Mens' World Championships start Saturday

The Mens' World Championships starts on Saturday in Basel, Switzerland, with Tom Brewster representing Scotland.  His team is Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews and Michael Goodfellow, so there is some local interest in keeping a look out for their results.

The schedule for picking up the games on Eurosport is shown here and the event website for all the results is here.

Frame Salver, AGM and Presentation of Prizes

The evening started well with a comprehensive victory for Francis McCrossin's team of Charlie Jack, Richard Morrsion and Austin Thomson. Perhaps it was a good thing that the scores were not shown on the scoreboards - we would have been totally scunnered if we could have seen their 14-0 scoreline!

Frame Salver Winners
Richard Morrison, Austin Thomson, Francis McCrossin (skip), President Ronnie Wilson, Charlie Jack

Following the usual good fare from Mo and his staff, the AGM was conducted speedily by Ronnie Wilson and our new President David Hope.  A full report on the AGM will follow later.

Meanwhile, here are the trophy winners.

Fraser Cup
Allan Brown, Jim Henry (skip), Jimmy Begg, Peter Reynolds

Drew Duncan Quaich
Richard Morrison, Bob Cherry (David Kidd & Colin Naismith both absent)

There is a wee story to tell about the President's Cup. Despite our new President (and his team - including me) standing up and gaily receiving the trophy, it turns out that Euan Lawrence's team had actually won (oops!). so here is a photo of the correct winners of the President's Cup.

President's Cup
Willie Scott, Euan Lawrence, David Gray, David Scott

Kirkbride Rosebowl
Allan Hastie, Richard Morrison, Bob Cherry, Jimmy Begg

Points Trophy - Ronnie Peat

Pairs Trophy - Charlie Jack and Bert McKay

Sportsman's Award - Ronnie Peat

Women's World Champonships start Saturday

Dedicated followers of Women's Curling. particularly our Scottish team skipped by Eve Muirhead, will be interested in the World Championships which start on Saturday.

The event is being held in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada and Eve's team is Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams and Claire Hamilton.
Some of the games are being broadcast on Eurosport and the schedule of games is shown here.

Kirkbride Rosebowl Finals

My thanks to Ernest for this report and photo.

The High Road was a closely fought contest between Robert Boyd's rink of Peter Kennedy, Ian Ruthven and Austin Thomson and Bob Cherry's rink of Allan Hastie Richard Morrison and Colin Naismith. In the last end Robert was trailing 6 - 4 but lying one and having last stone to play. Unfortunately the opposition had guarded the whole front of the house and there was no way in. Robert tried a wick from an outside stone just touching the circle. Unfortunately he did not have enough weight and although he got the right angle ended up promoting the opposition stone to be shot rather than taking it out with him second and third stones. 

In the low road Ronnie Wilson's rink of Charlie Jack, Jim Dunlop and Peter Reynolds (sub for Bob Grassom) who had been having a recent  run of success were beaten by the rink of Ernest Mutter, Steell McFadzean, Roy Penny and Gerry Watson.

Inter club competition/ bonspiel - Murrayfield Ice Rink Friday 2.3.2012

From Ronnie Wilson

As you are aware the Club was invited by fellow Gangrel Alistair Henry to take part in his “other” Club known as the DAFS Curling Club  (Now known as Directorate for Agriculture Food and Rural Communities – DAFRC)

It was a mini bonspiel with two teams from DAFS, one from Dalgety Bay in Fife and ourselves held at 17.30 on Friday 2 March 2012 at Murrayfield Ice Rink, Edinburgh.

We played two four end games on very keen ice – the first end against Alistair and his rink with Jim Henry as Skip, Francis McCrossin, David Hope and myself as lead. The result was peels with three points each. The other match also ended in the same score.

The second four ends was played against a team including the DAFS Club President Elizabeth. We were perhaps fortunate that a final shot at one end by their skip did not hit the mark and left us with a four that really sealed the result for the evening giving the Gangrels a win overall by eight shots up with all other three teams five up.

At the meal after the game we enjoyed the company of the fellow curlers. Elizabeth thanked us all for participating and presented a prize to each of the Gangrels team. Skip Jim replied in the customary manner and appeared to have obviously enjoyed the competition against his son, Alistair, who I think took it all in good heart? It was suggested that a return match might take place in Ayr sometime in the future.

Kirkbride Rosebowl Semi Finals

Semi finals were played tonight in the High and Low Roads.
The Low Road saw good wins for Ronnie Wilson's team of Jim Dunlop, Bob Grassom and Charlie Jack over Bert Mackay's rink, and for Ernest Mutter, Steell McFadzean, Roy Penny and Gerry Watson who beat Jimmy Niblock's team.
There were two very close games in the High Road. David Gray's rink narrowly lost to Bob Cherry, Richard Morrison, Colin Naismith and Jimmy Begg while David Hope's team had a tight game against Robert Boyd, Peter Kennedy, Ian Ruthven and Austin Thomson, with Robert's team winning at the last.
The two finals will be played at 5.00 pm on Thursday 15th March.