With only two draws remaining at the Labatt Tankard Provincial Men’s Curling Playdowns at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, six of the eight teams to advance to the Final Eight championship round, February 10-15 in Montague, have been chosen.
The first Final Eight team to be chosen was the Charlottetown Curling Club rink of Rod MacDonald, Kevin Champion, Andrew Robinson, and Mark O’Rourke, with fifth player Peter MacDonald, and coach Pat Aylward. Champion and O’Rourke were members of last year’s championship team. Seeded number three going into the event, the MacDonald rink beat top seed Mike Gaudet, also from the Charlottetown club, 6-2 in the first of two A pool finals in this triple-knockout event, stealing singles in the last three ends en route to the win.
The John Likely foursome, seeded second, were the second team to advance to the Final Eight. Likely’s team includes Phil Gorveatt, Mark Butler, and Mike Dillon, with fifth Robert Campbell. They shaded their Charlottetown clubmates the Kyle Stevenson rink by a 5-4 score in an extra end. Likely stole the ninth end to lead 4-2 coming home. Stevenson forced the extra end with a double, but Likely recorded a single in the extra for the trip to the Eights.
Final Eight team number three is the Charlottetown Curling Club foursome of Jamie Newson, Tim Hockin, Darren Higgins, and Matthew MacCarville, who beat the Daryl MacDonald rink from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary by a 13-4 score in the first of four B section qualifier games. MacDonald started out well, taking a pair in the first end, and stole another deuce in the second for a 4-0 lead. Things went downhill rapidly, though, with Newson taking a six-ender in the third, following it with steals of one, two, and four points to put the game out of reach after only six ends of play.
The fourth team to qualify is this year’s Provincial Seniors Champions, the Mel Bernard rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. Bernards teammates are Blair Jay, Doug Simmons, and Earle Proude. Seeded eighth, they beat number four seed Kyle Stevenson by a 9-8 score in an extra end to advance to the Eights.
The number five spot goes to Ted MacFadyen from the Charlottetown club, veteran of five Labatt Tankard championships, and six Seniors titles, and runner-up to Bernard in this year’s Seniors final. MacFadyen, and his team of Craig Mackie, David Murphy and Mike Coady, with coach Al Ledgerwood, beat newcomer Jeff Wilson, also from Charlottetown, by a 9-4 score, taking four points in the seventh, to end the game early.
The final B section Final Eight qualifier is top seed Mike Gaudet and his Charlottetown Curling Club rink of Eddie MacKenzie, Tyler Harris, and Sean Clarey, who beat the Terry Arsenault rink from the Silver Fox by a 7-5 score on the Saturday evening qualifying game. A stolen triple in the third end game Gaudet an early lead, which he maintained through the game, keeping the Arsenault foursome from scoring more than a single in the remaining ends.
The final two spots in the Eights will be decided on Sunday, with draws at 1 and 6 pm.
The 6 pm final for spot number seven will see Bill Hope play the winner of a 1 pm game between Kyle Stevenson and Charlottetown clubmate Calvin Smith. Hope beat Charlottetown clubmate Robert Shaw 7-5 on Saturday night to advance to the qualifying game.
The last spot in the Eights will also be decided at 6 pm, when the winners of 1 pm games between Daryl MacDonald and Clair Sweet, both from the Maple Leaf club, and between Jeff Wilson and Terry Arsenault will play off
The winning team from the Final Eight round will advance to the Tim Horton Brier, March 7-15 in Calgary.
CHARLES REID – The Guardian
For Brett Gallant, change is in the air as he begins the quest for the title at the 2009 M&M Meat Shops Canadian junior curling championships in Salmon Arm, B.C.
Click to read this feature story in today’s Guardian.
The top four seeds, all from the Charlottetown Curling Club, remain undefeated after day two at the Labatt Tankard Provincial Men’s playdowns, which continue through Sunday at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. In Friday play in this triple-knockout event, top seed Mike Gaudet beat provincial Seniors champ Mel Bernard of Summerside, seeded eighth, by a 10-6 score, while number three seed Rod MacDonald edged five-time Tankard and six-time Seniors champ Ted MacFadyen 7-6 in an extra end, stealing the 9th end in a closely-fought contest for a 6-5 lead coming home. MacFadyen was not able to pull off a deuce in the tenth, bring the game to an extra, where MacDonald scored the winning point. Gaudet and MacDonald now square off at 10:30 am Saturday, with the winner grabbing the first spot in the Final Eight round, set for Montague from February 10-15.
The other two undefeated teams, skipped by number four seed Kyle Stevenson and number two seed John Likely, will play Saturday afternoon at 2 for the number two spot. In action on Friday, Stevenson beat Clair Sweet of O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club by an 8-6 score, and scored a 10th end deuce to edge Charlottetown clubmate Jamie Newson 10-9. In his opening game, Likely beat Terry Arsenault 9-1 in only five ends and advanced directly to the number two qualifier game.
In the B section, where teams have one loss, qualifier game number three is set for 2 pm Saturday, between Jamie Newson of Charlottetown and Daryl MacDonald of the Maple Leaf. On Friday, unseeded MacDonald took five points in the ninth end in a 12-5 win over fifth seed Bill Hope of Charlottetown.Qualifier number five is also set to go at 2 pm Saturday, with newcomer Jeff Wilson facing veteran Ted MacFadyen. Wilson lost 10-3 to Charlottetown clubmate Jamie Newson on Friday, but rebounded in the evening draw with a 10-8 win over Clair Sweet.
