The Alley Cats Youth Bowling Club

Goodness, where to even start!

The Alley Cats had a VERY successful weekend at the 2026 Youth Open, culminating in Danyl Cairns WINNING the boys tournament and Makinley finishing in joint 3rd position 🥳

Huge congratulations to them both, very well deserved after some incredible scoring🍾

There were plenty of other successes along the way which are detailed below:

FINALS:
2026 Youth Open Boys Champion = Danyl Cairns
Semi-Finalist = Makinley Brown
Quarter-Finalist = Joel Rutherford

TOURNAMENT AGE CATEGORIES:
1st place 16+ boys = Danyl Cairns
3rd place 13-16 boys = Joel Rutherford
1st place U13 boys = Makinley Brown
3rd place U13 boys = Gregor Marquis

Congratulations to all our bowlers who picked up a medal or trophy and well done to all who took part.

Very best of luck to all our bowlers taking part in the Youth Open tournament over this weekend.... check out how they are going on the official STB live stream...

Youth Scottish Open

And we’re now with squad 2a/b

The Scottish Youth Open 2026 is underway at Murrayfield Indoor Sports Club

Follow the live steam at our YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/?si=M9jKvLQ-gBIm5hrb

We are very proud of Joel, Makinley and Toby who maintain their respective 2026 podium-place streaks, picking up bronze in the Division B (scratch) category at yesterday's Youth Trios competition in Ayr. Well played boys 🫡

Wishing our Alley Cats juniors and families a happy easter 🐰

Our Saturday juniors sessions restart on April 25th.

Happy holidays 🐣

Congratulations to Joel and Makinley, who won the silver trophy in Div B, and to James and Toby, who won bronze in Div C, at this weekend's doubles tournament.

Kate also bowled a new personal best score of 137 👏

Well done to everyone who took part and thanks to all of our coaches for their fantastic support and guidance on the lanes.

Best of luck to our 7 x Alley Cats bowlers taking part in the Scottish Youth Doubles at Murrayfield Indoor Sports Club this weekend.

Our teams are playing in Squad 1 with a 1030 roll off on Saturday morning but will need to wait until Sunday to find out the results. We will let you know if they pick up some prizes.

May the pins fall in your favour 🎳

Well, what a weekend our Alleycats had at the Youth Nationals in Ayr this-weekend!

Huge congratulations to Makinley who swept the board with medals in all 4 event categories, including a GOLD for all events. He also achieved a personal best score of 221.

Singles (Div D) 🥈
Doubles (Div B) 🥉
Squads (Div A) 🥉
All Events (Div D) 🥇

Congratulations also to Joel who picked up two medals including GOLD for all events and achieved a new personal best of 224.

Singles (Div C) 🥈
All Events (Div C) 🥇

Well done to all our players who took part over the weekend. We are already looking forward to the next doubles comp in just a few weeks time at Murrayfield.

Note there will be no juniors session on the following dates due to competing events:

Sat 14th Feb (Rugby)
Sat 21st Feb (Youth Nationals Ayr)
Sat 28th Feb (Adult Doubles MISC)
Sat 7th Mar (Rugby)
Sat 21st Mar (Youth Doubles MISC)

It was great to see our young bowlers back at Murrayfield for the first juniors session of 2026 this-morning.

We have lots of great sessions and competitions to look forward to this year and can't wait to see how the Alley Cats team progress.

We welcome new members to join us for our fun, friendly and inclusive sessions on a Saturday morning 11am-1pm (MISC membership is not required).

The first two sessions are completely free so please get in touch if you are interested in discovering more about this fantastic sport.

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