Poionts Competition

Our trial points competition, sharing the ice with Aberlady appeared a successful event.  More players resulted in a more convivial atmosphere and all the players seemed to enjoy themselves.  

There were 3 new entrants this year and the age spanned from under 14 to over 70.

Morgan went from wooden spoon winner last year to leading into the final exercise (1 fewer exercises this year) 'Chip the Winner' with a comfortable lead, however his closest rivals both scored a maximum !  This resulted in only 1 point separating the top 3 players.  Morgan hung on with a winning score of 37 while Andy Aberdein and one of our under 14 reserves, Ali Breeze shared second place, with scores of 36.

Two players moved up in the 'all time high' charts, which can be found on  the results tab

    

Wingate - the closing stretch

 First up, thanks to Roy who has pointed out a couple of errors in the Wingate league and score tables.

These have now been corrected (fingers crossed).

Team Pate.

After the subterfuge of James Pate calling in rival Morgan to skip his rink against The McDiarmid outfit and losing (considerably) Morgan has now ensured that the Pate rink is out of the mathematical running to take a win, although second place is still possible.  

Team Nicoll (Morgan)

Still our leader and with a large edge in 'ends won', requires one win from their last two games (against Teams Pate and McDiarmid) to secure the crown.

Team McDiarmid

Realistically needs to win both their remaining games against both father and son Nicoll Squads.

Team Nicoll (Sandy)

Can act as the kingmakers and help his dad win by beating the McDiarmid rink.  However will probably be happy to secure their first points of the season and shed their winless record.

Rennie at 66% and a bit

With the competition having completed its second round (and a bit), it is fair to say that WE HAVE A
WINNER !

Congratulations to former president Andy Aberdein and his team of Graeme Maguire, Lindsey McConnell/Simon Kesley and Susan Stanton. They are the only team, in either competition, without a loss - but that has probably put a curse on them.  They did falter in last nights game losing five ends to two but none the less picking up a peel.  They were also the only rink on the ice (2 sheets) that had their skip playing!

Meanwhile, there is only ONE point and two ends separating the other three teams, so there are still things to play for. 

Jackson Trophy

News is trickling through to Club Central that out teams result was like the "curates egg" (good in parts).

The competition is Edinburgh Curling Clubs 'Champion of Champions' event, as a result strong opposition was anticipated.  Our first game resulted in a very good win, this meant being pitted up against VERY strong opposition in the second game.  This went the other way with a convincing loss. 

Well done anyway team on a good performance overall. 

Young Retention

 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.

 

Swan Trophy

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.

Seasons Greetings

 Hostilities resume Wed 7th January 2026 @ 19.45