Last night saw the end of the first round of the Trophy Competition. It also saw a somewhat simple victory for our promoted skip over the combined 'old hands' of Maguire/Wood.
This leaves Team Peart undefeated. Maguire/Wood are one game off the pace and Team Mackey with some work to do.
It is still all to play for as any team could still win although with the Peart squad playing this well it could be difficult.
A Big Warm Welcome to not one but two new reserves
Imogen Barr joins us from Athelstaneford and
Joanna Hull joins us from the New Stones.
Also congratulations to Zach who has a recent baby which is keeping him away from Murrayfield until December.
Congratulations to Julia Mackey, John McOmish, John Good and Gavin Morton who took on, and defeated Athelstaneford in the inaugural East Lothian Gauntlet game.
It is now up to us to challenge another East Lothian club within the next four weeks.
In their first game they scored a comfortable, if surprising, victory against our President's quartette, managing to win all four ends for a 9 - 0 victory.
Game two saw Team Julia taking on the Peart squad in a tight match that came down to the last end. Team Peart eventually took a two to win 3 - 2.
The final game would therefore determine the victors. Whichever team won would take the spoils. It was another tight game with only single shots determining each end. The Maguire Trio ending up 3 -1 winners and looking forward to their steak pies.
Congratulations to Graeme Maguire, David Wyllie and Gavin Morton.
Our first game pitted Team Julia up with the Peart Quartet.
It was definitely a game of two halves. After four ends Julia's rink, with some excellent early season form from John McOmish had it well under control with a 6 - 1 lead. Daniel however was seeking to make the score more respectable, and succeeded, taking the remaining three ends to have a 7 - 6 lead. Coming in under the wire an eighth end was started and the leads and seconds from both teams seemed determined block the house. With only the skips stoned remaining Daniel was lying 1 but leaving Julia a chance (slim) to raise. She succeeded with the final stone of the game, but not far enough.
Final score Daniel 8, Julia 6.
The syllabus has been updated to 19-9-24 version -
The changes are to add details of the draws and dates for External Competitions.
Matters Arising
Finally, there are new caterers at Murayfield this season. We are hearing good things about them and hopefully they will be well supported.
Please note that the inside syllabus has been corrected to show the game on 2 Dec as a Monday, not Wednesday as previously shown.
The date indicated on the latest version (bottom left) should be 14-8-24
