Weekend roundup

Gail Munro, Lyndsay Wilson, Karen Addison and Annie Laird won the inaugural Glynhill Ladies International at Braehead today, defeating the Scottish Champions Kelly Wood, Jackie Lockhart, Lorna Vevers and Lindsay Wood in the final. Wood's team fought back from 5-1 behind to be in a tied game in the last end. To keep her unbeaten record over the weekend, and to collect the £2500 first prize for her team, Gail made a perfect hit with her last stone.

Verdict on Scotland's first women's WCT-e event? Top class. Well done to all involved. Thanks to legacy funding from the 2005 World Women's Championship in Paisley, and hopefully continued support from the sponsors, the event will definitely go ahead next year. Incidentally I counted twice as many spectators watching the final than at the recent Ramada Perth Masters!

Elsewhere at the weekend, defending champion Keith Prentice has qualified for the final of the House of Bruar Scottish Seniors Championship. Also through from the Aberdeen group are Bob Kelly, Andy McGlynn, Barton Henderson, Graeme Govan and David Clydesdale. The results are here. The finals are at the Lanarkshire rink, February 14-17.

The qualifying rounds for the Scottish Junior Men's Championship were held at Ayr this weekend. The results are on the RCCC website here. The qualifiers: John Penny and Lindsay Gray from Section 1; Glen Muirhead and Ally Fraser (after a tiebreaker) from Section 3; Jamie Dick and Graeme Black from Section 4. Paul Russell finished top of Section 2, but there was a three way tie for the second qualifying spot. Ian McClune beat Stuart Dodds in the first tiebreaker but lost the second to Greg Drummond 3-2, so Drummond and his team go through.

The Scottish Junior finals are at the Dewar's Centre in Perth, February 5-10.

L-R: Lyndsay Wilson, Gail Munro, Karen Addison and Annie Laird with the Ladies International Curling Kettle.

Weekend roundup

(1) Well done to Kelly Wood, Jackie Lockhart, Lorna Vevers and Lindsay Wood who reached the final of the Berne Ladies WCT-e event at the weekend. The girls played nine games in total, losing an A road game to Switzerland's Mirjam Ott, but coming through B to get to the quarterfinals. There they beat Canada's Shannon Kleibrink and then Germany's Andrea Schopp in the semi to reach the final. They fell to Kelly Scott's World Champs in the last game.

Sarah Reid and her team played seven, won three and lost four, one of which was to Claire Milne's side who also played seven games winning four and losing three. All the results from Berne can be found here.

(2) David Murdoch, Logan Gray and John Hamilton are all undefeated in Section A after four games of the Bruadar Scottish Championship qualifiers at Perth. Scott Hamilton beat Warwick Smith to be undefeated in Section B, but has played one game less than David Edwards and Warwick who are both on 3-1 records. In Section C Gordon Muirhead and Alan Smith are undefeated after three rounds. And in Section D Tom Brewster is the lone undefeated side after four games. All the scores are here. The next rounds are in two weeks time.

(3) In the House of Bruar Scottish Senior Men's Championship, Iain Baxter, Gordon Butler, Graeme Adam, Bob Smellie, Jim Beckett and Gary Macfarlane are the six qualifiers from Greenacres. Further qualifiers will come from Aberdeen next weekend. All the results are here.

(4) The last qualifiers for the National Masters (over 60s) have now been determined. The details are here. Jim Stevenson, John Young, Ian Dykes, and Sandy Reid join those teams qualified in November (Bobby Rae, Jackson Robb, William Jack, Sandy Wilson, Jimmy Johnson, Gifford Rickard, Jim Beckett and Richie Knox) for the National Finals March 5-9.

Weekend preview 3: Seniors begin with new sponsorship

Three of the qualifying sections for the Scottish Senior Men's Championship will be held this weekend at Greenacres. The draw and results are here. The event has a new sponsor - the House of Bruar. The announcement was made today, and may be found here.

The sections are as follows. In Section A are the teams skipped by Ronnie Peat (Greenacres), Clark Stewart (Kirkcaldy), Iain Baxter (Murrayfield), Ian Alexander (Ayr), Gordon Butler (Greenacres) and Ian Gillespie (Waterfront).

Section B has David Robertson (Greenacres), Ritchie Stewart (Stirling), Graeme Adam (Dumfries), John Summers (Braehead) and Bob Smellie (Murrayfield).

Jim Beckett (Greenacres), Alan McDougall (Braehead), Gary MacFarlane (Braehead), Ken Watson (Stirling) and Billy Nairn (Lockerbie) are in Section C.

Two teams qualify from each section for the finals at the Lanarkshire Ice Rink, Hamilton, February 14-17. A further fifteen teams, including the Keith Prentice rink, the holders of the Scottish title and World Senior Champs, contest the remaining places in the finals at qualifying rounds at Aberdeen, January 18-20.

Eighteen women's teams have entered the House of Bruar Scottish Seniors Championship but no qualification rounds will be played. The Senior Women's Finals are at Hamilton, February 14-17. The draw for that event has already been posted on the Royal Club website here.