Qualifier four goes Saturday evening at 7, with the loser of Qualifier two, between Stevenson and Likely, facing the winner of a 10:30 am game between Robert Shaw of Charlottetown and Summerside’s Mel Bernard.
Qualifier six is also Saturday at 7, with the winner of a 10:30 am game between Calvin Smith of the Charlottetown Curling Club and Terry Arsenault of the Silver Fox facing the loser of Qualifer One, between Gaudet and MacDonald.
Down in the “last chance” C section, qualifiers number seven and eight go Sunday at 8 pm. Fourteen teams began play on Friday, competing for the eight spots in the Final Eight, where the winning team will advance to the Tim Hortons Brier, March 7-15 in Calgary.
JASON SIMMONDS – The Journal Pioneer
SUMMERSIDE — Erin Carmody is hoping her third consecutive trip to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian junior curling championships (20 and under) is a lucky one.
Carmody’s rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside will leave for Salmon Arm, B.C., today. Carmody, third stone Geri-Lynn Ramsay, second stone Jessica van Ouwerkerk and lead Darcee Birch begin play Sunday.
Click to read this story in today’s Journal-Pioneer
JASON SIMMONDS – The Journal Pioneer
SUMMERSIDE — The M&M Meat Shops Canadian junior curling championships have become a family tradition for the Carmodys.
For the third straight year, the brother-sister act of Anson and Erin Carmody from Summerside have represented P.E.I. at the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships.
Click to read this story in today’s Journal-Pioneer.
Roddy MacLean and Jim Farquharson from the Cornwall Curling Club, the two Island members of Canada’s contingent to Scotland for the 100th Anniverary of the Strathcona Cup, return home on Sunday. Canada beat the Scots by a score of 1459 to 1133.
There were no upset wins in the Thursday night opening draw at the 14 team Labatt Tankard Provincial Men’s playdowns, taking place at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. Of the three teams on the ice who were seeded as a result of their cashspiel winnings this season, two won their openers, with number eight seed and provincial Seniors champ Mel Bernard of Summerside taking two four-enders in a 9-2 win over Daryl MacDonald of O’leary’s Maple Leaf club, and number three seed Rod MacDonald, who plays out of Charlottetown, scoring a triple in his final end against clubmate Calvin Smith for a 9-7 win. The third game was a battle between five-time Tankard winner and six time Seniors champ Ted MacFadyen, and number five seed Bill Hope, who played on MacFadyen’s team in this year’s Seniors. Hope scored a deuce in the the 10th end tonight to bring the game to an extra end, where MacFadyen recorded a single for a 7-6 win .
Play in this triple-knockout competition continues at 10:30 am Friday, with number four seed Kyle Stevenson of Charlottetown taking on Clair Sweet of O’leary, number six seed Jamie Newson of the capital city facing newcomer and clubmate Jeff Wilson, and Robert Shaw of Charlottetown, seeded seventh, facing Terry Arsenault of the Silver Fox. Top seed Mike Gaudet plays his first game in the 2 pm draw, while number two seed John Likely sees first action in at six pm.
The playdowns continue through Sunday evening, with eight teams advancing to the Final Eight round, February 10-15 in Montague. The winner of that event will advance to the Tim Horton’s Brier, March 7-15 in Calgary.
Transportation and Publics Works advise that the roads to Alberton are clear. This evening’s Labatt Tankard opening draw will go ahead, as scheduled, at 6 pm.
M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors start Sunday in Salmon Arm, BC
January 28, 2009 (CCA)…The M&M Meat Shops Canadian junior men’s and women’s curling championships, presented by AMJ Campbell Van Lines, get underway Sunday, February 1 in Salmon Arm, British Columbia.
Thirteen men’s and 13 women’s teams (representing the 10 provinces plus Northern Ontario, Northwest Territories and Yukon) are set to compete. Round robin games will be played at both the Salmon Arm Curling Club and Sunwave Centre. At the conclusion of the round robin, the first place teams advance to their respective finals, while the second and third place finishers meet in semi-finals on Saturday.
Both the women’s and men’s finals of the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors will be played on Sunday, February 8 at the Sunwave Centre and will be televised live across Canada on TSN. The women’s final takes place at 11:30 am PT/ 3:30 pm AT while the men’s final begins at 4:00 pm PT/9:00 pm AT.
The winners will then represent Canada at the 2009 world junior curling championships, March 5-15 in Vancouver. Canada has won a leading 16 world junior men’s titles since 1975 and eight women’s crowns since 1988.
The women’s roster includes defending champion skip Kaitlyn Lawes of Winnipeg, Manitoba, who won the Canadian title in Sault Ste. Marie last year and went on to earn a bronze medal at the world juniors in Östersund, Sweden and 2007 Canada Winter Games gold medallist Rachel Homan of Ottawa, Ontario, who has also enjoyed success on the women’s tour and is currently 10th on the CTRS (Canadian Team Ranking System) standings. Richmond’s Kelly Shimizu will wear the host province’s colours.
On the men’s side, Prince Edward Island’s Brett Gallant of Charlottetown, the Canadian junior runner-up in 2007 and third place finisher last year, is the likely favourite, while British Columbia is represented by Bryan Kedziora of Maple Ridge. Last year, Quebec’s William Dion claimed Canadian honours, and also went on to claim a bronze medal at the world juniors.
This marks the fourth year of title sponsorship by M&M Meat Shops, Canada’s leading retail chain of specialty frozen foods. The company recently announced a further three-year extension as title sponsor through 2012.
