Team Thorny Rose Bare Their Teeth!

Team	1			2			3			4			5			6			7			8
	F	A	E	F	A	E	F	A	E	F	A	E	F	A	E	F	A	E	F	A	E	F	A	E
Barr J				7	8	4
Wood K	8	7	3
Barr A										8	10	3
Kesley							10	8	5
Fleming																5	10	2
Copland													10	5	6
Steven																						6	8	5
Galloway																			8	6	3

 In the first round of the Lymphoy Cup on Friday night, Robin Copland and his merry women took on the Fleming-less Mike Wood and his team; a combination of some admittedly good play from Pauline, Morna and Shona and a couple of lucky rubs at opportune times enabled them to sit pretty at the top of the table after a six ends to two win and a 10-5 scoreline.

Mike would never forgive me if I did not mention a brave and well-executed shot in the eighth end with his last stone; he came through the narrowest of narrow ports and played a great promoted take out to lie three.

Susan Kesley was helping herself to similar largesse from Andrew Barr - one of my earlier tips for glory; sorry Andrew! - with a useful five ends and a 10-8 scoreline.

Defending skip Andrew Galloway won only three ends in his match against John Steven, but came away with two points and a winning score of 8-6 and finally Katie Wood just had the better of Jenny Barr - again the losing skip winning more ends than the victor.

So the table looks like this.

Position	Team	Played	Ends	Shots u/(d)	Shots scored	Points
1	Copland	1	6	5	10	2
2	Kesley	1	5	2	10	2
3	Galloway	1	3	2	8	2
4	Wood K	1	3	1	8	2
5	Steven	1	5	-2	6	0
6	Barr J	1	4	-1	7	0
7	Barr A	1	3	-2	8	0
8	Fleming	1	2	-5	5	0

 All to play for and three out of the four games got their eight ends in - a good start to the competition!