Aberdeen Petroleum Curling Club

Welcome to the 2017-18 season.  We are now back on the ice and getting back into the way of playing.

Our first competition has already taken place.  The first Curl Aberdeen club bonspiel was held on Saturday 7th October.  12 clubs entered and results were determined after the clubs played three games each.  Petroleum’s team was skipped by Ian Grigor and included Bill Morrison, Chris Inglis, Craig McNaughton, and Sarah Glidden.  The picture shows Ian’s team clebrating after beating Turriff in the final and winning the competition.  Well done all.

APCC allocated ice is shown here

APCC ice allocated July 2017

league teams and match dates will be available in mid August

On 14th May APCC members celebrated the club’s 40th anniversary when they gathered in Bieldside for their annual AGM, prizegiving, and barbeque.  Ian Grigor presided over a strong turn-out of 25 members – minutes will be circulated shortly.  Many thanks to those who brought along contributions of food or raffle prizes, and special thanks to Roy and Neva Haites who hosted the event.  Prior to the meeting some members enjoyed a round of golf ; and afterwards members enjoyed games of table tennis, volleyball, and boules in brilliant Spring sunshine.  Prizes were presented by special guest Tom Brewster, and are listed below.

Thirds Competition – Sarah Glidden, with Ian Grigor, David Addison, and Rogan Milne (absent)

Autumn League – Dillan Perras with Brian Stewart, Rod MacKenzie, and Fraser Grant (absent)

Spring league – Dillan Perras with Fraser Garrow (absent), Rosemary Morrison (absent), and Philip Townsend (absent)

Most Improved Player – Malcolm Watson

Dennis Burdek cuts the APCC 40th anniversary cake

The Petroleum Club spring league was concluded on Tuesday 28th March.  Two teams started the day in contention, with Dillan 1 point ahead of Ian.  Roy and Rhiann were not far behind.  Ian’s team notched up their desired win against Bill, but this was not enough because Dillan won a close game against Rhiann leaving Dillan top of the table on 15 points after 10 games (won 7, lost 2, peeled 1).  Ian finished on 14 points with 7 wins and 3 losses.  Congratulations to Dillan’s team of Fraser Garrow, Rosemary Morrision, and Philip Townsend.  This means Dillan has won “the double” this season having earlier won the Petroleum Autumn league – Well Done !  Full results are available elsewhere on this site.

     

    

And Good luck from all at APCC to Philip Townsend who will leave Aberdeen shortly on a multi-thousand mile round Britain cycle tour with his wife Sue.

In addition to winning the double team competition which we announced previously, Aberdeen Petroleum will pick up trophies for the league competitions at the NE Province prizegiving.

Petroleum 2, skipped by Richard, came top of the B section, narrowly edging out Banchory 2.  Both teams won 5 of their 6 games but Petroleum 2  had more ends and shots.

Petroleum 3, skipped by Ian, were clear winners in the C section after a perfect campaign of played 6 won 6.

Petroleum 1, skipped by Bill, were the strongest Petroleum team at the start of the season, and this earned them a place in the tough A section.  Bill’s team finished mid table and this section was won by AWW 2.

Well done to all Petroleum team members.

Province results available here

 

Congratulations to Petroleum skip Rhiann Macleod who has topped off her season in fine style by winning the Scottish Mixed Championship, which was held in Aberdeen on 11th-12th March 2017.  Rhiann played in Grant Hardie’s rink, the other 2 players being Billy Morton and Barbara Macfarlane.  Rhiann’s team won 2 out of their 3 pool games, then beat brother Scott Macleod’s team in the semis, before overcoming Craig Waddell’s team in the final.

This builds on Rhiann’s already impressive medal list having won the Scottish and World Juniors in 2011 (with Eve Muirhead), the Scottish ladies later the same year (with Anna Sloan), and the Scottish ladies again in 2014 (with Kerry Barr).

Rhiann and the team will now go on to the 2017 World Mixed Championship to be held at Champery in Switzerland in October – good luck from all at APCC !

 

On Sunday 5th march North East Province competed against West Fife as part of the Waldie Griffith, an RCCC inter-province competition that takes place each year.  Two of the four NE teams taking part were provided by Petroleum – the province teams skipped by Bill and Richard.

Bill’s team APCC1  peeled 6-6 with Dalgety Bay CC, and Richard’s team APCC2 beat Raith and Abbotshall CC 12-3.  Overall the North East beat West Fife by 36 -20.  Well done to all.

Results are still coming in from around the country, but current favourite for the Waldie Griffith Cup appears to be Lanarkshire Province, who beat Dundee by an amazing 49-22 across their 4 games.  The image below  shows the cup with its 1932 winners East Kilbride and Haremyres CC – curlers were better dressed in those days !

Aberdeen Petroleum came out narrowly on top on conclusion of the Province’s double team competition at Curl Aberdeen last week.

Five clubs entered “double” teams each comprising 8 players and the format was a round robin with each team playing 4 double games.  The special feature of this competition is that after 4 ends one of the teams swops over to the other sheet for the second half of the game, and games are decided by the combined total score across both sheets.  So players are tempted to watch what is happening on the next sheet as well as on their own.  After the third game Petroleum were sitting 3 for 3, but a disappointing performance in our final game against Banchory led to a 15-12 defeat.  This left Petroleum tied with Haddo on points, but the yellows finished ahead thanks to more ends and points difference.  Well skipped by Ian and Rhiann (who also won this competition last year), and well played by all the Petroleum members who made up their teams across the 4 games.

    

 

 

 

On 15th January the club played a competition where the skips were those who normally play third in the APCC league ; our regular skips moved down to lead ; and other players moved up a slot from their usual position.  This was the first time the Petroleum Thirds Competition had been held since 1998, when Ali Oag won it.  Four teams entered, and the format was three short games of three ends – so that each team played every other team.

The winner in convincing style was Sarah Glidden (with Rogan Milne, David Addison, and Ian Grigor), with 3 wins out of 3 (6 points).

The runner up was Phil Scott (with Steve Dyer, Maureen Melvin, and Dillan Perras), with 1 win 1 loss and 1 peel (3 points).

The other teams were skipped by Craig McNaughton and Rod MacKenzie.

Congratulations to Sarah and her team, and thanks to all members who took part.

On  22nd December (the last curling day of 2016) Dillan Perras and his team of Fraser Grant, Rod MacKenzie, and Brian Stewart secured victory of the club autumn league over second place Ronnie Whyte.  Throughout the autumn Dillan’s team set the pace, finishing with an impressive record of won 8 lost 1 peeled 1.  Well done.

      

Six new teams have now been communicated for the Spring league – good luck to all members with your New Year curling.