Drymen Curling Club

Our 2022/23 Season started off with the afternoon session of the Doune Rosebowl on 31 August. We were all a little rusty but managed to win 3 of the 7 ends played in the progressive bonspiel. The winner for the afternoon was Kilsyth who won 5 out of 7 ends. After the evening session, the overall winner of the Doune Rosebowl was Kippen, winning an impressive 6 ends.

This week we held our Opening Bonspiel which was a high scoring game, but deceptively close, with both teams winning 4 ends. Chris Bilsland and her team of Mary Macdonald, Anne Ewing and Sheila Steel excelled by gaining 12 shots, whereas John Steel’s team only managed 8 shots. Congratulations to Chris and her team.

Having just held our Closing Bonspiel that’s it for another season. Congratulations to the recent winners of The Clachan Cup – skipped by Alan Brunger and consisting of Andy Kinninmonth, Anne Ewing, Sheila Steel. The winners of the Closing Bonspiel were John Steel (Skip), Chris Bilsland, Anne Lochhead, Jo Cunningham.

We’re now looking ahead and if you wish to Curl with us next season then please use this link to complete your details. A full explanation of the competitions are within Competitions and Results, Competitions from the menu at the top of the screen.

As usual, this was a competitive atmosphere and everyone played well. The result does not reflect the level of playing, sadly 14 to the Gents and 1 to the ladies. Every end was close with the Gents Skip placing 1 or 2 stones to steal most of the ends. At least the ladies achieved 1 end!! No photo available – I don’t think the expressions would have made for a cheery picture.

Happy New Year to everyone! Hopefully we will get back to enjoy some more curling in the second half of this season. We will keep an eye on any developments in Government restrictions in relation to Covid and let you know the latest guidelines.

A little late in posting this, our Congratulations go to Archie Glenn and his team of Sheila Steel, Les Goodfellow and Andy Kinninmonth on winning our Christmas Challenge 2021. Unfortunately Archie was unable to stay for the presentation. This photo was taken at our dinner after the game at the Springkerse View where everyone enjoyed a festive feast.

Congratulations to Andy Kinninmonth and his team of John Steel, Alan Brunger and Sheila Steel for winning the trophy this year. They played Derek Young’s team in the final to clinch victory following some very intense and competitive play. We all had a great day out at Greenacres Curling Rink where we thoroughly enjoyed the food and convivial company as much as the curling.

Four teams competed in some intense games of pairs but it was John Steel and Chris Bilsland who were the overall winners of our annual Pairs Competition. Janet Simpson and Anne Ewing were runners-up. As we couldn’t leave the Presidents to award themselves, Janet stood in and presented our new trophy to the worthy winners. Our huge thanks to Andy Kinninmonth who spent his “lockdown” crafting this beautiful trophy.

Team lists and match dates are on the website calendar for our Club games. Province dates will be added soon.

It may be hot and sunny outside, but our curling season starts next month. Yes, in August curling in Stirling starts with a “Bounceback” week, which also incorporates the annual Doune Rosebowl competition. Drymen CC has one team entered into the afternoon session of the Doune Rosebowl. The rest of this week is designed to encourage curlers back onto the ice, with a variety of sessions including funspiels and coach assisted practice sessions. If you are interested in joining any of the Stirling Curling Group organised events, click on the link below.

https://www.cognitoforms.com/StirlingCurlingGroup/BounceBackWeekEventsIndividualCurlerEntryForm

Dates of our upcoming competitions will appear in the Club Calendar soon, along with team lists.

It is with great sadness that the Club wishes to inform members of the passing of George Gibb.   George was a loyal member of Drymen Curling Club for many years.   Our thoughts and sympathies go out to his wife Margaret.