Author: matthewsmith

Buckie’s Sandy Howie hit the top of Division 3 East in this week’s Moray Province Curling. Fellow title hopeful Alan Douglas counted an opening end deuce, and was 4-2 up after four ends before a count of 3 shots in the fifth edged the Buckie team ahead and a single steal at the last end…

Whilst snow disrupted this week’s Moray Province curling programme,there was no hampering Moray curlers at the Scottish Junior Curling Championships at Curl Aberdeen last weekend. Moray’s very own Olympic Gold medallist Janice Rankin M.B.E. successfully coached Forfar’s Team Soutar to the Women’s title and son Ben made it a Rankin outing to remember as his…

It was the turn of Divisions 2 and 3 to open their curling accounts in Moray Province East this week.Sandy Howie certainly knows one end of a haddock from the other and was in the sort of form that won Division 4 last season .The Spey Fishing correspondent and his Buckie team decisively defeated Bob…

The Moray Province East curling League kicked off this week, albeit somewhat belatedly and Aberlour’s Andy Cameron laid down a marker of his intention for this season. Having been just pipped for last term’s title, the Speyside rink had no difficulty in ruthlessly dispatching their Fochabers opponents. Wilson Burnett and co may have thought they…