A busy week last week, as the Scottish games got going. Unfortunately, it was a week of mixed results for Belhelvie, starting with a loss to Westhill in the Craigie Ladies league. This was their first fixture of the year and, although a close game, the final score was 46-38 to Westhill.

Next came Methlick at home in the Benachie league on Wednesday. At half way, things were looking rather grim with a 20+ shot deficit to make up. A valiant fight back by our gents over the rest of the game brought us to within 4 shots with two ends to play. Unfortunately, we couldn’t quite overhaul the gap, going down by 7 shots in the end.

On Thursday, Ian Forman did very well to progress in the senior singles, with a 21-7 victory over Ian Beattie from Rothienorman. Unfortunately, Ian came off second best that evening in the main draw, against Andy Thomson from Westhill. Our ladies senior fours went down very narrowly 15-13 to Inverurie.

Some good news came on Friday: our gents picked up their first 5 points of the season in the A&K fours, beating Banchory 17-12 at home and 14-11 away. The league table is very tight!

Finally, two more ladies Scottish fixtures came and went on Saturday, our pair (Christine and Helen) narrowly missing out 22-17 to Harlaw and our fours having a similar result, 20-11 runners-up to Newhills.