Fraser Cup Week 5

Before discussing last night's games, I feel we should recognise the superb achievement of our team in the Eglinton Jug.

Euan Lawrence with Jim Henry, Bob Cherry and Ken Ross played exceedingly well to reach the semi finals and beat some highly fancied teams on the way.
They then came up against a strong Stewarton Heather team and unfortunately didn't progress to the final.
Stewarton Heather themselves were undone when they lost the final 6-5 to Dundonald.

Well done Euan.

In the Fraser Cup, Jim Henry's team won their fourth game to top the league on 8 pts.
The results were:

D Gray           8    E Mutter     9
J Niblock       12  R Wilson     2
J Henry           8   D Hope       7
B Cherry         5   S Thomson  5
F McCrossin 15   R Boyd       4

The up to date League Table is here.

Eglinton Jug Progress

Bob Cherry reports on great success (so far) in the Eglinton Jug.


Gangrels 2 are having a good run in the Eglinton Jug. We had a bye through the first round, then narrowly beat one of the favourites, Galston, in the second round yesterday.
Today we beat Kilmarnock in the morning, and Galleon in the Quarter Finals this afternoon.
We meet Stewarton Heather in the Semi Finals tomorrow afternoon.


The rink is Skip Euan Lawrence, Third Jim Henry, Second Bob Cherry and Lead Ken Ross.


Well done to all the team and keep up the good work.

Week 4 Fraser Cup - Big Win Week!

While there were some apparently close games for most of the night, the final scores revealed some big numbers.  The results were:
R Wilson     5        D Gray         15
J Niblock    6        B Cherry       13
J Henry       6        R Boyd         13
D Hope      5         E Mutter       12
S Thomson 15       F McCrossin  7

If, like me, you are a numbers person you will see that the total shots scored over 5 games was 97! That's nearly 20 per game.

Even more interesting is that fact that there are only two points separating first place from eighth place. Looks like the league will be very close.  The up to date table is here.

Annual Match against Beresford Ladies

Annual match against Beresford Ladies

Thursday 13 October 2011

I am pleased to report that a very enjoyable, if slightly scary, close match resulted in two of the three rinks being won by the Gangrels -  skipped by  Alan Brown and Bob Cherry respectively. My game against Gail Brown was very close being peels going into the last end and Gail having the hammer. It was on the last stone that Gail’s team, with great excitement all round, won the end and the game.

An enjoyable get together for refreshments and a meal rounded off the evening with almost all participants attending. It was good to see Jim Lyburn at the rink to watch the games although it wasn’t entirely clear at times which team he was supporting with wife Helen skipping her team against Bob!

 I think all will agree it was an excellent evening of curling fellowship, fun and humour.

Ronnie (Wilson)

14 October 2011

Fraser Cup Week 3

Jim Henry continued his unbeaten run tonight with an 8-4 victory over Ronnie Wilson.
There were good wins also for David Gray, Scott Thomson, David Hope and Jimmy Niblock.

Jim leads the way with 6 points, closely followed by 3 teams on 4.

The latest league positions are shown here.

5 Gangrels reach Final of Province KO

Congratulations to Steell McFadyen's rink of David Gray, George Hodge and Ken Ross for a magnificent run to the final of The Province Knock Out Trophy.

Action from the final

Unfortunately they came up against the fifth Gangrel, Jim Dunlop, who starred as third for Bert Andrew's Crosshill Rink.  Steell's comment, after losing 9-1 was "played rubbish".  When I saw them in the semi they definitely were playing well and they deserve our heartiest congratulations.

The First "Your Curler " magazine

The Royal Club has just published its new eMagazine called Your Curler.  All of us who are members of the RCCC and who have registered their email address should receive an email link directly to their inbox.

If you have still to register your email you can do so by contacting RCCC at www.rcccmembers.org and adding your details.

If you are not an RCCC member and would like a look you can use this link.

Happy reading.

Week Two

Week two saw Jim Henry surge to the top of the league with an 11-2 victory over Bob Cherry. There were also wins for David Gray, David Hope and Robert Boyd, while Ernest Mutter's team drew for the second time, finishing 4-4 with Ronnie Wilson.

All the results are here.