The Charlottetown Curling Club rink of Kyle Stevenson, Donna Butler, Doug MacGregor, and Tricia Affleck scored twelve points in three consecutive ends this morning to come back from a 5-2 deficit against Montague’s Larry Dewar rink, and win the M&M Meat Shops Provincial Mixed Curling Championship by a 14-5 score.
L-R: Kyle Stevenson, Donna Butler, Doug MacGregor, Tricia Affleck
This morning’s game was the B final of the double-knockout tournament being played at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. As they had already won the A section, the Stevenson foursome won the event without playing the 2 pm championship game. Other members of the runner-up Dewar rink are Tammy Dewar, Larry Richards, and Gail Greene. The Kyle Stevenson rink will now advance to the 2010 Canadian Mixed Curling Championships, November 15-22, 2009 at the Burlington Golf and Country Club in Burlington Ontario.
Stevenson, who also won the event in 2007, got off to a slow start in this morning’s game, giving up a steal of two to 2005 winner Dewar in the first end. He came back with his own deuce in the second to tie things up. Dewar blanked the third and regained the lead with a triple in the fourth. Stevenson took control in the fifth end, taking five points, which he followed with a steal of four in the sixth, and a stolen triple in the sixth to put the game out of reach.
L-R: Larry Dewar, Tammy Dewar, Larry Richards, Gail Greene
Dewar advanced to this morning’s B final with an exciting 10-9 extra-end win Saturday evening over the Adam Casey rink, which includes Anson Carmody, Casey’s teammate from this year’s Canadian Junior championship rink, at second, along with PEI Junior Women’s champs Geri-Lynn Ramsay at third, and Erin Carmody (Anson’s sister) at lead. The game started out with Dewar taking a triple, and Casey responding with one of his own. Dewar took a single, and Casey grabbed a 6-4 lead with another triple in end four. Dewar took singles in the next two ends to tie it up. The seventh was blanked, and Dewar took a single in eight and stole a deuce in the ninth for a 9-6 lead coming home. Casey took three in the 10th to bring the game to the extra end.
In the extra, the Dewar team had a biter lying at the back of the 12 foot circle. The Casey rink, without hammer, made several attempts to put up centre-line guards, but all were peeled by the Montague squad. Casey was forced to go into the rings without cover with his final shot, which Dewar took out for the win.
The other B division semi-final, between Stevenson and the Blair Jay rink from Summerside, was not nearly as close, with Stevenson blanking the first end, and recording four points in the second. Jay got on the board with a single in the third, but Stevenson ended the game early with a pair of deuces in ends four and five, to win with an 8-1 score.
Stevenson won the A final Saturday afternoon, with a 7-3 decision over Casey. Defending champion Bill Hope of Charlottetown was eliminated in that same draw, after ending up on the losing end of a high-scoring 14-8 shootout against Dewar, who scored three triples and a four-ender en route to the win.
Thirteen teams from six PEI curling clubs began play on Thursday in this event.