The Ontario men’s and women’s teams were the winners of this afternoon’s finals of The Dominion National Curling Club Championships, Canada’s first-ever national championship for club curlers, played at the St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Toronto.
The women’s final against Manitoba went to two extra ends, with the 9th end being blanked, and Ontario winning 6-5 with a stolen single in the 1oth. The men’s championship game also went to an extra, where Ontario recorded a triple, for a 7-4 win.
The men’s team, skipped by Robert Stafford, are from the Chatham Granite club, while the women’s rink, with skip Kelly Cochrane, are from the High Park Curling Club, in Toronto.
In the final round robin draw on Saturday, PEI’s women’s team, from the Crapaud Community Curling Club, spoiled Newfoundland and Labrador’s chance to advance to a tiebreaker round, with the Newfoundland team stealing a single in the eighth to force an extra end. With Newfoundland lying shot rock in the back four-foot with a guard at the top of the twelve, the ninth end came down to a final shot from PEI skip Vanessa Hamming. Her weight was dead-on s her rock came to a stop right on the button, winning the game for PEI, and eliminating the need for a tiebreaker.
The PEI women ended play with a 2-4 win-loss record, while the men’s team, skipped by Louis Walsh of the Silver Fox, were winless in six starts.
The next national The Dominion will be held on PEI, Nov. 23-28 2010 at the Charlottetown and Cornwall curling clubs, with the PEI playdowns taking place March 18-21 2010 in Cornwall.
The Brett Gallant team from the Charlottetown Curling Club beat their clubmates, the Robert Campbell foursome, by a 7-4 score to win this afternoon’s final at the Labatt/Superstore/Journal-Pioneer Atlantic Curling Tour cashspiel at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. The World junior silver medallists trailed 4-2 after five ends of play, but followed a deuce in the sixth end with a steal of two in the seventh, and a stolen single in the eighth in the come-from-behind victory. Gallant’s teammates are Adam Casey, Anson Carmody, and Alex MacFadyen. Playing with Campbell were Steve Burgess, Jamie Newson, and Rob Doherty.
Campbell doubled the defending champion Eddie MacKenzie rink by an 8-4 score in the semi-finals, while Gallant stole four ends in a row in a 7-3 win over Mark Armstrong of Rothsay NB.
In this morning’s quarter-finals, MacKenzie beat Summerside native Dave Nowlan and his Fredericton NB team by a 6-2 score, Campbell beat Summerside’s Mel Bernard rink, PEI’s Senior Men’s champs, 5-2, Armstrong defeated tournament organizer Rod MacDonald and his Charlottetown team by a 7-5 score, recording a deuce in the extra end, and Gallant doubled Jamie Brennan of Fredericton NB 6-3.
In round robin play, Nowlan was 4-0 in the A pool, with MacDonald going 3-1. Gallant and Bernard were both 3-1 in the B Pool, while Armstrong went undefeated in the C pool, while MacKenzie had one loss. Brennan was 4-0, while Campbell went 3-1 in the D pool.
The Atlantic Curling Tour wraps up with the Hub City Shootout in Moncton, which gets underway Thursday night, followed by the ACT championship, also in Moncton, January 1-3. MacDonald, MacKenzie, and Campbell are all entered in the Hub City event, along with Charlottetown’s Ted MacFadyen rink. The Gallant team will begin their quest for their fifth consecutive provincial junior championship, their second Canadian championship, and a World Junior gold medal, when they take part in the Pepsi Provincial Junior Curling Championships, December 18-22 at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary.
The Sarah Fullerton rink from the host Cornwall Curling Club, and the Jon Rennie team from the Riverside Curling Club in Rothesay NB were the winners of the 14th annual Pizza Delight/Howard Johnson Dutch Inn Junior Cashspiel, which wrapped up this afternoon. The Fullerton foursome, includes third Michelle McQuaid, second Sara MacRae, and lead Whitney Young, with coach Brenda MacMillan, edged the Anita Casey rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club 5-4 in the final, while the Rennie team stole a deuce in the second end, and followed a triple in the fourth with a steal of one point in the fifth end on the way to an 8-3 win over the Shawn Pitre team from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton.
Left to right: Brenda MacMillan (Tournament organizer and coach of the Fullerton rink), Sarah Fullerton, Michelle McQuaid, Sara MacRae, Whitney Young
Left to right: Brenda MacMillan (tournament organizer), Jon Rennie, Chris MacRae, Andrew Perrin, Tyler Milligan, Paul Brayshaw (coach)
Playing with Rennie were Chris MacRae, Andrew Perrin, and Tyler Milligan, with coach Paul Brayshaw. Other members of the Casey squad are Abby Burgess, Hillary Thompson, and Jessica van Ouwerkerk, with coach Jeff Wilson, while Daniel McCarthy, Jeff Duggan, and Colton Griffin, with coach Roger Gavin, round out the Pitre foursome.
In semi-final play this morning, Casey beat Cornwall’s Veronica Smith 8-5, while Fullerton had a 9-6 win over Amanda MacLean of O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club. In the junior men’s section, Rennie beat Cornwall’s Jeff Taylor 6-1, while Pitre made up for dropping three points in the first end to Sam Ramsay of Summerside, by scoring three points in the second end, followed by steals of 2, 3, and 1 point in the following ends to bring the game to a swift conclusion with a 9-3 win.
