Fraser Cup Round 4

The 4^th round of the Fraser Cup between Rinks 2 and 4 took place on Mon 18 Nov at Greenacres.  It was a busy venue as Ayr Rotary occupied the 4 principal sheets in playing against the visiting Canadian Rotary team.  As a consequence, we were decanted on to Sheet F in the quiet extension section.  Rink 2 (Charters (S), Chapman, Graham, Cattanach) lost the toss and the first end in a close game but then came bounding back to nip out the Rink 4 single lying stone with their last stone to take a 5!  It was now an uphill fight to recover which Rink 4 (Galloway(S), Reynolds, Hogg, Peat) sought to do by winning the next 2 ends.  That was getting too close for comfort so Rink 2 upped the pressure once again to take single scores in the 5^th and 6^th ends.  In the final end, they were leading 7-3 and seeking to block Rink 4's attempts to build a well protected substantial score of 4 around the button to secure a peel.  Robert was having none of that and with his last stone he edged out 2 of the buried scoring stones and left the smallest of gaps for Rink 4 to redress the shortfall on their last stone which just failed to succeed.  The final score was 7-5 to Rink 2.