Aberdeen's David Edwards continued to dominate the men's division of the Co-operative Funeralcare Scottish Curling Championships in Perth yesterday, beating Forfar's Murray Young 6-4 to record his sixth straight round-robin win and establish a clear two wins lead over the rest of the field.
Behind Edwards, three teams share second spot: Perth's David Smith, who beat Lockerbie's Graeme Black by 7-6, defending champion Tom Brewster from Aberdeen, who had an 8-5 victory over Murrayfield's John Hamilton, and Stirling's Logan Gray, who continued his recovery from a bad start earlier in the week with a 7-4 win over Stranraer's Jay McWilliam. Just behind them, and still fighting for a place in the weekend's medal games are Lockerbie's David Murdoch and inverness's Ewan MacDonald. Murdoch went down by 4-8 to MacDonald in yesterday afternoon's session, after giving up a score of three in the first end.
In the women's event, European champion Eve Muirhead from Perth and Aberdeen's Jackie Lockhart both sealed qualification for the weekend's knock-out stages yesterday.
Muirhead followed up an 11-4 win over early leader Gail Munro yesterday morning with a 10-4 win over Murrayfield's Jennifer Dodds. Lockhart concluded her round-robin programme with two wins, beating Murrayfield's Gina Aitken by 9-1 in the morning and then Kerry Barr, also from Murrayfield, by 7-5.
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