Kirkbride Rosebowl Semi Finals

Semi finals were played tonight in the High and Low Roads.
The Low Road saw good wins for Ronnie Wilson's team of Jim Dunlop, Bob Grassom and Charlie Jack over Bert Mackay's rink, and for Ernest Mutter, Steell McFadzean, Roy Penny and Gerry Watson who beat Jimmy Niblock's team.
There were two very close games in the High Road. David Gray's rink narrowly lost to Bob Cherry, Richard Morrison, Colin Naismith and Jimmy Begg while David Hope's team had a tight game against Robert Boyd, Peter Kennedy, Ian Ruthven and Austin Thomson, with Robert's team winning at the last.
The two finals will be played at 5.00 pm on Thursday 15th March.

Robertson Trophy

David Hope has sent the following update.
"The competition started for the Gangrels (Skip David Hope, Euan Lawrence, Bob Cherry and Willie Scott) with a game against Bobby Ireland which was a good game but unfortunately Bobby and his rink got the better of us and finished with us loosing this game. Our next game was against Bobby's father Hubert Ireland with the Gangrels field a changed rink of Skip David Hope, Bob Cherry, Peter Reynolds and Willie Scott. This was a very close game and could have gone either way with Anne Kerr producing some very good pressure shots as skip for Hubert to save some big ends."
Results

Bobby Ireland 10 Gangrels 5 and Hubert Ireland 8 Gangrels 4.

 

World Junior Curling Championships

Next week sees the start of the World Juniors. These are being held in Ostersund, Sweden and the Scottish Teams are skipped by Hannah Fleming and Kyle Smith.
The games start on Saturday and for those of us interested in watching live curling some games are being broadcast by the WCF. They are doing this through the You Tube Channel. The Schedule of games is shown here.

Gangrels v Tarbolton

The team skipped by Ronnie Wilson with Robert Boyd, David Hope and Ken Ross played a rink led by George Hunter, with Willie Morton, Stuart Bates and Tarbolton President David West. The game was close with four ends each but a points score in favour of the Gangrels of 8-6

The team skipped by Bob Cherry with Charlie Jack, Robert Charters and Bob Grassom played a rink lead by Jim Wilson with Margaret Morton, David McClure and Ian Wilkie. That game seemed to be an easy win by the score of 12-4 in favour of Tarbolton but by all accounts did not reflect the competitive nature and enjoyment of the game.

Following the game and some refreshments Ronnie thanked the Tarbolton Club for the match which seemed to have been enjoyed by all. The good humour and standard of curling evident from the two games had made the event the usual annual success and he expressed the hope the competition could take place again next year.

Jim Wilson in his response thanked the Gangrels in the usual fashion and was pleased to receive the trophy in recognition of his rink’s points score giving rise to an overall win for Tarbolton.  

Another Day League Success for Gangrels

Ronnie Peat's team of Jimmy Begg, Jim Dunlop and Ken Ross (subbing for Jimmy Smith) had a good win today beating Auchenames 8-3 to finish the Day League B as champions, and secure promotion to the dizzy heights of League A next year.

They won 8 of the 9 games and followed on from their success in winning league C last year.

Your Curler

The latest edition of the RCCC magazine can be found here.

2012 Pairs Finals Night

The Low Road final was between Bob Charters / Allan Hastie (subbing for Francis McCrossin) and Austin Thomson / Ian Ruthven, with the Charters Hastie team winning after a close game.

2012 Low Road Winners
Robert Charters and Allan Hastie

2012 Low Road Runners Up
Austin Thomson and Ian Ruthven

The High Road final followed thereafter with Bert McKay and Charlie Jack (subbing for Gordon Neil) overcoming Russell Boyd and George Hodge

2012 Pairs Winners
Bert McKay and Charlie Jack

2012 Pairs Runners Up
George Hodge and Russell Boyd