David Edwards wins 2012/13 Goldline Scottish Curling Tour

David Edwards, John Penny, Scott MacLeod and Colin Campbell are the Goldline Scottish Curling Tour winners for 2012/13 with 28 points.
 

Runners up are Murray Young, Blair Fraser, Ruairidh Greenwood, Ian Copland, Grant Hardie and Hammy McMillan with 23 points.
 

In third place are Frazer Hare, Robbie Dick, Jamie Strawhorn and Don Frame with 21 points.
 

In a closely fought tour this year Team Edwards started slowly and at the halfway stage were sitting on 3 points courtesy of their quarter final position at Forfar, whilst Murray Young had shot to 15 points with a runners up slot at Braehead, a quarter final position at Forfar and a semi final position at Inverness.

 

Into the second half of the Tour, we saw Team Edwards record back to back semi finalist positions at Lockerbie and then Stirling to close the gap to 2 points on Murray Young. A win at Kinross moved them to 23 points whilst Team Young recorded 5 points with a semi final position at Kinross to move to 20 points.
 

Going into Aberdeen, Team Edwards had a three point lead and only had to finish above Team Young to claim the title. A semi final position ensured this was the case with Team Young exiting the competition at the quarter final stage.
 

Congratulations go to Team Edwards for winning the Goldline Scottish Curling Tour and for supporting the tour both on and off the ice. 
 

 

 

Team Brewster defend Petrofac Aberdeen City Open

Tom Brewster and his team of Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow and David Murdoch has won the Petrofac Aberdeen City Open for the second year running.

The quarter finals pitched Team Brewster against a Murray Young team looking to secure enough points to win the overall first prize for the SCT. It was Team Brewster however that ran out 6-1 winners and so leaving Team Young to finish a very creditable second on the Tour.

Dave Edwards ran out comfortable winners over Kerry Barr who lost a five in the second end which will always make for an uphill battle against the experienced Edwards foursome.

David Jack's team skipped by Jackie Lockhart finished with three 2's to see off Paul Stevenson's challenge.

The Dutch outfit Jaap Van Dorp won 5-3 over Duncan Spence.

Onto the semi finals and Van Dorp edged out Jackie Lockhart whilst Brewster defeated Edwards.

In a tight final Brewster secured the title with a 4-2 win over Van Dorp.

Perfect timing for Brewster who have won back to back events in the build up to defending their Scottish title which commences on 10th February, so it appears as though they are peaking at the right time.

A successful weekend by all involved at Aberdeen with a great race night on the Saturday night.

Petrofac Aberdeen City Open

After a break for Christmas and the busy January with RCCC events, the SCT is back this weekend with the last event of the season, The Petrofac Aberdeen City Open...and what a good one is promises to be.

Plenty at stake for those involved with everyone hoping to do what Tom Brewster did last year and lift the trophy.

Also at stake is the overall SCT prize with 4 teams still in with a chance and favourite has to be local lad David Edwards and his team of John Penny, Scott MacLeod and Colin Campbell. They currently lead the tour by two points from Frazer Hare and 3 points from Murray Young. I am sure there will be some twists and turns ahead.

Play gets underway on Friday, further details can be found on the below link

http://www.aberdeencityopen.blogspot.co.uk/

Good luck to all involved in what is sure to be another great event.

Team Edwards wins Brightsolid Kinross Open

David Edwards and his team of John Penny, Scott McLeod and Colin Campbell have won the Kinross Open defeating Ross McCleary's team 5-4 after an extra end.

Both David and Ross topped their respective sections to progress to the quarter finals.

David beat Lorna Vevers 6-3 before defeating Duncan Gracie 8-3 in the semi final.

Ross beat Quentin Russell 8-2 before defeating Murray Young 6-2 in the semi final.

This win now puts David Edwards in pole position 2 points ahead of Frazer Hare going into the last event in February in Aberdeen.

Any one of the below four teams can still potentially lay their hands on the first prize so expect a few twists and turns at the Petrofac Aberdeen Open.

23pts David Edwards
21pts Frazer Hare
20pts Murray Young

18pts Hannah Fleming

Brightsolid Kinross Open

The Brightsolid Kinross Open kicks off tomorrow at 10am.

This new event to the SCT consists of 4 sections of 5 teams with the top two in each section qualifying for the quarter finals on Sunday.

More information can be found at the below link

http://kinrossopen.blogspot.co.uk/

Warwick Smith wins Stirling Invitational

Warwick Smith and his team of David Smith, Alan Smith and Ross Hepburn won the Stirling Invitational by beating Grant Hardie's team of Jay McWilliam, Hamilton McMillan and Billy Morton 5-4 in a closely fought final.

Warwick topped his section unbeaten with Grant Hardie also progressing from the same section. He then defeated Hammy McMillan 5-3 in the quarters before going on to defeat David Edwards 5-1 in the semi final.

Grant Hardie defeated Tom Brewster 6-5 in his quarter final before beating SCT leader Frazer Hare 5-4 in the semi final.

Frazer Hare now has a healthy lead in the SCT but with still two events to play is still catchable.

Next event is Kinross on 14-16 December.

This was Tom Brewster, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow and David Murdoch's last event before heading off to Sweden for the European Championships. We wish them all the best for this event.

