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Cornwall teams beat defending champs to claim stick curling titles (Journal)

February 8, 2018

ALBERTON – For the second time in their stick curling careers, Elaine Hughes and Etta Reid are the Ferguson-Logan Montague Funeral Home P.E.I. women’s stick curling champions.

 

Provincial stick curling co-ordinator Ernie Stavert prevents the women’s championship trophy to Etta Reid, left, and Elaine Hughes. They dethroned seven-time provincial champions Gloria Clarke and Ruth Stavert 5-4 in the final. Eric McCarthy photo.

The Cornwall team defeated clubmates and defending champions, Gloria Clarke and Ruth Stavert, 5-4 in the championship final at the Western Community Curling Club on Thursday afternoon.

 

Ernie Stavert, centre, co-ordinator for the P.E.I. provincial stick curling championships, presents the Open Division championship trophy to Barry Craswell, left, and Sterling Stratton. This is their third provincial title together. Stratton also has two provincial titles to his credit with Stavert. – Eric McCarthy

Another Cornwall team, Sterling Stratton and Barry Craswell, won the Open Division – their third win in four years. They defeated the Montague team of Floyd Stewart and Gordon MacDonald 8-0 in the final after knocking off the defending champions, Walter Callaghan and John Vincent, from the host club, 4-3 in the semifinal. It was the defending champs’ only loss of the three-day tournament.
Stewart and MacDonald also advanced to the final with a close 2-1 win over another Western team, Winston Keough and Harvey Holm, in a six-end game that featured four blanked ends.

The top four Open Division teams and top two Women’s Division teams advance to the Maritime stick curling championships, in Chester, N.S., from March 23 to 25. The winners of the Open Division also earn the right to participate in the 2018 Canadian Open stick curling championships in St. Albert, Alta.

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Alberton to host Stick Curling Ch’ships

The 2018 Provincial 2-person Stick Curling Championships, sponsored by Ferguson-Logan Montague Funeral Home, with Open (any combination of men and/or women) and Women’s divisions, takes place February 6-8 at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. The top four Open division teams and top two women’s division duos from this event advance to the Maritime Stick Curling Championships, in Chester, Nova Scotia from March 23-25, while the winners of the Open division also earn the right to participate in the 2018 Canadian Open Stick Curling Championship, April 2-5 at the St. Albert Curling Club in St. Albert Alberta.

The defending champions – the Walter Callaghan and John Vincent duo from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton in the Open division, and the Gloria Clarke and Ruth Stavert team from the Cornwall  Curling Club are back looking to defend their titles.

The 12 Open Division teams are divided into two pools, each playing a round robin, with the top three teams from each pool advancing to the playoff round. The four Women’s Division teams will play a double round robin, with the second and third place teams advancing to a semi-final, with the winner facing the first place team in the final.

Draw and Schedule

Round Robin		Round Robin		Double Round Robin
Open Pool A		Open Pool B		Women Pool C
A	Hogan	1	Smith/ Barwise	W1	Foley/ Ellsworth
B	Higginbotham	2	Keough/ Holmes	W2	Reid/ Hughes
C	Stewart/ MacDonald	3	Martin/  Jay	W3	Barwise/ Callaghan
D	Fisher/Stavert	4	Hackett	W4	Stavert/ Clarke
E	Callaghan/ Vincent	5	Bernard/ Gavin	Open Division Playoff Round is in Green
F	Hardy/ Pendergast	6	Craswell/ Stratton
Date	Time	Draw #	Ice 1	Ice 2	Ice 3
Tue Feb. 6	10:15am	1	Smith/ Barwise vs Keough/ Holmes	Martin/  Jay vs Hackett	Bernard/ Gavin vs Craswell/ Stratton
	11:30am	2	Hogan vs Higginbotham	Stewart/ MacDonald vs Fisher/ Stavert	Callaghan/ Vincent vs Hardy/ Pendergast
	12:45pm	3	Foley/ Ellsworth vs Reid/ Hughes	Keough/ Holmes vs Craswell/ Stratton	Barwise/ Callaghan vs Stavert/ Clarke
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	3:15pm	4	Martin/  Jay vs Bernard/ Gavin	Higginbotham vs Hardy/ Pendergast	Smith/ Barwise vs Hackett
	4:30pm	5	Stewart/ MacDonald vs Callaghan/ Vincent	Smith / Barwise  vs Martin/  Jay	Hogan vs Fisher/ Stavert
	5:45pm	6	Reid/ Hughes vs Stavert/ Clarke	Foley/ Ellsworth vs Barwise/ Callaghan	Keough/ Holmes vs Bernard/ Gavin
Wed Feb. 7	9am	7	Hackett vs Craswell/ Stratton	Hogan vs Stewart/ MacDonald	Higginbotham vs Callaghan/ Vincent
	10:15am	8	Fisher/ Stavert-Hardy/ Pendergast	Foley/ Ellsworth vs Stavert/ Clarke	Reid/ Hughes vs Barwise/ Callaghan
	11:30am	9	Smith/ Barwise vs Bernard/ Gavin	Keough/ Holmes vs Hackett	Martin/  Jay vs Craswell/ Stratton
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	2pm	10	Hogan vs Callaghan/ Vincent	Higginbotham vs Fisher/ Stavert	Stewart/ MacDonald vs Hardy/ Pendergast
	3:15pm	11	Barwise/ Callaghan vs Stavert/ Clarke		Foley/ Ellsworth vs Reid/ Hughes
	4:45pm	12	Smith/ Barwise vs Craswell/ Stratton	Keough/ Holmes vs Martin/  Jay	Hackett vs Bernard/ Gavin
	6pm	13	Hogan vs Hardy/ Pendergast	Higginbotham vs Stewart/ MacDonald	Fisher/ Stavert vs Callaghan/ Vincent
	7:15pm	14	Foley/ Ellsworth vs Barwise/ Callaghan	Reid/ Hughes vs Stavert/ Clarke
Thu Feb. 8	12 noon*	15	Q1(O)	Q2(O)
	1:15 pm*	16		Reid/ Hughes vs Barwise/ Callaghan	Foley/ Ellsworth vs Stavert/ Clarke
	3 pm*	17	SEMI(W)	SEMI(O)1	SEMI (O)2
	4:30 pm*	18	FINAL (O)	FINAL (W)

*Revised times due to road conditions

Open (any combination of men/women) Pools will play a single round robin and the Women’s Pool will play a double round robin

Open Division Playoff Round:
Q1(O) – 2 Place pool A vs 3rd place pool B
Q2(O) – 3rd place pool A vs 2nd place pool B
SEMI (O) 1 – winner of Q1(O) vs 1st place pool B
SEMI (O) 2 – winner Q2(O) vs 1st place pool A
Final (O) – winner SEMI (O) 1 vs winner of SEMI (O) 2

Women’s Division Playoff Round:
SEMI (W) – 2nd place vs 3rd place
FINAL (W) winner SEMI (W) vs 1st place

TIES
Games – Teams play an extra end with 3 rocks each

Playoffs – 1st by wins and losses by team, 2nd by head to head results, 3rd by points – 3 Pts for a win, 0 pts for a loss, 1 Point per end, ½ pt for a blank end, 3 pts (MAX.) difference of score