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Bowls: Mann to the four as he makes National Singles semi-finals
West Lothian IBC champion Thomas Mann served up four superb winning performances in the playdown action of the national singles at Cumbernauld to earn a serious crack at landing the title last brought back to the Inveralmond stadium at Livingston by Jim Boyle in 1984.
Basketball: Polonia fight back to stun Kool Kats
At no point would you have put money on them but, however unlikely it seemed when they were 8-0 down after six minutes and 40-33 down with three minutes to go, Polonia Phoenix somehow managed to pip Edinburgh Kool Kats 41-40 at the Crags Sports Centre yesterday to keep their unbeaten record at the top of the Scottish Women’s Basketball League.
Ice Hockey: Angry Hartmann fires a rocket . . . at himself
Edinburgh CAPTIALS player-coach Richard Hartmann praised his players after last night’s 1-0 Elite League ice hockey defeat by Coventry Blaze at Murrayfield, with one exception – himself. The Slovakian was disgusted with his own performance, citing it as his worst display in a Capitals jersey, as his side failed to find the net for the second time this season.
Bowls: Portobello on song in the Borders
The ladies of Portobello indoor bowls club were in a sing-song mood on the team bus back from Galashiels and it was happy tunes being sung as they celebrated a resounding 109-65 victory over Tweedbank in the Division 1C match of the national leagues.
Shinty/hurling: Scotland 19 - 25 Ireland: Late strikes gives hope for return leg
Scotland trail Ireland by six points after the first leg of the Marine Harvest Shinty/Hurling series on Saturday but no one in the Scottish camp is ready to give up.
Scotland 19 - 25 Ireland: Horgan stages a masterclass but Scots fight back
Scotland live to fight another day after two late goals kept their hopes of ending Ireland’s dominance of the Marine Harvest shinty/hurling international series alive.
This loch more than a Fad
Back end of the season for me has always been the Loch Fad Autumn pairs, writes STUART FRASER.
A question of pride as Gaelic codes of shinty and hurling collide
When Scotland’s shinty players run out at Bught Park stadium in Inverness today to face the hurlers of Ireland, everyone within the dark blue camp knows more than polished silver is at stake.
Ice hockey: Jordan confident Coventry can be tamed
Edinburgh CAPITALS forward Jordan Steel insists his team will not be fazed by the offensive talent on show when Coventry Blaze, including current NHL star Matt Beleskey, visit Murrayfield for their Elite League ice hockey match on Sunday (face-off 6pm).
Rested Capital teams go back out on the road
Capital clubs charge back into action this weekend after the school mid-term break, a break which has more to do with the excessive cost of hiring halls on holidays and Sundays than a desire by the teams to have a rest.
Phoenix are shining but Kool Kats are on a ‘high’
The biggest Capital clash of the weekend will be at the Crags Sports Centre on Sunday when fierce local rivals Polonia Phoenix and Edinburgh Kool Kats meet for the first time this season in the Scottish Women’s League at 3.20pm.
1 commentOn-fire Edinburgh Uni side face unbeaten Dundonians
Edinburgh University women must now be the hottest of favourites to win the Scottish Universities title after another huge win this week.
Bowls: Logan’s run continues as West Lothian win again
West Lothian IBC pulled off a great result in their bid to retain the indoor bowls Premier League title by scoring an encouraging away victory over Midlothian at the weekend, defeating the 2010-11 champions 77-66 at Dalkeith.
Bowls: Portobello bury pre-match nerves to beat Tweedbank
Portobello came into the national indoor bowls league system a week later than the others in Division 1C so are delighted to have hit the ground running with a 91-74 victory at home to Tweedbank.
School sports curling: Munro becomes youngest winner
Robyn Munro, a nine-year-old from Rephad Primary School, became the youngest player to win a Royal Caledonian Curling event when she helped her mother’s rink win the Unders and Overs at Stranraer.
School sports: Shooting the hoops goes to historic new level at Academy
Scotland’s Justice Minister, Kenny MacAskill MSP, and GB Olympian Kieron Achara have launched the first Scottish School of Basketball at Ardrossan Academy in Ayrshire.
Ice Hockey: Rant in the vein of football boss helps end losing streak
Edinburgh Capitals captain Martin Cingel revealed a verbal blast in the vein of Sir Alex Ferguson from player-coach Richard Hartmann inspired the team to a 5-2 Elite League ice hockey victory over arch rivals Fife Flyers at Murrayfield last night.
