PrimeFour Aberdeen Ladies Open and Lockhart Trophy
14th - 16th November saw Curl Aberdeen host two ladies competitions. The Ladies Open welcomed teams from Czech Rep and Poland competing against some of Scotland's top ladies teams on the Junior and Women's Circuit. This years competition ran with 6 teams competing for the title of Aberdeen Ladies Open winner, next year we do aim to attract more entries. Having this number of teams we played the competition, this year, in a round robin with the team at the top of the table after the last round of games being the winner. Going into the last round saw Team Kubeskova, who had won all their games after four, playing against Team Gray who had won three from four games and still in with a chance of the title of Ladies Open winners. Team Kubeskova though kept their unbeaten record and won the PrimeFour Aberdeen Ladies Open 2014.
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| PrimeFour Aberdeen Ladies Winners 2014 - Team Kubeskova (Czech Rep) |
The Lockhart Trophy was played simultaneously to the Ladies Open and had a couple of former Ladies, Worlds & Olympic champions playing in it. The Lockhart Trophy had 5 entries in its first year being played for due to a team withdrawing on Friday, meaning in the Lockhart Trophy's round robin each team had a bye/practice. Again next year we do aim to attract a higher number of entries. The teams competing were all very evenly matched with ALL five teams finishing on level points. Albert did his maths and the winners of the first Lockhart Trophy were Team Adams.
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| The Lockhart Trophy Winners 2014 - Team Adams |
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| Round Robin Final Standings |
Images of the competition can be found on our Facebook page here. If you don't have access to Facebook here are a couple from the weekend.
Morton Trophy
In a previous blog I mentioned we had hosted a round of the Morton at Curl Aberdeen, where the Aberdeen Centre came up against the Inverness Centre. Aberdeen's three teams were skipped by Kay Gibb (captain), Brenda Urquhart and Laina Crockford, the Aberdeen teams came away with 2 wins a peel.
RCCC Ladies Branch Canadian Curling Tour
Marion Malcolm has been announced as part of a team of 24 curlers who will be touring Canada for 3 weeks in November. The rest of the ladies who will be touring with her can be found here.The Royal Caledonian Curling Club organises a number of friendship tours both incoming and outgoing for men and women. The oldest of these tour relationships is between the Scottish and Canadian men – in 2009 it was 100 years since the first Canadian tour party arrived in Scotland.
The men have tour relationships with Canada, USA and Switzerland, the women with Canada, USA and Sweden.
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| Marion in action at the Club Bonspiel |
Upcoming Events
After the busy weekend from running the ladies competition, the rink isn't quiet for long, with the arrival of the Swiss Tour on Tuesday, The Scotland team for the Europeans departing on Wednesday, they had a day of team practice on Sunday during the ladies competition, and we have our 2nd instalment of the Black Bottle Club Bonspiel on Saturday.
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| Team Scotland's official team postcards for the Europeans |
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| Has your club organised your team? |
