President's Cup Finals Night

6.15 on the ice saw the start of the semi final games. The first was between David Hope's team, skipped by George Hay and Jimmy Begg's team, skipped by Euan Lawrence. George found himself 5-1 behind after 3 ends and couldn't quite pull off the comeback, losing 8-2 after 6 ends.

Semi finalists
Richard Morrison, George Hay (skip), David Hope, Jim Henry

The second semi was a keenly fought game between Bert McKay's team skipped by Jim Dunlop and Ronnie Wilson's team, skipped by Ronnie Peat.
This went to the 7th end and the two Ronnie's coming out on top by 9 shots to 4.

Semi finalists
Gerry Watson, Bert McKay, Jim Dunlop (skip), Allan Hastie

After a short break to replenish fluids and recharge batteries, the final took place at 8.30.
After three ends, Euan's team had built up a lead of 4 shots to 1, but they were destined not to score another shot as Ronnie's team of Peter Reynolds, Robert Boyd and Ronnie Wilson triumphed by 9 shots to 4.

 President's Cup Finalists
Ken Ross, Charlie Jack, Euan Lawrence (skip), Bob Cherry

President's Cup Winners
Ronnie Peat (skip), Peter Reynolds, Robert Boyd, Ronnie Wilson

Points Competition

Hearty congratulations to Robert Boyd, who won this year's competition with an excellent score of 45 points.

The scores from last night were as follows:

Robert Boyd.........................45
Peter Galloway.....................42
Russell Boyd........................40
David Hope...........................36
Bob Cherry...........................35
Ronnie Wilson......................34
George Hay..........................30
Ken Ross.............................29
Ernest Mutter........................26
Peter Reynolds.....................22
Jim Henry.............................18

Pairs First Round Results - plus Two other Match Reports

Tonight saw the first round of the pairs. Winners tonight will play in the high road next week and losers in the low road.

The Three Wise Men?

Playing at 9.30 next Monday

High Road
Bob Charters and Bert McKay  v    Jimmy Begg and Forbes Watson
Ronnie Peat and Ken Ross        v     Colin Naismith and Scott Thomson

Low Road
George Hodge and Francis McCrossin v Richard Morrison and George Hay
Jim Henry and Robert Boyd     v    Steell McFadzean and Allan Hastie

Guard!

"Just draw a wee bit more"

Playing at 10.30 next Monday

High Road
Harry Peters and David Hope            v   Charlie Jack and Bob Cherry
Jimmy Niblock and Euan Lawrence   v   Peter Galloway and Ronnie Wilson

Low Road
Ian Ruthven and David Kidd               v  Willie Scott and Bob Grassom
Austin Thomson and Peter Reynolds   v   David Gray and Peter Kennedy

Deep in thought

"8 shots - That'll do nicely"

Other Match Reports

Last Friday saw two teams from Gangrels playing Ayr & Alloway in the annual match between our two clubs.
In the first game, David Hope's team of Russell Boyd, Robert Charters and Bob Cherry faced up to an A & A team including our own David Scott, Ronnie Wilson and Peter Reynolds. The score was close at 5-4 to the Gangrels after 5 ends, but we then scored 2, 5 and 2 to finish comfortable winners at 14-4.
In the second game Robert Boyd's team of Ronnie Peat, George Hay and Jimmy Begg played well and eventually won the game by 8 shots to 5.

On Sunday, Gangrels joined Stewarton Heather, Crosshill and Ayr & Alloway to represent Ayrshire Province in the RCCC Waldie Griffith Competition at Braehead.  Our opponents were Dunbartonshire Province and we played against Bearsden Ski Club.
Overall, Ayrshire won the match by one shot, but Gangrels were the most successful club, winning by 10 shots to 3.  We were represented by Ronnie Peat, Robert Boyd, Jimmy Begg and Francis McCrossin.

Parish Trophy 2013--A Rare Gangrels Win

David Gray has sent the following report on a magnificent victory.  

"9 Clubs entered for this years competition with early rounds being played, competing for the semi final and final playoffs on Monday 4th Feb.

