Kirkbride Rosebowl Semi Final Result

Jimmy Niblock skipped Richard Morrison's rink to a 10 shots to 4 victory over Peter Reynolds team last night.

They now face Robert Boyd's team in the final next Monday at 6.00 pm.

Annual Match v Tarbolton

The Wilkie Trophy is awarded annually for the game between Gangrels and Tarbolton. Over the 15 or so years that the game has been played, Tarbolton have featured far more regularly in the engraved winners than Gangrels, so it's great to report that this year the Gangrels won.

Our team of Ernest Mutter, Peter Galloway, David Hope and Jimmy Niblock had a very close game, losing a two at the last end to finish down by 6 shots to 5.

The other team of Ronnie Peat, Robert Boyd, David Gray and Willie Scott had an equally close game.  However, they managed to score 4 shots, in a well controlled last end, to finish winners by 9 shots to 5.

The Highest Up rink with the Wilkie Trophy

Kirkbride Rosebowl

A busy night for Gangrels, with the preliminary round of the Province Knockout competition being played at the same time as the first round games in the Kirkbride Rosebowl.

I huge thank you to all those who assisted by filling in where team members were required to play against Crosshill - unfortunately this problem will not arise in future because we were up against a strong team and finished a clear second.

In the Kirkbride, Robert Boyd finished 9 shots up and claimed the direct route to the final on 26th February.

The two semi finalists will be the teams skipped by Richard Morrison and Peter Reynolds.

The draw is here.

Euan Lawrence wins President's Cup

Euan skipped Peter Reynolds' rink to a convincing 10-3 victory over Peter Kennedy's rink, skipped by Jimmy Begg.  They therefore finished top of the league table with 8 points out of 10.

Both the other games finished in 6-6 draws, which means that Robert Boyd finished second and Peter Kennedy third.

The final table can be found here.

Next Monday at 5.00 is the first round of the Kirkbride Rosebowl.

The draw can be found here or by clicking on the Competition Results link at top of page.

One Week remains and it's Now Very Close

Peter Kennedy's unbeaten run was brought to a halt by Robert Boyd's team, who won by 6 shots to 5. Also winning tonight was Peter Reynolds who beat David Gray in a close game by 10 shots to 9.
The remaining game saw Ernest Mutter recording his first victory, over Richard Morrison's rink, by 12 shots to 9.

With one week left in the President's Cup any one of three teams can win.  Next week Peter Kennedy plays Peter Reynolds.  They are both on 6 points, but also on 6 is Robert Boyd.  Any one of the three could triumph.

The remaining teams are all on two points. They will be just as keen to win and avoid the bottom place.

The league table is here.

Peter Kennedy's team win three in a row

Jimmy Begg skipped Peter Kennedy's rink to a 10 - 2 victory over David Gray's rink.

In the other games, Robert Boyd's team, skipped by Bob Cherry, beat President Ernest's rink by 10 shots to 2, and Euan Lawrence skipped Peter Reynolds rink, winning by 9 shots to 4.

The league table shows the Kennedy rink on top, the Mutter rink at the bottom and the middle 4 teams all having the same number of ends scored. It could be a close competition.

Gangrels win Ayrshire Province Medal (plus President's Cup Results)

The Gangrels took part in the Province Medal on Tuesday. the first rink comprised of Skip Robert Boyd, Peter Galloway, Bob Cherry and Ken Ross. This rink were playing against Crosshill skipped by Andrew Baird. Under Roberts guidance they began to put their stamp on the game with a win in the first end. There was mixed fortunes in the next few ends with the Gangrels losing 2 shots in the last end to leave us +2 at the end of the game. 

The following game was against the Country Club skipped by Bella Kennedy. The rink this time was skipped by Euan Lawrence, David Gray, Ronnie Wilson and David Hope. The first end was to set the game up for the Gangrels with a 3 shot win. However the Country Club came back fighting and with some lucky touches they were able to win a number of ends. However we left the best for the last end where we had the hammer. With last stone to play and lying 5 shot's we were going for 6. Euan played his stone but unfortunately it drew more than anticipated and hit an opposition stone into the house and cut our margin to 4 shots. We finished the game +7. We were not to know how critical this last shot was to be until Billy Howat, Province President, made his speech. Billy was pleased to advise that one Club had a winning Score of +9 and this Club was the Gangrels.Thanks to all those who played in this competition to record this fabulous victory - and thanks to David Hope for the report.

In tonight's President's Cup, Peter Kennedy's rink continued their winning ways with a 6-3 victory over Richard Morrison.  David Gray won by 6 shots to 2 over Robert Boyd's team and Peter Reynolds had an 8-3 win over Ernest Mutter.

As you can see here, Peter's rink is on 4 points, Ernest on nil and the other four teams are on two - separated only by a couple of ends.