The Squash Leagues for October are available on the site and can be found here or by following the Quick Link at the top of the right hand column.
For the winter leagues the scoring system reverts to 9 points per game. For clarification of the winter rules see below. Read the rest of this entry »
The Tennis Summer Leagues for October are now on the site here or can be found in the Quick Links at the top of the right hand site column.
The results for the September matches are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »
From Friday 20th November to Sunday 22nd November
Entry details for the inaugural South of Scotland Masters Open Championships which are being held at the club can be found on this site, here.
Completed entries should be in Friday 13th November.
APD Dumfries’s Murgitroyd Scottish Twenty20 Semi-Final against Greenock has arrived on YouTube courtesy of Cricket Scotland TV.
You can see if the club’s media training has been successful whilst cheering the first innings and watching the second through your fingers!
Dumfries Hockey Club’s men’s team welcomed newly promoted side Monklands to the King George V Park last Saturday for their first fixture of the new season.
Unfortunately holiday and work commitments, compounded by recent departures to university, resulted in the Dumfries side initially fielding ten players and this reduced to nine for the second half due to work commitments but at least the sun was shining.
Monklands took advantage of their numerical advantage and quickly took the game to Dumfries, pressing the home side into a defensive mode. Read the rest of this entry »
Scottish 20/20 Semi-Final: Chris Bellwood stunned Greenock by taking 6 wickets for 14, © Cricket Scotland
Dumfries may have found themselves on the wrong side of the conditions batting first on a soft wicket but they had an indifferent start and struggled to 54 for 4 at the half way point. It needed Stuart Corbett-Byers with 36 and Alan Davidson with 26 to put together a fifth wicket fifty partnership and the innings closed on a more hopeful 152 for 7.
Dumfries really needed to bowl and field well and apply early pressure. Unfortunately extras formed much of Penicuik’s initial reply in the absence of regulars Alexander and Patterson. The openers, the pro Ramzan and Scotland U19 player Coleman, survived and with them punishing the loose ball for four on a faster outfield they were not under pressure to look for runs.
Skipper Beveridge trapped Coleman LBW for 30 after an opening stand of 63 and Dumfries needed wickets to stem the run rate. Although Davie Davidson did get Aslam LBW for 39 Penicuik were in the home straight and they concluded a comfortable win by 7 wickets with overs to spare.
On Sunday Chris Bellwood produced the bowling performance of the day at the Murgitroyd Scottish Twenty20 Finals Day in Glasgow taking a remarkable 6 for 14 off 3.4 overs. Underdogs APD Dumfries played Premier League side Greenock in the second semi-final but despite his efforts they still contrived to finish second to the eventual cup winners in the 18 overs a side contest. Read the rest of this entry »
Junior Squash Nights are re-starting on Sunday 20th Sep, 7-9pm.
Eye protection and refreshments are provided.
All Sports Club junior members are welcome.
For further information contact Raymond Currie on 07515 994172 or 01387 257036. Parent consent forms will need to be completed by new members.
Skipper Scott Beveridge will be looking for more big hits this weekend
APD Dumfries are back on the road this weekend for their final scheduled cricket of their season and the biggest two matches.
After last week’s postponement the play-off match for promotion to National Division 1 starts in Stirling at high noon on Saturday against Division 1 side Penicuik.
On Sunday they are in Glasgow, at Shawholm, for the rescheduled Murgitroyd Scottish Twenty20 Cup semi-finals and finals. There they compete as Border Champions with the winners from the West, North and the East; respectively Greenock, Dunfermline and a Corstorphine side out for revenge for their absence in Saturday’s play-off. The winner’s cheque is for one thousand pounds making this richest prize in Scottish cricket. APD Dumfries play their semi-final against Greenock at 1pm.
Youth and experience defy the Nunholm weather
The 2009 season is drawing to a close and the first and second elevens are awaiting the outcomes of play-offs to decide their destinations for 2010 – the APD team with their fate within their own control but the JMS XI awaiting what happens elsewhere.
Meanwhile cricket at a less rarefied level took place at Nunholm at the week-end with mixed teams of the proverbial youth and experience taking on Longtown and Hillhead. Read the rest of this entry »
Tommy batting against Netherlands U17s, courtesy of ICC/CricketEurope
He joined the other five other full time and two part-time attendees when the course started last week. They include recent Scotland internationals Matthew Parker and Marc Petrie, who kept wicket against Australia two weeks ago. He also joins some of Scotland’s aspiring skiers and rugby players as they attend the corresponding performance courses for their respective sports.
McBride, who played for Scotland U17s and Scotland U19s this year, will receive skills and fitness training and course work in sports science together with a cricketing placement overseas. Last January the group spent three months training and playing in Australia. The likely destination this year is India or Australia.
The former Lockerbie Academy pupil, who was first introduced to the sport thanks to one of the junior cricket taster sessions run by the Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Sports and Leisure Department, has an exciting ‘off-season’ in prospect.
The club’s 09/10 winter leagues start up in October. To sign up add your name to the notice on the club noticeboard. If you are in the summer leagues then you don’t need to do anything unless you want to withdraw.
Dumfries Tennis Club held their club championship finals day on Saturday at Dumfries Sports Club at Nunholm.
This year saw a fantastic turnout in both the junior and senior events. The ladies side of the club has been building up well and it was great to see so many of them getting involved.
In the junior events it was lovely to see some new faces taking part and well done to everyone who participated in the qualifying rounds.
Trophy winners at the 2009 Dumfries Tennis Club Championships
Thank you to all the finalists for taking part and to everyone who came along and supported the event and made it a great day.
Anyone who would like to get involved with the tennis at the club can phone Lister Mckiddie on 256260 or if you would like coaching contact the club coach Colin Dunbar on 0776264329.
For the next 4 weeks the ladies’ coaching will be back on Monday nights from 6pm to 7pm, all levels of players are welcome to come along and join in.
The Finals results are below together with more images of the day. Read the rest of this entry »
Bellwood hits out in his man of the match innings of 93 not out
Despite the wettest August on record APD Dumfries did play their league showdown against second placed RH Corstorphine in National League Division 2 at Nunholm. The prize for the winner was the place in the promotion play-off match for Division 1.
Dumfries won convincingly by 87 runs, thanks to a match winning 93 not out from Chris Bellwood. He joined Davie Davidson after an early wicket to put together a partnership of just under a century which ended when Davidson was out for 29. Two more wickets fell rapidly and, at 115 for 4, three wickets had gone for twelve runs with 35 overs already bowled.
Dawson holds on to the winning catch
The squeeze was being applied by the spinners Holstein and Mommsen. Already a rain interruption had reduced the match to 48 overs a side and when another came after 40 overs Dumfries were just on 132.
Tea was taken during the rain break and eight overs still remained. Stuart Corbett-Byers hit a crucial run-a-ball 37 including two sixes to produce a more testing total of 190 for 5. Bellwood finished on 93 not out having picked off runs all round the wicket in another classy innings. Read the rest of this entry »
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