Draw #11 at the Sobeys Slam in New Glasgow NS advanced two teams to the Quarter-Finals and sent six teams packing. It also marked the end of the week for the Bluenose Curling Club, with all further games to be played at John Brother MacDonald Stadium. The ‘B’ Event qualifying games featured Sherry Middaugh facing Heather Strong, and Stephanie Lawton taking on Heather Rankin. Both Heathers were defeated, but live to play at least one more, as they drop down to the ‘C’ Event qualifiers scheduled for 7:30pm.
In the ‘C’ Event, six games were played, to determine the 6 teams to join Strong and Rankin in the 7:30 games. The winning teams advanced, while the losing teams were knocked out. World Champion Jennifer Jones was too much for Julie Reddick, Cathy King went right to the final rock against PEI’s Suzanne Birt, winning 4-3, last year’s Slam Finalist Marie France Larouche stayed alive with a win over Patti Lank, and regional qualifier Donna Butler of Cornwall PEI continued to impress with a 7-3 win over Karen Porritt.
Butler is now playing Crystal Webster in the Qualifer #7 game, which is being webcast live on CurlTV.
For CurlTV subscribers, the Donna Butler rink are playing Crystal Webster from Calgary at the Sobeys Slam beginning right now (7:30 pm) at www.curltv.com.
Charlottetown’s Suzanne Birt rink and Cornwall’s Donna Butler foursome move to a 3-2 win-loss record after Saturday morning play in the Sobeys Slam being played in New Glasgow NS. Any further losses will put them out of this triple-knockout event. In this morning’s action, Sherry Middaugh of Ontario scored 4 points in the fourth end after blanking the first three, in a 7-4 victory over Butler, while Stephanie Lawton of Saskatchewan kept the Birt rink scoreless through the first three ends, taking a deuce, then stealing a triple and another pair. They traded pairs through the next two ends, and ended early with a 9-2 final score.
Birt now plays Cathy King of Alberta at 4 pm, while Butler also plays at 4, against the winner of a noon contest between Karen Porrit of Manitoba and Karri-Lee Grant of Ontario.
The B-side qualifiers also go at 4 pm, with Lawton playing Heather Rankin of Alberta, and Middaugh facing Heather Strong of St. John’s. Mary Anne Arsenault of Halifax, and Bingyu Wang of China have already qualified for the money round in the A section. The four C Division qualifiers go tonight at 7:30.
Quarter-finals are 8 am Sunday, with the semis at 11:30 am, and the final at 3 pm.
Summerside — Three-time P.E.I. Junior champ Brett Gallant and his team, which includes Summerside curlers, were hot on the ice Friday, winning both their games at the Silver Fox Curling Club’s Summerside Cashspiel.
Click to read this story in today’s Journal Pioneer.
Shawny Ross carries a big stick and she’s not afraid to use it — at the curling rink, that is.
The legally blind curler from Stratford uses a curling cue to guide her shots at the Charlottetown Curling Club and the recent transplant from Ontario is hoping to coerce other blind or visually impaired Islanders into the sport with a demonstration Sunday at 4 p.m. at the club.
Click to read this story in today’s Guardian.
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