Senior Assessment

Sunday Feb 8th

North Ayrshire hosted the Scottish Senior Assessment Tournament at St. Matthews in Saltcoats.

This was a great opportunity for Ayrshire players to take advantage of a major event on their doorstep. Representing South Ayrshire were Alan McCarry, James Weatherston and Gary McAlpine (his 1st assessment experience). Representing North Ayrshire was Richard Main, Chris Main, Ian McPherson and Sean Doyle.

A First Experience for Gary
Gary really enjoyed the 1st group playing some top rated players including Niall Cameron (Scotland's No 2 player) managing to get 5, 4 & 5 points in the 3 games.  Also in his group was Ritchie Main (NATTC), Daniel Swiatek (Drumchapel), and Grant Williams (Perth).  All 4 players were tough opponents although he didn't win any games he competed well.  So it was down to the bottom group to slug it out with the other 5th placed players.  His only win was against Robbie McIntosh (Brunswick A) who he beat 3:0.  All the other players were a good D1 standard and he struggled winning only 1 end.  Unfortunately Sean Doyle withdrew at the 2nd stage so Gary ended up 28th out of 30 players.  “A very enjoyable but rather humbling experience” said Gary.

Richie Main (7th), Alan McCarry (10th) and Chris Main (12th) had a good day finishing 1st, 4th and 6th in the 2nd group of 6.  James did not play his best and finished 16th ending up 4th in group 3. Ian McPherson did well considering he does not play much competition TT these days, concentrating his efforts in junior coaching. He managed to get into the 3rd group along with James and ended the day in 17th place.

See full results at TT Scotland’s website.