Alan Campbell's Buckie rink maintain perfect record in Moray Province curling league
It was business as usual for Alan Campbell’s rink this week in the Moray Province Curling League.
On ice that was very tricky to read, the first four ends were somewhat akin to a pre-concert sound check with a 1,2,1,2 count for the Buckie team before opponent Wilson Burnett managed to open his account with a solid pick up of three shots.
Single shots exchanged over the last two ends gave Campbell his 7-4 win and maintained his 100 per cent league record in a game that in all honesty was never as close as the final score might suggest.
It must have been early bath night in the MacDonald household as the Forres skip shook hands and was heading west well before the sound of the final end bell.
Perhaps this wasn’t such a surprise as first thought, as the scoreboard took on the look of Andy Cameron’s phone number with the Aberlour team running up 14 shots to a solitary Forres counter.
Division 2 is the tightest of races, with the top five teams separated by just a single point.
Despite a loss to Owen Watson’s juniors, Sunninghill are still league leaders. With both teams under the guidance of nominated skips, it was Ben Rankin who gained the plaudits with his team never behind , a count of four in the last end putting the cherry on the top of his curling cake in a 9-4 victory.
Meanwhile, Bob Stewart was inflicting further pain on Alan Douglas’s rink with their own 9-4 win. The Darnaway lads are yet to pick up a league point and could only score four single shots as their Elgin opponents racked up a three, and three doubles .
A single game in the west saw Nairn’s Gus Forbes pull level on points with Fiona Steel in Division 2 after a 5-3 win.
