June - August social events

The following are the social/club events so far for June to August (please support them)

Annual General Meeting 5th June

Car Boot Sale 14th June

Quiz Night 20 June

Barbeque 15 August

More details will follow.

Link to chatboard

EDIT:-
The Quiz Night which was scheduled for Saturday 20th June has been cancelled.
Also the Car Boot Sale which was scheduled for Sunday 14th June has been cancelled, both functions have been cancelled as an outside function has also been arranged in the club.

We will advise when the Quiz Night/Car Boot Sale is rescheduled in future.

We apologise for any inconvenience
Tommy.

BAKING STALL AT HOLY FAIR MAUCHLINE SATURDAY 23RD MAY 2009

CUMNOCK RFC CLUB FUNDS

BAKING STALL AT HOLY FAIR MAUCHLINE SATURDAY 23RD MAY 2009

We need your help! Do you like baking or does your mum, gran, sister or friend? We need good quality Scottish baking for the clubs stall at the Holy Fair on the 23rd of May.

As the theme is Scottish and the stall will be open all day we need as much baking as possible all money going to Club funds. Please select from the list below and phone Una on 01290 552987 or Marie on 01560 320593 to let them know what you are donating.

Scones, pancakes, potato scones, shortbread, tablet, toffee, empire biscuits, clootie dumpling,
Fruit loaves, gingerbread, millionaire shortbread.

Thank you for your support.

Chatboard thread

Cumnock Whitecraigs Tournament Report

Cumnock Primary 7s at Whitecraigs
Primary 4 reports:-

Cumnock 2 – 1 Whitecraigs

Cumnock kicked off their tournament by, unusually, playing Whitecraigs at touch rugby.
This inevitably meant that it was much harder to find space and as a result scoring chances were few and far between. Cumnock managed to open the scoring with Owen Young finishing off an excellent team move in the corner. However, Whitecraigs managed to equalise with a long range score before half time.
The second half continued in a similar fashion to the first with Cumnock scoring the only good chance of the half with Owen Young on hand to sprint clear of the covering defence after a break from Rob Drummond.

Cumnock 1 – 6 Ayr A

This was a fine example of the kind of game where the score doesn’t represent the game. Cumnock stuck in well at this game with a committed defensive effort against a strong Ayr team.
Austin McBirnie scored Cumnock’s try after a typically jinking run which seemed to take him round every member of the Ayr defence at least twice. Also worthy of a mention was Ross Wallace who prevented two tries with magnificent covering tackles just short of the line.

Cumnock 5 – 7 Hamilton

The team then played a strong Hamilton team and once again were unlucky not to come away with a better result.
This was a very exciting game with excellent handling and running skills on show from both teams. Owen Young was the star of this game, scoring four tries and making the other for Adam Veitch. There were also impressive defensive showings from Adam Watt and Rob Drummond who unfortunately injured himself making a heroic tackle to prevent a Hamilton score.

Cumnock 7 – 4 Ayr B

Cumnock played their final game of the season against their second Ayr team and were determined to go out with a win.
This showed with a very impressive performance from the team who all worked very hard for this result with some excellent support play breaking the Ayr defence down time after time. Owen Young scored twice in the first half with Adam Watt and Austin McBirnie also adding scores before half time to make the score 4-3. After the break Cumnco took control of this game with a further two scores from Adam Watt to complete his hat trick with other coming from Adam Veitch. Once again the star defender was Ross Wallace who made another brace of try saving tackles.
The side had another encouraging weekend against strong opposition and this bodes well for next season.

Thanks for David Kerr for report.

Link to chatboard p4 thread

Primary 5 Report:-

The last day of the season saw Cumnock heading up to Whitecraigs for 4 games of rugby.

Cumnock 9 Whitecraigs 4

The team got off to a slow start in the game and were lucky to go in level at 1/2 time. The second half was a different story with some great running and solid defence work resulting in a convincing victory.

Garnock 6 Cumnock 5

This was a great game with Cumnock taking an early lead. Garnock pulled the game back and it looked to be a draw until Garnock scored in the last play of the game.

Cumnock 8 Hamilton 5

Another good performance from Cumnock taking an early lead. With a solid defence, great running and support play the result of this game never looked to be in any doubt.

Ayr 5 Cumnock 4

This was the best game of the day with both teams putting in a great performance, lots of exciting open play with possession changing hands at a furious pace. The game could have gone either way and this game again looked to be a draw before Ayr sneaked in a late try to snatch victory.

A great all round performance from the team of John Watt, Sean Houston, Scott Teece, Callum Bell, Lucy Watt, Tyler Wallace and Rory Nimmo. Tries scored by Callum, Sean, Scott and John

Lnik to chatboard p5 thread

Report for Cumnock RFC P7 Team, Whitecraigs Tournament

Whitecraigs 2 Cumnock 5

Cumnock started the game well, taking the game directly to their opponents. Some good interplay amongst the forwards allowed Callum McKenzie in for his first try for Cumnock. Cumnock kept up the pressure, forcing their opposite numbers into making handling errors and allowing the Cumnock backs to move the ball about freely resulting in tries for Zak North and Aiden Kerr (3). The team played together well going forward but again only mixed results in defence with fierce tackling from Kerr, Reilly and Aitken covering for some of the others.

Cumnock 1 Hamilton 2

The result didn't do justice to the effort put in by Cumnock against this bigger team, some of whom wouldn't have looked out of place in an S2 team.Cumnock opened the scoring with a great move from the backs with slick passing from Reilly and Aitken creating the space for Jack Reilly to score. Cumnock seemed to ease off a bit and let Hamilton back into the game. The tackling was ferocious at times but the indifferent refereeing didn't do Cumnock any favours. The winning try was scored after a pass that was so far forward it showed up in next weeks calendar. The Hamilton coach apologised but the score meant that Cumnock were out of the competition and Whitecraigs went through to the final against Ayr on try difference, having beaten Hamilton five nil.

Overall the team played well but the players knew that they should have won against Hamilton despite the refereeing decisions. The players felt a bit flat afterwards but the coaches have seen enough to look forward to next season as they move up to S1 to play Midi-rugby.

Link to Primary 7 chatboard topic

Struan Camp -Glasgow Players Selected

Link to full story on Scottish rugby website

List of the players from Glasgow that have been selected through the National Pathway 2008-09 to attend the National Camp at Struan in July (from Cumnock). Congratulations to the players on their achievement and thank you to all the support they received from coaches, managers, parents and the medical staff.
Forname Surname Age Club School

Mark Bennett 17 Cumnock St. Joseph's Academy
Alan Haynes 17 Cumnock Auchinleck Academy
Craig Greer 18 Cumnock

All the other players from other clubs can be found on above link.