Dumfries Sports Club

Dumfries’s Tom McBride has been rewarded for being the top home grown run scorer in National League Division 2, by being picked for the Western Warriors versus the East last Sunday in the Scottish Regional Series.

He was also named named as twelfth man for the three day match between Scotland Lions, the Scotland 2nd XI, and Durham County 2nd XI at Morpeth which commenced on Monday.

After a win against Leicestershire and a draw against Warwickshire the Scots are seeking to maintain an undefeated record at this level.

Dumfries Juniors

The fixtures at Nunholm finished on Sunday with a junior match against Ferguslie U13s. The last home game of the season was played in sunny conditions and a fast outfield.

Ferguslie proved more effective with the bat but the Dumfries batsmen resisted in a time match to hold onto a draw for a good day of junior cricket which was spiced by a post match barbeque to round off the Nunholm season.

This weekend the Dumfries Kwik cricket team travel to Perth for the National Clubs Kwik Cricket Festival and Dumfries play a friendly at Gatehouse in the last match of the season.

Dumfries Cricket Club’s Primary Schools summer term initiative culminated on Friday with a predominately Noblehill team taking on a Collin/Georgetown select in a hard-ball game.

The “experienced” Aiden Collingwood demonstrated his class and dominated the match by taking 5 wickets and scoring 20 runs.

Adam Gilliland and Gavin Irving used the benefit of coaching received at the club and also looked good with the bat. For Noblehill Keir Morton was the leading wicket-taker and Craig Penrice and Ronan Dunbar the top run-scorers.

Over the course of four weeks local schools were invited to the club and over sixty primary school children played cricket on the Nunholm ground with teams and participants from schools at Collin, Georgetown, Noblehill, Cargenbridge, and Cummertrees involved. The schools played a series of soft-ball matches played under kwik cricket rules, obviously enjoyed themselves and also impressed the club’s ex-cricketers who had “volunteered” their services to umpire the matches.

This is the second year of primary schools playing regularly at the club over a period of weeks and Rory Fergusson, the Club’s Junior Convenor, said “The club are delighted that the club’s links with local schools are proving beneficial and we look forward to doing more with them.”

Thanks and appreciation are due to the umpires and the parents and teachers who supported the initiative – especially John Gillies and Pam Abraham of Collin and Noblehill primary schools respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

At Nunholm on Sunday the 6th June Scotland U15s play Cumbria in their first game in this year’s ECB Under 15 Championship. The match starts at midday. Sports Club members and spectators are welcome to come down to the ground and support the Scots. Good weather is also hoped for on Friday afternoon for a cricket festival involving local Primary Schools.