National Province Championships

As the current holders of the Province KO we were entitled to send a team to Greenacres to fight our the National Province Championships.  Our team was skipped by Dave Munro with (in no particular order) Morgan Nicoll, James Pate and James and Hamish Logan.

Here is their report:- 

Despite the much improved draw, I'm afraid Haddington haven't managed to qualify for the knock-out stages of the Province Championships once again!

First game on Friday was against the local Renfrewshire Province represented by Paisley St Mirren Club. Despite having to cope with very different ice from Murrayfield we took a 3 at the second end to lead 3-1. Unfortunately that was the end of the good scoring from our point of view and duly allowed Paisley to score a 3 back, followed by another 3. An end where gambling took over went against us and we conceded a 5 so were now 12-3 down and game over - final score was 14-4.

Second game against Forfar from Angus Province - they had a sub filling in and that poor soul had noted the wrong timing and turned up 45 mins late! We won by default with 6 shots and 5 ends I believe being the benefit as well as 2 points. This at least meant we had something to play for on Saturday.

Third game was played on the Saturday against a strong Kilsyth team from Stirlingshire Province. Once again we started really strongly, taking a 3 at the 1st and stealing 1 at 2nd end (maybe super-sub Hamish Logan doing the trick!). Then, once again, our bubble was burst with some missed strikes allowing Kilsyth to take a 4 and level the game at the 3rd. They then proceeded to steal a 2 and, although a saving draw to the 4-foot gave us a 1 at the next, we lost a 3 and a 2 to trail 11-5. The last end saw us taking a 2 but too little, too late with Renfrewshire beating Angus in the other game allowing them and Stirlingshire, as unbeaten group leaders, through from our group. 

Good experience for all but a lot of chances not taken meant quite a frustrating weekend for the Haddington CC team.

D.M.

On a separate note, as 'runners-up' Yester also sent a team and I am pleased to report that they DID make it to the Knockout stages but have yet to hear their results.

Well done to our lads and one year we  WILL get out of the round robin stages.