The Cuthbertson league is now complete and what a league it was!

The final night was filled with high drama, upsets, crushing lows and here’s how it unfolded.

At the top of the table, only one out of the top three that occupied the promotion places at the beginning of the nights play won. Team Mundell would be crowned Champions after the nights play, winning the title, it wasn’t plain sailing for the Big Man fae Bowes Rigg as he would only secure the Cuthbertson Trophy on shots finishing two clear of Wallace Gilbert. He was up against Craig Kirkwood who was in the mood to play as he and his team were chasing the final promotion place.

It was a classic game of two halves with Davie taking a 4-1 lead after 3 and his devious plan of putting his good friend Smithers in the opposing team seemed to be working a treat. But unlike Nancy, Kirky would not let Alan spoil his night as he fought back in the second half to secure a 9-5 victory with Davie only scoring one shot in the remaining five ends. Davie looked lost as he struggled to keep focus but that’s not surprising as his third Jim played most of the night with a limp sharks Fin on his head. Craig Kirkwood would secure the third promotion place, leapfrogging Andy Muir after his surprising defeat to Dougie Reid.

The result of Wallace Gilbert Vs Hugh Reid would have ramifications at both ends of the table and that certainly turned out to be the case. Hugh doing his bit for women in sport had surrounded himself with some of the clubs finest female talent and for six ends they were unstoppable, but unfortunately for Shug and his Sheila’s the last two ends didn’t go to plan. After losing a 3 in the seventh, he trailed by 1 going up the last with the hammer, Hugh was now in relegation trouble but a peel or better would’ve have kept him clear of relegation. It came down to his and Wallace’s last stones, Wallace with championship aspirations still burning bright he would attempt a shot to lie 5 and that would’ve pinched the title from team Mundell. It wasn’t to be as he found a straight bit of ice (he played it wide) and the stone would end up nosing his own stone that was shot to lie shot again, this would leave Hugh an open hit to secure the peel but his stone found an unnaturally swingy piece of ice (he played it tight) and would eventually nose his own shot to give up the steal of one and end up relegated.

Andy Muir missed out on promotion after his team were surprisingly gubbed by Dougie Reid’s quartet (no one was more surprised than Dougie and his team). Dougie/Houdini needed a big win along with Hugh getting beat to stand any chance of avoiding relegation. Well people, it certainly is a magical time of the year with Dougie avoiding relegation after playing like Randy Ferbey on the final night as he secured a 12-1 win after 7 ends.

In the battle of the bottom two, James Whiteford would secure his first win of the season with a close 6-4 victory over Billy Jackson.

Another Highly competitive Cuthbertson League and congratulations to the Team of Davie Mundell, Jim Kirkwood, George Davidson and John Wilson on winning the title.