2025-11-12 Allegro Match at Grangemouth

Grangemouth Tigers -v-  Stirling Bruce

                 Round 1
John McLay   2058  0-1  Leo Gardner      1985
Alan Petrie  1692  0-1  Isaac Browning   1938
Joe Johnson   u/g  0-1  Kenny MacPherson 1568
Sean Gray     u/g  0-1  Dave Hewitt      1367
                   0-4

                 Round 2
            McLay  ½-½  Browning
           Petrie  1-0  MacPherson
          Johnson  0-1  Hewitt
             Gray  0-1  Gardner
                  1½-2½
                  1½-6½
                
                 Round 3
            McLay  1-0  MacPherson
           Petrie  1-0  Hewitt
          Johnson  0-1  Gardner
             Gray  0-1  Browning
                   2-2
                  3½-8½

                 Round 4
            McLay  1-0  Hewitt
           Petrie  0-1  Gardner
          Johnson  0-1  Browning
             Gray  0-1  MacPherson
                   1-3 
                  4½-11½

Bruce had white in the even rounds.

Individual scores:
Tigers: McLay 2½, Petrie 2/4, Gray 0/4, Johnson 0/4
Bruce: Gardner 4/4, Browning 3½/4, Hewitt 2/4, MacPherson 2/4

Dave Hewitt, the Stirling Bruce captain provided this summary of the match:

A hard-fought match ended in a fairly comfortable win for the visiting team, who reached the necessary score with a round to spare.

From a Stirling point of view, Leo - from Barcelona - had an excellent allegro league debut and looks like being quite a force in the Central League during the four years he'll be a student here. Isaac again showed his fondness for spending lengthy periods at the end of games living on the increment and doing it well. Kenny continued his recent good form. For Grangemouth, John and Alan were solid and reliable as ever, and Joe and Sean are getting stronger all the while and will certainly score better than this in matches to come.