Sixteen teams, including PEI rinks skipped by Kevin Champion, Bill Hope, Mike Gaudet, Jeff Wilson and defending champion John Likely, will be competing for almost $12,000 in prize money in the 2008 Hub City Shootout, which gets underway Thursday night at Moncton’s Beaver Curling Club. The final of this Atlantic Curling Tour event goes Sunday at 1:30 pm. Other entries include Olympic and two-time world champion Russ Howard of Moncton, the Steven Burgess junior rink from Fredericton, with PEI’s Robbie Doherty at second, and former Canadian men’s and mixed champion Mark Dacey from Halifax.
Here are the teams entered:
1. Rick Perron, Scott Jones, Pierre Fraser, Jared Bezanson – NB
2. Stephen Burgess, Jon Rennie, Robbie Doherty, Kevin Brayshaw – NB
3. Mark Kehoe, Tom Sullivan, Kevin Saccary, Scott Saccary – NS
4. Roger Oakes, Graeme MacKinnon, Mark McKinnon, Doug Sampson, Greg MacKin (5th) – NB
5. Kevin Champion, Andrew Robinson, Mark O’Rourke, Rod MacDonald, Peter MacDonald – PEI
6. John Likely, Phil Gorveatt, Mark Butler, Mike Dillon – PEI
7. Derek Ellard, Dave Nowlan, Shaun Mott, Nick McCann – NB
8. Wade Blanchard, Tim Comeau, Zach Eldridge, Scott Archibald– NB
9. Mike Kennedy, Jeff Henderson, Jeremy Mallais, Chris Jeffrey – NB
10. Jeff Wilson, Lincoln Peters, TBA, Matt Praught – PEI
11. Bill Hope, Dennis Watts, Jeff Gallant, Phillip McInnis – PEI
12. Mark Dacey, Dave Stephenson, Andrew Gibson, Kris Granchelli – NS
13. Jamie Brannen, Mark Ward, Darryl Langdon, Nick Munn – NB
14. Russ Howard, James Grattan, Jason Vaughan, Peter Case, Steve Howard – NB
15. Mike Gaudet, Eddie MacKenzie, Tyler Harris, Sean Clarey – PEI
16. Steve Lodge, Paul Lodge, Matt Hone, Gordon McCrady- ONT