After Dave Carr and his Rink eliminated Team Ramsay and David Gillespie did the same with Team Anderson in the Semi Finals, the two teams met in the final. The Carr team was made up of C Brown at 3rd, R Scott at 2nd and A McDonald at Lead. Team Gillespie comprised of I Scott, A Moir and G Cassie who held the Lead position.

The 7 End game produced a convincing win for Team Gillespie scoring 11 Points with 5 Ends against Team Carr who scored 2 Points with 2 Ends.

Congratulations to President David and his team!

The winner of our Points competition was Graeme Cassie who scored 31 points over seven disciplines. Congratulations Graeme! Full Scoreboard can be found in the Points Page.

As far as our Friendly encounters were concerned, it wasn’t the best month for Penicuik Curling Club. On Saturday 13th, we put out 2 rinks in our now annual match against Tulliallan at Murrayfield. Tulliallan produced a magnificent new wooden trophy which Alan Paterson had sponsored for the event. (If a photo arrives, I will add it to this page). Both Penicuik teams were defeated with a final score of 18-8 to our visitors. Things didn’t get much better with our game against West Linton on the 30th. Another trophy gone in the West Linton Challenge! For the second year running W Linton took the honours with a 15-6 win this year. Since 1994 Penicuik has won this trophy 21 times and W Linton 7 including the last two years.                     Slightly better news arrived from Craig Brown after the Merchiston 1816 game on Sunday 28th. Penicuik sneaked a 6-5 win.

We did not attract enough entries for our Knockout Competition to run the planned Quarter Finals on Tuesday 6th of February (Semi’s on 14th & Final 16th) but the Ice was used for a New Stones/Penicuik game. Eight New Stones and Nine Penicuik members played a 6 end rotation game. Each team had 2 New Stones and 2 Penicuik Players. There were some interesting ends played and congratulations were passed to The Reg Dunbar Rink when most involved met upstairs to end our friendly get together.

Let’s hope that things change for the better now that February has arrived. Merchiston Points on Sunday 11th February and games against 37 Club and Irvine in March.