Glenrothes Gazette Report - 6th February, 2012

Markinch Bowling Club

On Sunday at East Fife Indoor B.C. Markinch faced Strathmiglo B.C. for a place in the quarter finals of the Three Fours competition. On rink 4, J.Lafferty, J.Davies Jnr., R.Crawford and T.Pettigrew (skip) played an absorbing game against the ladies team from Strath,  leading 4-1 before being pulled back to 4-4, then 8-5 before again being pulled level 8-8. On rink 5, K.Bunting, Ms.R.Bunting, P.Mathewson and S.McFarlane (skip) trailed 1-4, before levelling the game 4-4, but could not force their way into the lead and trailed 6-10 with one end left to play. On rink 6, A.Jones, J.Davies Snr., B.Bell and B.Cowan (skip) were down 1-5, but levelled the score 5-5 after 8 ends of play. The bell rang to signal the end of the game so on rink 5, S.Mcfarlane ended up losing 7-10, while on rink 4, T.Pettigrew dropped 2 shots to end up level 11-11. The final game on rink 6, had Strath leading 7-6, but Markinch lying 3 shots, so Bill Cowan drew another shot to lie 4 shots. The Strath skip, Calum Young, decided to drive, but somehow managed to find an impossible gap to leave the final result as a 10-7 win for Markinch. This gave the overall result as 3 points each and the score level 28 shots to 28. This meant that all three rinks had to play one end to decide the outcome, which resulted in S. McFarlane winning his end, but T. Pettigrew and B.Cowan losing their end, giving victory to Strathmiglo and an early exit by the narrowest of margins to Markinch. Tickets are on sale for the Dominoes and Whist evening on Friday 17^th February and the repeat performance of “Doctor Where versus The Sheriff” on Saturday 3^rd March. The first performance was a complete sell out and it is hoped that there will be another full house for what was a very entertaining show by the members of Markinch B.C