PEI rinks skipped by Brett Gallant, John Likely, and Rebecca Jean MacPhee will be competing in the Molson Mayflower Cashspiel, which gets underway on Friday at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax. 24 teams are competing in four pools of six teams. The final goes at 3:30 pm on Sunday.
Purse Breakdown:
1st: $2500
2nd: $1500
3rd and 4th: $1250
5th-8th: $1000
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The Shawn Adams rink from the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, and the Andrea Kelly foursome from Fredericton New Brunswick are this year’s winners of the Rodd Curling Classic, which wrapped up this afternoon at the Charlottetown Curling Club.
Adams, along with third Paul Flemming, second Jeff Hopkins, and lead Kelly Mittelstadt, recovered from a 6-3 deficit by taking a triple in the eighth end, and stealing a single in the extra end for a 7-6 men’s section final win over the Ryan Sherrard team from Saint John. This is Adams’ second win on the Atlantic Curling Tour this year, with a victory a month ago at the Swinamer’s TimbrMart Curling Cashspiel in Windsor NS.
It wasn’t as close in the women’s division, with Kelly picking up a point in the opening end. Opposition skip Sarah Rhyno of the CFB Halifax club blanked the next two ends to keep last rock advantage until she could score more than a single point, but Kelly stole a triple in the fourth to build up a 4-0 lead. Rhyno took singles in the next two ends, but Kelly took a point in the seventh, and ran Rhyno out of rocks in the final end to finish the game with a 5-2 score. Other members of the Andrea Kelly rink are Denise Nowlan at third, Jillian Babin playing second stone, and Lianne Sobey in the lead position.
In semi-final women’s play this morning, Rhyno edged the Nancy McConnery rink of the Halifax Mayflower club 4-3, while Kelly, aided by a four point sixth end, beat Newfoundland and Labrador’s Heather Strong foursome by a 6-4 score.
In the men’s section, Adams stole four points in the fourth end to bring his game against Chad Stevens of Chester to a speedy finish and a 7-2 score. Ryan Sherrard’s game against Haligonian Jamie Murphy also ended early, with an 8-3 score in six ends, after Sherrard followed a second end triple with a stolen deuce in end three, and another three-pointer in the sixth.
Round robin play wrapped up Saturday, with no tiebreakers required, so the men’s quarter-finals were played Saturday night, with Sherrard stealing three points in the final end to beat PEI’s Rod MacDonald rink by a 7-3 score, and Stevens edging Chris Sutherland of Halifax 8-7.
PEI teams round robin win-loss records: Erin Carmody 2-3, Suzanne Birt 2-3, Rebecca Jean/Robyn MacPhee 1-4.
Rod MacDonald 4-1, Brett Gallant 3-2, Ted MacFadyen 2-3, Eddie MacKenzie 2-3, Tyler MacKenzie 1-4, John Likely 1-3 (did not play last game), Robert Campbell 0-4.
The Shawn Adams rink will take home $5000, with $3500 going to the runner-up Ryan Sherrard foursome, $2500 to third and fourth place finishers Stevens and Murphy, and $1600 to quarter-finalists MacDonald and Sutherland.
The Kelly squad’s top prize in the women’s section is worth $3100, with $2100 going to the Rhyno team for second place. Third and fourth place finishers McConnery and Strong will each take home $1250. There is also a payout of $40 per round robin win in the women’s section.
Eighteen men’s, and 12 women’s teams from all four Atlantic provinces took part in this annual event.
It will be Sarah Rhyno of CFB Halifax vs Andrea Kelly of New Brunswick, and Shawn Adams of Halifax against Ryan Sherrard of Saint John in the 2 pm finals of the Rodd Curling Classic at the Charlottetown Curling Club.
In semi-final women’s play this morning, Rhyno edged the Nancy McConnery rink of the Halifax Mayflower club 4-3, while Kelly, aided by a four point sixth end, beat Newfoundland and Labrador’s Heather Strong foursome by a 6-4 score.
In the men’s section, Adams stole four points in the fourth end to bring his game against Chad Stevens of Chester to a speedy finish and a 7-2 score. Sherrard’s game against Haligonian Jamie Murphy also ended early, with an 8-3 score in six ends, after Sherrard followed a second end triple with a stolen deuce in end three, and another three-pointer in the sixth.
Round robin play wrapped up Saturday, with no tiebreakers required, so the men’s quarter-finals were played Saturday night, with Sherrard stealing three points in the final end to beat PEI’s Rod MacDonald rink by a 7-3 score, and Stevens edging Chris Sutherland of Halifax 8-7.
PEI teams round robin win-loss records: Erin Carmody 2-3, Suzanne Birt 2-3, Rebecca Jean/Robyn MacPhee 1-4.
Rod MacDonald 4-1, Brett Gallant 3-2, Ted MacFadyen 2-3, Eddie MacKenzie 2-3, Tyler MacKenzie 1-4, John Likely 1-3 (did not play last game), Robert Campbell 0-4.
