President's Cup - Final Round

Hearty congratulations to the winners of this year's President's Cup.  Steel McFadzean skipped the Gordon Todd rink to a 6-4 victory over Peter Galloway's team, skipped by David Graham. They certainly had a change of fortune after finishing last in the Fraser Cup in December.  Richard Morrison and David Gray were the other team members.

Second place was taken by Ernest Mutter's team, with Bob Cherry at skip. They had 7 points, one short of the winners.

Another winner this week was Gillian Watson who has now skipped the Willie Scott team to third place. She had a great win, by 9 shots to 3 over Ronnie Wilson's team skipped by Peter Kennedy. Throughout this competition, Willie's team was last in the league.  Results went in their favour tonight and third place was a great result.

The final table is here.

Next week is the Points competition.  This is spread over two sessions as shown:

Points

Mon 6th Feb 5.15 and 6.15 pm

First Round  5.15pm

G Hay, A Henry, R Charters, G Todd, P Galloway, D Gray, R Peat, 

Scorers:  K Ross & P Reynolds

Second Round 6.15 pm

A Chapman, B Cherry, J Niblock, D Hope, P Reynolds, K Ross, G Watson

Scorers:  P Galloway & D Gray

  

President's Cup Week 4

 George Hay skipped Ernest Mutter's rink to a 6-5 victory over Gillian Watson, skipping the Willie Scott rink.  It was a close game and it was good to see David Stubley subbing for the winners.

Another close game was the match between Jim Dunlop and Peter Galloway. Jim started well and built up an 8 shots to 1 lead after 4 ends. Peter's team then fought back and scored 5 shots in the next three ends to close to 2 shots behind. Regretfully, for them, the bell came soon enough to stop the game at that point, with the score 8-6 in Jim's favour.

Top of the table, though, are the team of Gordon Todd, who benefitted when there were only two players available for Jimmy Niblock's rink.  

The league table can be found here.

Annual game with Ayr & Alloway

 The second of our scheduled 3 friendly annual inter-club games was played on Thu 19 Jan against Ayr & Allolway.  The 2 Gangrel Rinks were Skipped by Jim Dunlop (President's Rink) and Peter Galloway.  As usual, both games were spirited and competitive with A&A winning 16-13 overall.  

Team Dunlop won 10-8 against Team Alan Thomson, which included a 3 point penalty for being a player short, while Team Galloway struggled to recover from a 4 shot loss in the 3rd end to lose 3-8 against Team Alan Mitchell.  

Lorrie and his catering staff produced an excellent menu selection of meals which was thoroughly enjoyed by all those who chose to stay on to dine together (13).

President's Cup Week 3

 Last week the top 5 teams were separated by only one point.  This week all six teams are separated by only 2 points.

Willie Scott's team, ably skipped by Gillian Watson, had a 5-3 victory over the previously unbeaten Peter Galloway team, skipped by David Graham (also very ably!)

Gordon Todd had a 6-3 victory over Jim Dunlop and Peter Kennedy skipped the Jimmy Niblock rink to a 7-4 win over Bob Cherry.

There are two weeks to go and everyone has a chance.

The league table can be found here.

David Hope in Canada

16 January 2023

David Hope is curling in the Strathcona Cup West Tour to Canada.

Here are the first two of his reports.

16th January

Since my initial email to you we have visited Peace Arch on Friday morning & then Royal City Curling Club in the afternoon. At Peace Arch the Scots had 3 draws and a win. At Royal City we recorded 3 loses & 1 win. 

Yesterday we travelled to Vancouver Island in the morning. Once on the island we travelled North to Qualicom & District Curling Club we recorded 2 wins & 2 loses. We were treated to excellent hospitality from our hosts & everyone had a most memorable evening. The hospitality at all of the ice rinks we have visited has been excellent. 

This morning we have travelled to Victoria the former Capital of Canada where we will play today’s game at Victory Curling Club. Victoria is the most westerly point of Canada. We were taken to see the point, with views across the water to Washington State. 

Tomorrow is a travel day with us, leaving Victoria by plane as we begin our journey East. We will fly to Kelowna. We have a successful opening day opening day in Tunnel Town CC in Tsawwassen BC where the Scot teams got off to a good start with 4 rinks winning their games out of 5. The morning games the Scots played rinks from Richmond CC.

In the afternoon we played the members of the Tunnel Town CC. The games were competitive. Unfortunately we came of second best in these games.

This morning we are in Peace Town & this afternoon we travel to Royal City CC.

Signing off for now.

13th January

We have a successful opening day opening day in Tunnel Town CC in Tsawwassen BC where the Scot teams got off to a good start with 4 rinks winning their games out of 5. The morning games the Scots played rinks from Richmond CC.

In the afternoon we played the members of the Tunnel Town CC. The games were competitive. Unfortunately we came of second best in these games.

This morning we are in Peace Town & this afternoon we travel to Royal City CC.

President's Cup Continues

 The top 5 teams are separated by only one point after the second round of the President's Cup.

Ernest Mutter and Peter Galloway are top of the table, on three points, with Ernest in top position by virtue of having scored more ends.

In joint third place are the teams of Jimmy Niblock, Jim Dunlop and Gordon Todd.  They have all won one and lost one and are not separated by very much.  Have a look at the table here.

Willie Scott's team have yet to win, but there's always hope!

 

President's Cup - Week 1

 The President's Cup, where skips play lead and everyone else moves up a place, started this evening.  You will no doubt remember that I still name the team by the skip, although I try to give full credit to those actually skipping -  an impossible task I hear you say, but it brings some help to those who struggle with complicated matters. (I don't mean you, Mr Secretary!)

Jimmy Niblock's team, to give an example, was skipped this evening by Alan Chapman, and he coped rather well.  The final score was a win by 11 shots to 3, against Jim Dunlop's team.  A fine start to the competition.

In second place is David Gray's team, skipped by Richard Morrison.  They had a good win against Willie Scott, skipped by Donald Cattenach, the final score being 8 shots to 3.

The third game was very close, finishing tied at 6 shots each to Ernest Mutter and Peter Galloway.  The skips were David Hope and Bob Cherry.

The league table for Week 1 can be found by clicking on this link,or on the President's Cup link at the top right hand corner.