The second Asham Under 14 Slam took place on Saturday with Team Carson (pictured) from Dumfries emerging victorious, buoyed on by their team mascot: Hugo the owl.
14 teams battled it out across 3 sections with four teams making it to the high road and low road respectively. After defeating Team McCormack in the semi-finals, the Braehead Rockers faced Team Carson who had beaten Braehead Slam winners, Team Munro.
Team Carson (Orrin Carson, Logan Carson, Archie Hyslop and Charlie Gibb) started the final strongly, backing up an opening single with a big steal of 3. They controlled the final few ends and managed to take home spot.
The low road was won by Team Anderson (Bailey Anderson, Danny Smith, Hannah Green and, Sophie Smith) who similarly overcame Team Chalmers by stealing 3 ends in a row. Team Stewart (Erin Stewart, Jenny Jahn,Eve Marchbank and Rebecca Dalgliesh) were beaten by Team Anderson in the Low Road Semi-Final.
There was a great standard of play, sportsmanship and friendship seen across the entire day and we now look forward to the next slam in Perth on the 9th December where Dumfries will be represented by 5 teams.
Dumfries Ice Bowl Curling Development Officer Graham Sloan was full of praise for these young teams “It’s quite incredible to see these teams competing above their age group and doing so well. Only last week they were involved in the 12 & under event and to step up to u14 age group and dominate the event shows real ambition & courage. They have wise heads on young shoulders. It’s also really pleasing to see these results as it’s a great reward to the volunteer coaches who week in week out provide coaching for the Junior Programmes at Dumfries Ice Bowl and we would encourage anyone who wants to come and have a try to get in touch via Trycurling.com”