The Canadian junior men’s championship began in 1950 in Quebec City. Alberta has won a leading 15 times while British Columbia has four wins, the last by skip Brad Kuhn in 2000.
The Canadian junior women’s championship was first played in Vancouver in 1971. Saskatchewan leads all provinces with 10 titles while British Columbia has three victories, the last in 1987 by skip Julie Sutton (Skinner). The Canadian junior championships were conducted as separate events until being combined in 1987 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Since then, British Columbia has hosted four Canadian Juniors…1988 in North Vancouver, 1992 in Vernon, 1999 in Kelowna and 2004 in Victoria.
Tickets can be purchased by phoning (250) 832-4044. Full Event passes are on sale for $100. Day passes, at $15.00, are also available, while Finals tickets cost $15.00 (adult) or $10.00 (student).
Draw results will be instantly available at www.curling.ca or seasonofchampions.ca.
Event Details:
2009 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Men’s Curling Championship
February 1-8, Sunwave Centre and Salmon Arm Curling Club
Salmon Arm, British Columbia
TEAMS (listed in order of skip, third, second, lead and coach)
Alberta – Calgary Winter Club, Calgary
Kevin Yablonski, Michael Ng, Brad Benini, Derek Clark, Randy Yablonski
British Columbia – Golden Ears Winter Club, Maple Ridge
Bryan Kedziora, Derek Errington, Cal Jackson, Tyler MacKenzie, Bill Tschirhart
Manitoba – Pembina Curling Club, Winnipeg
Sam Good, Taylor McIntyre, Kent Moffitt, David Wiebe, Peter Wiebe
New Brunswick – Fredericton Curling Club, Fredericton
Steve Burgess, Jon Rennie, Robbie Doherty, Kevin Brayshaw, Paul Brayshaw
Newfoundland and Labrador – Re/Max Centre, St. John’s
Kelly Schuh (third rocks), Cory Schuh (fourth rocks), Scott Eaton, Stephen Moss, Eugene Trickett
Northern Ontario – Fort William Curling Club, Thunder Bay
Dylan Johnston, Cody Johnston, Michael Makela, Mike Badiuk, Ray Skillen
Northwest Territories – Yellowknife Curling Club, Yellowknife
Colin Miller, Robert Heimbach, John Murray, David Aho, Maureen Miller
Nova Scotia – Highlander Curling Club, St. Andrews
Paul Dexter, Robby McLean, Alex MacFadyen, Josh MacInnis, Paul McLean
Ontario – K-W Granite Club, Waterloo
Bowie Abbis-Mills, Scott McGregor, Scott Hindle, Terry Arnold, Jamie Arnold
Prince Edward Island – Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown
Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Anson Carmody, Jamie Danbrook, Peter Gallant
Quebec – Lachine Curling Club, Lachine
Andrew Leigh, Benoit (Ben) Vezeau, Mathieu (Matt) Westphal, Brad Hamelin,
Anne-Marie Legault-Lapierre
Saskatchewan – Granite Curling Club, Saskatoon
Mike Armstrong, Tyler Lang, Tyson Armstrong, Jordan Raymond, Don Greer
Yukon – Whitehorse Curling Club, Whitehorse
Thomas Scoffin, Will Mahoney, Nicholas Koltun, Mitch Young, Wade Scoffin
2009 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Women’s Curling Championship
February 1-8, Sunwave Centre and Salmon Arm Curling Club
Salmon Arm, British Columbia
TEAMS (listed in order of skip, third, second, lead and coach)
Alberta – Lethbridge Curling Club, Lethbridge
Casey Scheidegger, Kalynn Park, Jessie Scheidegger, Jayme Coutts, Don Scheidegger
British Columbia – Richmond Curling Club, Richmond
Kelly Shimizu, Kayte Gyles, Janelle Sakamoto, Julianna Tsang, Victor Shimizu
Manitoba – Pembina Curling Club, Winnipeg
Kaitlyn Lawes, Jenna Loder, Laryssa Grenkow, Breanne Meakin, Rob Meakin
New Brunswick – Curling Beauséjour, Moncton
Ashley Howard, Jillian Babin, Melissa Menzies, Emily MacRae, Michael Babin
Newfoundland and Labrador – Bally Haly Golf and Curling Club, St. John’s
Erin Porter, Alysha Renouf, Kylie Power, Leah Prosser, Michele Renouf
Northern Ontario – Idylwylde Golf & Country Club, Sudbury
Vanessa Maloney, Kendra Lilly, Jennifer (Jenny) Gates, Kaitlynd Burns, Jan Pula
Northwest Territories – Yellowknife Curling Club, Yellowknife
Katie (Kate) Maksymowich, Valisa Aho, Danae Kelln, Natasha (Natty) Petten, Bill Aho
Nova Scotia – CFB Halifax Curling Club, Halifax
Marie Christianson, Tanya Hilliard, Jane Snyder, Kaitlin Fralic, Danny Christianson
Ontario – Ottawa Curling Club, Ottawa
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Alison Kreviazuk, Lynn Kreviazuk, Earle Morris
Prince Edward Island – Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club, Summerside
Erin Carmody, Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Jessica van Ouwerkerk, Darcee Birch, Kathie Gallant
Quebec – Lachine Curling Club, Lachine
Kristen Richard, Lana Gosselin, Brittany O’Rourke, Sasha Beauchamp, Glenn Tester
Saskatchewan – Callie Curling Club, Regina
Brooklyn Lemon, Amanda Craigie, Leah Mihalicz, Nicole Lang, Dwayne Mihalicz
Yukon – Whitehorse Curling Club, Whitehorse
Sarah Koltun, Chelsea Duncan, Linea Eby, Jenna Duncan, Lindsay Moldowan
The PEI Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, wrapped up this afternoon at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. Nine men’s teams and four women’s rinks took part in the event.
