Team Muirhead in Canada

You might well wonder why I've dug out this old photo, from the 2008 World Junior Curling Championships. That's Eve Muirhead in the front of course. What a lot has happened in Eve's life since then! In the background is Kaitlyn Lawes, who skipped the Canadian team in Ostersund. The two skips met again at the World Juniors in Vancouver in 2009, when Scotland beat Canada in the final.

Forward to 2010, Team Muirhead is doing well at the Sobeys Slam in New Glasgow. I see that they beat Jennifer Jones' side last night to make their place in the playoffs of the event as unbeaten qualifier from the A Road. If you are a follower of the Canadian scene, you will be aware that Jennifer Jones somewhat controversially replaced her long serving third player Cathy Overton-Clapham with the younger Kaitlyn Lawes this season. Anyway, Team Muirhead's win over Jones puts them into Sunday's quarterfinals. Follow progress here or here.

Pic © Skip Cottage

Eve in New Glasgow

I wasn't on the ball earlier when I posted a quick preview of the weekend. Fortunately Kay Adams at the Royal Club is, and she reminds us that Eve Muirhead and her team are in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada, this weekend for the World Curling Tour Sobey's Slam.

Twenty-six teams are signed up for this triple knockout, and as I write this after Team Muirhead's first game this evening, I can already tell you they won that.

NB This is an amended post. If you read an earlier version, online for thirty minutes or so only, I had the girls losing their first game. I had found the incorrect results here. I apologise. I should have checked the official site here, which was correct. Sometimes I just wish that we were back in the days when we had to wait until the Monday morning newspaper to find out what happened! Anyway, good luck to the girls in their next games.

Kay's weekend preview is here.