Dumfries Young Curlers enjoy European Junior Tour success in Prague

Eight young curlers from Dumfries travelled to Prague at the weekend for the second leg of the European Junior Tour and the stand out performance came from Fay Henderson whose rink won the Junior Ladies Cup.

Team O Carson were the best placed local boys team and although this was skip Orrin Carson, Logan Carson, Archie Hyslop and Charlie Gibb’s first overseas tournament, it didn’t seem to affect their play, although there were some tired boys on the flight home. Team Craik were the third team with local curlers Jack Carrick, Struan Carson and Scott Hyslop representing Dumfries.

Team Craik took to the ice first, they were up against Team Mjoen from Norway, and on what turned out to be the trickiest sheet in the rink, the boys struggled to get to grips with the ice early on and found themselves 1-6 down after five ends.

After this the boys got into the game and could have forced an extra end if it hadn’t been for the Norwegian skip’s last stone, cutting the boys down to a two for the win.

Following Team Craik onto the same sheet were Team O Carson who had been watching their fellow curlers and knew the sheet was tricky. They were up against Czech Team Matecijek and with a dream start to their first foreign competition, they stole a four in the first followed by a two in the second, finishing the game 9-2 winners after six ends.

Further along the rink, Team Henderson’s campaign started off well as they recorded a similar 9-2 victory over their Czech opponents Team Vasakova.

Team Henderson went on to record further victories against Team Abdel Halim from Germany 8-2 and another resounding 10-1 victory over Swiss side Muhmenthaler, and with some heavy scoring from skip Fay Henderson, Robyn Munro, Holly Wilkie-Milne and Laura