End of the League in Sight!

There's only one full week of curling left, although there is still one outstanding game to play.

Here is the current league position.

Team	Played	Points	Shots+	Ends	Position
B Inglis	7	7	2	25	3
DGilmour	8	7	-8	30	4
DWallace	6	8	17	26	2
MMcNeill	7	10	16	32	1
RMorrison	6	2	-27	18	5

Mike McNeill's team is leading the field by two points, but David Wallace has a game in hand, and will play Mike next week.

Bill Inglis can only achieve nine points and David Gilmour has no games left, so the decider may be next week, or it might have to wait until the rearranged game on 9th December.

Watch this space!

European Championships start on Saturday

Tomorrow sees the start of the 2013 European Championships. These are being held in Stavanger and Scotland are represented by our two Olympic teams.

David Murdoch and his team of Tom Brewster, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews and Michael Goodfellow play two games on Saturday, against Denmark and Russia.

The Ladies team of Eve Muirhead, Anna Sloan,Vicki Adams and Claire Hamilton play Russia in their first game.

Games will be broadcast on Eurosport and full details can be found here in the Event Website

Top Team Maintains Position

Mike McNeill's team carried on their good form at the top of the league with a 12-2 win over Richard Morrison.
In the other game, things were very close until Bill Inglis scored a 5 at the 7th end to win by 9-4 over David Gilmour.
Check out the league results and positions here or by clicking on the page above.

Fireworks Night

No Guy Fawkes tonight on the ice but plenty of fireworks and  some sparkling shots.
Bill Inglis beat Mike McNeill's team 11-2 and David Wallace's team had a 10-6 win over David Gilmour.
So we now have a new league leader, with David Wallace's team of Margaret , Mabel and Jennifer taking over from Mike's team.
However, the top four teams are all within a point of each other and Richard has a game in hand.  All to play for!

Autumn League - Mid Point

With every team now having played four games, we find ourselves at the halfway stage in the Autumn League.
Leading the way, with 6 points out of 8 is the team skipped by Mike McNeill, who tonight beat David Wallace by 8 shots to 5.
Richard Morrison's team had a good win by 10 -4 over Bill Inglis's team.
The up to date table is.

Team	Played	Points	Shots+	Ends	Position
B Inglis	4	3	-9	12	4
D Gilmour	4	5	0	14	2
DWallace	4	4	10	17	3
MMcNeill	4	6	13	21	1
RMorrison	4	2	-14	13	5

League Games on 15th and 23rd October

The League table has now been updated as far as we are able. However, we still don't have the card for last week's game between Mike and Richard.  If anyone has the details please let us know - we think Mike has them and he's away.
Last night saw a big win for David Wallace's team and a close win for Dave Gilmour's.  As Roy put it, in the bar afterwards, "We made the mistake of scoring in the first end and didn't manage another shot against David Wallace" - eventually losing 9-2.
In the other game, a score of 4 shots in the 6th end put Dave Gilmour's team ahead and despite scoring in the 7th and 8th, Richard could only close to within one shot, losing by 8-7.

Liz Boswell was out and about last night with her camera, and has sent us these photos.

An Entertaining Points Night

There were only 7 of us playing at Points tonight, accompanied by Alison Young who performed heroically as scorer.

The ice took a little while to speed up, which perhaps made points scoring more difficult but in the end some respectable scores were achieved.

The top three scores were:

3rd   David Wallace    17 pts
2nd  Mike McNeil       22 pts
1st   Ronnie Peat        29 pts

Everyone agreed that it had been an enjoyable night and we managed to have a go at all nine disciplines.

Some of the action