Month: March 2018

Last week Curl Aberdeen hosted the World Juniors Curling competition.  10 men’s teams and 10 ladies’ teams took part, with the Scottish ladies’ team being skipped by local girl Rebecca Morrison. The men’s team skipped by Ross Whyte won silver medals.  The competition was a great success, with many visitors commenting on how well the event had been organised by the local team led by Ian Mennie.

Many Petroleum members supported the event as volunteer stewards, drivers, or timekeepers.  However, the highlight from our club’s point of view came during the spectacular opening ceremony.  Teams were led onto the ice by piper Jamie Kindness and then after a couple of short speeches the ceremonial first stone was delivered by rink manager Tom Brewster and swept by club members Dave Edwards and Rhiann Macleod, with Claire Perras holding the broom.  The commentator reminded us that all four of these curlers have previously represented Scotland at international level.   Luke Perras had the honour of carrying the Scottish flag and leading the home teams onto the ice.

Petroleum’s annual thirds competition took place on the 14th January.  The skips were members who normally play third in the club league, while the regular skips got a chance to practice their sweeping skills !

Four teams took part, in a format of three short games.  The skips were Rod, Lorna, Phil S, and Erika.  The teams were so well balanced that both first games were tied with the results being decided by last stone draws.  Congratulations to the winner Rod whose team of Rogan, Fraser, and Glynis won all their games in a tightly contested event.  Well done all.

 

A team skipped by Petroleum’s Rhiann Macleod recently reached the final of the Henderson Bishop Ladies’ competition in Hamilton.  Having won the Aberdeen local event, Rhiann’s team of Claire Perras, Lorna Smith, and Kim Brewster traveled to Hamilton for the finals from 26thFeb till 1st March.  The finals involve a round robin in 4 sections followed by semis and then the overall final.  Rhiann won all 4 of her pool games before overcoming Ayr-2 in the semi final.  The Aberdeen team lost out in the final to Ayr-1 by a score of 6-5.  Well done for coming so close ladies.

We would like to apologise for the lack of posts recently – we have been having some technical problems with the website.  Hopefully we will now be able to bring you news items again.