Kettle Trophy Round 2.1 Results and League Table

How's this for a club curling team - Kerry Clark, Gina Aitken, Lois Copland and Richie Anderson?  Not bad, eh, but their opponents, Katie Wood, Joe Barry, Margaret Nicol and David Hogg were not daunted and in fact dominated the middle ends of their game to lead 5-4 after five ends.  They restricted Kerry and company to a score of one in the sixth to be coming home peels with the hammer.  Sadly for them, it was not to be; Kerry managed to steal a two in the seventh and last end to win what looked like an exciting game 6-4.

In the other game, Jenny Barr, Morna Aitken, Anne Anderson and Pauline Alexander got off to a flier and were leading Susan Kesley, Andrew Galloway, Rowena Steven and Sheena Munro 6-2 after four ends.  A spirited Kesley fight back saw them win the last three ends of the game, but they fell short by one shot - Jenny won this one 6-5.

Here's the results grid and league table.

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
S Kesley				8	3	5	5	6	4
K Wood	3	8	2							4	6	3
J Barr	6	5	3							10	2	6
K Clark				6	4	4	2	10	1
K Munro																2	13	1
J Steven													13	2	6
R Copland																						8	4	4
B Fleming																			4	8	3

Position	Team	Played	Ends	Shots u/(d)	Shots scored	Points
1	J Barr	2	9	9	22	4
2	S Kesley	2	9	4	13	2
3	J Steven	1	6	11	13	2
4	K Clark	2	5	-6	8	2
5	R Copland	1	4	4	8	2
6	K Wood	2	5	-7	7	0
7	B Fleming	1	3	-4	4	0
8	K Munro	1	1	-11	2	0

Finally a plea to a young person.  If you are a young person (anything to the south of forty, I would consider "young"), or if you an older person who has not yet developed fat fingers and an atrophied brain, and you could explain to me how before the grid and colours were copied across from an Excel spreadsheet to a post on the website where now they are not, please could you get in touch?  You can write to me c/o the Correctional Home for the Age-disabled and Incontinent, Nappy Valley Gardens, Shitsville, Pidlothian.  Alternatively, email me at robin@scotwork.com to give me some succour, advice and a gentle cup of tea.

Kettle Trophy Round 1 Results and League Table

As we drove into Murrayfield at around 7.20 on Friday evening, the sun positively beamed down from a blue sky and thoughts turned to activities on the golf course rather than to an upcoming game of curling.  Curling?  Good grief and other expletives, but curling it was and there was a wee air of excitement to catch the first view of and throw some new stones down what is, to all intents and purposes, a new curling rink.

The new facility looks fabulous and is a tribute to all of the hard work and effort put in over the summer months by Scott Henderson and his team.  A new disabled lift has freed up the stairs again so that two overweight folk can pass comfortably on the half landing.  Not that any C&B member could be so described.  Ladies, avert your ears for a minute, but the horse trough has been removed from the gents toilet, to be replaced by pristine white - aye, enough!

New stones have been bought - and not just your bog standard new stones, but a competition set with a more aggressive band.  They will bed in over the next week or two.  The ice will be easier to maintain at a consistent standard once the appropriate settings have been found and dialled in.  It is all a bit of trial and error at the moment, but Scott and his team will "do the business", have no fears on that.

All of that said, conditions on sheet seven were challenging for a group of curlers, all of whom throw the stone differently.  The rubs went the writer's way, so Robin, Raymond, Megan and Richard found themselves on the winning team against Dave Munro, Maggie Barry and Norman Nicol.

Their game was the only tight game on the ice.  John Steven and Jenny Barr both had  whopping six ends wins that catapult them to early top-of-the-league-table positions; Susan Kesley also enjoyed a big win and she is tight behind those two with one game played.

Don't let's get too carried away though.  It's a marathon, not a sprint!

Here's the results grid and the league table.  

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
S Kesley				8	3	5
K Wood	3	8	2
J Barr										10	2	6
K Clark							2	10	1
K Munro																2	13	1
J Steven													13	2	6
R Copland																						8	4	4
B Fleming																			4	8	3

Position	Team	Played	Ends	Shots u/(d)	Shots scored	Points
1	J Steven	1	6	11	13	2
2	J Barr	1	6	8	10	2
3	S Kesley	1	5	5	8	2
4	R Copland	1	4	4	8	2
5	B Fleming	1	3	-4	4	0
6	K Wood	1	2	-5	3	0
7	K Clark	1	1	-8	2	0
8	K Munro	1	1	-11	2	0

Apologies, but the grid and colouring seem to have been disabled, which someone young might be able to explain.  Havnae a scooby, to be honest, why the grid has not copied over.