(L to R) Leslie Ingram-Brown, Vicki Adams and Graham Shedden The competition was held over two evenings at Braehead Curling Rink and attracted the strongest field over the last few years. Teams included several current & previous Scottish, European and world champion players. However, there was still room for ordinary club members giving them the chance to take on the big guns. One of Braehead’s newest curlers, Margarita Sweeney- Baird a member of The Virtual club and only in her second year of curling, was delighted to take part and along with David Horne, The CDO at Braehead, even managed a victory.
Teams were split into three divisions as shown above and a round robin of games were played in each section with the winning team + The next best team progressing to the semi finals. In the well know Braehead tradition all other teams were still involved in a middle or low road competition. Top of the three groups were Logan Gray’s team : Graham Shedden’s team and Judith McCleary’s team with the next best team going to Ben Fowler’s team. One of the favorite’s Andrew Craigie and Anna Sloan, previous winners in 2010, lost out to English Internationalist Ben Fowler along with student Rebecca Steven, (already an accomplished curler in her own right) by the virtue of being on the same points and ends but scoring one less shot.
In the semi’s The Mcleary team got past the Gray team and Graham Shedden, along with Vicki Adams, replacement player for the second night run out winners against Ben and Rebecca by 7 shots to 4. The final, played over six ends was very tense and went all the way to the very last Stone. In the final end, with the game at peels it was Graham and Vicki lying one shot and half hidden behind a long guard. Lee McCleary with last stone just caught the guard as he attempted a take out to win the game so the spoils and The Trophy went to Graham Shedden : Naomi Brown and reserve player Vicki Adams. Gary Macfarlane, Chairman of The Braehead Curling Development group, thanked everyone who helped make the competition a success but Special mention to Leslie Ingram-Brown for his continual sponsorship of the event.
Report and photo by
David Horne
CDO Braehead
Teams were split into three divisions as shown above and a round robin of games were played in each section with the winning team + The next best team progressing to the semi finals. In the well know Braehead tradition all other teams were still involved in a middle or low road competition. Top of the three groups were Logan Gray’s team : Graham Shedden’s team and Judith McCleary’s team with the next best team going to Ben Fowler’s team. One of the favorite’s Andrew Craigie and Anna Sloan, previous winners in 2010, lost out to English Internationalist Ben Fowler along with student Rebecca Steven, (already an accomplished curler in her own right) by the virtue of being on the same points and ends but scoring one less shot.
In the semi’s The Mcleary team got past the Gray team and Graham Shedden, along with Vicki Adams, replacement player for the second night run out winners against Ben and Rebecca by 7 shots to 4. The final, played over six ends was very tense and went all the way to the very last Stone. In the final end, with the game at peels it was Graham and Vicki lying one shot and half hidden behind a long guard. Lee McCleary with last stone just caught the guard as he attempted a take out to win the game so the spoils and The Trophy went to Graham Shedden : Naomi Brown and reserve player Vicki Adams. Gary Macfarlane, Chairman of The Braehead Curling Development group, thanked everyone who helped make the competition a success but Special mention to Leslie Ingram-Brown for his continual sponsorship of the event.
Report and photo by
David Horne
CDO Braehead