The Jeanne Duffenais rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club beat Cornwall’s Diane MacKay rink 7-1 in the women’s final, stealing the first four ends to capture her sixth straight Masters title. In this afternoon’s game, Duffenais stole a single in the first end when MacKay made a hit on the second stone, but left the shot rock. MacKay was short on a hit and roll in end two, to give up a deuce. MacKay was left with a difficult angle raise double in the third, and gave up another point. A heavy eight-foot draw by MacKay in the fourth gave Duffenais another point. MacKay drew for a deuce in the fifth, but came up short, to trail 5-1. MacKay conceded in the sixth after Duffenais picked up two. Both Duffenais, and her team of Marg Nowlan, Georgie Coulson and Pat Barret, and runner-up MacKay, whose teammates include Evelyn Rogerson, Eileen Blanchard, and Marilyn Diamond, now advance to the Maritime Masters, March 1-5 at the Halifax Mayflower Curling Club.
MacKay and Duffenais both finished the round robin with 2-1 records, but MacKay won first place honours and the bye to the final by virture of beating Duffenais in their round robin encounter. In this morning’s semi-final, Duffenais blanked third-place Wanda Collings of the Western Community Club in Alberton by an 8-0 score. Collings and Cornwall’s Myrna Sanderson both had 1-2 round robin records, and faced off in a tiebreaker on Tuesday, with Collings winning by a 6-3 score.
In the men’s division, John Holmes and his Silver Fox team of Steve Bent, Des Arsenault, and George Power beat their clubmates the Bob Maynard foursome, which includes Harry Williams, Bruce Montgomery, and Spike Martin, by a 7-4 score to take this afternoon’s B final and the championship. Since Holmes had already won the A final of this double-knockout competition on Tuesday, edging out defending champion Bob MacWilliams, and his Cornwall Curling Club team of Roy Coffin, Vern Chowan, and Geoff Scutt, by a 9-8 score, a championship game was not needed, and the title was decided today. Maynard defeated MacWilliams this morning in the B section playdown, by an 8-4 score, while Holmes beat the Lou Nowlan rink from Summerside by a 7-3 score to setup this afternoon’s contest.
In the final, Holmes had a chance for three with hammer in the opening end, but came up short and had to settle for the deuce. Maynard got on the board with a second end measure for one, and stole another in the third when Holmes was heavy on a tap-back. Another tap-back attempt in the fourth overcurled, giving Holmes a single and a 3-2 lead at the halfway point of the eight-end game. Holmes stole one in the fifth, capitalizing on a miss by Maynard, who made up for it with a draw for two in the sixth to tie the game at four points. A heavy draw by Maynard in the seventh gave Holmes a triple. Maynard ran out of rocks in the eighth, giving the 2009 Masters title to Holmes. Both the winning John Holmes rink and the runner-up Bob Maynard foursome have earned the right to compete in the 2009 Maritime Masters, March 1-5 at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax.
The M&M Meat Shops Provincial Mixed curling championship takes place February 26 to March 1st at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. Entry deadline is February 5th. Entry fee is $40 per player, plus a $25 per player CCA competitor card fee. Defending champions are the Bill Hope rink from Charlottetown.
The Provincial 15 and Under curling championships are also sponsored by M&M Meat Shops, and take place at the Montague Curling Club. Event dates are also February 26 to March 1st, and entry deadline is February 5th. Entry fee is $20 per player. Last year’s champs were the Tiffany Sweet and Matthew MacLean rinks from the Maple Leaf club.
The KFC Provincial 12 and Under championships also take place at the Montague Curling Club, from March 5-8. Entry deadline is February 12, and entry fee is $20 per player. Defending champions are the Tyler Smith, Katie Fullerton, and Jonathan Schut rinks, all from the Cornwall Curling Club.
Entries for all events must be on official PEICA entry forms, available at all PEI curling clubs, or enter online at peicurling.com.
The Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers 60 years of ago and older, are down to the final few draws at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. Round robin play concluded Tuesday morning in the four team women’s division, with Diane MacKay of Cornwall and five- time defending champion Jeanne Duffenais from the Silver Fox finishing with two wins and one loss, while Myrna Sanderson of Cornwall and Wanda Collings of Alberton finished at 1 and 2. MacKay finished first, after round robin results against each other were compared, and advanced directly to the 1 pm Wednesday final, with Duffenais playing in the semi. The battle for third place had to go to a tiebreaker game, as PEICA rules dictate that tied teams cannot be eliminated from a playoff round without a tiebreaker. Collings doubled Sanderson 6-3 in the tiebreaker, to grab the remaining spot in the semi, which will be played at 9 am on Wednesday, with the winner going to the 1 pm final.March 1-5, at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax.
In Tuesday round robin play, Sanderson beat Collings 7-2, while MacKay beat Duffenais 7-3.
Meanwhile, four teams remain undefeated in the nine team double-knockout men’s section. John Holmes of the Silver Fox scored three points in the final end to edge defending champion Bob MacWilliams of Cornwall by a 9-8 score in the A final. Wednesday morning at 9, Holmes faces his clubmate and former champion Lou Nowlan, while MacWilliams takes on Bob Maynard of the Fox. The winners will square off in the B final at 1 pm Wednesday. If Holmes is in that game and wins it, he will become the PEI Masters men’s champ. If not, the sudden-death final between A winner Holmes and the B winner wil go Thursday at 1 pm.
