Inverness Hospitals CC

Winners of the Evelyn Watson Rosebowl at our end of season bonspiel with an 11-4 win were Graeme Thomson's rink with Karen Blagden, Shirley Shepherd & Ali Cruickshank.

Division 1 final table

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Province Div 1 table

Our clubs closing Bonspiel for the Evelyn Watson Rosebowl will be held on Tue 12th March at 6.45pm, we are taking individual entries & drawing teams based on preferred playing positions.
It’s usually a very sociable event & players of all abilities are most welcome.
If you’d like to play, please messge us her or contact
Gavin [email protected]
or
Nadine [email protected]

Hospitals line up for the Highland CC 125th Anniversary Bonspiel yesterday, 7-4 & 6-4 wins resulted in runners up spot in the afternoon sessions.

Congratulations to Alex Matheson & his rink Doug Courts, Evelyn Cromarty & Dougal Lindsey on winning our Autumn Bonspiel & the RNI Cup, well played 👏👏 🏆

Final Province League tables

Winners of our clubs closing Bonspiel & the Evelyn Watson Rosebowl, with a 11-3 win we’re Linda Hoskins rink with Hamish Clark, Alex Matheson & Fiona Keyes

Hospitals are hosting our closing Bonspiel on Monday 27th March at 9pm. We have been very fortunate to have had previously, great representation from neighbouring clubs for what is a very sociable event. We are now inviting any curlers wishing to play to message us via this page or contact Andy on 07810837246.

Latest Inverness province league tables

Latest Div 1 & 2 tables

Not the only scots to pick up a trophy today! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉🥌🏆
Hospitals won the Area 13 Bonspiel & the Bookless Quaich with 12-1 & 9-5 victories over Nairn Ladies & Highland 1 respectively. It was the first time Hospitals have won this trophy.
L-R Jenny MacGregor(2nd), Derek MacDonald(3rd), David Baillie(Lead) & Andy Wood(Skip)

Congratulations to President Alex Matheson who won our points competition on Monday

Hospitals 1 secured a hard fought victory against Andrew Jacks Highland 1 rink in a rearranged Province Div 1 fixture. Both teams walked off the ice after one end in the original fixture due to appalling ice conditions on sheet E.
Fortunately this time the ice was excellent & contributed to a high quality game, with both teams excellent stone placement producing exciting ends that could have gone either way.
Hospitals edged it largely due to snatching a 3 in the 4th, with some more good play, but fine margins though.
It was a shame there had to be a loser!

Hospitals 1 0 0 3 1 0: 5
Highland 0 1 1 0 0 1: 3

Winners of the Autumn bonspiel & the RNI Cup were Andy Wood's rink of Gavin Wreath, Peter Hendry & David Baillie

Looking for a curler to make up the numbers for a 2 sheet Bonspiel this Monday evening at 9pm, any takers?
…now filled thanks!

Winners of the Nairn bonspiel 2022
Andy Wood, Phil Masheter (Beauly CC), Derek MacDonald & Claire McCarvel after 13-1 & 10-2 wins

A mixed week for Hospitals rinks this week in the province, Alex Matheson's rink going down 10-2 to Stuart Robb's Highland 8 rink in division 2, leaving them rooted at the foot of the table.
In division 1, Andy Wood's rink bounced back from their opening defeat to post a convincing 10-3 win over Roy Sinclair's Highland 3 rink, which leaves them lying joint second in the table.

Losing starts to both Hospitals 1 & Hospitals 2 in their re-arranged Inverness Province opening fixtures due to early season ice issues.
Andy’s Hospitals 1 rink lost narrowly 4-5 to Kingsmills 2, the performance was pretty encouraging for the first throws of the season, a peel might have been justified, but takes nothing away from a very competent Kingsmlls rink skipped by Alan Morton.
Alex’s hospitals 2 found themselves on the wrong end of a 14-3 defeat from a “beefed up” Loch Ness 3 rink. The Loch Ness rink using their experienced subs to great effect, a bit of a curling lesson but it will stand the Hospitals rink in good stead for the rest of the season.

HOSPITALS WIN IRL DIVISION 2 TITLE

The curling gods smiled on Hospitals last night as they overcame all the odds to win the Inverness Ice Rink League Division 2 title.
Several things had to happen, Nairn 2 & Dornoch both had to lose & Hospitals had to win big to overcome a significant shots deficit.
Andy's rink got off to the perfect start with an opening 6, but with Nairn's Michael Green racing to a 4-0 lead after 2 ends and the Dornoch rink skipped by Ian MacKay coming back after a poor opening, all seemed lost.
However Hospitals powered on, stealing end after end and finished with another 6 in the eighth to win by a remarkable 20-0. The Nairn rink slumped to a 10-4 defeat to Kingussie & Ann Gibb's Ross Ladies overcame Dornoch 6-4, the title was Hospitals.

Div 1 table update

Inverness Province Div 1
Hospitals 1 (Andy Wood) 5-6 Highland 1 (Andrew Jack)

Hospitals 1 season petered out after a second defeat in two nights against Andrew Jack’s Highland rink.
It proved to be a very even game & came down to the final two stones.
After the disappointing finish, skip Andy Wood reflected on the season, “We lead the table nearly all the way & was Hospitals best performance in division 1. It looks likely we will finish runners up. A great effort by the whole team”

Great effort by Alex Matheson’s rink currently 3rd in division 2, having played all their fixtures. They will finish no worse than 4th.

Latest Div 1 Table

Hospitals 1: 7-9 HIDB

Hospitals had to change their line up with no2 Jenny MacGregor, being sidelined by CoVid so Brian Morrison stepped in as sub.
Despite an opening 4, the hospitals rink contrived to lose their first province fixture this season and with it their position at the top of the table with one game to play.
Poor stone placement on the infamous sheet E, contributed much to the teams downfall, but credit to Sandy Renfrew’s rink for adapting better to the tricky ice and were deserved winners.
Our final game is tonight against Andrew Jacks Highland rink, who sit third in the table. A win will secure at least 2nd spot, but it will be a tough ask.

IRL: Hospitals 7-2 Nairn
A good solid performance saw Hospitals comfortably defeat league leaders Nairn, picking up six ends in the process and leaves Hospitals well established in the top half of the table.