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The Clackmannanshire Pool League are holding a fundraising race night to help with costs for both Clackmannanshire A & B county teams going away in November to Pettycur Bay holiday park to compete in the Scottish 15 man team championships.

The fundraiser takes place this Friday 28 August at 7.30pm in the Cairn Alva with free entry for everyone.

The league would like to ask all county and local pool players and friends and family to come along and have a small (or large) bet and cheer your horse home with some excellent raffle prizes also up for grabs.

To compliment the evening the excellent Holly Burns will also be singing. Look forward to seeing you all there.

Clackmannan Bowling Clubs pool league: All clubs wishing to participate should attend the AGM at Alva South BC on Wednesday 2 September at 7.30pm.

CLACKMANNAN COUNTY SPONSORED BY OAKWOOD LOUNGE The ladies and gents county squads are at Home v Angus on Saturday 5 September. All players please be in the Oakwood for 10am.

CLACKMANNAN INVITATION PIGEON CLUB - Ripon 23.8.15.

1 Mr R Sharp 1543.340; 2 Mr S McArthur 1538.424; 3 Mr R Sharp 1526.323; 4 Mr C Devine 1497.053; 5 Mr C Devine 1471.963; 6 Mr C Devine 1463.949; 7 Mr S McArthur 1459.050; 8 Mr R Sharp 1458.891; 9 Mr J T Airnes 1453.774; 10 Mr J T Airnes 1447.694.

TILLICOULTRY HOMING SOCIETY - Ripon 23.8.15.

1 Rab Stewart 1540.386; 2 Rab Stewart 1532.550; 3 Rab Stewart 1490.709; 4 Rab Stewart 1490.328; 5 Robert Stewart 1448.409; 6 Rab Stewart 1443.659; 7 Rab Stewart 1443.301; 8 C Robertson 1441; 9 Rab Stewart 1430.070; 10 Rab Stewart 1427.850.

Race sponsored by Bennett Carpets.

ALVA AND DISTRICT RSC: Bus v Airdrie on Wednesday 26 August will leave The Royal at 6.15pm. The bus v Queen of South on Sunday 30 will leave Tillicoultry bus stance at 9.30am. Seats available on both buses. New members welcome. To book or for any further information telephone or text Stuart on 07791470007.

ST MUNGO’S SHAMROCK CSC: Bus on Saturday v St Johnstone at Celtic Park leaves Peppe’s Bar, Alloa at 1pm via Tullibody Cross and Cowie Tavern at 1.20pm approximately. Please return August scorecast by 1pm on Saturday. A warm welcome is extended to all visitors and any prospective new members in the local Celtic community. For all travel and ticket information telephone 07877852613 or stmungoscsc@gmail.com.

TOMMY CRAIG CSC: Bus on Saturday leaves Peppe’s at 12.30pm and Vinney’s 1.15pm. Seats and tickets available - telephone 07905414143. Tote - Griffiths 17 mins (3-1) no winner - £1,000 on Saturday.

Wee County True Blues RSC: QOS away contact Finny for ticket and travel details. Tickets and seats for Raith Rovers home and tickets for function on 31 October contact Stuart 07507706690.

alloa royal blue RSC: Bus v Airdrie tonight (Wednesday) leaves Alloa at 5:05 pm. Bus v Q.o.S on Sunday leaves Alloa at 8:45am. Tickets and seats for both games. You can order for home games v Raith and Livingston. All buses travel via Hillfoots. Due to last two home game buses being full non members must book seats to prevent buses being oversubscribed. Text or phone John Talbot on 07974051015 before 7pm (no sundays).

Roy Milne CSC: Bus for Sat’s league game v St Johnstone at Celtic park with a 3pm ko departs; Menstrie – Holytree = 12.30pm, Alva – Johnstone arms = 12.35pm, Tillicoultry – Volunteer = 12.45pm, Alloa – Peppes = 1pm, Tullibody – Inn = 1.05pm, Stirling – Marches – 1.20pm. Seats available. For more info contact website : www.roymilnecsc.net Clackmannan and Kinross Bowling Association Seniors Pairs League Results Monday 27 July SECTION A: Tillicoultry - 4 points v Sauchie - 2 points; Menstrie - 0 points v Alva South - 0 points; Alloa - 6 points v Patons - 0 points.

Section A League Winners- Alloa 20 points + 63 shots SECTION B: Clackmannan - 0 points v Tulliallan - 0 points; Alloa Co op - 4 points v Alloa East End - 2 points; Section B League Winners - Clackmannan 15 points +29 shots Final at Alva Bowling Club Monday 31 August at 2pm: Alloa v Clackmannan.

Connor Kelly from Alva South Bowling club lifted the County Junior Championship.

Dollar Golf Club It was a splendid day for the Ladies Greensome Open on Saturday with a good turnout competing in generally benign conditions.

It was a very sound 73 by Tricia Chillas and Margaret Tough to take the scratch prize but the round of the day came from the Dollar duo of Moragh Dunning and Di Dunning with truly stunning golf to accumulate an unbeatable 47 Stableford points.

