With one round robin draw left to be played in the KFC Provincial age 12 and Under Curling Championships which got underway Friday afternoon, the Devin Schut rink of Cornwall who have a 2-0 win-loss record, and the Laura Gillis team from the host Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, who are 1-0, are the only undefeated teams. Seven boys rinks, in two pools, and three girls teams are taking part. All other boys teams are 1-1, except for Cameron Jenkins of Charlottetown, who are 0-2. In the girls section, Kayla Schut of Crapaud is 1-1, and Cornwall’s Megan Ching is 0-1. The final round robin draw goes at noon on Saturday, with tiebreakers, if needed, at 2 pm, and playoff round games at 4 and 7 on Saturday, with the girls final at 7. The boys playoff round continues on Sunday at 1 pm, with the final at 4.
Daily Archives: March 12, 2010
The second annual The Dominion Provincial Club Curling Championship gets underway Thursday afternoon, following the Maritime Stick finals, at the Cornwall Curling Club. Club champions from all seven PEI clubs will be competing in the men’s section, along with women’s champions from six clubs. Defending champions are the Vanessa Hamming rink from the Crapaud Community Curling Club, and the Louis Walsh foursome from the Silver Fox. Hamming and her team are back this year. The winning provincial rinks will advance to the national The Dominion Curling Club championship, which is cohosted by Cornwall, and the Charlottetown Curling Club, and will take place November 23-28.
The provincial and national club championships, sponsored by The Dominion, one of the country’s largest property and casualty insurers, are designed to give regular club curlers across the country an opportunity to compete in provincial and national level competitions. 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.
In the provincial event, the men’s and women’s divisions will play round robin formats, with alternating men’s and women’s draws at 5:30 (men) and 8 pm (women) on Thursday, and on Friday at 9:30 am (men), and 12 noon (women), 2:30 (men), 5:30 (women) and 8 pm (men). The round robin wraps up on Saturday with men’s draws at 9:30 am, and 2:30 and 8 pm, and women’s play at 12 noon and 5:30 pm.
Tiebreakers, if needed, go Sunday at 10 am, with the semi-finals at 1 and the final at 5 pm.
End by end results will be available at peicurling.com/thedominion.
Here are the men’s team rosters (skip to lead, fifth, club)
Dave Ross, Nick Fraser, Paul Gaudet, Lester Wah, Charlottetown
Roddie MacLean, Paul Durant, Edgar Coffin, George Younker, Cornwall
Kevin Smith (throws 1st), Calvin Smith (throws 4th), Todd Gilbert (throws 3rd), Donald Whitehead (throws 2nd), Crapaud Community
Glen Betts, Rodney Ellis, Lowell Morrison, Reggie Clements, Ricky Cook (5th), Maple Leaf (O’Leary)
Donald Clarey, Larry Richards, Elliot Morrison, Cameron Lerch, Mike Clarey (5th), Montague
Barry Cameron, Corey Montgomery, Andrew Windsor, Steven Arsenault, Silver Fox (Summerside)
Kevin Ellsworth, Fred Fraser, Alan Gaudet, Gifford Costain, Western Community (Alberton)
Here are the women’s team rosters (skip to lead, fifth, club)
Micki Cageorge, Velma MacLean, Debbie Mol, Wilma Smith, Charlottetown
Lorianne Davies, Melody Beck, Tracy MacDonald, Lynda Turnbull, Cornwall
Vanessa Hamming, Ruth Walsh, Lindsay Moore, Heather MacRae, Crapaud Community
June Moyaert, Shelley Rice, Darlene Larter, Carole Sullivan, Montague
Kim Aylward, Jeanne Duffenais, Michelle Weaver, Debbie Caissy, Silver Fox (Summerside)
Sharon Horne, Kim Ellsworth, Wendy Fraser, Cheryl Bell, Western Community (Alberton)
Round robin draw
Thursday March 18 5:30 pm (men)
Dave Ross vs Kevin Smith, Barry Cameron vs Kevin Ellsworth, Glen Betts vs Donald Clarey
Thursday March 18 8 pm (women)
June Moyaert vs Vanessa Hamming, Kim Aylward vs Sharon Horne, Micki Cageorge vs Lorianne Davies
Friday, March 19 9:30 am (men)
Kevin Ellsworth vs Donald Clarey, Glen Betts vs Roddie MacLean, Barry Cameron vs Dave Ross
Friday, March 19 12 noon (women)
Kim Aylward vs Micki Cageorge, June Moyaert vs Sharon Horne, Lorianne Davies vs Vanessa Hamming
Friday March 19 2:30 pm (men)
Glen Betts vs Kevin Smith, Dave Ross vs Donald Clarey, Roddie MacLean vs Kevin Ellsworth
