Congratulations to our Young Team of Sandy Nicoll, Karen Munro, Euan Forbes and Ali Breeze who retained the Young v Old title. The Young team obviously thought that they needed to reduce the average age of their team and brought in a ringer, Ali Breeze. Ali dropped the average age of the team by over 5 years.
As with recent years, it was a tight game and was finally decided by only a couple of shots, but the youngsters held their nerve.
Having got a bye to the Semi Finals, our two teams consisting of Andy McDiarmid, James Pate, Andy Aberdein, Susan Stanton, Sandy Nicoll Graeme Maguire, Keith Anderson and Roy Black, won convincing games against Mid-Calder. Meanwhile Oxenfoord humbled the might of Currie and Balerno.
The final, against Oxenfoord saw both teams face their challenges and at one point, were over six shots adrift. The final ends saw both our teams secure two shots, resulting in a Peel for the McDiarmid team and a two shot defeat for Team Sandy.
At the two thirds mark, Team Nicoll Snr is holding a lead with only one defeat so far. Chomping at their heals, however is the McDiarmid quartet, who are only 1 win behind having survived a very close game against the Pate rink. The Pate rink are the only team,so far, to have stopped Morgan in his tracks, with a close 6 - 5 game in the second round. It looks like the league could come down to the final game on the second of March between Teams Nicoll Snr and McDiarmid.
Morgan and his rink went one step closer to taking the title, having now played Team Sandy, in the first (and only) game of the third round. Morgan secured a big 8 - 1 win, in the opposition skips absence. More importantly they scooped a bucket load of ends. This leaves his closest rival two wins and twelve (!) ends behind but with 1 game in hand.
Meanwhile with only two games left Team Nicoll Jnr are stuck at the bottom of the table and even winning both cannot move up.
Congratulations to Andy McDiarmid and Hamish Logan who went one step higher for the club this year and won the High Road Province Pairs Championship. The steal of 2 in the second last end was crucial, as was a 'hit' with the final stone of the qualifying round which netted a good 3 which was enough to see them into the High Road.
Their win was result of careful calculation and courage (!) by Andy and Hamish as Athelstaneford had the hammer going in to the last end, and the HCC men manoeuvred to keep the opposition from getting a 2 which would have meant a peel on 3. Add ‘close’ to the alliteration
J Good
Taken from the Indoor Grand Match syllabus 2025
"Haddington Curling Club
Founder 1846 - strong community based East Lothian Club
Early curling on ponds near the River Tyne. ~ Now plays at Murrayfield Ice Rink, Edinburgh. ~ Inclusive and welcoming environment for all levels. ~ Runs full season of leagues, internal competitions and friendlies. ~ Occasional outdoor curling when conditions allow (last in 2010). ~ Continues to uphold strong local curling traditions. "
aw shucks, you guys.
With the first round of the Rennie completed, past president Andy Aberdein is gunning to bounce back to the Wingate after only one season. With two convincing wins, team Aberdein managed to hold on to a single shot victory over second placed new skip Keith Anderson. The Anderson squad is also leading the 'most played ends' in the Rennie, but that could have something to do with one 'early handshake' by two of the other teams.
Surprisingly the bottom two places are occupied by a couple of our most successful skips over the past few seasons, with 7 titles over the last 9 seasons, between them. Perhaps Messrs Aberdein and Anderson should take heed that it may not be wise to back the Munro, father/daughter combo into a corner, with still two thirds of the season to go.
All to play for still.
