Round 1, Played 7th March:

Section A

Chris McIntee       0 – 1        Yanni Yannoulis

Mike Ridge            0 d 1        David Wilson      

Section B 

Johnny Marr         ½ – ½     Calum McGillivray

Round 2, Played 21st March:

Section A

David Wilson         1 – 0        Chris McIntee

Yanni Yannoulis    0 – 1       Mike Ridge

Section B 

Robert Burns         0 – 1       Johnny Marr

The club hosted the Spring Allegro on Sunday March 20th with a capacity entry of 24 players.  The proud winner of the Spring Allegro Trophy (two splendidly yellow flower pots magnificently crested with a packet of sunflower seeds) was Callum Watt with a score of 4½/5, which included a win over top seed Ed Perry.  Details:

1. Callum Watt (Balerno)             4½

2. Dick Heathwood (Pentland Hills)    4

3. Ed Perry (Sandy Bells), Mark Sanderson (Edinburgh), Paul Girdwood (Gorgie/Dalry)     3½

Many thanks to Bob Burns and David Archibald for another well run and enjoyable event (and further contribution to Club funds).

Next event likely to be early May.

Spens Cup semi-final played at Stobswell Sports and Recreation Club, Dundee on 19th March:

Castlehill             5 – 1      Edinburgh B

Colin Edwards   ½ – ½    Graeme Kafka
Michael Grove    1 – 0      David Archibald
Dmitry Payada   1 – 0      Lindsay McGregor
Andrew Paulin  ½ – ½    Mark Sanderson
Keith Rose          1 – 0      Chris Sykes
Andre Babin        1 – 0      Robert Horne

Played Saturday 19 March:

Dundee 2.5 – 5.5 Edinburgh
 
Colin McNab (w) .5-.5 Neil Berry
Peter Constantinou 0-1 Sebastian Gattenloehner
Ed Spencer 0-1 Andrew Green
David Findlay .5-.5 Calum MacQueen
David Patrick (Chaski) .5-.5 Daniel McGowan
Stephen Hogg .5-.5 Alastair White
Gary Weir .5-.5 Hugh Brechin
James Anderson 0-1 David Oswald

We’re in the final!!  We will play Glasgow Polytechnic on Sunday 22 May in Grangemouth.  Prerparation starts now!

Neil

Played Wed 2 March:

Edinburgh 1 3-3 Dragons 1. 

From Tuesday 15 March:

University 2-4 Edinburgh 1

P Bozinakis .5-.5 Neil Berry

B Mitrovic 0-1 Sebastian Gattenloehner

K Khandhar .5-.5 Andrew Green

S Michel .5-.5 Daniel McGowan

A Bremner .5-.5 Hugh Brechin

W Ho 0-1 David Oswald

Unfortunately this result wasn’t enough for us to win the league, which Dragons clinched with a 4-2 win over Lasswade.  Congratulations to them.

Neil