Jen Marshall Wins the C&B Points Competition

Many thanks to president Niall for his report on last Friday's Points competition. The event followed a full session of C&B curling rather than take place before a session; as a result, thirteen members took part - doubtless encouraged by the sandwiches and cake that secretary Jenny had organised to encourage folk back onto the ice! In the absence of the Steven family, it fell to president Niall to lead the players off in the competition. There were a total of six disciplines completed - a creditable achievement by all who took part. There was some good scoring, but Jen's 36 out of 48, or 75%, was a really excellent score. Many congratulations to Jen. President Niall Gunn announced the winner at the end of the competition, but decided to keep the identity of the runner-up and winner of the butter dish until the AGM!

C&B Repeats its Jackson Trophy Win!

Congratulations to president Niall Gunn, Joe and Maggie Barry (three of last year's winning team) and Douglas Burns, who retained the Champion of Champions trophy, the Jackson Cup in 2022. A great achievement. First the picture of the winners, then over to Niall, who submitted a report for the blog.

President Niall Gunn, Maggie and Joe Barry and Douglas Burns defended their Champion of Champions Trophy, the Jackson Trophy. 4-1 down in the semi-final game wasn't the best place to be early on in the game, but a good second half performance enabled the team to pull through against Trevor Dodds' Carrington team. Lining up in the final against Ian Keron, the teams looked evenly matched. C&B played strongly early on in the game and were always up courtesy of a 3 in the second end. Ian and his team pulled it back to one down playing the last end, though C&B did have the hammer. In a terrific last end, Niall had to draw the one-foot to avoid an extra end. The trophy was presented to the winning team by ECC president, Sean Murphy, who had been in the losing team in the final. Congratulations to Maggie, Joe, Douglas and Niall.

Just for the record, Niall took a picture of last year's engraving on the trophy!

Kettle Trophy Round 4

Yet another Friday's C&B session and four games move us ever closer to the Christmas break. John Steven, Raymond Preston, Joe Barry and Donald Kennedy roared back to life with a huge 14-1 win over Dave Munro and his troops. Ouch! Shona Watt, Kerry Clark (that's Clark!), Lois Copland (at least we can say that one Copland is actually appearing this season!) and Susan MacFarlane had a good win over the hitherto very strong Niall Gunn team. They scored five ends in an eight-end game, so well done all in the pace of play stakes. Karen Munro, Mike Wood, Graham Paterson and substitute Anne Anderson had a great win over Maggie Barry with a tightish 8-6 win. Brian Fleming kept in touch at the top of the table with a win over Jenny Barr, courtesy of a big 5 in the penultimate end. Here is the results grid for this week.

Karen Munro and her team are stretching away in the league, though Brian is hanging on there! All to play for.

Vicky Gumley in the USA

Club member, Vicky Gumley is currently in the USA as a member of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club Ladies team. She will be having a ball! Here is the official team picture, taken by Tom Brydone.

Have a great trip Vicky. We look forward to hearing all about it when you return!

Kettle Trophy Round 3.1

Friday night last saw the first of the two-game sessions in the club. Shona Watt had to call in a late sub to protect her knee - get well soon, Shona! Eilidh Robb stepped in as a last minute substitute - thanks Eilidh! Kerry Barr moved up to skip the team, with Lois Copland at three and Susan MacFarlane at two. It was a stolen two in the penultimate end that did it for Shona's team, so well played, Karen Munro, Mike Wood, Graham Paterson and substitute Joe Barry. Karen now moves to the top of the league table on six points - going very well is team K Munro! Meanwhile in the other game, there was a bit of a ding-dong battle between Brian Fleming's team, skipped in his absence by Rowena Steven and Dave Munro. Dave Munro was particularly impressed by the opposition and Richie Anderson apparently had a stormer - well played Richie! Douglas Burns had moved up to play third and Eilidh Yeats came in as substitute and played lead. 10-9 was the final score and both teams were chucking 3s, 4s and 5s at each other! The 5 came in the last end and was scored by Dave and co - so close but the cigar rights stayed with Rowena and her team! Here's the results grid

And the league table

Kettle Trophy Round 2

Results are now in. Here's the scores grid.

And the resultant league table. Karen Munro and company making an early bid for glory whilst some of the old-timers sit languishing at the foot of the table! Apologies that the table is slightly askew - I forgot to rank it properly. All will be corrected in the next post.

Kettle Trophy Round 1

Absent reporter reports that he was absent. End of report! Here is the results grid for the first round of games. Reporter may well have been absent, but notes that the result that he would have got was duly delivered in his absence. He meanwhile was in Portugal. It was very warm.

And here is the league table. Interestingly, Jenny Barr's name has a different coloured background than everyone else's. This is because she is the club secretary and is therefore a very important person. That said, Niall Gunn is the club president and is therefore also a very important person, but his name has the same background as everyone else's. Here, I may have to confess that the whole thing is actually a cock-up of monumental proportions. That however is not as interesting.

Kettle Trophy Well Underway

Normal service is being resumed, the reader will be delighted to learn! Here is the draw for the Kettle Trophy. League tables for the first two rounds follow.