Curling: Capital curler gets back to winning ways

Published on Monday 21 December 2009 09:52

CAPITAL curler Colin Campbell and his team-mates are still on course to reach next month's Scottish Championships despite a surprise qualifying defeat in Perth, writes LORIN McDOUGALL.

Campbell, Logan Gray, Richard Woods and skip Peter Loudon bounced back from Friday's 7-5 loss to David Mundell by winning their next three round robin matches in Group A.

Having beaten Neill Joss 9-5 and Jay McWilliam 10-2 on Saturday the Edinburgh International runners-up began yesterday with an 8-3 win over Colin Hamilton.

Hamilton's Murrayfield colleague Paul Stevenson had lost his opening three games but stunned Loudon's rink 6-5 after coming from 4-3 down with a series of single stones.

Campbell and company sit third in Group A with their 3-2 record, but with only the top nine teams progressing to next month's final stages, there is work to be done in their last three qualifying matches in mid-January.

Perth's Warwick Smith and Glen Muirhead top the section after both won five out of five on their home ice at the Dewars Centre. Stranraer's former world champion Hammy McMillan and Aberdeen's Tom Brewster also have a 100 percent record in the other pool.