Showing up for curling on Halloween evening was an adventure! Prior to going to the rink I was able to walk around the block with our son and watch him trick or treat! As a parent I really enjoy watching the kids go crazy. He got spoiled with candy, but that's okay.
Since we are curling in the mens league and it was the late game, I did not really expect anyone to show dressed up. Unfortunately no one disappointed, and everyone only dressed up as a curler.
The game stared with the coin toss and we won, giving our team hammer. Team Stauth picked blue rocks, so we were designated red. The stats indicate that this is the first time this year we played blue so we were hoping it was as good to us as a red.
The first round we played a tight game with lots of rocks around the button. Each team had it's share of misses (as expected in the first end) and we were not able to capitalize on last rock. We ended the end with scoring a single point.
The second and third end played out much like the first where both teams were trying to setup to score multiple points by coming around guards and playing top house rocks. We didn't get multiples, but we did steal one each end.
With a lead of 3, we changed our strategy to keep the rings clean and just give them (1) point so that we could have hammer back. However, it did not work out like that. With Sean's final rock left the house had only (1) Stauth rock in the rings. Unfortunately the delivery on the rock faltered and ending up sailing past the rock in the rings. Leaving an open draw for (2) which they easily achieved.
Having got the hammer back we thought we would try the same thing again. Only our guards were not perfectly placed and we ended up in trouble. Soon they added another (2) to the score board.
This changed the momentum of the game and we needed to work hard to get it back. We tried a number of ways to get our rocks closest to the button and a beautiful hit and roll on an outside rock put us back on the scoreboard with a single.
The next end we gave it back with the Stauth team taking (2) again.
In the final end it came down to Sean having to throw a crazy split shot for a tie game. We were fortunate enough to roll one in, but not 2..
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Stauth - 6
McLeod - 4
