Week 3 Results and Other Things

Last night saw two very close games, an exciting change from the "big wins" of the first two weeks. Mike McNeill's team beat Richard Morrison's at the last stone and on the other sheet David Wallace's team narrowly defeated David Gilmour's team, a game which also went to the last stone.
Skipping for David Wallace was Bob Handley, in his first game at skip. He played some crucial shots for victory.
Kyle & Carrick
Our team played on Monday against Kilmarnock Townend and unfortunately couldn't repeat their earlier success, losing to John Evans's experienced team.

The RCCC sent out the first issue of their online magazine on Monday.
In case you didn't receive it, here is a link. 

Lastly, Bill Abbott has some curling shoes for sale.
He emailed me with
As you may have noticed, I am using the cue now - so I have a size 8 pair of curling shoes, slider/kipper, in good condition for disposal?

 If you want to try them out, let me know.

 Bill Abbott

If anyone is interested, please contact Bill

Points Competition

The Points Trophy was played for last night with 10 keen curlers competing.

Everyone enjoyed the night, helped with the scoring and generally had a good time.  We played all but one of the disciplines and the ice was judged as good, with all the shots being possible, although perhaps not easy to accomplish.
Everyone at least made it to double figures and the final result was very close.

The top three were:

3rd Place    Bill Inglis       16  points

2nd Place    Bill Abbott    28 points

1st Place     Ronnie Peat  29 points

Some photos follow (click on the photo to enlarge).

       

      

Early Success for Fullarton in Kyle & Carrick League

Mike McNeil reports a successful win against Crosshill last night in the Kyle & Carrick League. In a closely fought game and with the score tied at 6 all in the last end, Mike drew the shot for victory.
Congratulations are due to Mike and his team of Mara, David P and David W.

Autumn League Week 2

What a turn round! Last week Mike's team and Bill's team both lost. This week they won by 16 and 8 shots respectively.
So David Wallace's team, who didn't play tonight, are the only unbeaten team.
All the results are available by clicking on the results page above, and there are four teams on two points, separated only by shots up.

Start of Autumn League

The first games were played in the Autumn League last night. There were good wins for David Gilmour's team and David Wallace's team.  All the results and league position can be seen here or by clicking on the Results page above.

To develop the website further we have set up a new page on etiquette. The first article is an amusing set of New Year Resolutions from Robin Copland, who is a former Scottish Champion and the author of the Behind the Glass curling blog. Worth a look for interesting insight to competitive curling and other things. Any other contributions will be welcome!

Opening Bonspiel

The season started tonight with a closely fought opening bonspiel. At the end of the night two teams were tied on 5 points out of 6 and two on 1 point.

The winning team
Ronnie Peat, Roy Mitchell, Allison Young and Ian Snodgrass

The winners were Allison Young, Roy Mitchell, Ian Snodgrass and Ronnie Peat. They were six shots up and beat the runners up, Barbara Kirby, Charlie Rennie, Mara Lindsay and David Wallace by only two shots.

Runners Up
Charlie Rennie, David Wallace, Mara Lindsay and Barbara Kirby

There were many good shots played on keen swinging ice, none better than President Ian's raise to the four foot to count shot against 5 stones lying for Alan Caldow's team.

Alan's team of Sandi Wallace, Campbell Kay and Steven Kirby snatched third place just ahead of David Pittam's team of Alan Gorman, Jennifer Peat and Mabel Hildebrand.

After the game, Ian welcomed everyone to the new season and Mara graciously presented the prizes.

Alan Caldow, Sandi Wallace, Campbell Kay and Steven Kirby

David Pittam, Mabel Hildebrand, Alan Gorman and Jennifer Peat

Practice Ice

One sheet of Practice Ice has been booked for Monday 24th September at 8.30.
If you would like to attend please let Jennifer know, as places are limited.