Local MLAs Valerie Docherty and George Webster are sponsoring their second annual Christmas Junior Cashspiel, Dec. 27-28 at the Crapaud Community Curling Club. Entry fee is $100/team, with 15 and Under (Canada Games age) and 12 and Under (minimum 4 teams needed) divisions.
Entry is limited to the first 16 teams signed up. Entry deadline is Dec. 17. Included in the event are Christmas trivia, sponsored by the Box Office in Cornwall, and a skills competition, sponsored by the Pepsi Bottling Group.
For more info, contact Kevin Smith at 621-0207, or kd.smith@route2.pe.ca.
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The annual Oak Island Junior Cashspiel is set for this weekend in Chester Nova Scotia. PEI’s Sam Ramsay and Brett Gallant rinks are competing in the 15 team Junior Men’s section, while the Erin Carmody and Sarah Fullerton teams are playing in the 10 team Junior Women’s division. Summerside native Neil Gallant, currently attending Dalhousie University, is skipping a Nova Scotia junior men’s rink in the competition. Round robin play gets underway at 8 am Friday. The finals go Sunday at 4 pm. Defending champions Glen Muirhead from Scotland and Ashley Howard from New Brunswick, the first skip to win back to back titles at the event, are both back this year.
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Due to a conflict with a provincial championship event, the annual Spring Thaw Junior Cashspiel at the Silver Fox is being moved to January 16-18. Entry deadline is January 1st, and entry fee is $100 per team, with the first 24 teams accepted. Five games guaranteed. For more info, email Sheila Compton at pudgesc@pei.sympatico.ca.
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IQALUIT, NUNAVUT, November 4, 2008 (CCA)…For the first time in history, a national sport championship will be staged in Iqaluit, Nunavut, when the Canadian Curling Association’s Canadian Mixed gets underway this Saturday.
The 46th edition of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, which is being presented by First Air, will be held November 8-15 at the Arniatok Arena and brings together 12 teams, representing the 10 provinces plus Northern Ontario and the Territories. The teams compete in a round robin concluding Friday, after which the first place team advances directly to the final on Saturday, November 15, while the second and third place teams meet in a semi-final to determine the other finalist.
Among the skips competing in Iqaluit, which is located approximately 2,000 km north of Ottawa, is Nova Scotia’s Mark Dacey, who won the 2004 Nokia Brier in Saskatoon and subsequently finished third at the 2004 Ford Worlds in Gävle, Sweden. Dacey, along with wife Heather Smith-Dacey, who plays third, teamed to win the 2002 Canadian Mixed when it was held in Halifax. It was the second Mixed win for Smith-Dacey, a former Canadian junior champion (1991) who won her first Mixed title as third for New Brunswick’s Grant Odishaw in 1994 in Leduc, Alberta.
Other skips include Ontario’s Wayne Tuck, who finished third to Dacey at the 2002 Canadian Mixed. Prince Edward Island’s Bill Hope, who skipped Ontario to victory at the 1968 Canadian Juniors, British Columbia’s Greg Monkman, runner-up at the 1982 Brier, along with other provincial men’s and/or junior champions such as New Brunswick’s Scott Jones, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Andrew Mercer, Manitoba’s Sean Grassie and Saskatchewan’s Darrell McKee. The participants also include Manitoba second Ross Derksen, who played third for skip David Hamblin on the 2002 Canadian and world junior men’s championship team.
In addition to a Canadian title, two players from the winning team will then represent Canada at the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Championship, slated for April 17-25, 2009 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
“On behalf of the Host Committee I would like to add that we are looking forward to hosting teams from across Canada,” said Karen Costello, the 2009 Canadian Mixed chair. “In partnership with our community sponsors, we hope to make their Iqaluit visit and the Championship a truly memorable experience for all participants and spectators.”
2009 Canadian Mixed Roster
(Teams listed in order of skip, third, second and lead)
Alberta – Saville Sports Centre, Edmonton
Tom Appelman, Kalynn Park, Brandon Klassen, Rachel Pidherny
British Columbia – Royal City CC, New Westminster
Greg Monkman, Susan Allen, Randie Shen, Anita Cochrane
Manitoba – Deer Lodge CC, Winnipeg
Sean Grassie, Alli Nimik, Ross Derksen, Kendra Green
New Brunswick – Beaver CC, Moncton
Scott Jones, Sandy Comeau, Pierre Fraser, Stephanie Taylor
Newfoundland and Labrador – Re/Max Centre, St. John’s
Andrew Mercer, Jillian Waite, Scott Davidge, Tiffany Cuthbert
Northern Ontario – Soo Curlers Association, Sault Ste. Marie
Ian Fisher, Lindsay Miners, Caleb Flaxey, Chris Fortin
Nova Scotia – Mayflower CC, Halifax
Mark Dacey, Heather Smith-Dacey, Dave Stephenson, Lisa Stephenson
Ontario – Brantford Golf & Country Club, Brantford
Wayne Tuck, Kimberly Tuck, Jake Higgs, Sara Jane Gatchell
Prince Edward Island – Charlottetown CC, Charlottetown
Bill Hope, Sandra Hope, Jeff Gallant, Shelley Ebbett
Quebec – Thetford Mines Golf & Curling Club, Thetford Mines
Simon Hebert, Noémie Audet-Verreault, Nicolas Marceau, Vicky Tremblay
Saskatchewan – Nutana CC, Saskatoon
Darrell McKee, Allison Gerhardt, Jason Jacobson, Amanda Jacobson
Territories – Inuvik CC, Northwest Territories
George Lennie, Donna Maring, Edgar Maring, Diane Baxter
HALIFAX, November 4, 2008… The Canadian Curling Association (CCA) today announced that the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier, presented by Monsanto, will be staged at the Metro Centre in Halifax, March 6-14, 2010.
