Results for Fraser Cup

Tonight saw Jim Henry extend his lead with a narrow 5-4 win over Jimmy Niblock.  Last week's second place, David Gray, succumbed to a 12 -6 loss to Robert Boyd and thus lost that second spot to Scott Thomson.
As well as Scott, there were wins for David Hope and Francis McCrossin.
So with two weeks to go, Jim is 3 points clear and knows that a win in either of the last two weeks will secure the title.
Click here for the up to date table.

Ronski

I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would have the chance to play curling for the Russians. But that is what happened this week when I answered the call to step in when one of the Russian Senior Curling Team had to call off with a knee injury.
They were playing in the European Senior Invitation Curling Championships at Greenacres.

Oleg, Ronski and Sergey
(picture courtesy of Hugh Stewart)

There were 18 teams in all.  3 were from Scotland, 2 each from England, Ireland, and Sweden and the rest represented most of the other curling countries in Europe.
Our results were mixed, with wins against Hungary and England but qualification for the Quarter Finals just eluded us.
The Russians were good guys and good curlers and we had a great week.

Week 6 Results - Fraser Cup

Jim Henry's team continued its winning ways with a 14 - 4 win over Ernest Mutter.  There were wins also for Francis McCrossin, Scott Thomson and David Gray.

The game between Bob Cherry and Robert Boyd finished tied at 8-8.

So with three weeks to go Jim has a two point lead over David Gray and three points over Scott Thomson.
See the up to date table here.

Fraser Cup Week 5

Before discussing last night's games, I feel we should recognise the superb achievement of our team in the Eglinton Jug.

Euan Lawrence with Jim Henry, Bob Cherry and Ken Ross played exceedingly well to reach the semi finals and beat some highly fancied teams on the way.
They then came up against a strong Stewarton Heather team and unfortunately didn't progress to the final.
Stewarton Heather themselves were undone when they lost the final 6-5 to Dundonald.

Well done Euan.

In the Fraser Cup, Jim Henry's team won their fourth game to top the league on 8 pts.
The results were:

D Gray           8    E Mutter     9
J Niblock       12  R Wilson     2
J Henry           8   D Hope       7
B Cherry         5   S Thomson  5
F McCrossin 15   R Boyd       4

The up to date League Table is here.

Eglinton Jug Progress

Bob Cherry reports on great success (so far) in the Eglinton Jug.


Gangrels 2 are having a good run in the Eglinton Jug. We had a bye through the first round, then narrowly beat one of the favourites, Galston, in the second round yesterday.
Today we beat Kilmarnock in the morning, and Galleon in the Quarter Finals this afternoon.
We meet Stewarton Heather in the Semi Finals tomorrow afternoon.


The rink is Skip Euan Lawrence, Third Jim Henry, Second Bob Cherry and Lead Ken Ross.


Well done to all the team and keep up the good work.

Week 4 Fraser Cup - Big Win Week!

While there were some apparently close games for most of the night, the final scores revealed some big numbers.  The results were:
R Wilson     5        D Gray         15
J Niblock    6        B Cherry       13
J Henry       6        R Boyd         13
D Hope      5         E Mutter       12
S Thomson 15       F McCrossin  7

If, like me, you are a numbers person you will see that the total shots scored over 5 games was 97! That's nearly 20 per game.

Even more interesting is that fact that there are only two points separating first place from eighth place. Looks like the league will be very close.  The up to date table is here.

Annual Match against Beresford Ladies

Annual match against Beresford Ladies

Thursday 13 October 2011

I am pleased to report that a very enjoyable, if slightly scary, close match resulted in two of the three rinks being won by the Gangrels -  skipped by  Alan Brown and Bob Cherry respectively. My game against Gail Brown was very close being peels going into the last end and Gail having the hammer. It was on the last stone that Gail’s team, with great excitement all round, won the end and the game.

An enjoyable get together for refreshments and a meal rounded off the evening with almost all participants attending. It was good to see Jim Lyburn at the rink to watch the games although it wasn’t entirely clear at times which team he was supporting with wife Helen skipping her team against Bob!

 I think all will agree it was an excellent evening of curling fellowship, fun and humour.

Ronnie (Wilson)

14 October 2011