Stirling Curling Group is a non-profit making membership organisation governed by a management committee of volunteers, with the primary aim of working on behalf of its members in collaboration with the Ice Rink provider, Active Stirling. An inherent part of this role is to promote and develop curling within Stirling. This includes organising a range of competitions and leagues for all its members as well as the wider Stirling Curling community. Our members arecurling clubs who primarily curl at the Peak Ice Rink, Stirling.
Coaching and development for young people 8 years +
- APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR 26/27
Below are links to a number of competitions/leagues that we will be running next season. If you have not already done so, please complete an application form as soon as possible. If you need any further information, please contact one of our committee members, or email secretarystirlingcurlinggroup@gmail.com
Look out for future posts for other up-coming competitions.
- Stirling win again!
Two teams from Stirling travelled to Stranraer to compete in the National Gateway Challenge and one returned with the trophy! From left to right, the team are, Liam Morton (Lead), Jack Brickell (2nd), Mark Dainter (3rd), Derek Wallace (Skip).
The following is a report from Mark Dainter:
Over the course of two days, twelve teams from Stirling, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Fife, Kinross, Dundee, Forfar, and Inverness played in three pools of four on the Saturday, with the winners and runners up going through to the knockout stages on the Sunday.
Both Stirling teams played extremely well on Saturday, although sadly drawn in the same pool but both reached the knockout stage.
Team Wallace (Stirling 1) won every game in their pool after a tight 6-3 win over Team Moray (Stirling 2) in their first game, Team Moray taking exactly the same number of stones from Team Wallace as every other team in the competition put together. After that, wins over Kinross and Edinburgh1, put Team Wallace into the High Road Knockout stages, with a Semi Final game against close rivals Glasgow Gateway.
Notably Team Moray finished second in their pool but sadly due to the organisers choice of a draw competition at the end of day one, ended up in the Low Road. Kinross, who only won one game in the same pool, survived an early exit from the competition because of their draw shot result.
Team Moray, Joanne Norris, Shuki Rose, Claire Fotheringham and Emma Dolmaire unfortunately lost to Kinross in the Low Road Semi Final, in a tight 4-3 game, having beaten them the day before 7-1. Then went on to beat Fife A 9-4 in the third and fourth place play, while Kinross went on to win the Low Road. The other High Road Semi final was played between Edinburgh2 and Forfar with Edinburgh Progressing to the final to play Stirling’s Team Wallace after an extra end.The final completed a clean sweep for Team Wallace with a 6-1 win over the Edinburgh team. Team Wallace won every game they played and only gave up 4 ends in 5 games over the entire weekend. With Team Moray only beaten by Team Wallace and Kinross they also scored well in every game.
The whole event showed that Stirling is way ahead of other rinks around Scotland. The coaching at the Peak is by far the best in Scotland, so hats off to them for teaching us so well and thank you SCG for your support.
We hope you are as proud as we are. - Blairmains Stirling Women’s Open
- POINTS WINNERS
Our annual Points competition was well attended last week with a wide range of curlers taking part. The winners for each category are:
LADIES: Joint first on 25 pts each, Diana Cheyne and Caroline Davidson
SENIORS: First place Billy Johnston 32 pts. Second place Derek Young 27pts
NEW CURLERS: Winner Derek Wallace 19 pts and second place Shizuko Rose 13 pts
JUNIORS: Winner Isla Kay 35 pts; second Ben Lamb 32p pts; third Aaron Bauer 29 pts;
OPEN: Winner Brian Ferguson 46 pts and a close second place Alan Lee 45 pts
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