AGM and Prize-giving

On Wednesday the 17th of April, Currie and Balerno Curling Club had their AGM at Currie Rugby Club. The meeting was chaired excellently by our President, Betty Gibb with Secretary Jenny Barr and Treasurer Dave Munro filling in the top table.

Following this was the prize-giving. The winners of this year are as follows:

Kettle: John Steven, Jenny Barr, Sarah Ford and Sheena Munro

Harlaw Cup: Brian Fleming, Andrew Galloway, Lois Copland and Donald Kennedy

Doubles: Andrew Galloway, David Aitken and Holly Davis

Points Shield: Jennifer Marshall

Butter dish (Second in Points): Dave Munro

Rosebank Cup (Ladies Points): Jennifer Marshall

Lymphoy Cup: Niall Gunn, Rowena Steven, Morna Aitken and Stuart Ronald

Glenbrook Quaich: (Megan Priestly), Jennifer Marshall, Lois Copland, Graham Paterson and Sian Stockwell

Tom Holmes Trophy: Josh Kellock, Jenny Barr, Morag Wellman and Karen Munro

Club Achievement Award: Margaret Nicol

Thank you to the whole club for a fantastic season with some very competitive competitions! I'd also like to thank the committee, especially Jenny Barr, without whom the entire club could not function!

Kettle winners (Left to right: Jenny Barr, John Steven, Sarah Ford)

Points winner (Jennifer Marshall)

Lymphoy Cup winners (Left to right: Stuart Ronald, President Betty Gibb, Niall Gunn)

Club Achievement Award winner: Margaret Nicol

Tom Holmes Trophy 2024

On the 16th of March, Currie and Balerno came in their masses to Murrayfield to compete in the Tom Holmes trophy. This is a favourite competition within the club due to the unique make up of the teams. Once you have won the trophy as skip, you are no longer able to. This means that teams are helmed by people who wouldn't normally get the chance to (or usually don't want to) skip. As it's only 3 2-end games, the pressure is completely off and the whole afternoon is good fun all around.

Winning this year was Josh Kellock's team of Josh, Jenny, Morag and myself (which I was thrilled by considering I won it last year! And I was subbing for my Mum.)

Winning team for the Tom Holmes trophy (pic curtesy of Niall Gunn) 

The day before was also my 30th birthday and fellow Ides of March twin John Steven who was 60 and the club surprised us with a delicious cake.

Following on from a delicious meal from Parsley and Thyme catering, the main competition of the night went underway...the bottle sliding! A bottle of Highland Park (kindly donated by Donald Kennedy) and a bottle of Champagne (kindly donated by Betty Gibb) were the prizes. Colin Barr won the whisky and Jennifer Marshall won the champagne. £110 was raised in total, which will greatly help the clubs funds.

Lymphoy Cup '24 Final Round Results

This years Lymphoy, like many Currie and Balerno competitions, was a very close-fought one, with the whole competition coming down to the last game. Subbing for Michael Wood in Kerry Clark's team, I thoroughly enjoyed my game, although as I usually play skip, the amount of sweeping was almost deadly! From my vantage point on sheet 7, I was able to have a look over all the games being played. Some big ends were exchanged, 4s, a 5 and even a 6 (which surprisingly John was happy with as Andrew G was playing his last shot for an 8 but wrecked on a guard!). The main game of the night was Megan Priestly's team vs Niall Gunn's team. It was all square till the 3rd end then a series of 1s followed by a 3 allowed Niall's team to jump to the top spot and take the Lymphoy Cup. Megan's team, skipped amazingly by Jen Marshall take the Glenbrook Quaich.

Winners of the Lymphoy Cup:

Niall Gunn

Rowena Steven

Morna Aitken

Stuart Ronald

Winners of the Glenbrook Quaich (runners up):

Jennifer Marshall

Lois Copland

Graham Paterson

Sian Stockwell

The final league table of the Lymphoy Cup 24

The final score sheet of the Lymphoy Cup 24

Lymphoy Cup '24 Round 6.1 Results

Four teams were out yesterday, although not much of a contest for top spots, exciting games nonetheless! Kerry's team took Dave's team's chances of the top spot away completely with an outstanding win while Dave was out celebrating my birthday (I can only apologise to my Dad's team! I had a lovely night.) No change to the table, so Dave is still in contention for runner-up, so long as Niall loses in his last game.

League table after Round 6.1

Score sheet after Round 6.1

Lymphoy Cup '24 Round 5.2 Results

Well, what a way to celebrate International Women's Day with victories from all our female skips! Some of them quite convincingly too! With wins by Kerry and Jenny's teams, it now means no teams are sitting on 0 points, with all teams securing at least one win! Dave's team were in a great spot at the top, having played and beaten all teams at the top of the table and had 2 games in hand, but having been beaten by Jenny, his chances of a trophy are slipping slightly. It'll be interesting to see what happens next...As for the top of the table, Megan Priestly's team are sitting nicely at the top, although with the same ends as Niall Gunn's team, it'll come down to the last game of the season. 

League table after Round 5.2

Score card after Round 5.2

Lymphoy Cup '24 Round 5.1 Results

Two interesting games happened last night! Megan Priestly's team took on Brian Fleming's team, and with Megan holding top spot and Brian being much further down, Megan needed the win to continue her run and stay put at the top but the game ended in a draw. Dave Munro on the other hand, still with a game in hand, managed a good win against Niall Gunn which puts him in second spot on the table. With 3 more games for him to play, while the other top teams only have 2, it's going to be an interesting finish to the season!

League table as it stands after the game on 1st March:

League table after Round 5.1

Score Sheet after Round 5.1

C&B Points 2024

C&B had their annual points competition on the 19th of Jan, with a decent turnout of 12 players, with a real mix of usual players and newer members of the club.

They managed to work their way through 7 disciplines. It was very close at the top with 4 players scoring in the 30s! But taking the top spot was Jen Marshall with a score of 35, narrowly beating Dave Munro who finished with 34 points (and wouldn't stop going on about a missed stone on the last discipline...It's alright, he never reads this blog anyway). So Jen wins not just the Points trophy, but also the ladies' prize too!

Coming in 3rd with a respectable score of 33 was Eilidh Troup, a new member to the club and to the points game too! I think Jen should be worried about that trophy next year!

Well done everyone! Points is great fun and a great way to improve your curling so if you are reading this and haven't tried it before, it's definitely worth trying out next season. After all, it was C&B who created it!