Eglinton Jug, Province Knock Out and Week 4 games

Last week was Jug Week. The competition has been played since 1851 and this year the Gangrels were represented by two teams.

Firstly, lets hear from Ernest, who has given this report on Team A

"Rink A skipped by Euan Lawrence with Jimmy Begg, Ernest Mutter and Francis McCrossin successfully progressed to the last 16 on Thursday morning after defeating an Ayr and Alloway rink. The Thursday match was played on the fastest ice any on the players could remember with virtually no sweeping involved. Unfortunately our opponents were the Fairywell rink skipped by Sean Rennie with Liam Scott, George McNaughton and Eilene Rennie. It appeared as if the combined age of the 3 youngest members of that team was less than the single age of  a couple of our rink. For this game Donald Cattanach replaced Francis.  

Unfortunately age and experience was out-weighed by ability and hands were shaken after 7 ends with the Gangrels coming second. Fairywell lost in the quarter finals after going into the last end with a 2 shot lead and losing a three."

Rink B was skipped by Ronnie Peat, with Peter Galloway, Jim Dunlop and Ken Ross. Our first game was against Auchenames  and we had a convincing 13-2 victory.  Ken then departed and left the task of leading in the capable hands of Steell McFadzean. 

Our first game on Thursday was a hard fought victory over Gemmell Jack's Dundonald team.  Every end was tight but we eventually won 7-1. 

The quarter finals were later that day, against Stewarton Heather, skipped by Craig Reid.  This was the hardest test so far. We fought well and kept close to the hard hitting S H  team. One shot behind at the last end seemed not a bad position, but somehow our skip failed to draw the button to force an extra end. It really was quite a difficult shot - honest!

All the Jug results can be found here.

Finally, another report from Ernest. This time of the excellent performance in the Province Knock Out.

"Having won in earlier rounds against Dalmellington and Ayr and Alloway the Gangrels rink of Ernest, Jimmy Begg, David Hope and Jim Dunlop met Crosshill (Robert Ireland, Bert Andrew, Russell Boyd and Alex Connell) in the final. Gangrels got off to a good start stealing a 2 in the first end.

After 7 ends the match was tied at 5 all with Gangrels having won 4 ends, including the seventh leaving Crosshill with the hammer in the last end. With the final stone of each skip to be played Crosshill were lying shot with Gangrels having 2 stones touching at the front of the house. Unfortunately Skip Ernest missed the take out leaving Crosshill the victors.

The finals are scheduled for Greenacres from 10 - 12 November."

Fraser Cup Week 4

Robert Boyd and Ernest Mutter continue to lead the way in this year's Fraser Cup. They each have 6 points from 4 games, winning tonight against Richard Morrison and Peter Kennedy respectively.
The other winner was Peter Reynolds who had a comprehensive 12-4 victory over David Gray.

The league table is here.