In other Tuesday action, the Leslie Hardy foursome from the Western Community club in Alberton eliminated Alfred (Chick) Morrison and his combined Charlottetown/Cornwall team with a 5-1 score, but lost 10-1 to Nowlan in his next game. Maynard beat clubmate Louis Walsh 8-3, and Cornwall’s Sterling Stratton 7-3.
The winners and runners-up of both the women’s and men’s divisions will earn the right to play in the Maritime Masters,
The Open Playdowns portion of the Labatt Tankard Provincial Men’s Curling Championship gets underway Thursday evening at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. Fourteen teams, ten from the Charlottetown Curling Club, two from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, and two from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary, are entered in this triple knockout competition which will select eight teams for the Final Eight championship round, February 10-15 at the Montague Curling Club. Last year’s champions were the rink of Peter Gallant, Kevin Champion, Mark O’Rourke, and John Desrosiers. Gallant and Desrosiers are not competing in this event this year, but Champion and O’Rourke are members of the Rod MacDonald rink. The Playdowns wrap up Sunday evening. The winning team from the Final Eight will advance to the Tim Hortons Brier, March 7-15 in Calgary. Live results from both the Playdowns and the Final Eight will be available at peicurling.com/tankard
Eight of the fourteen teams have been seeded in the draw as a result of cashspiel winnings this season.
Here are the team rosters and seedings (skip to lead – club):
#1 Mike Gaudet, Eddie MacKenzie, Tyler Harris, Sean Clarey – Charlottetown
#2 John Likely, Philip Gorveatt, Mark Butler, Mike Dillon, Robert Campbell – Charlottetown
#3 Rod MacDonald, Kevin Champion, Andrew Robinson, Mark O’Rourke, 5th Peter MacDonald, coach Pat Aylward – Charlottetown
#4 Kyle Stevenson, Ben Blanchard, Kyle MacDonald, Doug MacGregor – Charlottetown
#5 Bill Hope, Dennis Watts, Jeff Gallant, Phillip MacInnis – Charlottetown
#6 Jamie Newson, Tim Hockin, Darren Higgins, Matthew MacCarville – Charlottetown
#7 Robert Shaw, Tom Fetterly, Robbie Younker, Sandy MacPhee – Charlottetown
#8 Mel Bernard, Blair Jay, Doug Simmons, Earle Proude – Silver Fox
Unseeded:
Terry Arsenault, Kevin Ellsworth, Pat Aylward, Brian Marcipont – Silver Fox
Daryl MacDonald Glen Betts Lowell Morrison Joey Ellsworth – Maple Leaf
Ted MacFadyen, Craig Mackie, David Murphy, Mike Coady, coach Al Ledgerwood – Charlottetown
Calvin Smith, Kevin Smith, Todd Gilbert, Richie Hughes – Charlottetown
Clair Sweet, Bob Matheson, Muncey Harris, Wayne Arsenault – Maple Leaf
Jeff Wilson, Lincoln Peters, Matt Praught, Nick VanOuwerkerk, 5th Brent Campbell, coaches Tom Peters and Robbie Roberts – Charlottetown
Here are the opening draws:
Thursday, January 29th, 6 pm
Mel Bernard (Silver Fox) vs Daryl MacDonald (Maple Leaf)
Bill Hope (Ch’town) vs Ted MacFadyen (Ch’town)
Rod MacDonald (Ch’town) vs Calvin Smith (Ch’town)
Friday, January 30th, 10:30 am
Kyle Stevenson (Ch’town) vs Clair Sweet (Maple Leaf)
Jamie Newson (Ch’town) vs Jeff Wilson (Ch’town)
Robert Shaw (Ch’town) vs Terry Arsenault (Silver Fox)
Friday, January 30th, 2 pm
Mike Gaudet (Ch’town) vs winner Bernard/MacDonald game (Thursday at 6 pm)
Friday, January 30th, 6 pm
John Likely (Ch’town) vs winner Shaw/Arsenault game (Friday at 10:30 am)
JASON SIMMONDS -Tr anscontinental Media
SUMMERSIDE — A 10th-end measurement was required to determine the 2009 P.E.I. Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion.
Robyn MacPhee of Charlottetown was awarded a single point and emerged with a 9-7 victory over clubmate Kim Dolan in the final game of the P.E.I. women’s curling championship Monday night at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club.
Click to read this Transcontinental Media story in today’s Guardian
The Dominion Curling Club Championship, sponsored by The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company, is a new event which gives regular club curlers across the country an opportunity to compete in provincial and national level competitions. Club curlers are those who enjoy the sport recreationally, supporting club leagues on a regular basis each curling season. Now, these teams will have an opportunity to demonstrate their skill against other curling clubs in their province and country.
Here on PEI, club-level events are being held at each of the seven curling clubs, to pick men’s and women’s club champions. Winners are to be declared by February 28th, and will compete in the Provincial Dominion Curling Club Championship, March 13-15 at the Crapaud Community Curling Club. This event replaces the Intermediate championship that was held in previous years. Entry fee for the provincial event is $30 per player. The Dominion Provincial Club Championship will be a round robin with eight end games, and will follow the PEI Curling Association’s Rules of Play. Ties will be decided by a full extra end. Upon completion of the round robin, the top three teams will advance to the playoff round, with the second-place team playing the third-place team in the semi-final, and the semi-final winner playing the first-place team in the final. Any profit generated from provincial or national Dominion Curling Club Championship events will be directed to charities including the Canadian Paraplegic Association, as well as developmental curling initiatives in communities across Canada.
