NO fewer than 70 junior and senior bowlers from throughout Fife contested 12 singles titles at the 2019 Disability Sport Fife Carpet Bowls Championships held at the Michael Woods Sports & Leisure Centre and supported by Fife Sports and Leisure Trust on Wednesday with no shortage of success from the Cowdenbeath-Lochgelly area..

Cowdenbeath Bowling Club's Billy Allan won the Ambulant Bowlers with a Physical Impairment event while Logan Anderson, from Lochgelly High, won the Bowlers with a learning disability Junior boys and girls S3/S4/S5 and LHS's Lee Mackie, the bowlers with a learning disability Junior boys S1/S2.

Other LHS competitors were runners-up in their events.

Disability Sport Fife's Richard Brickley said: "Volunteer markers from bowling clubs in Central Fife officiated at 89 singles ties.

"Many thanks to officials co-ordinators, Math Thomson and Andy Mathieson from Beveridge Park Bowling Club, and 14 other ladies and gents who gave up their day to ensure that the players received the highest standards of officiating. Math Thomson presented the trophies to the winners at the conclusion of the tournamen"t.

From the results Disability Sport Fife will select the Fife team to represent Team Fife at the SDS National Carpet Bowls Championships to be held at DISC in Dundee on Saturday February 1.

There were junior players from Lochgelly HS and Glenrothes HS. Both schools got together for training in the lead up to the event and plan to repeat this arrangement from here on.

Inclusive bowling clubs Dovecot Park Bowling Club in Glenrothes and Headwell B.C in Dunfermline, that benefitted from GOGA investment in Fife from Spirit of 2012 were well represented on the day. As always there was strong representation from individual bowlers and players from Community Support Services in East, West and Central Fife.

The full winners list was, Wheelchair bowlers: • Winner - Willie Harrison Central Fife CSS;• Runner up – Jim Donaldson Central Fife CSS. Ambulant bowlers with a physical impairment • Winner - Billy Allan – Cowdenbeath BC; • Runner up – Glen Livingston.

Physically and Visually impaired bowlers – restricted • Winner – Kenny Dow – Central Fife CSS; • Runner up - Eleanor Clark – Fair Isle BC.

Bowlers with a learning disability Men A section • Winner – Robert Anderson – Dovecot BC; • Runner up Steven Anderson – Dovecot BC

Bowlers with a learning disability Men B section • Winner – Jimmy Ramsay – East Fife CSS; • Runner up – George Goodsir – East Fife CSS. Bowlers with a learning disability Men C section • Winner – Robert McMahon – Central Fife CSS; • Runner up – Robert Morrison – Headwell BC.

Bowlers with a learning disability Men D section • Winner – David Scott – Leven; • Runner up - Aaron Kean – Headwell BC. Bowlers with a learning disability Ladies A section • Winner – Michelle Wallace – Central Fife CSS; • Runner up – Julie Allan – East Fife CSS/Windygates BC. Bowlers with a learning disability Ladies B section • Winner – Roberta Buchan – Central Fife CSS; • Runner up – Danielle Osborne – Headwell BC.

Bowlers with a learning disability Junior boys with a physical impairment. • Winner – Liam Bradbury – Glenrothes HS; • Runner up – Josh Panes – Lochgelly HS. Bowlers with a learning disability Junior boys S1/S2 with a learning disability • Winner - Lee Mackie Lochgelly HS; • Runner up – Olek Kobel – Lochgelly HS.

Bowlers with a learning disability Junior boys and girls S3/S4/S5 with a learning disability • Winner – Logan Anderson – Lochgelly HS; • Runner up – Christopher Trowell – Glenrothes HS.