First encounter of the season for Auld (A) vs MacConnachie (C).
Match played on Sheet 1.
Team A fielding a full team.
Team C subbing Ken for Gill.
First blood to (A) threading a stone though the wall of guards and finding the button.
End 2 changed the fortunes and (C) struck back with 3.
End 3 (A ) Replied with a 2 so back to level pegging.
End 4 one stone win for (A)
End 5 one stone win for (C)
End 6 another 1 stone win for (A); score 5-4. Sub Ken flagging and having to take a rest between shots. Vigorous sweeping clearly taking its toll both on the sweepers and the skips. Auld starting to lose his power of speech trying to communicate over the background noise of the neighbouring rink.
End 7 can (A) hold on? As the end built up it was looking good for (A) but as is often the way, Skip John MacConnachie cast a magic spell and sneaked a one stone win levelling the game.
What a cracker!
With a number of very near misses the match demonstrated the importance of good sweeping and communication between the skip and the sweepers.
Hope Ken recovers.
Dougie
Holyrood Curling Club 