Edzell reach the RCCC Province Final

The Edzell rink comprising of Gordon (Skip), Colin, Mike & Ron headed down to Greenacres at the weekend to represent North & South Esk Province in the RCCC National Province Finals.

The opening game was against England, no moral boosting required here. Edzell played a very strong game winning 11-1 and more importantly gaining 7 ends. The rest of Friday was given up to a bit of socialising. On Saturday Edzell were matched up against East Lothian and after losing 3 on the first end they had a job on their hands to fight back. Thankfully the rink rallied well and eventually came out victorous taking 5 ends along the way.

After watching a bit of the Rugby we went back on the ice to face Breadalbane. A tight game early on which eventually went Edzell's way after some good shot making. Edzell ran out good winners and with another 6 ends in the bag we then went on to record our draw shot challenge result.

With a long lie on Sunday morning at stake Ron bit the pot lid, as did Mike & Colin. With the pressure on Gordon he fell slightly short of the pot lid. Edzell duly scored the best draw shot score and earned their long lie and passage straight through to the semi's

On arriving at the ice rink on Sunday morning we noticed we were to play Loch Leven, previous winners of the competition many years over. With reversal of the previous day opening game Edzell scored 3 in the first end followed by several one's taking a convincing 5-1 lead. Gordon had a very difficult tap back for 3 to kill the game but the stone caught a draw and whiskered the gaurd. Loch Leven then came back into the game with a vengance take a 3 followed by ones meaning we went down the last peeled but with last stone advantage. Thankfully we managed to play out the end and score 4 shots to win the game and make the final.

Next up were the West Lothian team skipped by Mike Dick and very ably assisted by Colin Hamilton at third. Edzell never really got out of the blocks and were always struggling to get control of the game. A four for Murrayfield in the fifth end almost killed the game but we bounced back with a 3 at the next end only to lose a 2 resulting in a shake of hands after 7 ends.

Perhaps a game to many, if we had matched the standards set in the previous games who knows.

In any case a good effort to get to the final and keep Edzell's name up there and with wine coolers as prizes there shouldn't be any excuse for warm wine.