A Tough week for both Vet sides

Willie McNabb, Derek Greer, Norman Armstrong and Arnold Kenny made a decent enough start against R McCune on rink 1 and with 5 ends played there was nothing to separate the 2 rinks with the score board reading 4-4.

The Bleach men doubled their score on the 6th end and another 4 shots over the next 3 ends gave them an 8 shots advantage at the halfway stage of the contest.

Each rink won 4 of the next 8 ends and both rinks added another 7 shots to their scores so going in to the final end the score was 19-11.

The scoring concluded when the visitors picked up a single to leave the final score 19-12 to the home rink.

It took the Ballymena rink of Allen Stewart, Joe McKeown, Alan O’Loan and Alex Wilson 7 ends to register a shot against B Patton on rink 2 and by the time this had happened the home rink were already 10 shots to the good.

The next few ends were more evenly contested but with 4 ends remaining the Ballymena men were still 9 shots adrift.

The home rink finished the game in the same way they had started it when they outscored the Braid rink by 8 shots to 1 to claim an emphatic 23-7 victory.

Vets2 suffer defeat to Nortel

Ballymena Vets2 (34) Nortel (40): Ballymena Vets2 entertained Nortel last Monday afternoon. Both of the teams had one rink up however it was the visitors who claimed the overall victory with a 6 shot win. The Ballymena men won 3 of the final 4 ends to reduce the arrears but a count of 5 shots on the final end finished off a good day for the visitors as they wrapped up a well deserved 28-9 victory.