The Round Robin stages of the 2018 RCCC Rink Championship Finals at Forfar are now over.
Cadder are representing Braehead and have qualified for the Quarter Finals, finishing second in Division D with 2 wins, one draw and one loss - great results guys! The team is Alan Donaldson, Ian Gillespie, Euan Dagen and Mark McAuley, and Colin Weir has also been playing. This is their first major Scottish finals for most of the team, and they have done brilliant so far. They are a great team. Alan as we all know is very competitive, Ian has got to the Rink Championship semifinal stages before, and Euan and Mark are part of this years Invershiel Championship winning team. Do well tomorrow Guys.
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This season has been very competitive with teams Craigie, Donaldson, and Dagen all in the mix in the last few weeks.
With just 2 games to go there were just 2 points between Andrew Craigie's team of Alan Morris, Colin Weir, and John Barr, and Euan Dagen's team of Gary Macfarlane, Mark McAuley and David Barr. Andrew unfortunately could not make the penultimate game and they lost. Team Dagen beat Robert Storey which left them 4 points ahead and Invershiel Champions for 2018 Well done guys The Duncan Decider
On Monday night the Cadder Duncan League reached a fitting climax with a “winner takes all” final game between Dunwoody and Little. For the first time in the season skips were heard talking tactics before the game. This surprised team members not only because it was a first, but also clearly the skips had expectation of performance levels that far exceeded the levels of skill displayed earlier in the season. However, the skips faith was justified with a high level of shot conversion throughout the match from both teams. A steal of two in the opening end gave Dunwoody a start that not even he could have imagined and his smile, lighting up the ice, was off putting for the opposition. The next two ends were won with a 1 from Little bringing everything back to level. In the 4th end, Dunwoody was lying one and was about to pull his last stone until team lead Donaldson harangued him with the words “these are types of shot skips are expected to play if they want to win games.” Dunwoody changed the call (the first time he’s listened to Donaldson all season) drew round the guards coming to a rest in the 4 foot for a two! A further steal in the 5th put Dunwoody in control. With his team expecting to be asked to clear everything Dunwoody continued to call the aggressive game of drawing the button in the 6th and 7th where the teams shared single shots. It was a fitting finish to a highly competitive Duncan season. Congratulations are due to Dunwoody, Paton, Kelly and Donaldson for winning the league and to Little, Burrows, McAuley and Elder for taking it down to the wire. After the game Dunwoody was heard to say that he had not expected to win the league at the beginning of the season. His team agreed unanimously that they did not think he had it in him either. The whole club will look forward to benefiting from his presentation of a bottle of whiskey at prizegiving. Although increasingly competitive the Duncan is a great place to introduce new curlers to the fun and fellowship of curling. If you have friends who would like to give it a go, then put them in touch with club secretary David Graham soon. It won’t be long till next season. Alan Donaldson |
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