Haddington are the Province Knockout champions. Below is a short report on the semi final and final:-
The Haddington team of skip James Pate, third Dave Munro, second Sandy
Nicoll and lead Andy Aberdein played Athelstaneford (Johnny Shedden, Douglas
Scott, Frank Ross and Roy Black) in the semi final. From the start we managed to
control and dictate the game and even when an end looked like drifting away from
us James would pull out a saving shot and either keep the loss to a minimum or
even claim the end. So we built a reasonably comfortable lead and Athelstaneford
offered their hand in the 7th end to see Haddington through to the final. This
gave us the opportunity for a brief rest before the final which followed in the
next session. Meanwhile Yester and Dirleton were having a close battle and
Dirleton skip Susan Meikle drew her last stone on the 8th end to gain a peel so
their game went to a draw shot challenge. Susan unfortunately threw her stone
through the house and Yester skip, Sandy Stewart, with all 4 of his team
sweeping as hard as possible, managed to touch the front of the house so scraped
into the final too.
So it was Haddington against ‘young’ Yester (Sandy Stewart, Andrew ?, Jack
Kerr and Zoe Bain) in the final. It was a completely different type of game from
our semi final with much more striking and much less use of guards. There was
very little scoring in the early stages but from the 4th end Haddington managed
to gradually ease away from Yester and by the time we reached the 8th end Yester
skip Sandy had to try a ‘miracle’ shot which wasn’t really on to try and force
the game to a peel. He didn’t manage it so Haddington took the trophy for the
East Lothian Province Knock Out for the first time in 6 years. The club now have
the opportunity to represent East Lothian in the Province Championships.
D.M.
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