Cause for celebration at Sports Awards
The sporting community celebrated in style at the Shetland Sports Awards last night (more…) Read more...
The sporting community celebrated in style at the Shetland Sports Awards last night (more…) Read more...
Lerwick bowlers Angie Knight and Davie Hunter have enjoyed more success on the Costa Del Sol in Spain, where they now live, by winning both the Bena Vista Classic Pairs Championship and the Francisco Camero Trophy.The Bena Vista competition, held at the beginning of November, saw a good entry of... Read more...
The Shetland indoor bowling team have returned home after winning 25 medals in last week's inter-island competition in the Isle of Wight.The 14 team members clinched the overall silver medals while in the individual competitions Rosie Jamieson won silver in the ladies' singles, Anne Robertson an... Read more...
Shetland's bowlers have continued to perform well in the inter-island competition in the Isle of Wight, particularly in the singles.Play started on Tuesday with the pairs team of Anne Robertson and June Bain struggling to overcome a 10-shot advantage gained by their Guernsey opponents over the f... Read more...
The Shetland bowling team made an excellent start in the inter-island tournament in the Isle of Wight, which began on Monday.Both the Shetland fours teams won their first games, as did Graham Jamieson in the men's singles.In the men's fours Ian Leiper, John Sharp, Gibbie Pottinger and John S... Read more...
The final bowling hat night of the outdoor season saw 24 players on the green and the winning pair on this occasion were Anne Barron and skip Ian Scott.After the first set of six ends, Anne and Ian shared the lead on 11 shots with Elma Scott and skip George Mundie and Tom Jamieson and skip John ... Read more...
The bowls inter-county was played on Sunday and resulted in victories for both the Shetland women’s and men’s teams.On rink one Ernie Munro, Findlay Jack and skip Davie Hunter took on Orkney’s Billy Swanney, Bobby Hutchison, and skip John Rendall. It was a slow start but Davie’s side won... Read more...
Twenty-four bowlers took part in the weekly hat night competition last Tuesday evening when the winners were Mike Duffy and skip Ewen MacRitchie.As is now the norm, play was over three sets of six ends. After one set Joan Nicolson and skip Ian Scott shared second place with Mike and Ewen on eigh... Read more...
In the Jimmy Simpson Memorial Cup competition last Wednesday two teams played in the afternoon and one in the evening. The first game on rink two saw Babs Mundie and Ernie Munro play Ian Younger and Davie Hunter.This was a close game with Babs and Ernie leading by two shots at the ninth end. The... Read more...
Twenty-six bowlers turned out for the hat night competition last Tuesday evening which was won by Caroline Smith and skip Findlay Jack.It was decided that there should be five pairs matches and one triples with the pairs playing over 18 ends and the triples over 16.After the first six ends ... Read more...