Craigentinny claim fine EBL win at champions Parkside
Wins on the rinks skipped by Scott Rogers, Andy Caldwell and Daniel Gormley also combined to earn the bonus point for the visitors, leaving Parkside the crumbs of a home win delivered by Kevin Boyd.
Boyd tried to give his colleagues a spark by exploding into a 16-7 lead then skipping John Bell, Ewan Diven, and Andy Hargan to a 21-10 win over Andrew Jeffrey.
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Hide AdBut Robert Donaldson lost touch with his opposition when conceding a seven at end seven to go 13-8 down to Caldwell, who turned the screw by skipping Josh Spalding, Malky Milne and Davie Brown to a 24-16 victory.
Rogers established a 14-5 supremacy over Neil Watson and went on to skip Darren Smith, Lewis Betts and Gary Nisbet to a 19-10 triumph.
Gormley made a blitz start to lead 11-0 before skipping David Torrance, Scott Duncan and Willie McDonald to an 18-12 win over Paul Veitch.
While Craigentinny rejoiced at extending their points lead over Parkside to 5½, they have yet to shake off the challenge from a Maitland team that achieved a tremendous 7-2 away win over Queensberry.
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Hide AdMaitland just sit a half-point adrift of the leaders and five points ahead of third-placed Parkside. However, there are now growing concerns for Queensberry as last season’s high flying runners-up are presently sitting on the second-from-bottom rung.
Northern and Hillside sit in mid-table, the former tipping the scales to edge a 5-4 win over Tanfield while the latter inflicted 7-2 damage on bottom team Pilrig.
Rink scores
Queensberry v Maitland: John Kidd 23, Brian Higgins 8; Brian Pollard 9, Graeme McIntosh 24; Scott Walker 11, Gordon Clark 21; Frank O’Reilly 12, Alan Trotter 15.
Northern v Tanfield: Jamie Reid 14, Andy McNab 8; James Barr 23, Mal Higgenbotham 20; Ian Miller 9, Robert White 8; Gordon Wilson Jnr 13, Stuart Campbell 17.
Hillside v Pilrig: BJ Smith 24, Euan Craig 8; Brian Irving 20, Darren McArdle 11; Colin Hairs 15, Graeme Gow 10; Colin Bell 14, Darren McKenny 16.