In addition to the final, the junior men’s division had two consolation matches, with Cornwall’s Tyler Smith beating Matthew MacLean of O’Leary 7-5, and Spencer Pitre and his Charlottetown team beating clubmate Alex Matters by a 7-4 score.
In round robin play, the Veronica Smith rink finished with a perfect 4-0 record, while Casey, Fullerton, and MacLean had one loss.
In the junior men’s section Rennie went 3-0 in the round robin, while Taylor and Shawn Pitre were 2-1, and Ramsay was 1-2 in his pool, tied with Spencer Pitre and Matthew MacLean, until tiebreaking rules came into play.
Eight junior men’s rinks, and ten junior women’s teams, from PEI, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador took part in the cashspiel.
Next year’s 15th annual event will go earlier in the season, October 29-31, because of contention with Cornwall’s co-hosting of The Dominion National Curling Club Championship.
Play got underway at 8:30 this morning in the semi-final round of the 14th annual Pizza Delight/Howard Johnson Dutch Inn Junior Cashspiel at the Cornwall Curling Club.
The Junior women’s semis see the Veronica Smith team from the host club taking on the Anita Casey foursome from the Silver Fox, and Cornwall’s Sarah Fullerton rink playing the Amanda MacLean team from O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club. Smith finished round robin play with a perfect 4-0 record, while the other three teams each had one loss.
In the junior men’s semi-finals, Cornwall’s own Jeff Taylor team are battling the Jon Rennie rink from Rothsay NB, while the Sam Ramsay squad from Summerside is playing Shawn Pitre and his team from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. Rennie went 3-0 in the round robin, while Taylor and Pitre were 2-1, and Ramsay was 1-2 in his pool, tied with Spencer Pitre’s Charlottetown team and with the Matthew MacLean rink from O’Leary, until tiebreaking rules came into play.
The junior men’s consolation round begins at 11, with the junior men’s and women’s finals set for noon.
The 15th annual event next year will go earlier in the season, October 29-31, because of contention with Cornwall’s co-hosting of The Dominion National Curling Club Championship.
The quarter-finals get underway at 9 this morning at the Labatt/Superstore/Journal-Pioneer Atlantic Curling Tour cashspiel at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, with five of the eight qualifying teams coming from PEI.
The first quarter-final sees the defending champion Mike Gaudet rink, now skipped by Eddie MacKenzie, with Gaudet at third, taking on New Brunswick’s Dave Nowlan, who is formerly from Summerside. Summerside’s Mel Bernard rink, last year’s Senior champions, are playing Charlottetown’s Robert Campbell foursome in the second quarter-final matchup.
World junior silver-medallist Brett Gallant takes on Jamie Brennan of Fredericton NB in the third quarter-final, while tournament organizer Rod MacDonald and his veteran Charlottetown Curling Club rink of Kevin Champion, Mark O’Rourke, and Andrew Robinson play the Mark Armstrong team from New Brunswick in the final matchup.
In round robin play, Nowlan was 4-0 in the A pool, with MacDonald going 3-1. Gallant and Bernard were both 3-1 in the B Pool, while Armstrong went undefeated in the C pool, while MacKenzie had one loss. Brennan was 4-0, while Campbell went 3-1 in the D pool.
The semis go at noon, with the finals at 3. Twenty teams are taking part in this annual event.
The Atlantic Curling Tour wraps up with the Hub City Shootout in Moncton next weekend, followed by the ACT championship, also in Moncton, January 1-3.
The Men’s and Women’s finals go at 3 pm Atlantic today at The Dominion National Curling Club Championships, Canada’s first-ever national championship for club curlers, being played at the St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Toronto.
In the women’s final, it will be Ontario taking on Manitoba, while the men’s championship game will feature the winners of this morning’s 11 am Atlantic semi-finals between BC and Saskatchewan, and Manitoba and Ontariio.
In the final round robin draw yesterday, PEI’s women’s team, from the Crapaud Community Curling Club, spoiled Newfoundland and Labrador’s chance to advance to a tiebreaker round, with the Newfoundland team stealing a single in the eighth to force an extra end. With Newfoundland lying shot rock in the back four-foot with a guard at the top of the twelve, the ninth end came down to a final shot from PEI skip Vanessa Hamming. Her weight was dead-on s her rock came to a stop right on the button, winning the game for PEI, and eliminating the need for a tiebreaker.
The PEI women ended play with a 2-4 win-loss record, while the men’s team, skipped by Louis Walsh of the Silver Fox, were winless in six starts.
A tiebreaker was needed in the men’s section, with New Brunswick beating the Northwest Territories in a close game in the final round robin draw to secure a tie-breaker with British Columbia. BC won that game 11-3 and secured their berth in today’s Men’s Semi-Finals.
The next national The Dominion will be held on PEI, Nov. 23-28 2010 at the Charlottetown and Cornwall curling clubs, with the PEI playdowns taking place March 18-21 2010 in Cornwall.
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