The winners from the PEI championship will advance to the national event, at the St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Etobicoke Ontario in November.
Here are the eligibility requirements for The Dominion Provincial Club Championship:
1-Teams are to be made up from paid members from one PEI curling club. One women’s and one men’s team may be sent from each PEI curling club. Clubs have sole responsibility for deciding how to choose their representatives.
2-Replacement players must come from the same club, can play any position but skip, and cannot play any position higher than the position being replaced.
3-Clubs are responsible to ensure that eligibility criteria are met.
4-The PEI Curling Association has the sole authority to accept or reject any entry. On the national level, The Dominion reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to exclude any team that violates the intent and spirit of the competition. The rules of the national event may differ slightly from the provincial rules, and will be in effect for the national event.
5-The PEI event is open to men’s and women’s teams of four curlers from the same curling club. Teams may include no more than one player who has competed in the final four of a PEI Curling Association Provincial Championship event in the current and previous two seasons, or has competed in a championship outside the province, in the current and previous two seasons, as a result of winning a PEICA championship event.
6. Curlers from the former Intermediate championship and the Stick curling championship, and from championships not conducted by the PEICA, may compete, regardless of placement in those events, and provided that all team members belong to the same curling club.
7. Each team will be allowed a maximum of 2 players between the ages of 15 and 20, as of December 31st of the year prior to the Canadian championship. Curlers under the age of 15 are not eligible to compete.
The Charlottetown Curling Club team of Robyn and Rebecca Jean MacPhee, Shelley Muzika and Tammi Lowther are the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Provincial Women’s Curling Champions. Monday night at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club they beat their clubmates the Kim Dolan foursome by a 9-7 score to advance to the national Scotties, Feb. 21-March 1st in Victoria BC.
Dolan had hammer in the opening end, and the teams matched scores in the first six ends, taking singles and a pair of deuces. MacPhee took the lead with a seventh-end triple. Dolan responded with a deuce in the eighth, and MacPhee blanked the ninth for the important last rock advantage coming home. A single in the 10th gave her the win. Kathy O’Rourke, Nancy Cameron, and Trisha Affleck round out the runner-up Dolan foursome.
MacPhee eliminated her former teammate and three-time defending champion Suzanne Birt in the afternoon semi-final, winning 10-4, aided by a steal of four points in the third end when Birt was heavy on a draw with her last rock. All three Charlottetown teams had 3-1 win-loss records in the round robin. The other teams in the five-team field were from the Cornwall Curling Club, with Donna Butler finishing at 3-1, and Karen Currie 0-4.
Day one is over at the Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers aged 60 and over, being played at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. Nine men’s teams are playing a double-knockout format, while the four women’s rinks are playing a round robin with a two game championship round.
In the men’s division, four teams are undefeated, with five-time champion Lou Nowlan from Summerside at 2-0, and defending champion Bob MacWilliams from Cornwall, his clubmate and reigning stick curling champion Sterling Stratton, and John Holmes from the Silver Fox all with 1-0 win-loss records. Nowlan downed Father Art Pendergast and his Western Community Curling Club team 9-1 in his opener, and Silver Fox clubmate Louis Walsh 8-1, while MacWilliams edged Bob Maynard of the Fox 8-7, Holmes beat Alfred (Chick) Morrison and his combined Charlottetown/Cornwall rink 5-3, and Stratton took a six ender in his 12-2 routing of Alberton’s Leslie Hardy. In the B section, Hardy beat Pendergast 7-3.
In the women’s section, Summerside’s Jeanne Duffenais is off to a good start in her quest for a sixth consecutive Masters title, with a decisive 11-2 victory over Wanda Collings of Alberton, stealing five points in the seventh end, followed up by a 7-2 win over Cornwall’s Myrna Sanderson foursome. In other games, Diane MacKay beat Cornwall clubmate Sanderson 9-2, and Collings edged MacKay 7-6 in an extra end.
Play continues Tuesday with the women’s round robin wrapping up in the 9 am morning draw, and the playoff game between the second and third place team happening at 3 pm. The women’s final between the winner of that game and the first place finisher from the round robin goes Wednesday at 1 pm. The men play at 9 am, noon, and 3 pm on Tuesday, with the final set for Thursday at 1 pm. If the same team wins both A and B divisions in the double-knockout, the champion could be declared in the 1 pm Wednesday draw.
The winners and runners-up from both men’s and women’s divisions will advance to the Maritime Masters Championships, March 1-5, 2009 at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax.
MacPhee faces Dolan in tonight’s final
JASON SIMMONDS -The Journal Pioneer
SUMMERSIDE — There will be a new P.E.I. women’s curling champion in 2009.
Robyn MacPhee of the Charlottetown Curling Club eliminated clubmate Suzanne Birt, who won the last three P.E.I. Scotties Tournament of Hearts, in Monday afternoon’s semifinal at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club. The final score was 10-4.
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Suzanne Birt, who has won five of the last six PEI Scotties Tournament of Hearts will not be in this year’s final against Charlottetown clubmate Kim Dolan. In this afternoon’s semi-final at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club, Birt lost 10-4 to her former teammate Robyn MacPhee. A steal of four in the third gave the MacPhee foursome a 7-3 lead after five ends of play. Birt took a single in the sixth, but MacPhee came back with a deuce in the seventh and a stolen single in the eighth to bring the game to put the game out of reach.
