Victory for Team D but a tight game – Team A kept their opponents honest and were fighting to the end.
Team A were at full strength with James assuming the heady responsibilities of skip, and everyone moved round one position as the rules require. The usually three person Team D was ably supported by reserve Kay.
Team D opened their account with a two for the first end. After that, the teams traded winning ends throughout, and, apart from Team D managing another two in the third end, all the scores were singles. With perhaps the exception of the final end, this was not a game of high drama, just good, close curling.
So, by the start of the seventh and final end, it was 5-3 to Team D and all they had to do was stop the opposition from building stones in the head and play safe. However, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry – and in this case, Team D were staring at three opposition stones in the house with nothing of their own and only a very limited number of stones left to throw. From a position of quiet confidence, things started to look considerably less comfortable for the team. Was this a case of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? Fortunately, we got something counting, only for James to do a fine take-out job on it. However, he had left his striking stone lying shot but exposed. John W had to take it out – and this he did and, in a moment of good fortune, his striking stone rolled to lie in a semi-guarded position. Try as he may, James couldn’t get his final stone to curl in enough to shift it. There was no need for JW to play his last stone. Hands were shaken and the post mortem was conducted in the bar.
John.
Holyrood Curling Club 