Bowls: Bell encouraged despite 12-shot defeat for Bainfield
Bainfield’s first away match in the A section of the Jack High Insurance-sponsored indoor bowls Premier League saw Edinburgh’s elite suffer a 12-shot defeat (88-76) at the hands of a formidable Falkirk side.
Basketball: Glasgow pull off a Giant-killing act
Glasgow Rocks edged out Manchester Giants 88-85 last night to book a showdown with Sheffield in the quarter-finals of the BBL Cup.
Bowls: Logan meets Duncan in November decider
West Lothian’s Callum Logan and Ronnie Duncan from Midlothian claimed the two final places in the MKD Sportswear Champion of Champions event at Inverclyde yesterday, and will go head to head in the title decider on 10 November during the final day of the WBT Scottish International Open at Perth.
Campbell keen to stick it to the Irish
If YOU asked Scotland shinty manager Drew McNeil and his captain Norman Campbell what the annual shinty/hurling series means to them you’d have to pour yourself a cuppa and prepare for a conversational epic – not to mention the sight of a few gashes worn almost as a rite of passage.
Fraser on fishing: Taking a different route
Bright and cold conditions greeted my arrival at Bangour fishery, writes STUART FRASER.
Basketball: Capital men and women get off to flyers on road
Edinburgh UNIVERSITY got off to a flying start in the Scottish Universities Championships, with both men’s and women’s first teams scoring away wins.
Basketball: Rockets post for Flynn
Former Blaze assistant senior men’s coach and cadet men’s coach Adrian Flynn has begun a new pro career in Germany as assistant coach at Gotha Rockets, a team in the Pro A German second division.
Basketball: East left to play catch-up
These are heady days for Scottish basketball, with 5000 fans attending the Glasgow Rocks’ first game in the new 12,000-seater Emirates Arena in Glasgow and with Scotland’s first basketball academy being unveiled by Rocks’ temporary recruit Kieron Achara at Ardrossan Academy this week.
Ice Hockey: First-pick netminder back for Caps’ clash with Clan
Edinburgh Capitals player-coach Richard Hartmann welcomes back goalie Tomas Hiadlovsky for a must-win Challenge Cup game at Braehead Clan tomorrow, before returning to Murrayfield on Sunday for an Elite League clash with oldest rivals Fife Flyers (face-off 6pm).
Bowls: Bainfield bid for top form at Falkirk
The ability of newly promoted Bainfield bowling club to survive in the elite indoor scene will be tested at Falkirk tomorrow in the A section of the Jack High Insurance Premier League.
Midlothian put Porty to the sword
MIDLOTHIAN shocked Portobello when they left the seaside town with a 65-54 victory in the East B section of the indoor bowls national league.
Bowls: Porty ladies clean up in home derby
The ladies of Portobello indoor bowls club launched their campaign in Division 1C of the national league system with a resounding 106-66 home victory over Edinburgh rivals Bainfield.
Bowls: West Lothian draw first blood indoors
West Lothian launched their defence of the indoor bowls Premier League title with an 85-69 victory over great rivals East Lothian in the A Section opener at the Inveralmond stadium.
Ice Hockey: Keeper Forshall the hero as he rescues a point for Capitals
Third-choice goalie Kevin Forshall played a big part as Edinburgh Capitals gained a valuable point in the Elite ice hockey League after a 3-2 shootout loss to the Dundee Stars on Tayside last night, and the 28-year-old, making his first start for the Capitals’ professional side said he “loved every minute”.
Bowls: Bainfield get Prem return off to a flier
Bainfield got their return to indoor bowls’ Premier League under way with a 12-shot victory (78-66) at home to Midlothian in Saturday’s opening fixture of the A Section.
Golf: Boroughmuir Blaze defy the odds to edge out favourites St Mirren
Boroughmuir BLAZE achieved arguably their best result since returning to basketball’s Scottish National League when they beat last season’s Scottish Cup winners and third-placed league finishers St Mirren 69-65 at the Crags Sports Centre on Saturday.
Bowls: West Lothian begin title defence with victory
PREMIER Division champions West Lothian got the defence of their Jack High Insurance National League title off to a winning start at Inveralmond against East Lothian, with an 85-69 win.
