Weekend 13/14 December

(Bob & Russell getting ready to do battle)

(Colin proudly shows off his trophy)

(The pressure is clear to see)

A busy weekend for the club with some members on the ice Friday, Saturday & Sunday.

Friday night saw an Inglis Cup game between Lynda Kemp's rink and Shaun Kelly's team with Shuan emerging victorious. This was a really good fun game just what the Inglis Cup is about and set up everyone for the weekend's curling ahead.

On Saturday the club held its annual Pairs competition. Eight members participated in what turned out to be a most enjoyable and competitive afternoon's curling. The teams matched as follows: Colin Inglis & Mike Hay, Mike Ferguson & Maggie Inglis, Ron Caithness & Sandra Ferguson and Bob Myles & Russell Brown.

With everyone scoring points against each other it went down to the last game before Colin & Mike H emerged as the winners with eight points followed very closely by Mike F & Maggie on 7 points. Ron & Sandra on 5 points as were Bob & Russell.

In the absence of the Pairs salver Colin was presented with an empty can of ginger beer as the picture proves.

A point of interest was that after a short break for a bowl of soup when we went back on the ice we played 2 stones each rather than the usual four each. The change made the remaining games very fast and furious with no room for errors leading to some very exciting and good curling from everyone. Chairman Bob would like to thank all those who attended for supporting the club at this busy time of year.

On Sunday it was an inter club game versus Dun with Colin & Mike F taking on teams skipped by Alastair Inglis and Hazel Wood for Dun. Colin's team of Ron, Shaun Smith & Shaun Kelly romped off to an excellent start taking two three's early in the game to take control. They never really looked back and won with a convincing 14-3 score despite Alastair & Garry Wood's best efforts to get back into the game.

Mike's team was made up of Steve Warden, Nikki Smith & Sandra Ferguson all of whom played excellently well throughout the game. With Hazel & Lorraine Wood playing some good tail end curling it was at the front end that the game was won with Sandra & Nikki dropping in stones at will giving Steve & Mike something to play with at every end. Mike's rink eventually coming out on top with a 9-3 win. Edzell retained the trophy.