Monday 27 February 2012

Points Night

The 2012 Ballindalloch Points, as every year, was a keenly fought affair. Six club members took to the ice to compete in the 10 disciplines of points curling.

Here is a small taste of the nights action:

Don Gatt's delivery


Robert Bremner

Callum Jacklin ferociously sweeping his promotion effort.

Eilidh Yeats going for an inwick.

Ruth Kennedy delivering her take out

Tony Duncan



Ruth Kennedy Playing her guard.

Now, down to the crutial scores! With the scoring close going into the last few disciplines it took a great performance in 'chipping the winner' and 'drawing through the port' from Ruth Kennedy to clinch the 2012 points competition on 41 points. Excellent score, well done Ruth.



>In second place was Robert Bremner on 38 points, Tony Duncan came third with 28 points.


Ruth and Robert now go on to represent Ballindalloch at the Moray Province points night on March 13th.

Sunday 26 February 2012

Mixed Pairs


The Moray Province Mixed Pairs will be played on Tuesday night between 6.30 and 9pm

With a reduced field, due to a number of withdraws, and a change in time due to the Leisure Centre wishing to close at nine, a re-draw had to be made.

Ballindalloch will be represented by two teams. Gordie and Ruth Kennedy play Forres' Sandra McIver in their opening game, while Robert Bremner and Eilidh Yeats take on a team from the Moray Junior Curling Club.

Good luck and good curling to both teams.

Ladies Knock-out Final

Lynn Scott and her team of Ruth Kennedy, Anne Park and Maureen Walker made it all the way to the final of this year's Moray Province Ladies Knock-out Final, where they played defending champion Louise Marshall of Elgin Curling Club.

In a close, exceptionally competitive game Louise came out on top, winning 6 - 2.

Well done to Lynn and her team for reaching the final and putting on a strong display.

Millennium Bonspiel



The Millennium Bonspiel, played between Ballindalloch and Fochabers Curling Club's will this year be held on Saturday, March 10th.


We almost have a full quota of players for the day, so, if you don't want to miss out on this excellent day let me know a.s.a.p!!


As always there will be a bus travelling through, picking up merry curlers on the way, dropping off worse for ware curlers on the way home!!


We will have 5 teams on the ice, skipped by Gordie Kennedy, Willie Jamieson, Steve McGingle and Lynn Scott. The competition sponsor, and past president Brian Yeats will have a sponsors team. With this depth of quality Fochabers will be running scared!!

Points Night



The annual club points night will be played tomorrow night ( 27th February) at the Moray Leisure Centre, 7pm. The winner and runner up will represent Ballindalloch at the Province Points competition on March 12th.

The current holder of the points trophy is club president David McGaan, who won last year on 33 points.

See you all there!

Thursday 9 February 2012

Moray Province (East) Division 4

With two games remaining in Division 4 of the Moray Province (East) Lynn Scott's rink have secured their 4th title in five years.

In a nail biting game against closest rivals Bob Stewart of Elgin, Lynn and her team of Alan McIntyre, Robert Bremner and Don Gatt survived losing a few early singles to come out on top winning 6-4 and with it secure the Bob Harcus trophy.

Having only lost their opening fixture, Team Scott have posted 6 straight victories on their way to the League title. This season has also seen a change in line up to the successful team of the previous 4 seasons, Don Gatt coming in at lead to replace Sam Williams, who is shortly due to have her first child.

Photo shows Skip Lynn Scott with her mischievous team in the background! :)

Photo Copyright Bob Cowan @ Skipcottage

Gammack Bell

Congratulations go to Gordie Kennedy, Lynn Scott, Steve McGingle and Ruth Kennedy for winning the 2012 Gammack Bell mixed knock out, beating Howard Anstruther in the Final, report to follow...

Scottish Seniors Finals 2012

The 3/4 Ballindalloch team of Willie Jamieson, Gordie Kennedy, David Kelly and David McGaan are this weekend competing in the Scottish Seniors Finals at the Hamilton Ice Rink, Lanarkshire.

The prize for the winning rink, along with the honour of being Scottish Senior Champions, is the chance to represent Scotland at the World Senior Championships in Taarnby, Denmark in April.

To follow the teams progress follow this link: http://royalcaledoniancurlingclub.org/competitions/scottish-senior-championship/

Go team Ballindalloch!!

For a review of the seniors follow the link to lochness.com on the right of the page!

Photo shows Gordie, Dave Kelly and David McGaan

Photo is copyright Bob Cowan @ Skip Cottage.