Many of the best stick curlers in the three Maritime provinces will at the Cornwall Curling Club Tuesday March 16 through Thursday the 18th for the second annual Maritime Stick Curling Championships, sponsored by Ferguson Funeral Homes. There are two men’s pools, with four Nova Scotia teams, one New Brunswick rink, and seven PEI duos. For the first time there is also a women’s pool, with all the women’s teams coming from PEI for this year. Defending men’s champions are the rink of Vince Clark and Lorne Breckon from the Truro Curling Club. Clark is back this year, with teammate Kerry Gardner.
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. All games are six ends.
Teams will play a round robin format, with the top three teams from each pool advancing to the men’s and women’s playoff round. Round robin draws are Tuesday and Wednesday at 10 and 11:15 am, and 12:45, 2 and 3:30 pm. The quarter-finals go Thursday at 10 am, with the semis at noon, and the women’s and men’s championships, and men’s consolation game Thursday at 2.
Draw and results available at curlingresults.com/maritimestick