With all but the bottom two teams having played four games, the league is starting to take shape. Despite not playing this round of matches, Dougie Reid’s rink still sits 2 points clear of the chasing pack of four rinks on 6 points. At the bottom, three rinks have 2 points from four games and two rinks have 0 points from three games.

Jim Kirkwood 5 – 7 Craig Reid

Having been a close contest throughout, this game came down to a battle of the eighth.

Blanking the the sixth, Craig was forced to take the single in the seventh to tie the game at 5-5. In the eighth, it was a case of who could play the best hit and roll would win the game. Both Robert Whiteford and Craig Kirkwood had good attempts at the in turn, but each left enough of their stone open and vulnerable.

Craig Reid’s first stone removed the shot but rolled too far across the house.  Although it was a tighter port through which Jim had to play on the out turn, he also removed the shot but lay in the open. Having seen the way through, Craig removed Jim’s stone and rolled a quarter covered behind the guards to lay 2. A tap back would win the game for Jim, but second attempt over curled and wrecked on the guards.

James Whiteford 4 – 10 Gavin Reid

With his rink restored to full strength, Gavin returned to winning ways against James who was missing his third. Stealing a 2 in the fourth gave Gavin a comfortable 5-1 lead which James was unable to claw back.

David Mundell 8 – 4 Peter Barrett

After a tight first four ends, this game changed when David scored a 3 in the fifth. With Peter then chasing the game, David stole the next two ends to lead 8-2 after seven. The eighth end was not looking very healthy for Peter at one point, with David laying 2. But as a port opened up Peter managed to draw two shots to keep the score respectable.

Hugh Reid 8 – 5 David Reid

Hugh did a good job of restricting David to singles, while taking two’s and a three when with hammer. A steal of 1 in the seventh left David with too much to to do in the eighth, where he scored his only deuce of the game.