Other members of the MacPhee rink are Robyn’s sister Rebecca Jean, along with Shelly Muzika and Tammi Lowther. Shelly Bradley, Leslie MacDougall, and Stefanie Clark, with coach Charlie Sullivan, round out team Birt.
Tonight’s MacPhee vs Dolan final is at 7 pm. Dolan’s lineup includes Kathy O’Rourke, Nancy Cameron, and Tricia Affleck. Dolan has won three PEI women’s championships playing third for Rebecca Jean MacPhee, and has skipped five winners herself. Robyn MacPhee is in her first year as skip, but was third for Birt when she won in 2007 and 2008, and played second for Rebecca Jean in 2005, and for Birt on the 2003 championship team.
Tonight’s winner will advance to the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 21st to March 1st in Victoria BC.
JASON SIMMONDS – The Journal Pioneer
SUMMERSIDE — One finalist has been determined for the P.E.I. Scotties Tournament of Hearts at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club.
Kim Dolan’s Charlottetown Curling Club rink beat clubmate Suzanne Birt 10-7 in the one vs. two Page playoff game Sunday night to earn a berth in tonight’s P.E.I. women’s curling championship final at 7.
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There are only three teams, all from the Charlottetown Curling Club, remaining in the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts provincial women’s curling championship, which wraps up on Monday at the Silver Fox.
The Kim Dolan rink beat the defending champion Suzanne Birt foursome 10-7 in the Sunday evening Page playoff game between the first and second place round robin finishers. This puts Dolan in Monday’s 7 pm final game, and gives Birt another chance, as she will now compete in the 2 pm Monday semi-final, with the winner of that game advancing to the championship game against Dolan. In Sunday’s game, Birt blanked the first end, and took a triple in the second. Dolan came back with a deuce in the third, and the two teams exchanged singles to give Birt a 4-3 lead at half-time. Dolan came on strong in the second half, with steals of two and three in ends six and seven to build up an 8-4 lead. Birt blanked the eighth and picked up a triple in the ninth to narrow the gap to 8-7, but Dolan sealed the win with a deuce in the final end.
Other members of the Dolan rink are Kathy O’Rourke, Nancy Cameron, and Trisha Affleck, while Shelly Bradley, Leslie MacDougall, and Stefanie Clark round out the Birt team, who are coached by Charlie Sullivan.
In the 3rd place vs 4th place game, the Robyn MacPhee rink from Charlottetown beat Cornwall’s Donna Butler foursome by a 9-2 score to advance to Monday’s 2 pm semi-final against Birt. MacPhee blanked the opening end, and picked up a deuce in the second. Butler and MacPhee exchanged singles in the next two ends, and MacPhee stole a double to lead 5-1 at the half. Butler picked up her final point in the sixth, with MacPhee taking a triple and stealing a single to bring the game to an early conclusion.
Playing with MacPhee are her sister Rebecca Jean, along with Shelly Muzika and Tammi Lowther, while Marie Molyneaux, Melissa Andrews and Carolyn Coulson, with coach Kathie Gallant are the other members of the Butler team.
The winning rink from Monday’s 7 pm final advance to the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb 21- March 1st in Victoria BC.
Round robin play wrapped up on Saturday night at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Provincial Women’s Curling Championships at the Silver Fox. Three Charlottetown Curling Club teams, skipped by Suzanne Birt, Kim Dolan, and Robyn MacPhee, finished the round robin with 3-1 win-loss records. When draw to the button results were compared, defending champion Birt earned the number one spot, with Dolan second, and MacPhee third. Cornwall’s Donna Butler rink was fourth, at 1-3, while her clubmate Karen Currie did not manage to pick up a round robin win.
Birt and Dolan now meet in the 1st vs 2nd place Page game, while MacPhee and Butler play in the 3rd vs 4th place game, both set for 7 pm on Sunday. The winner of the 1st vs 2nd game will advance directly to the 7 pm Monday final. The loser of that game will take on the winner of the 3rd vs 4th place game in the Semi-final, Monday at 2 pm, with the Semi winner advancing to the 7 pm championship game. The PEI Scotties champ will compete in the national Scotties, February 21st to March 1st in Victoria BC.
On Saturday evening, Robyn MacPhee handed Suzanne Birt her first loss in the event, edging her former teammate 7-6 by taking deuces in three ends. Both Birt and MacPhee won their afternoon games, with Birt downing Karen Currie 12-2, while MacPhee doubled Donna Butler 8-4. Butler lead 4-3 after seven ends, after picking up a seventh end triple with a hit and stick through a very narrow port and a tough draw to the four foot, but MacPhee took a double and stole a single and another deuce to end the game on the winning side. Kim Dolan had only one game on Saturday, defeating Butler 8-2 in the final draw.
JASON SIMMONDS -The Journal Pioneer
SUMMERSIDE — Generating offence was not a problem for Kim Dolan and Summerside native Suzanne Birt on Friday afternoon.
Birt prevailed 9-8 in a battle of Charlottetown Curling Club rinks to go 2-0 (won-lost) at the 2009 P.E.I. Scotties Tournament of Hearts provincial women’s curling championship. Dolan is 2-1.
