U17 Slam at Forfar

The U17 competition at Forfar, the last of the five events which make up the Slam with its big prizes, has the semifinals tomorrow. Bruce Mouat's team is through, although as I arrived at the rink this afternoon the team was one shot behind and looked in trouble in their second game against Karen Munro. But Bruce played two great shots for the win. The team won their third game too, and will meet Gina Aitken in the semi.

It is already certain that the Gina Aitken team has won the ladies' Slam prize, and that Gina, Vicky Wright, Katy Richardson and Rachael Halliday will be heading for Fussen, to the WCF Camp, next summer.

The Duncan Menzies team will play Stuart Marshall, skipping Jayne Stirling's entry, in the other semifinal.

Just one point separates Mouat and Menzies in the rankings. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have some photos of the action on the ice.

All today's results are here.

U17 climax

If you follow the under-17 competition circuit, you will already know that the fifth, and final, U17 event to make up the Royal Club Slam gets underway tomorrow at Forfar Indoor Sports.

Just who will be the Slam winners, decided on a team's best three performances, has come right down to the last competition. The standings and points gained over events at Perth, Lockerbie, Greenacres, and Lanarkshire, can be found here, and the 'best of three' positions going into the Forfar event are here.

The big prize of a trip to the World Curling Federation's summer camp will go to either Duncan Menzies side, an all male team of Stuart Taylor, Robert Fawns and Angus Dowell, and Bruce Mouat's mixed team of Derrick Sloan, Rowena Kerr and Elspeth Lean. Just one point separates these two teams in the standings and both are playing at Forfar.

Sixteen teams start at Forfar tomorrow. The draw is here. Results can be found here. The final games are on Thursday at 2pm.