An interesting night's curling with results that rule every team out of silverware apart from two, teams John Steven and Brian Fleming - and we aren't even into December!
First of all, here is the results grid for tonight.
Jennifer Marshall carries on team John Steven's winning ways in John's absence. A good 8-3 win over Shona Watt moves the team to five wins out of five. Crucially, their four ends move them to 22 ends in total which equals Brian Fleming's ends total - and they have a game in hand. Fair to say that they are warmish favourites for overall success in the league and the Kettle Trophy.
Talking of Brian Fleming, he and his team had a hard-fought win over Niall Gunn. Niall was 5-0 up after three ends and looked to be cruising. Brian, with Raymond Preston, Andrew Cargill and Angela Downie moved up a gear and took a 4, followed by a stolen 2 in ends four and five. They limited Niall to 1 shot in the penultimate end before scoring a 2 in the seventh. A satisfying win then and they are still in the hunt for the Kettle. As you can see in the league table, they are guaranteed second place at the worst.
So (sound of tumbleweed drifting on the wind), what of the other games this evening? Irrelevant. No, hang on, that's ridiculous; apart from anything else, your scribe was playing in one of them. Playing for Karen Munro and they had a win over Jenny Barr. Scored a 6 in one end. All I'm saying.
And in the other game, Andrew Galloway had a tight win against Dave Munro.
Here's the league table...
... and you can see what I mean. John and Brian are so far ahead of the pack that they cannot be caught. Niall can get closest with nine points if he wins both of his games. Jenny, Shona and Karen can get to eight points if they win their remaining games - but no-one can get to ten, so that's that, then - and we haven't even got to the end of Black Friday!
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