The winning men’s team will take home $5000, with $3500 going to the runner-up, $2500 to third and fourth place finishers Stevens and Murphy, and $1600 to quarter-finalists MacDonald and Sutherland. The top prize in the women’s section is $3100, with $2100 for second place. Third and fourth place finishers McConnery and Strong will each take home $1250. There is also a payout of $40 per round robin win in the women’s section.
Eighteen men’s, and 12 women’s teams from all four Atlantic provinces took part in this annual event.
The fourth annual Fall Fling Junior Cashspiel gets underway Friday Nov. 13 at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht club in Summerside.
Twelve junior women’s teams, and an equal number of junior men’s rinks from around the Maritimes will curl in this five game round robin event, with the first draw Friday at 2 pm, and other Friday draws at 4, 7 and 9 pm. Round robin play wraps up Saturday night, with the semi-finals Sunday at 9 am, and the junior men’s and women’s finals at 1 pm.
The Sam Ramsay team from the host Silver Fox club will be back to defend their title.
Live results will be provided on the Silver Fox Web site at www.silverfox-pei.com/curling.
The public is invited to come down and enjoy a weekend of top notch junior curling.
The Pepsi Juniors, for curlers age 20 and under, take place at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary Dec. 18-22 2009. Entry fee is $45 per player, and entry deadline is Nov. 20. Enter online at PEICurling.com. The winning junior men’s and women’s teams will advance to the M&M Canadian Juniors, January 16-24 in Sorel-Tracy Quebec.
Last year, the Erin Carmody rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside won their third straight PEI Junior Women’s title, scoring three points in the final end for an 8-5 win over the Anita Casey foursome, also from the Silver Fox, in the final. Playing with Carmody were third Geri-Lynn Ramsay, second Jessica van Ouwerkerk, and lead Darcee Birch. Carmody has graduated from the Junior ranks, so there will be a new Junior Women’s winner this year.
In the Junior men’s section last season, the Brett Gallant rink from the Charlottetown Curling Club won their fourth consecutive Pepsi Junior championship. Gallant, with third Adam Casey, second Anson Carmody and lead Jamie Danbrook, doubled Summerside’s Sam Ramsay foursome 6-3 in the final, and went on to win the Canadian Championship, and a silver medal at the Worlds. The Gallant rink will be looking to make it five in a row this year, with original lead Alex MacFadyen returning to the team.
End-by-end results will be available at PEICurling.com/juniors.
(Eastern Graphic) Twelve teams participated in the first bonspiel of the season, Sweep into Montague, over the weekend at the Montague Curling Club. Here, Rinks Arny Nabuurs and Donald Clarey play against each other on Saturday afternoon.
The semi-final round gets underway at 11 this morning in both the men’s and women’s divisions of the Rodd Curling Classic at the Charlottetown Curling Club.
The women’s semis will see Nancy McConnery of the Halifax Mayflower Curling Club lub play Sarah Rhyno of CFB Halifax, and Heather Strong of Newfoundland/Labrador face Andrea Kelly of New Brunswick. McConnery, Strong, and Kelly are all current provincial women’s champs, while 2006 NS Junior champ Rhyno has been a contender at the Nova Scotia Scotties, and on the cashspiel circuit.
On the men’s side, 2005 Brier finalist Shawn Adams of Halifax, who recently won the Swinamer’s TIM-BR MART Cashspiel at the Windsor NS Curling Club, plays Chad Stevens of the Chester Curling Club, while former Canadian junior champ Ryan Sherrard of Saint John takes on the Jamie Murphy rink of Halifax, recent winners of the CFB Halifax Curling Club Cashspiel.
Round robin play wrapped up Saturday, with no tiebreakers required, so the men’s quarter-finals were played Saturday night, with Ryan Sherrard stealing three points in the final end to beat PEI’s Rod MacDonald rink by a 7-3 score, and Chad Stevens edging Chris Sutherland of Halifax 8-7.
PEI teams round robin win-loss records: Erin Carmody 2-3, Suzanne Birt 2-3, Rebecca Jean/Robyn MacPhee 1-4.
Rod MacDonald 4-1, Brett Gallant 3-2, Ted MacFadyen 2-3, Eddie MacKenzie 2-3, Tyler MacKenzie 1-4, John Likely 1-3 (did not play last game), Robert Campbell 0-4.
The men’s and women’s finals go at 2 pm this afternoon. The winning men’s team will take home $5000, with $3500 going to the runner-up, $2500 to third and fourth place, and $1600 to quarter-finalists MacDonald and Sutherland. The top prize in the women’s section is $3100, with $2100 for second place. Third and fourth place will each take home $1250. There is also a payout of $40 per round robin win in the women’s section.
Eighteen men’s, and 12 women’s teams from all four Atlantic provinces took part in this annual event.