Wins for Richard and Bill

Two good wins last night for the teams of Richard Morrison and Bill Inglis.
Richard beat Mike McNeill by 9 shots to 4 and Bill beat Mara by 7 shots to 2.

Richard still leads the league on 11 points, but could be caught by Mara's team who are second on 7 points, but have a game in hand.

Inter Club Challenge League

The team skipped by Mike have had a good week in the Inter Club Challenge League. On Monday the team of Mike, Mara, Dave and Alison had an excellent win over Kilmarnock Townend. On Wednesday Mike, Mara and Alison found themselves a player short just before they went on the ice to play Fairywell in a cup game. Fortunately Hilary had arrived to play with Disnae, so she was promptly seconded into the rink! An excellent performance by all resulted in a peeled match

European Championships

This Saturday sees the start of the European Championships in Champery, Switzerland.

Scotland will be represented by teams skipped by Eve Muirhead and David Edwards as they strive for medals in the "A" Division. All Ayrshire folk will be rooting even more than usual for the Men's team, where Billy Morton plays lead stones.

The event website with details of the draw can be found here.

The games will be broadcast on Eurosport from Monday and you can watch Scotland play Germany at 2.00 pm C.E.T. (1.00 pm GMT).  The full schedule of broadcasts can be found by clicking this link. Live Coverage will also be available on the WCF World Curling TV channel, although,as always, I'm never sure whether this is available if Eurosport are covering the game.

For an insight into life at a Major Champioships, follow this link to Team Edwards preparations for the event and their season so far. I'm sure it will be interesting to follow their week.

Eve's women's team is Anna Sloan at Third, Vicki Adams at Second and Sara Reid at lead.  They start their campaign with a game against Denmark at 2.00 pm GMT on Saturday and their game against Germany is scheduled to be shown live on Eurosport at 7.30 pm GMT on Tuesday.

Last Night's Games

The top two teams consolidated their positions last night.  Richard's team beat Bill Inglis by 9 shots to 6 and Mara won against David Wallace by 9 shots to 7.

Thursday's matches

Last night Bill Inglis had a good win over Mike's rink, winning 8 shots to 2. In the other match, the three man team of Jennifer, Steve and Hilary fought manfully, but eventually were defeated by David Wallace' s rink

Week 5 (This is definitely Halfway!)

Apologies for last week's error.  This is now the halfway point in the Autumn League because everyone has played 4 games. Disappointed that no-one spotted it.  (You'll have to pay more attention.)

Last night's games resulted in wins for Mara and Bill in games against Mike and David.

So at the halfway stage (!), our leader is Richard followed by Mara, Mike, Bill and David, in that order.

Finally, if you'd like to see a really exceptional curling shot, have a look at this