Gordon Fraser steers leading rink to victory in Moray Province Curling Division 2 clash at Moray Leisure Centre
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As winter finally arrived in Moray, this week’s Province curling featured just three Division 2 matches.
The evening saw Abby Duncan’s Fochabers rink pull away to a two-point lead at the top of the league.
The continued absence of boss man Duncan has done no harm to the form of the leaders, as stand-in skip Gordon Fraser led his team to a convincing 12-2 win over an undermanned Willie Cameron outfit.
Looking more like a polar explorer than a crack curler, Fraser maintained his 100 per cent success rate this season and is surely due for a generous Christmas gift from his absent team skip.
Alan Durno was another skip in absentia and his experience was missed as deputy Mike Watt was always up against it in a 9-2 loss to Mike MacDonald.
The Forres team were never behind and a spurned opportunity for a count of three at end six from their opponents allowed MacDonald to pull away with two deuces in the last two ends for his victory.
The game of the night was a nail biter between Charlie Watt jnr and Bob Stewart.
The lead changed hands several times as Watt jnr found himself two shots behind going into the last end. A fabulous hit and roll left him lying two and Stewart’s last rock just had too much running and slid past the head.
With last stone Watt jnr had a chance to bump up a front stone to win the game but the angle was not quite there and a share of the points was a fair reflection of both team’s efforts.
Results
Moray Province East League.
Division 2
A. Duncan (Fochabers) 12 W. Cameron (Aberlour) 2
A. Durno (Fochabers) 2 M. MacDonald (Forres) 9
R. Stewart (Elgin) 8 C. Watt jnr (Forres) 8
