World Men's Curling Championships

The 2013 Ford Men's World Curling Championships start in Victoria BC, Canada this Saturday, March 30th.
If you've enjoyed watching Eve Muirhead's Team winning the Gold Medal in Riga, then  details of the Men's competition can be found on this website. Some of the games will be covered on Eurosport.

Scotland will be represented by David Murdoch and his team of Tom Brewster, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow and Greg Drummond.

Your Curler Magazine

The latest issue of The RCCC Your Curler ezine has just been released.  It features articles on Ayr's magnificent wins in the Morton and Maxwell Trophies, plus a nice piece from Pat Galloway about Kirkoswald's 175th Anniversary Celebrations.
You can access the magazine with this link.

Letton Stone Winners

As promised at the AGM, here's a photo of our team being presented with the Letton Stone at Troon Portland's Bonspiel.

Congratulations on a great performance.

Letton Stone Winners
David Gilmour (skip) Sandi Wallace, Mara Lindsay and David Wallace

Closing Bonspiel and AGM

Eighteen players took part in our Closing Bonspiel and it was good to see Jenny Syme joining us to try out our wonderful sport.
After six ends of good play, the winners, being the only team to win all three games, were Mara Lindsay, Graham Spence and Alison Young.

Closing Bonspiel Winners
Alison Young, Graham Spence and Mara Lindsay

Thereafter we decanted to the South Beach Hotel for an excellent meal and our AGM.

A Report on the AGM will follow in due course.  Here are some photos of the Prizewinners.

Autumn League Winners
Alison Young and Mara Lindsay ( with David Wallace, skip, and Bob Handley)

Points Trophy
Ronnie Peat

Pairs Trophy presented by new President Mara
Ian Snodgrass (with Mike McNeill)

Spring League
Mara Lindsay, Richard Morrison and Mabel Hildebrand (with Alan Gorman)

New President Mara being welcomed by former President Ian

Bill Inglis
(winner of the Raffle)

Final League Placings and Women's World Championships

Richard Morrison's team of Mara Lindsay, Alan Gorman and Mabel Hildebrand made no mistakes and convincingly won the Spring League tonight.  They started off by scoring 5, 3 and 3 in the first three ends and finished with a 13 -3 victory over David Gilmour's team.

Spring League Winners
Alan Gorman, Richard Morrison (skip), Mara Lindsay, Mabel Hildebrand

The other game finished in a win by Mike McNeill over Bill Inglis of 9 shots to 5.
The final league position is

Team	Played	Points	Shots+	Ends	Position
DWallace	8	7	-21	26	3
DGilmour	8	6	-7	31	4
MMcNeill	8	6	-7	27	5
RMorrison	8	12	42	38	1
B Inglis	8	9	-7	35	2

Titlis Glacier Mountain

Women's World Championships

If you were able to see some of the World Juniors last week, you may also be interested in Women's World Championships.  These start on Saturday 16th  and are taking place in Riga, Latvia.

Scotland will be again be represented by Eve Muirhead's team and they will be hoping to improve on last year's 6th place.

You can follow the games on Eurosport, although the Scotland teams don't feature all that often. The Schedule of games can be found here.

League is Nicely Poised

Last night, we again saw two close games with David Wallace's team (skipped by Margaret Morrison) taking a single shot at the last end to beat Mike McNeill by 7 shots to 6.

Meanwhile, the rinks skipped by David Gilmour and Bill Inglis fought an honourable 5 all draw.

These results mean that the league title is still up for grabs.  Richard Morrison's team have 10 points and a huge number of shots, but the Inglis side are close on their heels with 9 points (and not quite as many shots).

The table is

Team	Played	Points	Shots+	Ends	Position
DWallace	8	7	-21	26	3
DGilmour	7	6	3	28	4
MMcNeill	7	4	-11	23	5
RMorrison	7	10	32	33	1
B Inglis	7	9	-3	31	2

Final games are next Tuesday.