The Molson Mayflower Cashspiel, wrapped up this afternoon at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, with Shawn Adams from the host club beating Mark Kehoe of Windsor 7-4 in the final. The Adams foursome, which includes Paul Flemming, Jeff Hopkins, and Kelly Mittelstadt, goes home with $2500, with $1500 going to the runner-up Kehoe squad.
PEI’s Brett Gallant and John Likely rinks lost out in the quarter-finals, and go home with $1000 each. Gallant lost 7-2 to Kehoe, while Likely was edged out by Adams in a close 3-2 decision.
Adams beat Chad Stevens of Chester 5-3 in the semi-finals, while Kehoe edged Jamie Murphy of the host club 5-4 to advance to the final. The Stevens and Murphy rinks each go home with $1250,
PEI’s Gallant team finished round robin play with a 5-0 win-loss record, while Likely had just one loss. Other members of the Brett Gallant foursome are Adam Casey, Anson Carmody and Alex MacFadyen, while Phil Gorveatt, Mark Butler, and Mike Dillon round out the Likely squad.
The two other PEI teams entered finished out of the money, with Eddie MacKenzie finishing round robin play at 2-3, and Rebecca Jean MacPhee picking up one win against four losses.
24 teams from across the Maritimes took part in this Atlantic Curling Tour event. Next up on the tour is the Labatt/Superstore/Journal Pioneer Cashspiel, November 27-29 at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside.
The Kyle Stevenson rink from the Charlottetown Curling Club have won their first two games at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championships, being played at the Burlington Ontario Golf and Country Club. On Sunday morning they followed up their 8-5 Saturday win over Newfoundland and Labrador’s Matt Blandford foursome with another 8-5 victory, this time over the Mark Dacey rink from Halifax. Dacey was ahead 4-2 after six ends, but Stevenson took the lead with a triple in the seventh, and recorded another three in the ninth in a game which featured a lot of rocks in play and some up-weight hits from Stevenson.
The PEI team, which includes third Donna Butler, second Doug MacGregor, and lead Tricia Affleck play the final Atlantic Canadian team, New Brunswick’s Mary Jane McGuire rink, at 7 pm AT. McGuire is the only other team at 2-0.
PEI plays Northern Ontario, and Ontario on Monday.
The Fall Fling Junior Cashspiel wrapped up this afternoon at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, with the Sarah Fullerton rink from Cornwall, and the Colten Steele team from the Dartmouth NS Curling Club winning the finals. Fullerton, with teammates Michelle McQuaid, Whitney Young, and Sara MacRae, doubled the Anita Casey foursome from the host club by a 6-3 score, while Steele edged out defending champion Sam Ramsay, also from the Fox, by an 8-7 count. Playing with Steele were Travis Colter, Michael Brophy, and Ben Creaser. Rounding out the Casey squad were Abby Burgess, Hillary Thompson and Jessica van Ouwerkerk, while Justin Richard, Eric Pidgeon, and Corey Miller are the other members of the Ramsay rink.
In semi-final play Sunday morning, Fullerton took two five-enders in her 13-6 win over the young Veronica Smith squad, also from Cornwall. Playing with Smith are Katie Fullerton (Sarah’s sister), Sabrina Smith, and Chloe McCloskey. In the other junior women’s semi, Casey beat Amanda MacLean of O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club by a 7-4 score. Rounding out the MacLean team are Kassinda Bulger, Emily Gray, and Aleya Quilty.
In junior men’s semi-final play, Steele edged out Spencer Pitre, who is playing out of the Charlottetown Curling Club, by a 5-4 score in an extra end, while Ramsay defeated Peter Doane of the Halifax Mayflower club 7-2. Playing with Pitre were Matthew Nabuurs, Connor MacPhee, and Shawn Noonan, while Kris Slater, Mitchell Young, and Mitchell Boone complete the Doane team.
Round robin play wrapped up on Saturday, with Fullerton and Casey finishing with unblemished 5-0 win-loss records in the Junior Women’s section, while MacLean and Smith went 4-1. In the Junior Men’s division, Steele and Ramsay were undefeated at 5-0, while Doane ended at 4-1, with Pitre going 3-2.
12 teams took part in each division. Ten PEI teams from this event will be back in Summerside this coming weekend for the Canada Games pre-trials, which get underway on Friday. As well, many of the teams from the Fall Fling will be competing in the Pizza Delight/Subway/Howard Johnson junior cashspiel, the following weekend in Cornwall.
The Molson Mayflower Cashspiel, part of the Atlantic Curling Tour, wraps up today at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax. PEI’s Brett Gallant team finished round robin play with a 5-0 win-loss record, and will face Mark Kehoe of Windsor in one of the quarter-final games this morning at 9. Charlottetown’s John Likely also made it to the quarters, with a 4-1 record, and will play Shawn Adams of the host club this morning. Other members of the Brett Gallant foursome are Adam Casey, Anson Carmody and Alex MacFadyen, while Phil Gorveatt, Mark Butler, and Mike Dillon round out the Likely squad.
Other quarter-finals will see Mayflower teams Jamie Murphy and Doug MacKenzie face off, and Ken Myers of the host club face Chad Stevens of Chester.
