Last game of the season. (We missed our playdown game, which was on St. Patrick's Day.) I guess this time I'll hold off on telling you the results of the game until the end of the post. This game is a rematch from Game 3, yet another close game that my team lost on the last shot. Like the last game, this is an A level team so we got a one point handicap, but they were playing with a somewhat inexperienced sub. I was happy to have everyone together on the team, which I realize now might have only happened half the time this past season.
I didn't really play particularly well and I think basically everyone, maybe more so on my team, had trouble with draw weight. I had two opportunities early in the game to draw basically anywhere in the house to score and the first time, it went long and the second time it was short. Geez.
This game also featured a blank end. This has only happened one other time for me and Vice and this has never happened for Lead and Second. That was kind of interesting. My team didn't have hammer and we basically just played the takeout game and we made them all. So it's my last shot of this end and I don't have hammer and I'm looking at this.
I think you definitely want to have something in the house to force the opposing team to do something. I was thinking that ideally, you have a rock that's biting. This way, a takeout wouldn't be in the house. Of course, I couldn't throw that weight and I was light. I would've preferred to just have something in the house (maybe behind a guard), but oh well. Faced with the decision of going for one or the blank, the opposing skip chose the blank. However, they only scored one on the next end, so maybe Coach Bill is right about blanking ends.
Anyway, in the situation below, we're now in the seventh end and we're down two. We've already been buzzed so I know that this is my last shot. My team is red and with his last shot, the opposing skip drew to the four foot. He had wanted a guard or maybe a biter, but in the house isn't really a terrible result either.
So of course, I need a double takeout with this shot and my team would end up scoring at least two. My wish was for the green arrow. Unfortunately, the second yellow rock jammed on our own rock. They scored one and that was the game (final score 9-6). It was so close though and there was a lot of weight on my rock so if the second rock hadn't jammed squarely, it might've barely moved out of the house.
Oh well. That brings our final season record to 10-7 (we never did a makeup game for game 9). Not a bad season.
I didn't really play particularly well and I think basically everyone, maybe more so on my team, had trouble with draw weight. I had two opportunities early in the game to draw basically anywhere in the house to score and the first time, it went long and the second time it was short. Geez.
This game also featured a blank end. This has only happened one other time for me and Vice and this has never happened for Lead and Second. That was kind of interesting. My team didn't have hammer and we basically just played the takeout game and we made them all. So it's my last shot of this end and I don't have hammer and I'm looking at this.
I think you definitely want to have something in the house to force the opposing team to do something. I was thinking that ideally, you have a rock that's biting. This way, a takeout wouldn't be in the house. Of course, I couldn't throw that weight and I was light. I would've preferred to just have something in the house (maybe behind a guard), but oh well. Faced with the decision of going for one or the blank, the opposing skip chose the blank. However, they only scored one on the next end, so maybe Coach Bill is right about blanking ends.
Anyway, in the situation below, we're now in the seventh end and we're down two. We've already been buzzed so I know that this is my last shot. My team is red and with his last shot, the opposing skip drew to the four foot. He had wanted a guard or maybe a biter, but in the house isn't really a terrible result either.
Oh well. That brings our final season record to 10-7 (we never did a makeup game for game 9). Not a bad season.
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