Friday March 19 5:30 pm (women)
Sharon Horme vs Lorianne Davies, Vanessa Hamming vs Micki Cageorge, June Moyaert vs Kim Aylward
Friday March 19 8 pm (men)
Dave Ross vs Roddie MacLean, Kevin Ellsworth vs Kevin Smith, Barry Cameron vs Glen Betts
Saturday March 20 9:30 am (men)
Glen Betts vs Kevin Ellsworth, Roddie MacLean vs Kevin Smith, Barry Cameron vs Donald Clarey
Saturday March 20 12 noon (women)
Micki Cageorge vs June Moyaert, Lorianne Davies vs Kim Aylward, Vanessa Hamming vs Sharon Horne
Saturday March 20 2:30 pm (men)
Kevin Smith vs Donald Clarey, Barry Cameron vs Roddie MacLean, Glen Betts vs Dave Ross
Saturday March 20 5:30 pm (women)
Vanessa Hamming vs Kim Aylward, Lorianne Davies vs June Moyaert, Sharon Horne vs Micki Cageorge
Saturday March 20 8 pm (men)
Barry Cameron vs Kevin Smith, Dave Ross vs Kevin Ellsworth, Roddie MacLean vs Donald Clarey
Sunday March 21 10 am
Tiebreakers, if needed
Sunday March 21 1 pm
Semi-finals: 2nd vs 3rd place
Sunday March 21 5 pm
Finals: 1st vs winner semi-final
Many of the best stick curlers in the three Maritime provinces will at the Cornwall Curling Club Tuesday March 16 through Thursday the 18th for the second annual Maritime Stick Curling Championships, sponsored by Ferguson Funeral Homes. There are two men’s pools, with four Nova Scotia teams, one New Brunswick rink, and seven PEI duos. For the first time there is also a women’s pool, with all the women’s teams coming from PEI for this year. Defending men’s champions are the rink of Vince Clark and Lorne Breckon from the Truro Curling Club. Clark is back this year, with teammate Kerry Gardner.
In stick curling there are two curlers per team, who deliver their rocks with delivery sticks, with each team member delivering from opposite ends. Sweeping is allowed only from the hog line to the back of the house at the playing end. Two curlers, one from each team, alternately deliver 6 stones each per end, while their teammate skips that end. The roles are then reversed, and the partners deliver the stones back. All games are six ends.
Teams will play a round robin format, with the top three teams from each pool advancing to the men’s and women’s playoff round. Round robin draws are Tuesday and Wednesday at 10 and 11:15 am, and 12:45, 2 and 3:30 pm. The quarter-finals go Thursday at 10 am, with the semis at noon, and the women’s and men’s championships, and men’s consolation game Thursday at 2.
Draw and results available at curlingresults.com/maritimestick
Editor’s note: Al was well known to Island curlers. His daughter, Colleen Soltermann, and her husband Joerg are members of the Cornwall Curling Club. Al had taken part in the April “Meltdown” bonspiel in Crapaud, and attended a number of PEI Curling Association events, including its inaugural Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2007.
Obituary: http://www.inmemoriam.ca/announcement-156969-Al-Forsythe.html
Tribute: Forsythe remembered as grassroots volunteer who pitched in where needed
Kevin Barrett
Moncton Telegraph-Journal
Moncton Telegraph-Journal
One of the province’s most dedicated curling volunteers is being remembered as one of this country’s most valuable contributors to the sport’s development.
Al Forsythe of Moncton, who held leadership roles with the Moncton, New Brunswick and Canadian Curling Associations died last Friday at 71, leaving a legacy of excellence in the administrative circles.
Visiting hours are today from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at Tuttle Brothers Funeral Home in Moncton. The funeral service will take place Saturday at 11 a.m. in the chapel of the funeral home.
Donations in Forsythe’s memory can be made to The Children’s Wish Foundation.
PEI’s Brett Gallant rink is 1 and 2, while the Sarah Clow rink is 0-3 following two days of play at the CIS/CCA University Championships in Edmonton.
Gallant lost his opener 9-6 to undefeated Alberta, beat Victoria 9-7, and lost to Western 7-6 in an extra end.
Clow lost her first game 6-4 to Concordia, dropped a 9-2 decision to Wilfred Laurier, and lost 10-2 to Waterloo,
Round robin play continues through Saturday morning, with semis in the afternoon, and the finals on Sunday morning.
