Rink Championship

The Rink Championship – Semi final and Final Monday 16 January 2012

The Gangrels rink got through to the semi final of this competition with a bye in the first “round” and met Fairywell in the morning session. Keith Rennie and his rink gave us a good close run game on what was fairly keen ice with reverse tendencies in places that caught some if us (me to be precise!) out on one occasion by playing the wrong hand – Unforgivable! We won the game however with good measure and then enjoyed some lunch with the opposing team. The Gangrels rink was skipped by Robert Boyd with me, Ernest and Peter Kennedy.

The other semi final was between Galston and Dundonald with the former having what seemed an easy ride in that match.

The final was held in the afternoon against Galston and it was to my mind a very good tight game that, with hindsight, might have been won by the Gangrels had it not been for a bit of a communication misunderstanding between the skip and the third over whose stone was shot at the end of the second last end and which should have given us a two! We lost that end with a one giving us the last stone advantage in the last which turned out to be a good result for us getting a three – and a final score of 5-6. A close game.

The rink, in the same format as the morning, did play well together and were resigned to the loss in the final against a strong team who it is understood have won this competition in the past two years  and now go on to play at the final in Forfar in March. The Galston rink was skipped by Robert Anderson with Alan, Tom and Euan Lawrence.

Ronnie Wilson

16 January 2012