President's Cup

The first games in the President's Cup were played tonight, with wins for David Hope, Steell McFadzean and Ronnie Peat.
Of course, the above mentioned were only leading and the real heroes were Francis McCrossin, George Hay and Jim Dunlop.
The results are shown here.
Next games in the President's Cup are on January 13th, but on 9th December we have the ever popular Drew Duncan Quaich.

European Championships start on Saturday

Tomorrow sees the start of the 2013 European Championships. These are being held in Stavanger and Scotland are represented by our two Olympic teams.

David Murdoch and his team of Tom Brewster, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews and Michael Goodfellow play two games on Saturday, against Denmark and Russia.

The Ladies team of Eve Muirhead, Anna Sloan,Vicki Adams and Claire Hamilton play Russia in their first game.

Games will be broadcast on Eurosport and full details can be found here in the Event Website

Final Week of Fraser Cup

We couldn't have asked for a closer finish to this year's competition. Playing the last end, the scores were tied at 4 a piece between Bob Cherry and Jimmy Begg.  The winner of the game would win the league.
It might have come down to a last stone nail biter, but Bob did not need to play it - he was already lying the one shot required for victory.
Congratulations to the winning rink of Bob, George Hodge, Richard Morrison and Bob Charters.
In the other games there were wins for Euan Lawrence, David Hope and Ronnie Peat.  The final league positions are shown here.

Next week sees the first round of the President's Cup.  Please note that there are only three games on at 5.00pm.  Charlie Jack and Jimmy Begg have the day off.

December 6th sees the Drew Duncan Quaich.  Interestingly, the draw for this is determined by the finishing order of the Fraser Cup, and that will be a repeat of the games that were played last night.
So Jimmy's team can get some revenge on Bob's, Bert on me and the same for Charlie and Steel.

Week 6 Results

Bob Cherry and Jimmy Begg are setting the pace at the top of the league. Bob had a close 8-5 victory over Charlie Jack and Jimmy's team beat Bert McKay by 10-9.
Bob now has 10 points with Jimmy close behind on 9.  However, with two rounds left, there are still three teams who have 6 points in the bag and could therefore reach double figures. (Well that sounds good, but in reality some are playing each other, so it won't happen.)
After next week's games we can see who is still playing for the trophy at the bitter end, and who is playing to avoid the bottom spot.  And yes - I'm well aware who the favourite for that is!
Here is the position to date.

It's Close at Top of League

Bob Cherry's unbeaten run came to an end tonight, when his team of Bob Charters, Richard Morrison and George Hodge lost to the Bert McKay team of Harry Peters, Ken Ross and Peter Kennedy. Although Bob scored on 5 ends, they were all singles, and Bert's two scores of 3 were enough to win the game.
Jimmy Begg's team won against Charlie Jack to move into second place with 7 points, one behind Bob and one in front of Charlie and Euan Lawrence.  Euan beat David Hope and in the other game Steell McFadzean beat Ronnie Peat.  The league table is here.

Training Night, Beresford Ladies and Week 4 of Fraser Cup

Monday 21st October saw the Training Night, with approx 14 Gangrels enjoying coaching provided by Ayr CC's accredited trainers.  All the reports have been very positive and we wish to extend our thanks to Kirsty and her team for assisting us.  I'm sure we'll see the results as the weeks go on.

On the following Thursday, we held our annual match against the ladies of Beresford Ladies.  This was the usual keenly fought match, with the Gangrels eventually winning all three games, although not without the occasional scare along the way.
Passion Caterers provided an excellent meal afterwards.

Last night, Bob Cherry's team had a great fightback to snatch victory from Euan Lawrence and so preserve their unbeaten start to the league. Jimmy Begg also fought back well and gained a point against Ronnie Peat and there were wins for David Hope and Charlie Jack.
The latest table is here.

Bob Leads the Way

President Bob Cherry's team of George Hodge, Richard Morrison and Bob Charters won a close game against Ronnie Peat's team by 6-4 last night.  They remain the only unbeaten team.
There were also good wins for Charlie Jack, Euan Lawrence and Steell McFadzean.
The updated table is here.