Kettle Trophy Round 7.2 and Final League Table

Team John Steven / Jennifer Marshall had their final game on Friday last and managed a good win over Jenny Barr. Congratulations to John, Jennifer, Rebecca Steven, Morag Wellman and Richie Anderson on a marvellous undefeated performance in the Kettle Trophy 2021, worthy winners of the competition. In the other game, Robin Copland, skipping in Karen Munro's place, had a tricky promotion to take Shona Watt's stone away from shot position. He was light (and it's been a long time since the writer has been described as light), leaving Shona's stone in place for a hard-fought draw after a great game. The final scored grid and league table tell no lies - congratulations to Team Fleming again for their second place and the Harlaw Cup.

Kettle Trophy Round 7.1 Results and League Table

Team John Steven Wins the Kettle Trophy! This has been a great performance and a real team effort, so step forward John Steven, who skipped the first three games, Jennifer Marshall, the regular third who has taken over skipping duties, substitute third Rebecca Steven, second Morag Wellman and lead Richie Anderson. To go through the competition undefeated has taken some doing and they have not had it all their own way, so congratulations. Oh - and another thing; they weren't even playing! So who was and what happened? Here is the results grid.

Niall Gunn's team played their last game with Joe Barry in the head. They had a good win over Andrew Galloway. Niall moves to seven points in the table - a respectable finish. Meanwhile, Brian Fleming's team, skipped by Raymond Preston cemented second place and the Harlaw Cup with a good win against Dave Munro. Congratulations to Brian, Raymond, Stuart Ronald and Angela Downie on a great performance - only one loss to team Steven. These two teams ran away with it in the first half, he admitted grudgingly!

Kettle Trophy Round 3.2 Results and League Table

One of the delicious ironies of the club card is that round 6 of the Kettle Trophy competition was played before round 3.2. Well, it tickled me anyway. Anyhow, onto the games and results and, perhaps more interestingly, nay intriguingly, what they mean to the competition as it approaches its denouement. Jennifer Marshall has stepped up to the plate and no mistake. She is filling John Steven's big shoes but she is doing so with aplomb. This week, she guided her team of Rebecca Steven, Morag Wellman (have I mentioned her earlier presidential role?) and Richie Anderson (who, whilst never a president, is an accountant) to a really tight win against president (aye, OK!) Niall Gunn and his team (welcome back Karina Aitken, by the way!). Neither team scored more than one per end and there were two steals, so the only separator was the fact that there were seven ends and not eight! Really tight game. Karen Munro, David Hogg, together with subs Maggie Wilson and Allan MacLennan found themselves 5-2 down against faither Dave after five ends. Team Munro the Younger were not to be counted out though - oh no! A stolen 3 in the seventh and last end did for faither and Karen took the win. Here's the scores grid.

And now here is the league table. If this were an election and just using the exit polls, you would almost have to call it for team Steven now. They are four ends ahead of Brian Fleming as well as two points. They can almost afford to have a big loss, as long as they score a couple of ends next week - they will be fine. For Karen, she could end up as high as third in the league. She plays Shona next week and if she wins that, she jumps over Shona; if Jenny loses or draws with the rampant team Steven/Marshall, then she could jump over Jenny as well. Who'd have thunk it, eh?