It will mark the sixth time the city has hosted the Canadian men’s curling championship, after staging the 1951, 1966, 1981, 1995 and 2003 Briers. Halifax will join Calgary and Toronto as the only cities to have staged the Brier at least six times, since it began in 1927, when the 81st edition gets underway.
“The Tim Hortons Brier is considered by many curling enthusiasts to be the flagship event of men’s curling not only in Canada – but throughout the world, “ said Greg Stremlaw, Chief Executive Officer of the CCA. “This annual event is further strengthened with an amazing corporate partner in Tim Hortons. In the 2009-10 season, there are many significant curling events including the Pre-Trials Qualifier in Prince George, the Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials in Edmonton, and of course the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
“The Canadian Curling Association is very pleased to see Canada’s east coast get to participate in one of the most anticipated curling seasons on record. With this, I am proud to announce that Halifax will host the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier and we are excited to be returning to this gem of a city.”
Most recently, Halifax hosted another major curling event, the 2005 Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials, which determined Canada’s representatives for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy, where Canada’s Brad Gushue won a gold medal and Shannon Kleibrink earned a bronze.
“On behalf of the Host Committee, together with the Nova Scotia Curling Association, I am very excited that the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier has been awarded to Halifax,” said Host Committee co-chairman Hugh Avery. “It will not only allow us the opportunity to show off our great city, but will also provide a legacy of growth for the sport of curling in our province. I am very pleased that Graham Harris and I will be co-Chairs for the event. Graham brings a tremendous amount of experience from working on the host committee of the 2003 Brier and chairing the 2005 Trials. We feel very confident that this will be another world class event for Halifax.”
“Without question, Halifax has one of the most experienced and passionate volunteer groups in the country,” added Harris. “We look forward to working with them again on another fabulous event.”
“Tim Hortons has been a long-time supporter of curling in Canada for over 15 years,” said Bill Moir, Chief Brand & Marketing Officer, Tim Hortons. “The sport of curling, similar to the Tim Hortons brand, has a unique Canadian identity and community appeal and we are both proud and excited to be a part of this world-class event.”
When Halifax held the 2003 Nokia Brier, it was won by Alberta’s Randy Ferbey, who went unbeaten during the week, finishing with a perfect 13-0 mark after defeating the host province’s Mark Dacey in the final. The total attendance was 158,414, a Brier record for an Eastern Canada site (east of Winnipeg). When the city staged the Trials two years later, a record event attendance of 159,235 was established.
Since the Brier began in 1927 in Toronto, it has been played in 31 cities across Canada, from Victoria to St. John’s. Manitoba has won a record 26 Briers, while Alberta is next with 23. New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Yukon/Northwest Territories have yet to win.
“Monsanto is pleased to continue our association with the Tim Hortons Brier in 2010 and we certainly couldn’t ask for a better host than Halifax,” said Trish Jordan, Public Affairs Director with Monsanto Canada. “Halifax has a rich tradition and history of support for curling. We look forward to some great curling and to the hospitality we know the city of Halifax will offer to Monsanto, its customers and curling fans from across the country.”
Nova Scotia boasts three Brier wins. The first victory, by Halifax skip Murray Macneill, came in the inaugural Brier of 1927 in Toronto. The province’s second win came in 1951, ironically in Halifax, by Kentville’s Don Oyler, before Dacey defeated Ferbey at the 2004 Brier in Saskatoon, in a rematch of the 2003 final.
The Brier attendance record is 281,985, set by Edmonton in 2005 at the first Tim Hortons Brier, which eclipsed the former mark of 248,793 established in 2000 in Saskatoon.
Tickets for the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier are expected to go on sale in late February of 2009.
The Brier competition involves 10 provinces plus teams representing Northern Ontario and Yukon/Northwest Territories playing a round robin, leading to the Page Playoff system involving the top four teams. The first and second place teams meet in the Page 1 vs 2 game, with the winner advancing to the final while the loser goes to the semi-final. The third and fourth place teams meet in the Page 3 vs 4 game, with the winner advancing to the semi-final while the loser is eliminated.
The 2010 Tim Hortons Brier will be televised exclusively and extensively in Canada by TSN, from the round robin, through the Page Playoffs, semi-final and final.
Since 1980, when the first Labatt Brier was held in Calgary and a playoff format was introduced, 19 of 29 Brier winners have gone on to win the world men’s curling championship. The latest was Alberta’s Kevin Martin, who won the 2008 Tim Hortons Brier in Winnipeg and the world men’s curling championship in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
The winner of the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier in Halifax will represent Canada at the world men’s curling championship in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, April 3-11.
Meanwhile, the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier will be held at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, March 7-15, with the winner then representing Canada at the Ford world men’s in Moncton, New Brunswick, April 4-12.
The PEI Curling Association is holding a CCA Technical Club Coach Workshop (Formerly Level 1 Technical) at the Crapaud Community Curling Club on Saturday and Sunday Dec. 6 and 7.
The workshop will go Saturday from 9 to 4, and Sunday from 9 to 3:30, and will cost $90.
Cheques are to be made payable to the PEI Curling Association, and must be received by the registration deadline, which is Friday Nov. 28. To register, please contact Gayle Johnston at 368-1071 or email: gaylej@pei.sympatico.com
Please mail cheques to Gayle Johnston, Box 10 Site 3, 46 Kirkdale Rd. Charlottetown, C1E 1N6.
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