Only Two Events Remain

Below is a snapshot of the Goldline Scottish Curling Tour leaderboard with only two events remaining: 

30pts David Edwards

20pts Tom Brewster

20pts Ewan MacDonald

19pts Stuart Taylor

16pts Hannah Fleming

16pts Lee McCleary

15pts Aku Kauste

13pts Ross McCleary

10pts Jennifer Martin

10pts Kyle Smith   

 

Both Kinross (12-14 December) and Aberdeen (30 Jan – 1 Feb) have still places left so with plenty points still available can anyone stop David Edwards claiming his second GSCT title. Strong fields are assembling for both events with seven of the above field already in for Kinross and the top two along with Hannah Fleming signed up for Aberdeen.  

Kinross have increased their prize fund from £750 to £1,250 this year. 

http://www.kinrosscurling.co.uk/2014-sct-kinross-open.html 

Below is the current GSCT chairwoman in action at Kinross last year

Edinburgh International - Sunday Round Up

Team Kauste from Finland qualified for the final of and were up against Team Sik from The Czech Republic.
The final started slowly but in the 2nd end Team Kauste played a good aggressive end and left Sik facing 3 shots. His attempted double takeout jammed and only one stone was removed, which left Kauste with a draw for 3 points, which was made. Team Sik responded with a 3 of their own in the 3rd end to tie the game. End 4 was blanked but then Kauste made a solid shot to score another 3, this time in the 5th end. Sik could only score 1 in the 6th end but a miss by Kauste in the 7th end allowed Sik to steal 2 in the 7th end to tie the score at 6-6. Team Kauste held the last stone in the 8th end and made no mistake, scoring 1 to win the game 7-6.

Team Kauste qualified for the final following an 8-5 victory over Team Brewster in the quarter final and following this up with a 5-3 win over Team Van Dorp from the Netherlands.Team Sik qualified for the final by defeating Team Smith 6-4 in the quarter final and then defeating Team Taylor in the semi final.

Winners of the 2014 Edinburgh International - Team Kauste

Edinburgh International

The round robin matches in this years Edinburgh International Curling Championship have now concluded. The swinging ice has helped to produce some exciting and nerve tingling matches and a few surprise results which have had spectators and webcast viewers on the edge of their seats.
In Section A Team Brewster continued their impressive start to the season despite by finishing top of the section with a 4-1 record, with their only loss coming at the hands of the talented young team skipped by Bruce Mouat. Team Sik from the Czech Republic qualified in second place from Section A.
In Section B Kyle Smith was a perfect 5-0 during the round robin and qualified top of the section. Team Kauste from Finland qualified in second place from Section B.
In Section C Team Van Dorp from the Netherlands are also in fine form and topped their section with an undefeated record. Team Kiiskinen from Finland defeated defending champions Team Edwards in final round robin match to qualify in second place from Section C.
Section D was a very tight affair with 3 teams finishing joint top of the section with a 3-1 record. Team Taylor qualified top of the section due to having a better draw shot challenge score, whilst Team Rantamaki from Finland defeated Team Lill from Estonia in a play off to secure the final qualification spot.

The quarter final line up is as follows:
Brewster vs  Kauste
Van Dorp vs Rantamaki
Taylor vs Kiiskinen
Smith vs Sik 

Team Sik in action

Aku Kauste providing encouragement to his sweepers

Edinburgh International

The 5th event of the Goldline SCT season gets underway early tomorrow at Murrayfield.

They are webcasting the below games throughout the weekend so be sure to tune in to see your favourite teams in action.

Team Brewster will be competing on home soil in the hope of continuing their recent successes on the European Curling Tour. The current Scottish Curling Tour leaders Team Edwards will also be competing in the hope of extending their lead in the rankings before representing Scotland at the  European Curling Championships in Switzerland at the end of the month.

All results and links for the webcasting can be found at their website.


http://murrayfieldinternational.com/

Friday

8.30am – Gallo v Mouat
11.00am – R McCleary v Lill
2.00pm – van dorp v Shaw
4.20pm – Nagy v Smith
7.25pm – Mouat v Brewster

Saturday

8.00am – Lill v Rantamaki
10.20am – Stevenson v Edwards
1.20pm – Black v Smith
3.40pm – Brewster v Gallo   or  Sik v Uusipaavalniemi
6.45pm – Rantamaki v R McCleary

Sunday

Quarter Final
Semi Final
Final

MacDonald win Inverness Skins

Inverness Skins was successfully held again this weekend at the Inverness Ice Centre

Home town favourite Ewan MacDonald battled through his quarter final with Tom Pendreigh £67 - £33 and then won a hard fought semi final against 2013/14 tour winners Team Ross McCleary. The game coming down to the last end skin with Team MacDonald managing to steal the skin for game.

In the other half of the draw Robbie Stevenson took all the cash in his quarter final against Alan Durno then in the semi-final managed to win the draw shot challenge against David Stobo after the final 4 ends had all carried over.

The final saw both teams playing some high calibre shots to have all 5 ends carried over making the last last end worth, a winner takes all £300! Ewan and his team of Duncan Fernie, David Reid and Euan Byers took the skin to win the cash and the trophy!

Inverness Skins 2014 Winners Team MacDonald

Runners-up Team Stevenson

Thanks must go to Tom Pendreigh, George Macarthur and the rest of the skins committee for another great event. Always competitive, always fun and always social!

Saturday Action at Inverness





Action from the Inverness Ice Centre

Team MacDonald

Neil McArthur and team.

Skins = plenty on stones in play!

Team Jamieson



Tom Pendreigh