European Junior Curling Tour - Thun Switzerland We had 5 Forfar Young Curlers, with at least one Forfar player in each of the 4 teams representing Scotland in Thun, Switzerland this weekend, in the European Junior Curling Tour. Thomas Halder playing for RCA Team Brydone, Duncan Menzies playing for Performance Foundation Team Mouat, Stuart Taylor playing for Performance Foundation Team Taylor and Hailey Duff playing for RCA Team Murray. Bruce Mouat Skip, Duncan Menzies (FYC) 3rd, Derrick Sloan 2nd, Angus Dowell (FYC) Lead qualified through the round robin stages with 4 wins and 1 loss with wins over Hess (Switzerland) 9-3, Krupansky (Czech Republic) 6-2, Nepstad (Norway) 4-1, Hosli (Switzerland) 8-4, the loss being to Ali (Russia) 5-7. In the quarter final Team Mouat defeated Team Lottenback (Switzerland) 7-2. In the semi final Team Mouat won over current World Junior Champion Team Schwaller (Switzerland) with a convincing 6-2 win in 6 ends. The final was Team Mouat vs. Team Ali of Russia who had already beaten the Scots in the round robin. Mouat took a 1 in the 1st end, but the Russians hit back with a big 4 in the 2nd. 2s were traded in ends 3 and 4 with Team Mouat being forced to a 1 in the 5th end. In the 6th end Team Ali put a 3 on the board and at that the Scottish team conceded. The final score was 9-4 to Team Ali of Russia. Well done to Team Mouat for taking the Silver medal. Robin Brydone Skip, David Baird 3rd, Calum Greenwood 2nd and Thomas Halder (FYC) lead had a pretty good weekend after a slow start. They lost their first game vs. Brunner (Switzerland) 3-7, lost vs. current World Junior Champion Schwaller (Switzerland) 2-8, but started to find form with a win vs. Lottenbach (Switzerland) 9-3, followed by a low scoring 3-0 win vs. Taylor (Scotland). In their final game of the round robin Team Brydone won vs. Hindseth (Norway) 10-8. In the quarter finals Team Brydone beat Nepstad (Norway) in a close game 4-3. However in the semi final, just as in Oslo, Norway last month, Artur Alis (Russia) team ended Team Byrdones progress . In a close game, Brydone was 5-4 up after nine ends, but crucially Team Ali had the hammer in the 10th and used it with effect to score 2 and take the game 6-5. In the 3rd/4th playoff, Team Brydone were undone by a 4 to Team Schwaller in the 6th end, losing 3-7. Stuart Taylor (FYC) Skip, Bobby Lammie 3rd, Gregor Cannon 2nd, and Ross Fraser Lead had one win v.s Brunner (Switzerland) 6-5 and four defeats vs. Schwaller (Switzerland) 3-8, Hindseth (Norway) 3-4, Brydone (Scotland) 0-3 and Lottenbach (Switzerland) 3-6. In the Womens section Katie Murray skip, with Sophie Jackson 3rd, Hailey Duff (FYC) 2nd and Ellie Fraser Lead did not have the best weekend, but most games were very close. Against Wrana (Sweden) the game was 5-5 after 8 ends, but in the extra end with hammer, Wrana secured the win 5-6. A loss followed to Brunner (Switzerland) 3-6. Team Murray lost to Team Keiser (Switzerland) 5-7. In another 7 end game Team Murray lost against Stritt (Switzerland), the game being tied at 7-7 after 6 ends, but in the last (7th end) Team Stritt took the 1 to win 7-8. Finally, in the last round robin game, the Scots girls got a win on the board with a 4-2 win over Baudysova (Czech Republic). The Girls final was between Wrana (Sweden) vs. Gisler (Switzerland) with Wrana taking it 4-1.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:36:26 +0000