First win on the board

Game 2: Curloneout 12 - 4 Kingan

After an opening defeat it was imperative team curl one out raised there game and gained a point on the board. Second up were the local team Kingan, who play most of there curling at Dumfries and understand the difficult ice very well. Maybe the pre game pints had an effect as the team started slowly giving up another soft 2 in the 1^st end. Some good play in the second resulted in an opportunity to strike back with a 2 of there own but being forced out wide on fresh ice Gracie pulled up short as usual to only score 1. The turning point in the game was in the 5^th end when the experience of the heavy weights Gracie & Robbo put pay to any chance of the promising young team getting back into the game. With his final stone Gracie played a run back to sit 3 guarded leaving the young skip with a difficult draw out wide to cut the damage to one, young Kingan must have had to much Haribo as the weight was a little heavy & drifted through the back leaving curl one out leading 7-3. The team controlled the game from then on in closing out the 8end game 12-4 winner.

The post game interview with Duncan Gracie was one of great optimism. “Wee Dave was back in the squad for tonight’s game and struggled to find his weight early but showed what he can do in the back end off the game. Big Robbo showed his class late on tidying thing up well not giving the young guys a chance, and well as for myself I think I was pure dead brilliant by the way.”