Finally - a real win!
After DT managed to save a win after losing that huge lead, he seemed to be in brighter spirits at the final men’s match of the year. We again came out swinging hard coming to a decent lead in the first 2 ends. Then our opponents slowly whittled away at our lead. The 7th end was a bit rough for us. We had annopportunity to steal a point, but ended up giving up two, tying the score 8-8. However this allowed us to have the hammer in the final end, and going into the final end with a tie score having the hammer is a good spot…the we have been playing, perhaps a better spot than being ahead 3 without the hammer. We played a fairly aggressive 8th end loading my stones on either side of the house and then trying to keep the approach clean. It all came down to the final shot…our opponent was sitting one. Two stones at the inside edge of the 12′ were too close to guess who would be second. DT threw a bomb through a tiny hole and blew the shot rock out of there. We had to measure the other rocks to determine the winner, and we managed to come out on top! Yay!
Now we take a holiday break. I don’t think I play again until the Past Presidents tournament and the Cracked Bell. The Past Presidents is an odd unlisted mens tournament (it does not appear on the website or club calendar) where the men are put into a playdown for a shot against a sort of “dream team” of past club presidents. That is the first week of Jan, followed that weekend by the Cracked Bell bonspiel in which we have decided to compete so we’ll have at least done it once as a team before we go to Schenectday.
So once again…you start to hit your stride, then they throw a break at you!