Teams A and C met for an important match at the tail end of the league……and a live blog too!
In the first end Team B squeezed a single for the yellow stones but don’t blink because the A Team took control in the second end. Margaret is deadly with the cue and before you know it a four was on the board.
The ice is not being kind to Mara yet, the Reds are in control again, lying two as the Skips take to the hack. Margaret has put up a well placed guard. Mara nudges that stone up and tightens the red stone’s control. Another guard. That yellow stone just isn’t going to turn, it’s clipped another yellow which drifts out and another deuce to the Reds.
Fourth end and a Yellow stone is on the button with Reds gathering around the outside. That yellow is looking vulnerable and sure enough it soon gets moved. Lots of room in the house if the B Team can get passed those three Reds scoring in the 12ft. A lovely draw from Jim P, in the four foot, just beyond the T but exposed. Margaret the Cue is in the hack! Slightly off line, tap, tap, roll. It’s just touching the four foot. Lovely draw in, bit of a tap n roll. Is that yellow lying two? No! A Red stone has just pipped them and with the last stones nit changing the positions, a single to Team A.
Tentative lead stones in the fifth, Reds guarding the centre of the house, suddenly scattered and the house is open. Yellow stones are creeping into the twelve foot but there are gaps everywhere. Anything Yellow can do, Red is copying. Nothing in it at the moment. Over to you Skips. Whose going to take advantage? ITMA - It’s That Margaret Again, cuts Mara to one, last stone to come. Drat, it just wouldn’t curl enough. Just a single to Team B.
That’s more like it for the Yellows. Populating the house and protected by Red guards. It’s another cue stone, this time from Bill and it shatters the head that was building for the B Team. Jim hits straight back, this is exciting. The ice is not Mara’s friend tonight, she is having it all to do and ITMA strikes again! Sneaking in for another single.
The B Team fought back in the seventh end and at this stage in the match the Reds could afford to lose a shot, or maybe two and so it proved to be. Another well contested end with the A Team taking a single but going into the last end requiring a five to Peel was always a tall order. Taking another single in the last end meant it was four ends apiece but that big score in the second end was the difference and the A Team are top of the league with one match remaining.
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