The two other PEI teams entered finished out of the money, with Eddie MacKenzie finishing round robin play at 2-3, and Rebecca Jean MacPhee picking up one win against four losses.
The semis go at 12:30, with the finals set for 3:30 pm. The winning team will go home with $2500, with $1500 for the runner-up, $1250 for 3rd and 4th place, and $1000 for the remaining quarter-finalists.
24 teams from across the Maritimes took part in this event.
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The semi-final round gets underway at 9 this morning, with the final set for 1 pm at the annual Fall Fling Junior Cashspiel, being played at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside.
In the Junior Women’s semi-finals, Sarah Fullerton will face Cornwall clubmate Veronica Smith, and Anita Casey of the host club will take on Amanda MacLean of O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club. The Junior men’s semis will see Colton Steele of the Dartmouth NS curling club play Spencer Pitre of Cornwall, while the defending champion Sam Ramsay rink from the host Silver Fox club battles the Peter Doane foursome from the Halifax Mayflower club.
Round robin play wrapped up on Saturday, with Fullerton and Casey finishing with unblemished 5-0 win-loss records in the Junior Women’s section, while MacLean and Smith went 4-1. In the Junior Men’s division, Steele and Ramsay were undefeated at 5-0, while Doane ended at 4-1, with Pitre going 3-2.
Live results available at www.silverfox-pei.com/curling.
The Kyle Stevenson rink from the Charlottetown Curling Club won their opening game Saturday evening at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championships, being played at the Burlington Ontario Golf and Country Club, beating Newfoundland and Labrador’s Matt Blandford foursome by and 8-5 score. The PEI team, which includes third Donna Butler, second Doug MacGregor, and lead Tricia Affleck, stole a single in the sixth end, and a deuce in the 9th, en route to the win.
PEI’s gets to play the rest of the Atlantic Canadian teams on Sunday, facing Nova Scotia’s Mark Dacey at 10 Atlantic, and New Brunswick’s Mary Jane McGuire team at 7 pm AT.
PRINCE GEORGE, November 14 — Toronto veteran Wayne Middaugh and Amber Holland of Kronau, SK., skipped their teams to final berths in the Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials with last-ditch qualifying victories on Saturday night at the Road to the Roar Pre-Trials, presented by Monsanto.
Middaugh hit for a first-end deuce, added another in the third and another in the seventh to assume a 6-2 lead against Bob Ursel of Kelowna.
Ursel, with Jim Cotter throwing last rocks, found their offence completely shut down by the Middaugh team that included third Jon Mead, a member of Jeff Stoughton’s Trials runner-up team four years ago at Halifax, second John Epping and lead Scott Bailey.
Middaugh shot 95 per cent in the match and was unbeatable.
“We looked at the draw to see who could play the most games and saw it was us,” he quipped.
“I would have been happier to go home like (A qualifier) Jeff (Stoughton) but I said to my players, ‘you know, we haven’t played a lot this year and the more we played the better we got, so let’s go’.”
The Port Carling, Ontario golf manager’s invincibility ruled the day. Ursel fired 61 per cent and labelled it “the worst game I’ve curled in memory”. As Ursel throws third rocks, it made it tougher on last-rock shooter Jim Cotter, who shot 86 per cent.
Middaugh didn’t miss a fraction of a shot until the ninth end.
“I talked to Glenn (Howard) and he said, ‘you know, it might make a big difference in the first couple of games’ (at Edmonton), having played with these rocks,” said Middaugh.
“I feel outstanding but it’s more a testament to my team. It was a long road this week, we’ve been here seven days, but we got it rolling at the right time and maybe we’ll get this team peaking in Edmonton.”
Holland whipped Marie-France Larouche of St-Romuald, QC, 7-3 in a battle of former national junior champions for the last Trials berth.
The turnaround in the game arrived in the second end when Larouche, trailing by one, was nailed with a hogline violation on her last stone. The shot was made for a deuce but when it was nullified, Holland benefited by the steal of two for a 3-0 lead.
Larouche never recovered.
“I don’t think we played very well this week but we had a chance today and we lost that chance,” said the 1999 national junior champ. “And I know we had to play better here to win this game. I don’t ever remember a hogline violation since junior days. But I’m the only person to blame. She (Holland) played well and deserves to be in this. I’m happy for her but . . . ”
The amiable Holland, the executive director of the Saskatchewan Curling Association, admitted the hogline call was huge.
“Fortunate for us and unfortunate for them but it’s part of the game,” she said. “It’s a hard turnaround, tough to mentally come back from something like that. I don’t really believe she believed she was over the hog.”
Meanwhile, Holland and her team of Kim and Tammy Schneider, and Heather Kalenchuk, a lineup intact for four years, hopes to be a force at the Trials.
“We may not be as experienced as some,” said Holland, the 1992 national junior champ. “I haven’t played in the trials since 2001. I think I’m more prepared now.”
Middaugh earlier defeated Jean-Michel Menard 8-7 in overtime to reach the final. Ursel won his semi-final over Ted Appelman of Edmonton on Friday.
“I think playing this morning helped us,” said Middaugh. “The ice was close to a foot straighter than what we saw earlier in the week and that might have given us an advantage on Bobby the first couple of ends.”
Middaugh was an alternate in the 2005 Trials at Halifax. He last skipped a trials contender in 2001.
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