The Night Of The Subs

 With Tuesday’s match being so close to Hallowe’en it seemed appropriate to have so many subs guising for their regular team mates! No fancy dress or scary masks to be seen but thanks to all four of you for turning out and ensuring the game went ahead. 

Appropriately, in the first end there seemed to be a ghost in the house as none of the stones wanted to either enter, or stay in it, for very long. The result was a blank end and some blank faces as to who still had the hammer. Quickly resolved and my suggestion that we would be playing an extra end to make up for it drew some looks as cold as the ice itself. Worth a try 😮

The second end was more successful though no less tight as Bert and Bill battled get the first score whilst contending with ice which was not always doing as we had hoped. Bert snuck in with a single.

Bill stormed back with a three in the third, thanks to some accurate stones finding gaps that others couldn’t see. The fourth end was just as tight and with Bill lying but Bert with the hammer, a single with last stone to Team A kept them in the game. 

Bert built up good heads in the fifth and sixth ends, guarding well and testing Bill to try and find ways through as he had earlier. It wasn’t to be and with twos in both ends Bert snuck ahead with two ends to play. 

Roles reversed in the seventh, Bill in command, although he was hoping for more than a single going into the last end. However, two back and needing a three to win, Bill did get off to an encouraging start. There didn’t look like any way in for Bert but it would take the Skips shots to decide if Bill could sneak the three or Bert could reduce the number of scoring stones. 

Bert’s first stone was perfect weight and line, not quite reducing the number of counting stones but giving Bill something to think about. If he could get a nick with his last stone he could possibly remove Bert and get his three...........good weight but would it turn enough..........ohh so close! 

Bill was still lying two but Bert, taking a little less ice delivered another accurate stone and reduced Bill to one.

Bill took the end but the single gave Bert the match at 6-5. 

We are a third of the way through the series and whilst Margaret has a perfect six points, it’s still early days!