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.

Tonight's Games and World Junior Curling Championships

There were wins tonight for Bill Inglis and Mike McNeill.
Bill's game against David Wallace was very close, but was won with a single shot at the last end by 8 shots to 7.
Mike McNeill's team also won tonight, beating league leaders Richard Morrison by 7 shots to 5.

This Thursday sees the start of the World Junior Championships. The Russian resort of Sochi is hosting the event and this will be a further trial of their ice and facilities before they host the Olympics in 2014.

Scotland's Hannah Fleming from Lockerbie will be defending the Gold Medal she won last year and will no doubt be trying to put the disappointment of losing the Scottish Women's championship to Eve Muirhead a week or so ago.

In the Men's event, we are again represented by Perth's Kyle Smith. His team will be looking to improve on  a creditable Bronze from 2012.

The schedule of games can be found here. Please bear in mind that Sochi time is 4 hours ahead of us.

The WCF is providing free coverage and this can be found by using this link.

Games 19th February

Tonight saw Richard Morrison's team (Mara Lindsay, Alan Gorman and Mabel Hildebrand) continue their impressive run of form with a 9-4 victory over David Wallace, Margaret Morrison, Campbell Kay and Jim Lindsay.
Meanwhile, Mike McNeill and his team of Sandi Wallace, Ian Snodgrass and Bob Handley took a 4 at the last end to snatch a point in their game against David Gilmour, David Pittam, Alison Young and Ronnie Peat.

The latest issue of the Royal Club's Your Curler magazine has just been released and can be found here.

Games 12th February

The second half of the spring league started with Richard maintaining his position at the top and beating his nearest challenger Bill Inglis by 10 shots to 6.
David Wallace (ably skipped by Margaret Morrison) beat David Gilmour's team in a close finish by 6 shots to 5, moving up from fourth to third in league.

Spring League - Halfway Point

Everyone has now played each other once, and at the halfway stage there are two teams on 3 wins out of four - Richard Morrison and Bill Inglis.
Bill's team beat Mike McNeill 's by 9 shots to 3 tonight while David Gilmour beat Richard by 7 shots to 4.

Next week, fortunes could be reversed as we start playing each team again. Current league positions are found on the Results page above.