Thursday 25 09 14, Team Drew Jolly (Roger, Roy, sub Rebecca) Vs Team Glen Nash (Sheila, subs Martin, Madeleine) score: 5 shots to 4
Report courtesy of Martin Isbister
Overall this game could have easily gone either way as all players were delivering some exceptional stones for much of the game each matching stone for stone, and some excellent take out shots notably from Sheila. Both skips were throwing some fantastic final stones and had the sweepers picked up Glens final stone of the last end earlier or if Glen had had porridge for breakfast then it could have been a well deserved draw.
Roy was consistently delivering right on the button and exactly where his skip was requesting, really awesome Roy , if it had been a Turkey shoot we know where all the prizes would ended up.
Some of the early order players were occasionally putting a new definition into where the guard zone should be ie around the hack which led to some amusement and frustration (it’s good to let it out , don’t keep it bottled up).
Drew threaded at least on two occasions, final end stones through what seemed to be an impossible passage of guard stones to land the winning stone. We believe that Drew had some pixie dust in his broom on the night, how he threaded them through the gaps we still don’t know. Whatever it was it worked (awesome to watch but slightly bitter sweet when your 3 up on that particular end).
Apart from the above the overall difference between the teams was that for team Jolly their fall-back game plans B, C and D (and sometimes where there was no plan) played out to give a better outcome. When you consider the evening it was an excellent and exciting evenings curling for all involved.
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Many thanks to Martin for the excellent report above. Unfortunately I have been unable to get a report on the other game played on Thursday evening between Team Muir and Team Fleming other than knowing Team Muir ended up convincing winners by 8-1
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