Bainfield make changes for trip to face West Lothian

Bainfield's tough baptism on their return to premier league status continues tomorrow with the Edinburgh elite making the short trip to Livingston to take on West Lothian at the Inveralmond stadium.

Team manager John Bell stay's faithful to the players who disappointed in last weekend's opening match defeat but makes two enforced changes with team captain Craig Moss and teenager Neil Watson both unavailable. Bell takes the chance to blood Chris Wilson and 16-year-old national youth singles champion Stephen Pringle.

"Morale in the camp remains high and our determination level has been increased so, although West Lothian will be favourites to win, we are optimistic that an upset is within our capabilities," said Bell.

O'Donnell takes over the captaincy.

West Lothian lost at Midlothian but are traditionally strong at home so expect to get off the mark with a team that is beefed up by the return of skips Thomas Mann and Mark Allison. Stewart McMaster and David Wilson are stood down.

Neil Speirs and George Sneddon are at the Commonwealth Games.

Midlothian travel North to Aberdeen without Robert Crawford their recent acquisition from the Border area but team manager Frank Gray has a reliable replacement in stalwart figure Lindsay Plenderleith.

East Lothian were rightly cock-a-hoop after their opening away win over Bainfield and hope to continue their winning ways at home to Auchinleck tomorrow.

Ewan Murray and former junior cap Robert Sloan make their first appearance of the season for Portobello at home to Abbeyview in the B section of Division 1 while Balbardie welcome back Ewan Shearer at skip against visitors Tweedbank.

Portobello, meanwhile, opened their campaign in the East B section of the Seniors League Cup with a hard fought 61-55 win at home to Tweedbank.

It was wins for Tony McLaren and Willie Paul that carved out the Porty success with McLaren skipping Ramsay Stewart, Jim McLeod and Ronnie Andrews to a 20-11 win over Rob Fulton.

Paul skipped Eddie Tomany, Dave McLeod and Keith Young to a 16-12 win over Mel Blyth.

Skips Alex Walker and Ronnie Douglas lost 17-12 and 15-13 to Tommy Mann and Danny McLean respectively.

West Lothian edged a 57-56 thriller against Midlothian at Livingston where the hero figure was Davie Anderson whose two lead bowls at the last end were toppers that led to a match-winning single on the rink skipped by Ron Scott against Jim Traynor.

East Lothian's shocking start to the campaign continued with the section favourites suffering a 60-56 defeat at home to a Bainfield team that defeated West Lothian in the opener.