Friday 5th Feb

The  long  dark  tea-­‐time  in  the  umpires  soul!  or  so  it  seemed  at  the  time.  Note  to  skips  and   teams,   playing   to   speed   usually   prevents   the   umpire   from   getting   grumpy  especially  on  the  "cold"  back  sheets  at  Greenacres.  

Sheet  C  should  have  been  sheet  E  but  overrunning  electrical  work  meant  a  switch  of  sheets,  so  MacDougall  vs  Brown  had  a  reprieve  from  the  back  sheets.  The  scoreline  would  suggest  a  more  one-­‐sided  game  than  what  transpired.  For  team  Brown  it  was  just  one  of  those  games  where  nothing  went  quite  right.  Handshakes  after  7  ends  at  9-­‐3.    Sheet  D  saw  Balfour  vs  Hawker  and  one  or  two  "moments".  The  result  of  which  were  one  or   two  slow  ends  which  caused  the  umpire  some  concern.  Moment  "1"  was  a  mis-­‐count   of   last   stone,   resulting   in   an   unexpected   steal   of   4   in   the   4th   end   to  Hawker.   A   resilient   chipping   away   with   singles   and   then   a   mighty   5   in   the   9th   to  Balfour.  The  10th  end  resulted  in  the  inevitable  running  out  of  stones  with  the  final  score  10-­‐6  to  Balfour.  

 Sheet  F  was  another  closely  fought  game  with  Bowyer  very  much  in  control  until  the  9th.   After  much,  much   discussion  Malton  went   for   and   got   a   rather   tricky   3,   thus  levelling   the   score   going   into   the   last   without   the   hammer.   Malton's   last   looked  heavy  but  got  a  wick  into  the  centre  against  4  Bowyer  stones.  Bowyer's  last  caught  the  guard  and  Malton  came  away  the  victor  at  7-­‐6.  

 

Results  after  session  5,  

MENS       MacDougall     2  wins  Malton     2  wins  Bowyer     0  Brown       0  

 WOMENS     Balfour     3  wins  

Hawker   2  wins  Young       0    Thanks  again  to  James  Hustler  (Chief  Umpire)