 

    Our first round opponents Crosshill were double booked for our scheduled date and despite us rearranging the time, they withdrew from the competition, so the Gangrels team of David Gray, Robt Boyd, George Hodge and Peter Galloway along with Sorn, Tarbolton and Galston, qualified for the playoffs.

 

       In the semis we were drawn against Gavin Morton and his Galston team which included Euan Lawrence. We played a great drawing game, on very keen but true ice, building on a consistently good lead stones--so important, from Peter and George, and followed by experience of Robt. Although a close game, we were in control most ends and helped by a 5 at one end, were clear and worthy winners at the bell.

 

   Tarbolton skipped by the wily Willie Morton had an excellent last stone win over Sorn and thus a Gangrel/Tarbolton final had the bookies scratching their heads !

 

 

   At the first end in the final we seized on a half chance with our last stone to clip out our opponents stone to lie 5. Thereafter we continued to draw well, remain focused, giving little away. Although Willie Morton won two ends with single shots when he played two wonderful shots,Tarbolton shook hands after 6 ends of a scheduled 8 ends final.

 

   It was a great team effort, with all playing well--thanks guys."

Thanks David, and I'm sure all the club will join in with hearty congratulations to you and your team.

Next week is particularly busy for  club games so here is a brief reminder.

Monday  11th February  -  Pairs First Round   6.15 or 7.15 depending on top or bottom half.

Tuesday 12th February  -  Points Competition 6.15 or 8.30 depending on draw.

Thursday 14th Feb     -   President's cup semi finals 6.15 final thereafter at 8.30.

Kirkbride Rose Bowl First Round

All eight teams were on the ice tonight in the first round. Some of the games were closer than others but the four winners, who qualify for the High Road semi finals, were Ronnie Wilson, David Gray, Jimmy Begg and Bert McKay.
The losers don't miss out on extra games, though, because they will play in the Low Road Semis,
Scott Thomson will play David Hope and Jimmy Niblock will play Steell McFadzean
All the games take place on 4th March at 5.00 pm and the full draw is here.

Next week sees the start of the Pairs Competition, with the top half of the draw playing at 6.15 and the bottom half at 7.15.  The second round is on Monday 18th February and the full draw can be found, as usual, either by clicking on the Club Fixtures link on the right side of this page, or by clicking here.

President's Cup Semi Finalists Decided

Ronnie Wilson's rink overcame stiff opposition from Scott Thomson to win by 11 shots to 4 and progress to the semi finals along with David Hope. The final score did not reflect what was a close game until the last two ends.
In the Vice President's league there were wins for Jimmy Begg and Jimmy Niblock, but a score of two shots on the last end was enough for Bert McKay to sneak through to the semis alongside Jimmy Begg.
The Begg, McKay and Niblock teams had each won two out of their three games, so were level on 4 points.
Ends scored were as follows:

Jimmy Begg      12
Bert McKay     11
Jimmy Niblock 10

The  final league positions are here and the semis are played on 14th February at 6.15.

Ronnie Wilson  v Bert McKay
Jimmy Begg v David Hope

The final will follow immediately afterwards at 8.30 on 14th.

Next Monday sees the first round of the Kirkbride Rosebowl at 5.00 pm.

Latest President's Cup Results

Only one game played in the President's half of the draw last night, but what a big result it was for David Hope's team. They beat Steell McFadzean by 15 shots to 1, thereby confirming their place in the semi finals.
Next week will see Scott Thomson playing Ronnie Wilson and the winner will probably (subject to ends won) take up the remaining semi final place.
In the other half of the draw, Bert McKay beat David Gray 8-6, and Mr Begg won the battle of the Jimmys by beating Mr Niblock 11-2.
It's all to play for next week - each one of the four teams can still qualify to represent the Vice President's league in the semi finals.
The up to date league table is here.

If you're following Alistair Henry's progress in Canada, you'll be aware that the Scottish Team are performing very well indeed, up by 1654 to 1381 as I type this.
Follow the results here

The latest edition of the "Your Curler" magazine has just been released. You can view a copy here.