Points Competition

Tonight's Pairs Competition was competed for by 16 Gangrels over two half sessions. We managed 6 of the disciplines on swingy but keen ice and  the winner (after a recount) was David Hope with 29 points.  Second place went to Euan Lawrence with 28 and third was David Gray with 27.

Kirkbride Rose Bowl Finals

After four ends, each of the finals played last night seemed decided. But great fightbacks ensued, one successful and one unsuccessful.

In the Low Road Final, Peter Reynolds was skipping in place of Peter Galloway and after 4 ends his team of Jim Loch, Alan Brown and Ronnie Wilson were 8- 3 down to Ken Ross's rink. They went on a scoring spree, scoring 1, 2, 4 and 1 to finish well deserved winners at 11-8.

Low Road winners
Alan Brown Jim Loch Peter Reynolds Ronnie Wilson

In the High Road, Peter Kennedy's team of Robert Boyd, Bert McKay and Austin Thomson built up a 5-0 lead after four ends.  Euan Lawrence's team staged a similar fightback and were 5-3 down playing the last. Euan's last stone missed the double take out to lie game by a whisker, and Peter did not have to play his last stone.

Kirkbride High Road Finalists
Winners (on left) Austin Thomson, Peter Kennedy, Bert McKay and Robert Boyd
Runners Up (on right) Euan Lawrence, Jim Lyburn, Alistair Henry, David Gray

Kirkbride Rose Bowl Semi Finals

Euan Lawrence and his team of Alistair Henry, Jim Lyburn and Harry Peters scored a 9-5 victory over George Hay to progress to the High Road Final.  There they will meet Peter Kennedy.  He and his team of Robert Boyd, Willie Scott and Austin Thomson scored a magnificent three shots at the last end to beat Colin Naismith's team by 8 shots to 7.

In the Low Road semis, there were wins for Ken Ross and Peter Galloway.

Kennedy Pairs

The Kennedy Pairs was played over two sessions yesterday.  There were 10 teams and it was decided to play in a Schenkel System where the teams were ranked after each session.

After much calculation by Messrs Galloway and Peat the rankings were as shown below.
Teams ranked 1st to 4th  played in the High Road semi finals and teams ranked 5th to 8th in the Low Road.  The two finals will be played on Monday 7th March.

                                              Game 1                            Game 2                         Total            

	+	-	ends	points	+	-	ends	points	up	scored	ends	points
Kennedy / Begg	3	1	2	2	3	0	3	2	5	6	5	4
McFadzean/Morrison	4	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	3	6	4	4
McKay/Grassom	2	1	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	5	4	4
Ross / Peat	1	3	1	0	6	1	2	2	3	7	3	2
Mutter / Cherry	3	1	2	2	1	2	1	0	1	4	3	2
Reynolds/Lawrence	1	2	1	0	2	1	2	2	0	3	3	2
Galloway/Niblock	3	2	2	2	0	3	0	0	(2)	3	2	2
Hay / Boyd	2	3	1	0	1	3	1	0	(3)	3	2	0
Gray / Lyburn	1	3	1	0	1	2	1	0	(3)	2	2	0
McCrossin / Scott	2	4	1	0	1	6	1	0	(7)	3	2	0

The results of the semi finals were:

High Road                                               Low Road
Kennedy / Begg    1                                   Mutter / Cherry   6
K Ross /   Peat    5                                   Hay / Boyd         5


McFadzean /   Morrison      4                    Galloway / Niblock      4
McKay / Grassom              1                    Reynolds / Lawrence   1

Kirkbride Rosebowl - First Round

The first round tonight saw the teams skipped by Peter Kennedy, Colin Naismith, George Hay and Euan Lawrence all progress to the Semi Final of the High Road.

The losers will compete in the semi finals of the Low Road and all four games will be at 5.00 next Monday, 15th February.

Click on the link at the top right of the page for the draw.

Next Sunday (14th Feb) will see the first round, second round and semi finals of the Kennedy Pairs. The top half games start at 1.30 and the bottom half at 2.30.

Close Finish to President's Cup

Where to start to describe such an exciting evening in the President's Cup?  Perhaps the semi finals would be the best place.

Despite being unbeaten in 5 matches of league play, Robert Charters, Steell McFadzean, Charlie Jack and Colin Naismith were well beaten by the team skipped by Peter Reynolds, with Bob Cherry Jim Loch and Peter Galloway.

Losing Semi Finalists Charlie, Steell, Robert and Colin.

The other semi saw Ernest Mutter skip Jimmy Niblock, Ronnie Peat and Ken Ross to a 7-4 victory over Jim Lyburn, Willie Scott, Bill Inglis and Harry Peters.

Losing Semi Finalists Bill, Harry, Jim and Willie

The final was a very interesting game. Ernest's team started well and scored 3 shots in the first two ends. Peter Reynolds  and his team then played some great curling to score 2, 3, 3, and 1 at the next 4 ends and lead by 9 shots to 3 after 6.

The plucky spectators in the bar decided that the game was probably over but Ernest played a superb quiet weight take out with his last stone to score 5 shots at the seventh end.

The 8th end was also looking good for Ernest since he was lying 3 shots, touching the button and guarded, when Peter came to play his final stone.  Nothing daunted, Peter took the scenic route and somehow managed to lie second shot!  9 shots all.  Time to draw the button.

Peter won the toss and elected to play first, but did not draw the rings.  Ernest, taking it all in his stride, drew his stone to about 3 inches of the button and secured an amazing comeback victory.  A game with some great shots by both teams - and, of course,  a few best forgotten.

Runners Up Bob, Peter, Jim and Peter

President's Cup Winners
Jimmy, Ken, Ernest and Ronnie