ECA English Curling Association

Here are the results from sessions 4 and 5!

Teams Opel/Watmough, Ward/Waring, and Dear/McLoughlin have progressed into the next round robin.

Tomorrow's first game will be Opel/Watmough Vs Ward/Waring at 10am 🥌

📸: Marianna Ward

Below are the scores from sessions 2 and 3!

The athletes are now taking a well deserved rest before their next game at 10am tomorrow morning.

📸: Marianna Ward

And the scores from session one are here!

Keep following along to see how our teams get on this afternoon in our 2pm and 6pm games! 🥌

📸: Marianna Ward

Thursday marks the beginning of our first championship of the new season, the junior mixed doubles, and so here are the teams and schedule!

Head down to The Flower Bowl Entertainment Centre to see how our teams get on throughout the week! 🥌

📸: World Curling

Make sure you have your competition entries in by the 31st of August!

📸: World Curling

England's participation in the World Championship pre-qualifier in Ljubljana ended this morning with defeat for the men in their play-off game against Finland by 9-3 to finish 4th.

Finland go on to play Latvia in the final play-off after Slovenia won their game to qualify for the WC qualifier in November.

The English women lost their last game against Poland last night and finished 9th overall.

Early morning here in Ljubljana and unfortunately England lost their round robin game against Slovenia by 6-8 and will thus qualify 2nd from their group for the play-offs here at the World Cham[pionship Pre-Qualifier.

England men have qualified for the play-off stage at the World Championship Pre-Qualifier in Ljubljana after defeating Georgia 11-1 this evening. Tomorrow morning they play Slovenia with the result of that game likely to decide who finishes 1st and 2nd in the group as the last games for both teams are against lowly opposition in the shape of Serbia for England and Lithuania (Slovenia).

Finishing first is an advantage as it means that you get 2 chances in the play-offs to qualify for the next stage. First plays the first team in the other group and the winner goes to the World Championship Qualifier while the loser then plays the winner of the game between the 2 second placed teams for the second qualifying place.

Meantime the England women won a hard fought battle against France by 9-8 after an extra end and with a game to play against Poland they still have a chance of qualifying if they beat Poland and the other games tomorrow go a certain way!

By the way that win against France was only the 4th time in 21 games that the women's team have beaten them stretching back to the first game against them in 1976.

England men extended their winning run at the World Pre-qualifying with a come from behind win against Hungary taking 4 at the last end to win 7-5.

With games to come against Georgia and Serbia who are winless so far it should be the game tomorrow morning against Slovenia, who are also undefeated so far, which will decide whether they finish first or second in their group and get to the play-offs on Monday.

As the members of the ECA are gathering in Preston for their AGM our men's and women's teams are out in Ljubljana playing in the new World Championship Pre-Qualifier aiming to win a place in the World Championship Qualifier in November.

Our on site correspondent reports that the sun is out but ice conditions are generally good apart from a few flecks of paint falling from the ceiling!!

Results so far:

MEN

beat Croatia 8-4
beat Bosnia 12-1
beat Ukraine 9-6
beat Lithuania 8-5

WOMEN

beat Serbia 18-0
lost to Finland 3-4
beat Monaco 17-2
lost to Spain 5-8

More updates will follow