Opening Bonspiel

Team Sandy v Team McDiarmid

This was a tight game through to the sixth end when Team Sandy scored a big 5 .  Vice President Andy fought back with a 3 in the last end but the balance of power remained with Sandy earning his team an 8 - 5 victory

Team Aberdein v Team Maguire

Things were looking comfortable for Team Maguire right up until the last end.  With a lead of 4 shots Graeme was left, with his final stone facing a 4 for for the peel.  A wide strike resulted in a lucky resuly cutting the deficit down to 3 and a win of 6 - 5.

THE WINNERS are therefore Sandy Nicoll John Harcourt and Euan Forbes (3 man team).

Wingate is Go

 Season 24/25 is underway.

The first Wingate game saw one team missing its titular skip but to make up for that there were 5 other skips/former skips on ice and one team being led by someone who usually prefers to lead (It was explained as a 'tactical issue' !).The game itself was a cagey affair  with Andy Aberdein taking the 'man of the match' award for some excellent shots against, at times, significant pressure.

The final score of 7 - 7 seemed a fair result and bodes well for the upcoming season.

Pairs Competition & EL Bonspiel & Waldie-Griffith

 Thanks to an ever vigilant President it was noted that there was a further error (conflict of dates) on the Syllabus.

The club PAIRS Competition is on 9th NOVEMBER from 12.45, as per the right panel in the syllabus not october as per the left hand panel (Sorry).

This has now been updated on the 23-9-24 update on the fixtures tab.

Also confirmation that the EL Bonspiel on 16-3-25 is a SUNDAY, not friday as previous years.

Finally the Waldie-Griffith is on Saturday 8-3-25 from 14.00 against Border Province and is at KELSO

Update 17-9-24

The Syllabus (inside) has now been updated , this update includes most of the details for Province competitions. NB. The Bonspiel is on a Sunday, not Friday as per the issued version.  The date for the annual Dinner and Prizegiving has also been brought forward a week to Friday 4-4-25. 

A copy of the latest version has been included on the fixtures page and should be printable.  If anyone needs the current version of the syllabus sent to them (electronically) please email graeme and ask.

The Draws for External Competitions have also been added to the fixtures page.

Season 24/25

Preparations are well underway.

We are currently updating the website and the syllabus (and requests for payment) should be issued shortly.  If you want advance notice of your ice dates please see the Fixtures Tab, above.

More information and draws for external competitions will be added as soon as the draws have taken place and information mad available to us.

In the meantime, we welcome the fact that we have manged to return to 4 rinks in both competitions and as a consequence welcome Ian Donald as a 'new' skip in the Rennie League.

Skins 23/24

With the usual change of a few members, some for being unavailable (Skip James and John H) and others through being in both league winning teams (Ian D) the usual wrangling over the rules ensued.  Dave Munro, an experienced wrangler of the skins (playing for James Pate) against Skins newcomer Sandy.

The first blood was not taken until the third end ensuring a 4 skin (stop it!) start to team Pate/Munro.  By the time that the Nicoll Jnr squad got their first score in the sixth end they were in arrears by 9 skins.  Wins in the next two ends though meant that Team Sandy picked up 7 skins.  The winners were therefore Team Pate/Munro.

So Final Congratulations of the season go to James Pate (Dave Munro), Euan Forbes, Ian Donald and Frances Donald.

The 2023/24 Leagues are complete

With Sandy sitting confidently in the clubhouse, it was always going to be a big ask for Morgan to overhaul him for the Rennie Quaich.  Needing at least 8 ends and at least 12 shots he started to make it happen by taking the first couple of ends from Wee Andy's Team but they fought back in the next tw0 ends to ultimately deny Team Nicoll Snr the trophy. Courtesy of a 2 in the final end the evenings game went to Team Aberdein, which also meant that they finished in runner up slot in the Rennie League,

So it is CONGRATULATIONS to Sandy Nicoll, Ian Donald, John Good and John Harcourt.

They will now go on to play Team Pate, winners of the Wingate League in the Skins Competition on Mon 25th March.

It is also CONGRATULATIONS to James Pates Rink for managing to average 7.38 ends over their games, narrowly ahead of Team McDiarmid's average of 7.25 ends.  At the other end of the scale are our new trophy holders Team Nicoll Jnr who came in with an average 7.0 ends.