18 teams to participate in PEI Stick Curling Championship, Feb. 10-12 in O’Leary

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The Provincial Stick Curling Championship, sponsored by the Ferguson-Logan  Montague Funeral Home, will be held at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary February 10-12, 2015. Entries have now closed. This event has two divisions – an open division for any combination of men and/or women, and a women’s division, for women’s teams. The open division has 12 team entered, while the women’s has six. The defending open division champions are the Roddie MacLean/John Dunsford duo from the Cornwall Curling Club, while their clubmates, the Elaine Hughes/Etta Reid team won the women’s title last year. MacLean/Dunsford and Hughes are not back this year. Etta Reid is curling with Myrna Craswell this time.

The draw and schedule, when ready, will be available at the event website peicurling.com/stick20142015
Live Curlcast results will be available at curlatlantic.com/scoreboard

Open Division Team Rosters

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Blair Bernard Dale Dennis Maple Leaf
Walter Callaghan Roger Gavin Western Community
Ron DesRoches Dale Howard Western Community
Bill Glydon Alvin Hackett Western Community
Bazil Higginbotham Sterling Higginbotham Montague
Victor Hogan Dianne Hogan Western Community
Bob Leard Larry Dewar Montague
Fr. Art Pendergast Pete Larter Western Community
Floyd Stewart Gordon MacDonald Montague
Sterling Stratton Barry Craswell Cornwall
Robert Turner Lorne Wallace Maple Leaf
Orville Willis Sherrill Barwise Maple Leaf

 

Women’s Division Team Rosters

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Audrey Callaghan Janet Hackett Western Community
Gloria Clarke Ruth Stavert Cornwall
Myrna Craswell Etta Reid Cornwall
Shirley Murphy Frances Ellsworth Western Community
Marie Pineau Georgie Wallace Maple Leaf/ Western
Audrey Thomson Ann Barwise Maple Leaf

The top four open division teams,  along with the top two women’s rinks from this year’s event earn the right to compete in the Maritime Stick Curling Championships, March 11-13 in Amherst NS.

The top two Open and Women’s division teams (the Women’s division, introduced when PEI hosted the event, is back this year) also earn the right to compete in the 2015 Canadian Open Stick Curling Championship, April 2-5 at the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This is an “open” event, but reserves entries for the top two teams from each of BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI.

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. No stone may be removed from play until the fourth stone of each end. Games are six ends and take about an hour to play. For more information on stick curling, including complete rules of play, visit www.stickcurling.ca.

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