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?