Frazer Hare wins Lockerbie Superspiel

Frazer Hare and his team of Robbie Dick, Jamie Strawhorn and Don Frame defeated Graeme Black, Scott Hamilton, Colin Howden and Allan Marshall to win the Lockerbie Superspiel at the weekend.

Frazer qualified top of the section with 7 points courtesy of a 6-5 win over Graham Sheddon in his last schenkel game. At that point any one of five teams was in with a shout of the top four places and had Frazer not made his two in the last end he might not have made it through to the quarter finals.

Graeme Black qualified second out of the same section along with Neil Joss and Christine Cannon.

David Edwards topped Section A with Gavin Fleming, David Hardie and the Canadian rink Kelly Marnoch filling the other spots for the quarterfinals.

All four of the quarter finals were closely fought games with David Edward defeating Christine Cannon 5-2, Graeme Black defeating David Hardie 5-4, Gavin Fleming defeating Neil Joss 5-4 and Frazer Hare defeating Kelly Marnoch 6-5.

The semi finals pitched David Edwards against Graeme Black and with a steal of one in the 8th end Graeme edged this one 4-2.

Frazer’s team were up against SCT founder Gavin Fleming and although Gavin lost a six in the second end fought back to be tied 7-7 coming down the last. Frazer managed to hold his nerve to come through 9-7.

The final was decided by a decisive steal of three in the 6th end to give Frazer's team a 6-3 lead which was enough to secure the title.

David Edwards won the 3-4 play off game defeating Gavin Fleming 5-3.

A great weekend was had by all and a special thanks must go to all involved in making this event a success. A special thanks also to Richard Smith for being the compare for the quiz on Saturday night.

Stirling Invitational Draw

The draw for the Stirling Invitational has been made and is detailed below

 

Group A                                 Group C

A1 Tom Brewster               C1 Daryl Russel

A2 Hammy McMillan          C2 Glen Muirhead

A3 David Hay                     C3 Stuart Taylor

A4 Adrian Meikle                C4 Mark Neeleman

A5 Keith Wilson                  C5 Ewan MacDonald

A6 Alan Hannah                 C6 Kyle Smith

Group B                                 Group D

B1 Murray Young               D1 Warwick Smith

B2 Graham Shedden         D2 Bruce Mouat

B3 Frazer Hare                  D3 Kelly Marnoch

B4 David Edwards             D4 Graeme Black

B5 Logan Gray                  D5 Mathias Genner

B6 Alan Mitchell                 D6 Grant Hardie

Friday 30 November 

 

Start Finish   Sheet 1   Sheet 2  Sheet 3   Sheet 4  Sheet 5  Sheet 6

09:00 11:10   C1-C6   C2-C5   C3-C4   D1-D6   D2-D5   D3–D4

11:30 13:40   A1-A6   A2-A5   A3-A4   B1-B6   B2-B5   B3–B4

14:30 16:40   D5-D1   D6-D4   D2-D3   C5-C1   C4-C6   C2-C3

17:00 19:10   B5-B1   B6-B4   B2-B3   A5-A1   A4-A6   A2-A3

19:30 21:40   C2-C4   C1-C3   C5-C6   D2-D4   D1-D3   D5-D6

Saturday 1 December 

08:00 10:10   A2-A4   A1-A3   A5-A6   B2-B4   B1-B3   B5-B6

10:30 12:40   D3-D5  D6-D2   D1-D4   C3-C5   C6-C2   C1-C4

13:30 15:40   B3-B5   B6-B2   B1-B4   A3-A5   A6-A2   A1-A4

16:00 18:10   C6-C3   C5-C4   C2-C1   D6-D3   D5-D4   D2-D1

18:30 20:40   A6-A3   A5-A4   A2-A1   B6-B3   B5-B4   B2-B1

Sunday 2 December

08:30 10:30   A1-D2   C1-B2   B1-C2   D1-A2

11:30 13:30   W1-W2                 W3-W4

14:30 16:30                    W-W

Lockerbie Superspiel Draw

The draw has been made for the Lockerbie Superspiel from 23-25 November and will be played in 2 sections of 8 teams with top 4 in each qualifying for the quarter finals.

                         Section A

Andrew Maitland  v    Gus van Imhoff
David Jones         v    David Edwards
Duncan Gracie     v    David Hardie
Gavin Fleming     v    Kelly Marnoch


                         Section B

James Pougher     v   Graeme Prentice
Alan Mitchell         v    Christine Cannon
Graeme Black      v    Frazer Hare
Neil Joss              v    Graham Shedden

Team MacDonald wins the Skins

Ewan MacDonald and his team of Duncan Fernie, Ally Fraser and Euan Byers defeated Alexander Christie, Ali Asher, Ross Cope and Robbie Cope to win the Inverness Skins at the weekend.

After topping their section Ewan's team defeated Iain Fraser in the quarter final before edging a close one against Grant Hardie (deputising for Murray Young) in the semi final.

Sandy Christie defeated Neil MacArthur and Kerry Barr to progress to the final.

At the half way stage the overall leaderboard now has Murray Young up level with Hannah Fleming on 15 points with a host of teams now breathing down their necks.

Next stop is Lockerbie in 2 weeks time where I believe there are still a couple of spaces left.