Curling: Capital curler Campbell in successive wins

Capital curler Colin Campbell got off to a dream start with two wins out of two at the Scottish Championship Finals in Perth yesterday.

By The Newsroom

Published 12th Feb 2013, 12:00 BST

Campbell and Aberdeen skip David Edwards topped this season’s Scottish Tour rankings, and they overturned an early two-stone deficit to beat Neil Joss (Greenacres) 8-5 in their opening round-robin match. They returned to the Dewars Centre last night to thrash Ross McCleary’s Kinross team 11-3 after counting five stones at the first end.

Edinburgh’s Ross Hepburn helped Perth veteran Warwick Smith to a 6-5 extra-end  victory over Dumfries junior Grant Hardie, but there were opening defeats yesterday for Murrayfield’s Kerry Barr and Gina Aitken.

Barr trailed world junior champion Hannah Fleming 5-2 but then led 8-5 before  eventually losing 10-9. Aitken was beaten 9-3 by ex-world champion Jackie Lockhart.