Richard Morrison's team progress to Kirkbride Final

David Hope skipped Richard's team to a convincing win over Peter Kennedy's rink in tonight's Kirkbride Rosebowl Semi Final.

David had Robert Boyd, Alan Chapman and Donald Cattanach to help build an early lead with a 4 at the second end.  Peter Kennedy's rink of Ronnie Peat, Ronnie Wilson and Peter Galloway fought back to lead by 6  shots to 4 after 5 ends, but scores of 4 and 3 at the next two ends were enough for victory.

The winners play next Monday at 6.00 against Steel McFadzean.in the Final. It should be a good game.

Annual Match v Tarbolton

Thanks to Secretary Peter for the following report.

"We met Tarbolton last night in the annual round for the Wilkie Trophy.  It did not start well as both of our Rinks were, initially, 1 man short despite my sending out a reminder to all concerned a week before hand.  Phone calls resulted in us recovering 1 person before the penalty time could be applied.  Tarbolton too were 1 man short for half the game.

Peter Kennedy, David Hope and Willie Scott were 3-1 down by the 4th end but then took a 4 followed by another 2 in the last end to win 7-4 (Peel if penalty points applied).  Ernest Mutter, Jim Lyburn, myself and Donald Cattanach were 6-2 up by the fifth end and despite a come back by Tarbolton in the 7th end, eventually shook hands with a win of 9-4.

An enjoyable meal concluded the evening with Peter K retaining the Wilkie Trophy for another year."

Kirkbride Rosebowl Round 1

It was described by Ken Ross as "the greatest comeback since Lazarus".  It was certainly a game of two Halves. Austin Thomson was skipping the Robert Charters rink against Richard Morrison and they seemed quite comfortable, leading by 7 shots to 1 after 4 ends. The last four ends saw a remarkable comeback, with scores of 5,2,1 and 3 for Richard's team, to finish 12-7 up.

On sheet 6 Steel McFadzean's team had an iron grip on the game, leading 7-0 after 6 ends and conceding 2 at the last to Francis McCrossin.

Meanwhile, Peter Kennedy and Jimmy Niblock were playing a different sort of game with singles being shared in each of the first 6 ends and the score tied at 3 all.  A final score of 2 shots stolen by Peter Kennedy decided the game.

Next week sees the semi final, where Richard Morrison plays Peter Kennedy. The winner will play Steel McFadzean in the final in two weeks time.  It was decided that the ranking should be shots up, then ends and then shots scored.

Our annual match against Tarbolton will be played this Thursday at 5.00 pm.

Peter Kennedy wins President's Cup

President Peter Kennedy only managed one game in the President's Cup but his team held onto win the trophy - just!

Ronnie Wilson skipped Peter Galloway, super sub Bella Kennedy and Ronnie Peat to an extremely tight  6-5 win over Steel McFadzean's team, skipped by Jimmy Begg.

Bob Cherry has been skipping the Niblock rink to 3 wins out of 4 so far, but they were well beaten by Austin Thompson, who skipped the Charters rink to a 10-1 victory.

David Hope was skipping for Richard Morrison and beat Eaun Lawrence by 7 shots to 3.

President's Cup Winners 2019
Ronnie Peat, Ronnie Wilson (skip), Bella Kennedy and Peter Galloway

The Final Table can be found here.

Next week we are on the ice at 7.45 pm for the first round of the Kirkbride Rose Bowl.

President's Cup very close and Day League A Team

Tonight saw wins for Richard Morrison, Steel McFadzean and Peter Kennedy. Those wishing a close finish have been rewarded. We now have three teams with 6 points and one team with 4. And guess what, next week they all play against each other.  It could not be closer. Check the table here.

David Hope skipped Richard's team to a 6-5 win over Bob Cherry. Jimmy Begg skipped Steel's team to a 9-4 victory over Euan Lawrence, and Ronnie Wilson skipped Peter Kennedy's team to an 11-3 win against Austin Thomson.

We were delighted last week to announce promotion from Day League B to A for our B league team and this week we're even more delighted to confirm that we'll have two Gangrels teams in the top flight.

Ronnie Peat, Jimmy Begg, Jim Dunlop and Ken Ross beat Troon Portland's Andrew Kerr by 9 shots to 2, a result that saw them finish in 3rd place in a highly competitive league.