Ladies Greensome Open - Saturday 22 August.

Scratch: Tricia Chillas & Margaret Tough 73.

Stableford Handicap: 1st Moragh Dunning & Di Dunning (18) 47 pts ; 2nd Janette McMillan & Margaret Stephenson (29) 43 pts; 3rd Maria Symington & Eileen Black (19) 40 pts; 4th Pam Brannan & Ann Shepherd (18) 39 pts (bih); 5th Carol Hak & Elaine Williamson (24) 39 pts.

Moir Medal - Sunday 23 August.

Div 1: 1st David Borrowman (11) 66; 2nd Drew Ure (11) 66; 3rd James Robertson (11) 69.

Div 2: 1st John Mayes (19) 66; 2nd Andrew Ray (20) 66; 3rd Peter Thomson (20) 76.

Ladies Stableford - Wednesday 19 August.

1st Maria Symington (18) 41 pts; 2nd Linda Sommerville (24) 40 pts; 3rd Ashley Leitch (19) 35 pts.

Members and visitors can now take advantage of on-line booking for both competition and casual golf at Dollar - see www.dollargolfclub.com for details.

Muckhart GC Muckhart Ladies Mail on Sunday team have won their last 16 tie to be the only Scottish Club to reach the quarter finals of this national tournament. At a sun kissed Muckhart the home team beat Cardross 4-1 to march forward to the last stages of this major competition. Resplendent in their new team outfits the girls were always in command during the tie with a number of big victories. This is a tremendous achievement and congratulations go to all team members over the last 9 rounds. We await news of the next opponents with interest, but on this form the girls will fear no one, and will be right up for the challenge. The good news just kept on coming this week. First up on Friday our Junior Scratch Team reached the final of the Under 18 Perth and Kinross Junior Team Championship, overcoming a 2.5-0.5 first leg away defeat at Auchterarder by winning the return leg 3-0 with a very young team of Andrew Thornton, Finlay Hamilton and Jamie Fulton. This was a magnificent comeback and the team look forward to the final at Blairgowrie against Strathmore GC in September.

Not to be outdone the Junior Bell Trophy team then won their semi final on Sunday by beating Blairgowrie 3.5 to 1.5. Their final will also be played at Blairgowrie against Craigie Hill and the team of Jamie Roberts, Finlay Hamilton, Andrew Thornton, Gareth Hutchison, and Jamie Fulton should be very proud of their efforts.

The club’s flagship Stewart Open for low handicap players took place on a very calm Saturday but despite the benign conditions scoring generally was higher than expected. Home player James Barrett was a notable exception though, winning the trophy by 3 shots with a superb one under par 70. Birdies at 4 and 9 had James out in 33 and when another birdie putt dropped at the long and difficult 12th, a very low score looked on. However dropped shots at the difficult 14th and 16th eventually brought James home in 37 for his winning score of 70.

Second place went to Michael Stokes of Cawder with 73 while Ross Hepburn of Hayston and previous winner Michael Campbell of Gullane were next on 77. Handicap prize went to home player Douglas Francis with a net 69, followed by Robert Russell of Muckhart on net 71 and David Clelland of Bothwell on net 72. Those players who sometimes skip on the birdie 2 sweep should perhaps reconsider in future as a dearth of birdie 2s at the designated holes resulted in Gilbert Hepburn of Whitemuir scooping the whole pot of £264 with his 2 at the 3rd. Other club news: Wednesday Medal winner was Colin Symmons with a net 68, Junior Eaun Duthie won the Kumasi/Wanliss Round 3 also with a net 68, while Jane Black’s net 71 pipped Maria Symington and Christine Laing by 1 shot to win the SLGA Medal. A correction also to last week’s news where the ‘cub reporter’ got his trophies mixed up. The Hogg Salver is not a senior’s trophy but in fact a Scratch Trophy played in conjunction with the Tennent Cup and the winner last week was in fact Neil MacDonald; sincere apologies Neil.

The week ahead sees us back to club competitions and with the courses in superb condition we look forward to some more great competition. Members are reminded of forthcoming social events; a quiz night on 29 August and swinging 60s and 70s night on September 12th, while the club Open Day date has just been confirmed as Sunday 27th September. More details will be published in the coming weeks as to the format of the day and offers to new members.

Alloa golf club It was a return to normal strokeplay at Alloa last weekend.

The weather and the course were perfect and this was reflected in the scores. Brian fisher won the medal with a nett 63 with four players tied for 2nd on nett 68’s.

Division 1: 1st C Watson nett 68, 2nd D Neil nett 68, 3rd I Hinchliffe nett 69 Division 2: 1st B Fisher nett 63, 2nd J Reid nett 68, 3rd J Fisher nett 68 Tillicoultry GC Ladies Matchplay Championship held in June.

Winner 1st Scratch Linzi Wilson, 2nd Morag Jamieson; 1st Handicap Joanna McIntosh, 2nd Lorna Greenhill.