Greenacres Grand Masters Bonspiel

16 teams entered the Greenacres Grand Masters Bonspiel 2013 21^st to 23^rd February.

And with all the years of experience behind them it was a hard fought battle for three games as the teams battled it out for a place in the high or low road finals.

Jim Bryson and his team from Ayr met Bill Watt from Stirling in the top game and it was a closely fought match. Neither team was giving anything away, in the end it was the Stirling team who came through to take the title, Bill Watt, Robert Armstrong, John Phillips and Bill Allan are the 2013 Grand Masters.

It was a different story in the low road final, Donnie Shedden and his team from Auchenharvie against the team from Lockerbie.  Bobby Rae (skip), Matt Murdoch, Bert Duncan and Bill Mitchell dominated the game from the opening ends and ran out the winners on a scoreline of 7/4.

22 teams from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales entered the Tulloch Haggis weekend at Greenacres Curling Club.

They made up two sections, one of 12 teams, the other 10.  Over the day and evening of Saturday and Sunday morning the teams battled it out for their spots in the High, Mid and Low road semi finals.

And of course between sessions they had their share of haggis.

Come 2p.m. on Sunday the scene was set for the semis,  Andrew Reed from England met Scotland’s Graeme Adam  in the high road,  Andrew Mitchell, Ireland and Greenacres own Drew Gemmel made the other high road semi.

In the mid road Ian Gillespie, Greenacres, met England’s Fiona Hawker, John Brown, with an international team, Scottish, English and Welsh, took on local team Matthew McConnell.

The low road semis featured Ireland’s Bill Gray against Eddie Binks, Greenacres and Kim Thomson, Greenacres against England’s John Sharp.

Reed and Mitchell made it to the high road final, Hawker and McConnell went to the mid road final, and Ireland, Bill Gray took on the English team skipped by John Sharp.

Team Reed dominated the final from the early ends, they had a three shot lead after three ends, the Mitchell team, down to three players, couldn’t find a way back into the game, after six Reed led by five shots. Mitchell got two shots in end seven but ran out of stones in the final end, Alan McDougall, Andrew Reed, Andy Woolston and Tom Jaeggii  had won the 2013 Tulloch Haggis weekend.

The mid road final was tight in the early ends, the teams tied at three all after four ends. Then the game was all Matthew McConnell’s, he stole four shots in end five, then two in the sixth. That was enough for the team skipped by Fiona Hawker, final score 9/3 to Matthew McConnell and his team Fraser Murray, Peter Dagen and Josh McNab.

In the low road fortunes swung back and forth between the teams, John Sharp led, Bill Gray caught up, Sharp went ahead again, but the game was tied at eight all after seven ends. But John Sharp had the advantage of last stone and made the perfect draw to score one shot to win the game 9/8, John and his team Lorna Rettig, Nigel Patrick and Alison Hemmings won the low road.

Winners and runners up in the Greenacres seniors Day.

The competitors are named left to right.



LOW ROAD

Runners up -John Summers (skip), David Whyte (third), David Begg (second) and Ronnie MacLellan (lead)

Winners      - David Burnie (lead), Gordon Boswell (second), Bill Hawthorne (skip) and Dougie Whyte (third)



MID ROAD

Runners up -Allan Cameron (third), Ian Samuel (skip), Crawford Charles (second) and Walter Barclay (lead)


Winners     - Robert Armstrong (lead), John Brown (second), Robin Johnson (third) and Bill Watt (skip)



HIGH ROAD

Runners up - John Glidden (lead), Dave Carr (second), Jim Ramsay (third) and Dave Anderson (skip)


Winners     - Walter Graham (lead), Willie Ralston (third), Billy Beattie (skip) and John Gillespie (second)

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