Another title for star Eve

Former world and two-time European women’s curling champion Eve Muirhead demonstrated her versatility when Stirling University’s Bobby Lammie teamed up to claim the Aberdeen Mixed Doubles Championship title last weekend.

Playing in their first tournament together in the new discipline that was introduced to the Winter Olympics last year, the PEAK-based pairing gelled well from the off, losing just one of their five roundrobin matches in earning a place in the knockout stages.

Following a semi-final in which they required an extra end to get the better of Maia Ramsfjell and Duncan McFadzean, they met regular teammates Vicky Wright and Grant Hardie in the final winning 8-4.

“We’re really delighted with the result,”said Muirhead.

“It was a good weekend for both of us. We both played some really good curling and the ice in Aberdeen was excellent, so that always makes for a good combination.”

She added: “It was a high calibre of teams that were in this event and for us to have such a good tournament before the Scottish Mixed Doubles was an excellent dry run for us, because we haven’t actually played a lot together.”

For Lammie it was only his second serious mixed doubles competition, having reached the final of the Scottish Championships with Rachel Hannen two years ago.

“Even though we’ve not played much in this format Eve and I were confident about our chances and both went in believing we could win it and we’re going to try to replicate this at the Scottish Championships.”