other ladies and gents who gave up their day to ensure that the players received the highest standards of officiating. Math Thomson presented the trophies to the winners at the conclusion of the tournament.
From the results Disability Sport Fife will select the Fife team to represent Team Fife at the SDS National Carpet Bowls Championships to be held at DISC in Dundee on Saturday February 1st.
There were junior players from Lochgelly HS and Glenrothes HS. Both schools got together for training in the lead up to the event and plan to repeat this arrangement from here on. Inclusive bowling clubs Dovecot Park Bowling Club in Glenrothes and Headwell B.C in Dunfermline, that benefitted from GOGA investment in Fife from Spirit of 2012 were well represented on the day. As always there was strong representation from individual bowlers and players from Community Support Services in East, West and Central Fife.
Results
Wheelchair bowlers
Winner – Willie Harrison Central Fife CSS
Runner up – Jim Donaldson Central Fife CSS
Ambulant bowlers with a physical impairment
Winner – Billy Allan – Cowdenbeath BC
Runner up – Glen Livingston
Physically and Visually impaired bowlers – restricted
Winner – Kenny Dow – Central Fife CSS
Runner up – Eleanor Clark – Fair Isle BC
Bowlers with a learning disability – Men A section
Winner – Robert Anderson – Dovecot BC
Runner up – Steven Anderson – Dovecot BC
Bowlers with a learning disability – Men B section
Winner – Jimmy Ramsay – East Fife CSS
Runner up – George Goodsir – East Fife CSS
Bowlers with a learning disability – Men C section
Winner – Robert McMahon – Central Fife CSS
Runner up – Robert Morrison – Headwell BC
Bowlers with a learning disability – Men D section
Winner – David Scott – Leven
Runner up – Aaron Kean – Headwell BC
Bowlers with a learning disability – Ladies A section
Winner – Michelle Wallace – Central Fife CSS
Runner up – Julie Allan – East Fife CSS/Windygates BC
Bowlers with a learning disability – Ladies B section
Winner – Roberta Buchan – Central Fife CSS
Runner up – Danielle Osborne – Headwell BC
Bowlers with a learning disability
Junior boys with a physical impairment
Winner – Liam Bradbury – Glenrothes HS
Runner up – Josh Panes – Lochgelly HS
Boys S1/S2 with a learning disability
Winner – Lee Mackie Lochgelly HS
Runner up – Olek Kobel – Lochgelly HS
Junior boys and girls S3/S4/S5 with a learning disability
Winner – Logan Anderson – Lochgelly HS
Runner up – Christopher Trowell – Glenrothes HS
Richard Brickley OBE MBE Chairman DSF (SCIO) Board of Charity Trustees