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The Provincial Masters Curling Championship, for curlers age 60 and over, begins Monday January 26 at 9 am at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary, with the nine men’s teams playing a double-knockout format, and the four women’s rinks playing a round robin with a two-game championship. Jeanne Duffenais from Summerside will be looking for her sixth consecutive title in the women’s division, while Cornwall’s Bob MacWilliams rink are the defending men’s champions, after beating Lou Nowlan in last year’s final. Nowlan, who had won the previous five years, is recovering from a fall at his home Silver Fox club earlier this season, and will decide over the weekend if he is ready to compete. If not, Earle Proud will step in to skip the Nowlan rink. The women’s final is Wednesday at 1 pm, while the men’s title will be decided either at the same time, in the event that the winner of that B division final also won the A event earlier, or Thursday at 1 pm, if there are different winners. The winners and runners-up from both men’s and women’s divisions will advance to the Maritime Masters Championships, March 1-5, 2009 at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax.
Live results from the PEI Masters will be available at peicurling.com/masters.
Here are the opening men’s draws:
Monday, January 26nd, 9 AM
Arthur Pendergast (Western) vs Lou Nowlan (Silver Fox)
Sterling Stratton (Cornwall) vs Leslie Hardy (Western)
Monday, January 26th, 11:30 am
Alfred Morrison (Ch`town/Cornwall) vs John Holmes (Silver Fox)
Bob Maynard (Silver Fox) vs Bob MacWilliams (Cornwall)
Monday, January 26th, 3 PM
Louis Walsh (Silver Fox) vs winner of 9am Pendergast/Nowlan game
Here is the women’s round robin draw:
Monday, January 26nd, 9 AM
Diane MacKay (Cornwall) vs Myrna Sanderson (Cornwall)
Wanda Collings (Western) vs Jeanne Duffenais (Silver Fox)
Monday, January 26th, 3 PM
Diane MacKay (Cornwall) vs Wanda Collings (Western)
Myrna Sanderson (Cornwall) vs Jeanne Duffenais (Silver Fox)
Tuesday, January 27th, 9 AM
Myrna Sanderson (Cornwall) vs Wanda Collings (Western)
Diane MacKay (Cornwall) vs Jeanne Duffenais (Silver Fox)
Tuesday, January 27th, 3 pm
Semi-final: 2nd place vs 3rd place finishers from round robin
Wednesday, January 28th, 1 pm
Women’s Final: Winner of Semifinal vs 1st place finisher from round robin
Team Rosters
Men (skip to lead, club)
Alfred Morrison, Tom Dunn, John Baird, Neil Smith Ch’town/Cornwall curling clubs
Sterling Stratton, Ron Giggey, Edgar Coffin, George Younker, Cornwall Curling Club
Lou Nowlan*, Doug Currie, Wayne Gardiner, Raymond Thomson, Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club (Summerside)
Leslie Hardy, Walter Callaghan, Johnny Ellsworth, Eddie Bernard, Western Community Curling Club (Alberton)
Arthur Pendergast, Robert Gaudet, Eldon Hardy, Arthur Doucette, Western Community Curling Club (Alberton)
Bob MacWilliams, Roy Coffin, Vern Chowan, Geoff Scutt Cornwall Curling Club
Louis Walsh, Don Duffenais, Clayton Coulson, Charles Curry, Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club (Summerside)
Bob Maynard, Harry Williams, Bruce Montgomery, Spike Martin, Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club (Summerside)
John Holmes, Steve Bent, Des Arsenault, George Power, Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club (Summerside)
*Earle Proude may replace Lou Nowlan for this event
Women (skip to lead, club)
Diane MacKay, Margie Jardine, Marilyn Diamond, Eileen Blanchard, Cornwall Curling Club
Myrna Sanderson, Shirley Lank, Jean Anderson, Patricia McCardle, Cornwall Curling Club
Wanda Collings, Frances Ellsworth, Shirley Murphy, Audrey Thompson, Western Community Curling Club (Alberton)
Jeanne Duffenais, Marg Nowlan, Georgie Coulson, Pat Barrett, Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club (Summerside)
After two days of play at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts provincial women’s curling championship at the Silver Fox, defending champion and Summerside native Suzanne Birt, now playing out of the Charlottetown Curling Club, is now the only undefeated rink in the five-team field.
This afternoon, she handed clubmate Kim Dolan her first loss, by a narrow 9-8 margin, to move to a 2 and 0 win-loss record, while Dolan, who has not yet had a bye, is 2-1. Dolan was leading the game 3-0 after two ends, when Birt grabbed the lead with a four-pointer, and stole singles in the next two ends for a 6-3 lead after five ends of play. Dolan opened the second half with a triple to tie things up, but Birt scored a deuce in the next end, with the teams trading singles through the final end, giving Birt the one-point victory. In other 3 pm game, Robyn MacPhee of Charlottetown downed Karen Currie of Cornwall by a 13-3 score, taking six points in the fifth end en route to the win.
In the morning draw, Currie lost 10-3 to clubmate Donna Butler, while Dolan beat MacPhee 9-3.
Butler and MacPhee are both 1-1, while Currie is 0-3.
Round robin play wraps up on Saturday with Currie facing Birt and Butler meeting MacPhee in the 1 pm draw, while Birt takes on MacPhee and Dolan plays Butler at 6 pm.
If tiebreakers are needed, they’ll go Sunday at 2 pm. The Page playoffs with the first vs second place teams squaring off, and the third place rink meeting the fourth place, take place Sunday evening at 7. The semi-final, between the loser of the first vs second game, and the winner of the third vs fourth place, goes Monday at 2, with the semi-final winner playing the winner of the 1st vs 2nd place game, in the 7 pm final.
The PEI Scotties winner advances to the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts, February 21 to March 1st 2009 in Victoria BC.
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