Scottish Masters Championship 2022

Regular readers of these pages will be astonished to learn that Robin Copland, playing with his old team mate from the 70s and 80s, Ken Horton, as well as fellow Murrayfield curlers, Mike Dick and Trevor Dodds, reached the final of the Scottish Masters Championship, recently played out at Greenacres in Renfrewshire. They had good wins against some fancied teams including Stranraer's John Sharp and Kelso's Keith Prentice - playing with his Senior World Champion winning team of Lockhart Steele, Robin Aitken and Tommy Fleming.

Anyhow, they got to the final on the Sunday afternoon and found themselves playing against the only other undefeated skip in the competition, Don Stark. The Stark team played really well and ran team Horton out of stones in the eighth and last end. Silver Medals and suitably glum faces all around!

Lymphoy Cup Round 3 and 4.1 Results and League Table

By now, all teams have played three rounds, and as you can see below, some have moved on and played four. Already the league is sorting itself out and Karen Munro is leading the way on eight points from four games (though, and to be very fair, she would have been hard pressed to have scored eight points from three - something to do with arithmetic I'm guessing). What does that mean for the two teams at the bottom of the table, namely Brian Fleming and Robin Copland? Well, Brian is completely goosed and Robin is not far behind him in the old "a perfect fat for roast potatoes" stakes. To be very fair to Robin's team, the blame for that is all down to his inability to throw a stone that actually does what it says on the tin. In Brian's case, I cannot comment except to say that he slides on his toe and his knee will be wrecked pretty soon. Another youngster, Katie Wood of this parish, trails Karen by a mere two points and is grimly hanging on - still in contention for a podium finish. Here's the league and scores grid for your edification and entertainment.

A good couple of weeks and results for Katie, as you can see, but for Jenny, on the other hand - not so good. As I say, it's Karen's team that is setting the pace, so congratulations to Karen, Morna Aitken, Douglas Burns and Angela Downie - strong team!