Meanwhile the A side played their home fixture in horrendously wet conditions against Mackintosh. Again, the game was finally decided on the last end of the match. Having lost by the significant margin of 17 shots on rink 5, it was important that the other rinks were able to make up the shortfall. In spite of a scare in the eleventh end when they dropped five shots, Fossy’s rink managed to pull away from their opponents to win the rink by seven shots. Mel Newman’s with Jerry Daly, Jeff Wyatt and Kelvyn Lewys in tow were never in trouble and defeated their Mackintosh opponents by eight shots.
The match was to be decided on the last end on rink 4. Going into the final end the score stood at 10-10, giving a 2 shot lead on the aggregate to the visitors. Not to be denied Dave Noble, Paul Rebane and Nick Parry all had something in the head, when skip Steve Bell, added a fourth to win the game by four shots, and the aggregate by two. With three ends won plus the aggregate The Rom took the match by 12 shots to 2.