Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Training Night, Beresford Ladies and Week 4 of Fraser Cup

Monday 21st October saw the Training Night, with approx 14 Gangrels enjoying coaching provided by Ayr CC's accredited trainers.  All the reports have been very positive and we wish to extend our thanks to Kirsty and her team for assisting us.  I'm sure we'll see the results as the weeks go on.

On the following Thursday, we held our annual match against the ladies of Beresford Ladies.  This was the usual keenly fought match, with the Gangrels eventually winning all three games, although not without the occasional scare along the way.
Passion Caterers provided an excellent meal afterwards.

Last night, Bob Cherry's team had a great fightback to snatch victory from Euan Lawrence and so preserve their unbeaten start to the league. Jimmy Begg also fought back well and gained a point against Ronnie Peat and there were wins for David Hope and Charlie Jack.
The latest table is here.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Bob Leads the Way

President Bob Cherry's team of George Hodge, Richard Morrison and Bob Charters won a close game against Ronnie Peat's team by 6-4 last night.  They remain the only unbeaten team.
There were also good wins for Charlie Jack, Euan Lawrence and Steell McFadzean.
The updated table is here.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Fraser Cup Week 2

Two teams, skipped by Jimmy Begg and Bob Cherry won again tonight and stand at the top of the rankings. Despite Bob scoring an impressive 25 shots over two games his team is still second in the table. Jimmy knows the way things work and crucially has scored one more end than our President!
There were also good wins for Bert McKay's and Ronnie Peat's teams to ease them off the bottom rung of the League Table.

All the results can be found here.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Gangrels Opening Night

The Gangrels took to the ice tonight to start the campaign for the Fraser Cup.

Ready for the off!
We were delighted to welcome Honorary President Jim Watson to our Opening Game.  Jim didn't feel able to join us on the ice and Steell McFadzean had the honour of throwing the first stone.
An excellent job he did of it, with the stone finishing on the tee line without sweeping! Mind you, he confessed that he was using Jim Watson's cue.

Steell starts the season well!

In the games, there were wins for Euan Lawrence, Jimmy Begg, Charlie Jack and Bob Cherry.  The first league table can be found here, or by clicking on the Fraser Cup Link above.

An excellent meal was provided for us by Passion Caterers and our President Bob Cherry welcomed everyone to the new season, particularly Peter Graham who joined us for the first time.
Bob also reminded everyone that a Training Session has been organised for October 21st at 5.00pm. This will be conducted by the Coaching Team at Ayr Ice Rink and a good attendance is requested.

The first representative game was played last week in the Province Knockout. It didn't go to plan, as Jimmy Begg explains.

"The Gangrels rink of Jimmy Begg, Ernest Mutter, Alan Hastie and Ken Ross made a glorious exit from the first round of the Province Knockout against Crosshill. Faced with a stellar rink of Bobby Ireland, Liam Scott, Bert Andrew and Andrew Baird, the Gangrels lost a two at each of the first three ends. But undaunted, they managed to claw their way back into the match to lie 7-4 down after seven ends. In an exciting last end, with Crosshill lying three, Jimmy Begg played a buried inwick to lie shot. Not content with a meritorious defeat of 7-5, the rink elected to go for glory and a double takeout that would have ensured a peels. Jimmy managed the double take out, which unfortunately included his own shot, and the match ended 8-4. A great game. Crosshill meet Stewarton Heather in the next round. Raither them than us!"