EL Province KO

The first round of the Knockout produced a couple of surprises and see Aberlady and East Linton as the winners who will go forward to play each other in the Semi Final on 16th Feb at 3pm.  There they will join Yester and Dirleton who got byes and will play in the other Semi.  The Final will be played straight after at 5.15pm.

Haddington v East Linton was a close match but East Linton were largely in control over a very good (on paper if not on the day) Haddington side.

Meanwhile the very experienced Athelstaneford side, who played aggressively were beaten by a much younger and laid back team from Aberlady.

Good luck to the surviving four teams.

Four Old Men and a Granny

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"granny + curling"

Congratulations to the 'younger members' of our club, particularly Sandy Nicoll, Euan Forbes, Hamish
Logan and Lindsey McConnell for reclaiming the Young v Old Title.  The last time that the Youngsters won this was over ten years ago, in Season 13/14, when the team was Lorna Nicoll, Karen Munro, Lorna Shaw and Angus Elder.

As you may have gathered from the title, this turned out to be a long and one sided game for the 'Oldies' who managed to win zero ends although they did find a lot of inventive ways of getting in for second shot. All credit must go to the winners who all played very steady and high class shots throughout and always had their opposition chasing !

Happy Xmas and New Year

 Hostilities will resume in the Rennie on 6th January 2025

Rennie @ 33%

As in the Wingate, no team has a 100% record.  The top of the table is Karen's team, however they only hold a slender advantage of two ends over our new skip Ian's rink.  Meanwhile at the other end of the table with 1 win a piece are the Dads Teams Munro and Nicoll.  Team Nicoll currently holds the 'strong man' position with a five end deficit to make up.

Still early days with a lot of games to go. 

East Lothian Pairs

Hamish Logan

 Well done to our team of Andy McDiarmid, Dave Munro and Hamish Logan who retained the Low Road
title.

Andy and Dave lost their first game and were in last place but went on to win their second match to haul themselves into the Low Road Final against  East Linton.  Tactically Dave Munro was left out of the Final (OK He had somewhere else to be!) and Hamish Logan stepped in for the game.  The 'goodies' took a 2 in the final end to score a 3 - 2 victory.

Wingate @ 33%

 The first round concluded with a poor turn out of five players.  Fortunately, an underfed Graeme (in early for the next session made the numbers up.

After the first round Andy McD's Rink and James Pate's Rink top the table with two wins.  (James leads by 11 ends to 10) with Team Sandy nipping at their heels one point behind.  There is still plenty of time for Team Andy A to get it together and move up the table.

Point, Points --- No Points

Following on from the Swan in the afternoon the field for the Points was sadly depleted. The field of 8 players, all being male, would ensure that Lindsay Nicholl remains the 'reigning' Ladies Champion.  (All the other ladies in the club could have achieved unopposed immortality, just by turning up - Get it in your diaries for next season!)

To quote one club skip, "The ice was awfy tricky" with big swings (with dropped weight), one straight ice and one half sheet with very stiff ice.  Despite playing all 10 exercises only one player achieved a new high score while two others, both former champions recorded 'all time' low scores.  (One putting forward some kind of feeble excuse)

Not one player managed to score an 8 for any exercise, the best being a 7 from Mr Munro in the 'inwicking'. Dave, along with Richard and Graeme were the only players to score with all four attempts at any exercise, Richard and Graeme doing so in the 'raising'.

Despite all this, it was another fun (if sometimes painful fun) filled evening.