Basketball: Rockin’ Robinson on a roll
It wasn’t quite a scene from The Wire. But it was pretty close, hints Donald Robinson. Growing up 40 miles from Baltimore, raised as an only child by a single mother, the wrong kind of temptations lurked around every corner.
Capitals coach Hartmann wants to instil killer instinct
Player-coach Richard Hartmann has urged his Edinburgh Capitals to keep “cool heads” in front of goal when they play host to Braehead Clan in ice hockey’s Elite League at Murrayfield tomorrow night (face-off 6pm).
Kings beat holders to set up Cup clash with Troon
Edinburgh Kings defeated holders St Mirren 86-63 in their second-round Scottish Basketball Cup tie at Portobello High School last night and are now through to meet Troon Tornadoes away in the quarter-finals at the end of next month.
Bowls: Juicy opener in store at Inveralmond
SPARKS will surely fly at Inveralmond Stadium this weekend with the opening fixtures of the Jack High Insurance-sponsored Indoor Bowls Premier League headlined by defending champions West Lothian’s clash at home to fierce rivals East Lothian.
Basketball: Flockhart’s trim and ready to go after his honeymoon
BACK in the side after a two-week break for his Florida honeymoon, Edinburgh Kings centre Simon Flockhart has warned his team-mates against any complacency when they face holders St Mirren in the second round of basketball’s Scottish Cup at Portobello High School tonight, tip-off 8.20pm.
Ice Hockey: Dundee make most of weary Capitals’ mistakes
Edinburgh Capitals’ assistant coach Jock Hay blamed “silly mistakes” for last night’s 5-3 home loss to Dundee Stars, a result which leaves Caps rooted to the bottom of their Challenge Cup pool, and unlikely to make the competition’s quarter-final stage.
Shinty: Kingussie win cup at second attempt
Kingussie won the Sutherland Cup on Saturday, two months after losing the final.
Basketball: Blaze hoping to bounce back against the Knights
Edinburgh Kings’ Scottish Cup basketball clash with St Mirren at Portobello this weekend is off due a family bereavement affecting coach Doug Reilly and his two sons, Craig and Lee, who both play for the team.
Basketball: Ex-Kings on Dons roster
Two ex-Kings juniors, Niall Mackle and Matt Wilcox, will be vital members of the Aberdeen University team which hosts Troon Tornadoes in the Scottish Cup tomorrow.
Basketball: Points joy for Jenny
Edinburgh Kool Kats forward Jenny Simpson, who represented Scottish Universities in Nottingham last April, opened her student season on a bright note by scoring a career-best 42 points for Queen Margaret University in their 88-75 away win over Stirling University. Kats juniors (1pm) and cadettes (11am) host Glasgow Rocks in the Scottish League at Portobello HS tomorrow while Polonia Phoenix juniors are away to St Mirren.
Ice Hockey: Max points on Caps’ radar despite loss of Hiadlovsky
Edinburgh CAPITALS’ player-coach Richard Hartmann is fully concentrated on taking maximum points ahead of his side’s fixtures this weekend, despite missing star goalie Tomas Hiadlovsky, whose five game ban for kicking out at Hull Stingray’s Sylvain Cloutier was confirmed by the Elite League disciplinary committee earlier this week.
Ice Hockey: Caps keeper banned for five matches
Edinburgh CAPITALS netminder Tomas Hiadlovsky has been banned for five matches after he kicked out at Hull Stingrays player-coach Sylvain Cloutier last Saturday.
Bowls: Donaldson’s terrific trio edge thriller
Tanfield Bowling Club brought the curtain down on their competitive outdoor season with the annual playing of the Invitation Triples event sponsored by Grouse Whisky and the 2012 champion trio are Bill Ramsay, Brian Higgins and Robert Donaldson.
Ice Hockey: Stand-in netminder Holland is hero in Caps victory
Edinburgh CAPITALS’ back-up netminder, Craig Holland, nicknamed “Sheepdog”, turned in a man-of-the-match performance as the Caps recorded a 4-3 sudden death penalty shot victory over Hull Stingrays at Murrayfield last night.
Basketball: Kings cock-a-hoop as they brush aside loss of key players to defeat St Mirren
Understrength Edinburgh Kings kept their season’s unbeaten record and took a significant step towards their retaining their Scottish Basketball League title when they beat St Mirren 79-65 in Paisley.
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