Lockhart has edge over young guns

She won’t say thanks for mentioning it, but Aberdeen’s former world champion Jackie Lockhart is of an age where she could be the mother of most of the opponents she is facing in this week’s Co-operative Funeralcare Scottish Curling Championships in Perth, but she continues to show many of them how it is done.

The three-times Olympian is in the mix for a place in the knock-out stages following two good wins yesterday. – by 5-4 after an extra end against the current European champions led by Perth’s Eve Muirhead, and then by 5-4 over Murrayfield’s Jennifer Dodds.

These results mean that, along with Muirhead, who later beat Gina Aitken, also from Murrayfield, by 6-5, Stranraer’s Gail Munro, who beat Dodds by 5-2 yesterday before losing her unbeaten record by 7-8 to Lockerbie’s Hannah Fleming in a match which kept Fleming at the top of the rankings as well, Lockhart is on a four-win record. Fleming, Munro and Muirhead also have four wins, but they have each have played one game less than Lockhart.

In the men’s event, Aberdeen’s David Edwards continues to lead the way, with a 6-5 win over Lockerbie’s Graeme Black giving him his fourth win and making his team the only undefeated outfit left in the event.