Bearsden Curling Club AGM Reminder

Bearsden CC participated in the first Dunbartonshire Province competition of the season, the Cuthbert Cup, on Saturday 14th October. The competition is played between eight clubs with two teams from each club; one team playing at 12:30 and one at 16:00. The Bearsden team for the 12:30 match was: Simon Blyth (skip), Peter Harden, Drew Crawford,…

The first round game against Cadder took place on Tuesday 9 January.  Despite winning six out of the eight ends played, Bearsden came second in the 10 – 8 game.  Sounds like a good effort by our team. Thanks to Simon, Peter, John and Alan for representing us.

Sunday 17 March saw 24 curlers from the above clubs venture onto the ice at Greenacres to challenge their skills in specific shots. The competition took the format of each curler having two attempts at nine specific shot disciplines, ranging from guards and draws to tap-backs, double take-outs and drawing through the port! A maximum…

Well done to our rinks who played the earlier games in the Allan Cup which resulted in Bearsden proceeding to the semi-fInals. The semi-finals are being played this Wednesday 4 December at 8:30pm with Dumbarton -v- Bearsden and Kelvinside -v- Alma. Good curling to our rink of Simon, Eilidh, Alan and Stefan.

The past two weekends have seen our member, Simon Blyth, busy umpiring in two Scottish Curling competitions. The first being the Asham U17 Slam held at Hamilton Ice rink where Simon advised that he was very impressed by the standard of curling played by these youngsters, with some 14 year olds playing incredibly well.  Twenty…

A detailed history of the Speirs Trophy completed by Brian and Valerie Veitch has been added to the Club History link.