The winning teams from this event will represent Canada at the 2011 FISU World Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey, January 27 to February 6th, 2011.
The Clow rink, who were UPEI’s women’s entrants last year as well, includes Christina Hennessey at third, Whitney Young at second, and Courtney Moore as lead. Coach is Angela Hodgson.
The Gallant team, who are also reigning PEI junior men’s champions, includes third Adam Casey, second Anson Carmody, and lead Alex MacFadyen. Their coach for this event is Tristan Chisholm. Casey and Carmody were on last year’s UPEI team, while MacFadyen was on the team from St. Francis Xavier.
By Larry Wood, Tankard Times Editor (CCA)
HALIFAX, March 11 – For the first time since the last time Glenn Howard of Ontario won the Tim Hortons Brier (2007), the playoff field emerged cut and dried from the round-robin preliminary.
When Brad Gushue’s boys from The Rock made short work of fading Quebec rookie Serge Reid 8-2 during Thursday night’s final draw at the Metro Centre, the Fab Four were in concrete and playoff positions locked up.
Heading into the Page-system showdown, undefeated Howard will tangle with unsung Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie Friday at 7:30 p.m. with the winner advancing to the championship final on Sunday at 8 p.m. and the loser dropping into Saturday’s semi-final at 7:30 p.m.
Then on Saturday at 12 noon, Gushue will collide with Kevin Koe of Edmonton in a sudden-death playoff of 8-and-3 teams with the winner moving to the eventide semi.
When Coldwater’s Howard capped an 11-win string with a tight 7-6 decision over Koe on the closing shift, it dropped the Edmonton team to third place and left the surging but idle Northern Ontario crew (9-and-2) with the extra playoff life alongside Howard and his unit of Richard Hart, Brent Laing and Craig Savill.
Howard was required to wield the hammer in the final end. Koe attempted a tight tap-and-roll behind partial cover in the four-foot with his last rock but the stone hit thin and rolled out of contention.
“We made it tough on ourselves,” said Koe. “I may have thrown the last one a bit soft and it over-curled. A nose hit was useless and I was going to make sure I got some kind of roll. It’s too bad, I would have liked to leave him having to make something to win. He’d probably make it, he made just about everything out there, but it would have been a better way to lose.”
No all-Ontario final match ever has been staged at the Brier. In fact, no all-Ontario Page One-Two game has transpired in the past, although the Ontario teams finished one-two in the 1990 round robin and finished tied with B.C. and Manitoba for top spot in 1993.
By coincidence, the second-place finisher in 1990 was skipped by Jacobs’s uncle, Al Harnden, who lost the semi-final.
Gushue’s victory earned his inconsistent Newfoundlanders the last playoff berth and eliminated Jeff Stoughton of Winnipeg, who missed the playoff round for the third time in eight Brier appearances.
So what was the Ontario key to an undefeated rampage through the week’s round robin?
“I think reading the ice and the reading the weight well has been an advantage for us this week,” Howard was saying.
“It’s never been quite the same, game in and game out, and we’ve been able to adjust. It’s like going to a different golf course every day, putting on different greens. Conditions are great but you just have to read it that day. I think we did a great job of that.
“We all did it as a team, too. It’s not just me. The guys picked up on all the nuances of the ice and the speed and you need that.”
Howard said he’s seen more missed draw shots this week than in previous Briers.
“It’s sort of shocking,” he said. “Usually, at this level, you don’t see so much of that. I think I’ve seen more draws missed this year than the last three or four. I think it’s a matter of the ice changing here and there. Every Brier is like this and the more experience you get on this type of ice the better off you are. I mean, you put another 1,000 people in the arena and it changes things. You never know. You have to learn to recognize it.”
The Northern Ontario team, riding an eight-game winning streak, bombarded Reid’s Quebeckers 9-3 in the afternoon and stunning a sloppy Gushue 8-4 in the morning.
Said Gushue in the wake of his evening rout: “It’s nice to be in the playoffs, not the position we hoped for, but now we have an opportunity over the next three days to see if we can pull it off. We’re going to have to win three tough games against three tough opponents. But we’ve done that to win events before.”
In fact, no team ever has won the Brier after qualifying for the Page Three-Four playoff.
“Eventually someone’s got to do it,” he said. “Maybe it will be us this time. It’s overdue.”
At the finish behind the leaders, Manitoba was 7-and-4, Quebec was 5-and-6 after losing its last four games, Saskatchewan and British Columbia were 4-and-7, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and P.E.I. were 3-and-8 and the Territories team won once in 11 matches.