Monthly Archives: December 2009

Play gets underway Friday morning in the triple-knockout Pepsi Provincial Junior Curling Championships, for curlers age 20 and under, at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary, with seven junior men’s teams, and six junior women’s rinks taking part. Defending junior … Continue reading →

The Cornwall Curling Club team skipped by eleven-year-old Tyler Smith edged our their clubmates, the Jeff Taylor foursome, by a 7-6 score this afternoon to cap off an extremely close junior men’s event at the Canada Games Curling Trials at … Continue reading →

It’s an all-Cornwall  final in the Junior Men’s section of the PEI Canada Games Trials, getting underway at 1:30 this afternoon at the Charlottetown Curling Club. In tiebreaker play this morning, Cornwall’s Jeff Taylor rink edged the Matthew MacLean foursome … Continue reading →

SUMMERSIDE JASON SIMMONDS The Journal Pioneer Mel Bernard made it back-to-back PEI senior mixed curling championships Sunday afternoon. Bernard stole three points in the first two ends and used last-rock advantage to count deuces in the fourth and seventh ends … Continue reading →

Kevin Martin of Edmonton will return to the Olympic Games as Canada’s skip in February at Vancouver. Martin and his team of John Morris, Marc Kennedy and Ben Hebert defeated Glenn Howard of Coldwater, ON., 7-3 in the men’s final … Continue reading →

The Amanda MacLean rink from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary doubled Cornwall’s Veronica Smith foursome by a 6-3 score this afternoon to win PEI’s Junior Women’s berth in the 2011 Canada Games, February 11-27 2011 in Halifax. The … Continue reading →

 L-R: Mel Bernard, Jeanne Duffenais, Earle Proude, Paula Baglole The defending champion Mel Bernard rink from the host Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club stole a single in the first end, and a deuce in the second to grab an … Continue reading →

The final got underway at 2 pm in the Junior Women’s section of the Canada Games Trials, at the Charlottetown Curling Club. The Amanda MacLean rink from the Maple Leaf club in O’Leary finished double round robin play in first … Continue reading →

By Larry Wood Morning Roar EDMONTON, December 12…It boiled down to a collision of two skips from the same city whose teams have been bashing heads for close to two decades. And this was different. It wasn’t a club game, … Continue reading →

With one draw remaining in the double round robin, the Amanda MacLean rink from O’Leary leads the junior women’s side of the Canada Games Curling Trials at the Charlottetown Curling Club, with a 4-1 win-loss record. Close behind is the … Continue reading →

Round robin play wrapped up on Saturday afternoon in the Provincial Senior Mixed Curling Championships, with Donald Clarey of Montague doubling Harry Williams of the host Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club by a 6-3 score, and defending champion Mel … Continue reading →

Todd Kimberley Morning Roar Associate Editor EDMONTON, December 12, 2009 — Kevin Martin has been here before, you understand. So he doesn’t need much in the way of motivation for Sunday’s Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings men’s final, presented … Continue reading →

MARIO ANNICCHIARICO Canwest News Service EDMONTON — They’re starting to call it Snowgate, but might be more appropriately dubbed a snow job. Ben Hebert’s alleged debris dumping incident in Thursday night’s battle for first place at the Roar of the … Continue reading →

By Larry Wood and Todd Kimberley Morning Roar EDMONTON, December 11…Shannon Kleibrink must have deja-vu on the mind and in the eye as she heads for Saturday’s 6 p.m. Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials final at Rexall Place, live on … Continue reading →

SUMMERSIDE — Blair Jay of the host Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club and Montague’s Donald Clarey both sport 1-0 records after two draws of the P.E.I. senior mixed curling championship. Click to read this story in today’s Guardian

After two rounds of play at the Canada Games Curling Trials in Charlottetown, all four junior men’s rinks have a win and a loss. In the Junior women’s section, the Jenny McLean foursome from Summerside lead the standings with a … Continue reading →

Play gets underway at 9 this morning in the Canada Games Curling Trials at the Charlottetown Curling Club. Four junior men’s teams, and an equal number of junior women’s rinks will play double round robin formats to determine PEI’s representatives at the … Continue reading →

The PEI curling championship season kicks off this weekend, with the Provincial Senior Mixed, for mixed teams age 50 and over, taking place at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. Five rinks are entered, with three of … Continue reading →

By Larry Wood and Todd Kimberley Morning Roar EDMONTON, December 10…Kevin Martin, Edmonton’s Old Bear, is zeroing in on his third curling tournament at the Olympic Games with a view to winning his first gold medal. Martin and his team … Continue reading →

By Larry Wood Editor, Morning Roar EDMONTON, December 10…They eliminated two more teams, including defending Canadian champion Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg, as they cemented final round-robin results in the Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials, women’s division, Thursday afternoon at Rexall … Continue reading →

Cornwall Dec. 11- Construction of a new curling club here will not happen until 2011 at the earliest.  Click to read this story in The Guardian

Todd Kimberley Morning Roar Associate Editor   EDMONTON, December 10, 2009 — Glenn Howard and Kevin Martin both clinched a playoff appearance Thursday morning at the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings, presented by Monsanto, while Jeff Stoughton’s dramatic victory … Continue reading →

By Larry Wood and Todd Kimberley The Morning Roar EDMONTON, December 9…Cheryl Bernard and her Calgary team are within one victory of representing Canada at the Vancouver Olympic Games. Amazingly, the 43-year-old Bernard doesn’t even have to win her last … Continue reading →

By Larry Wood Morning Roar Editor EDMONTON, December 9…More and more, the Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials – men’s division – at Rexall Place is assuming a familiar appearance. It’s one curling observers saw at the 2007 Brier, and the … Continue reading →

By Larry Wood Editor, Morning Road EDMONTON, December 8…All the chatter on Tuesday night at the Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials centred around “the heavyweights”. Those being the so-called top-four men’s seeds, heading into their own three-round final at Rexall … Continue reading →