Loch Fleet grab league lead
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Having escaped with a one-shot win over Alness in the previous round, they went into their fourth round tie against Brora and set out their stall with an early two shots.
Although Brora’s new skip Neil Murray made a game of it through the first four ends, four shots in end five that spurred Loch Fleet’s Keith Stewart onwards to a 9-2 win.
Tony Watson’s Locheye rink, who from three previous results shared the lead with Loch Fleet, lost his unbeaten run to his clubmate Richard MacKenzie who skips for the North Highland Curling Trust second rink.
Mackenzie notched three treble scoring ends to which Watson had no reply in the 10-4 romp to a triple share of third place, with Watson holding onto second place.
Mackenzie joined the trust’s first skip, Hugh Mackay, on six points after he inflicted a fourth successive defeat on Coreen MacRae’s Alness, who scored only a consolation single in the final end.
League champion Nigel Murray (Rogart) got back to winning ways with two shots in the final end to beat Dornoch’s new skip Stuart Gardiner 7-4, while Locheye’s second skip Alan Mackenzie left the Ross-Sutherland Young Farmers in the company of Alness at the foot of the table after an 8-3 result. Mackenzie had his points sown up after winning the first three ends with his scorecard beginning with three shots.
Province results: N Murray (Rogart) 7, S Gardner (Dornoch) 4. A Munro (RSYF) 3, A Mackenzie (Locheye 2) 8. H Mackay (NHCT 1) 9, C Macrae (Alness) 1. T Watson (Locheye 1) 4 ,R Mackenzie (NHCT 2) 10. N Murray (Brora) 2, K Stewart (Loch Fleet) 9.
League points – Loch Fleet 8; Locheye (1), NHCT (1), NHCT (2) all 6; Rogart, Brora, Locheye (2) all 4; Dornoch 2; Alness, RSYF, both 0.
