PEI’s Kevin Champion rink will face the Brent MacDougall foursome from Nova Scotia in this afternoon’s final at the 1st Annual Gahan Brewery Cashspiel at the Montague Curling Club. Champion beat out Charlottetown clubmate Rod MacDonald in semi-final play, while MacDougall beat out PEI’s Eddie MacKenzie rink.  Champion’s teammates are Phil Gorveatt, Steven Champion and Robert Shaw, while Paul Dexter, Chris Emmenue, and Peter Ross round out the MacDougall foursome.

In an all-PEI consolation final, Spencer Pitre will take on Robert Campbell.

Sixteen teams from all three Maritime provinces took part in this inaugural event, part of the Atlantic Curling Tour.

The next event in the Tour is the Rodd Curling Classic, which begins Thursday afternoon at the Charlottetown Curling Club, with 18 men’s and 12 women’s teams taking part.

Click for Gahan Brewery Cashspiel Results Website

The PEI Curling Association will hold its first General Meeting of the 2010-2011 season at the Cornwall Curling Club on Tuesday November 2nd, beginning at 7 pm. All curling club representatives are asked to be in attendance.

For those who missed the Scotties Volunteer Rally on Saturday, a second rally takes place today between 4:30 and 7:00 pm at the Charlottetown Curling Club.

Team Canada’s Jennifer Jones foursome leads the list of twenty-six world class women’s teams competing November 11-14  in the Sobeys Slam, just 25 minutes from  the PEI ferry in New Glasgow NS.  Jones and her team will compete against such formidable talent as Team Scotland’s Eve Muirhead, the 2010 World Silver Medalists, and the 2010 Scotties runner-up, Kathy O’Rourke of PEI. Also vying to win the $12,000 first prize, and making her return to competitive play, will be two time World Champion, Colleen Jones of Halifax, NS, as well as reigning World Senior Champion Colleen Pinkney of Truro. The Suzanne Birt rink from PEI is also among the entrants in the event, which includes all four Atlantic Provincial Champions, as well as the reigning Saskatchewan and Alberta provincial champs, Amber Holland and Valerie Sweeting.

Other  teams competing include former Sobeys Slam champion Sherry Middaugh from Ontario, former event runner-up Stefanie Lawton from Saskatchewan, USA entries Patti Lank and Erika Brown, and young competitors Rachel Homan of Ontario and Chelsea Carey of Manitoba.

The Sobeys Slam is the only women’s World Curling Tour Grand Slam event in Eastern Canada, and with a total purse of $52,000 is among the richest in the world.

New to the event this year is a men’s division, “Atlantic Challenge 2010”, with 8 teams participating, including two time world Champion and Olympic Gold Medallist Russ Howard, and reigning PEI Men’s and Senior Men’s champ Rod MacDonald and his team, along with PEI’s Peter Gallant rink,  which includes Peter’s son, former World Junior Silver Medallist Brett Gallant, and Brett’s former junior teammate Anson Carmody. Total men’s purse is $10,000.

Competition begins on Thursday, November 11th, continuing through to Championship Sunday, November 14th at the John Brother MacDonald Stadium in New Glasgow.  Some Friday and Saturday games are at the Bluenose Curling Club. Tickets are available at the Stadium or the Bluenose, or by calling 1-877-970-SLAM(7526) or online at sobeysslam.ca/tickets.shtml. A full event pass at $100 plus HST includes:

Other packages include The Weekender, with all draws from 2 pm Friday through the Championship, for $65 + Tax, and the Five Card Draw, a pack of  five draw tickets of your choice for $34 + Tax.

Single admission tickets will be available at the door.

Everyone purchasing a program for the Sobeys Slam will receive a $100 travel voucher from Travel Our Way (some conditions apply). Limited to one coupon per booking.

Children 15 and under admitted FREE when accompanied by an Adult.

Tickets purchased before November 1st will be entered in a draw to win  tickets to the 2011 Scotties in Charlottetown. (Prize includes 2 weekend passes for the 2011 Scotties Championship weekend and 2 nights accommodations at The Comfort Inn, Charlottetown.)

For more information on the Sobeys Slam and the Atlantic Challenge, please visit  www.sobeysslam.ca/.

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TORONTO, October 26, 2010 – The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company today announced further details of its second annual The Dominion Curling Club Championship, to be hosted from November 23 to 28 at Prince Edward Island’s Charlottetown and Cornwall Curling Clubs.  

Men’s and women’s teams from each of Canada’s provinces and territories will be represented in round robin competition, all vying for the honour of being named 2010 Canadian Curling Club Champions. The teams’ places in the event will already have been hard-won, with each rink having taken home the championship at their provincial or territorial playdowns.  

Also on hand for the week-long tournament will be 2010 Olympic Curling Coach for Canada, Jim Waite, and 2006 Paralympic Gold Medalist curler, Sonja Gaudet.  

Last year’s inaugural The Dominion Curling Club Championship made history as Canada’s first-ever national championship for club curlers, welcoming curling greats Glenn Howard, Mike Harris, and Sherry Middaugh, and awarding national titles to teams from Ontario’s Chatham Granite Club and High Park Curling Club. 

“We’re thrilled to be back for our second annual The Dominion Curling Club Championship,” says George Cooke, President and CEO of The Dominion. “The Dominion has been a longtime supporter of amateur sport in communities across Canada, and once again this November, we’ll get to see our country’s finest club curlers compete on the national stage.”  

Leigh Armstrong
Branding Coordinator
The Dominion Curling Club Championship
905-299-3653 or larmstrong@thedominion.ca

For more about The Dominion and its products, visit thedominion.ca. 

The Ashley Howard team from Fredericton and Moncton beat PEI’s Kathy O’Rourke rink by an 8-5 score this afternoon in the final of the sixth annual Lady Monctonian women’s cashspiel at Curling Beauséjour in the Hub City. Playing on the winning Howard rink are Shannon Williams, Lucille Savoie, and Pam Nicol. The runner-up O’Rourke rink  includes fourth stone thrower Erin Carmody, third Geri-Lynn Ramsay, O’Rourke calling the game and throwing second stone, and Tricia Affleck at lead.

In this afternoon’s final, Howard, from Moncton, but currently attending UNB in Fredericton, stole a deuce in the opening end. The Islanders took a single in two, but another deuce in the third end gave Howard a 4-1 lead. The O’Rourke team scored a single in the fourth, with the Howard rink grabbing a 7-2 lead with a triple in the fifth end. The sixth was blanked, with O’Rourke narrowing the gap with a seventh end triple. Howard ended the game with a single in the final end.

 In the all-PEI consolation game between the semi-final runners-up, the Suzanne Birt foursome scored a triple in the opening end, and went on to double the Rebecca Jean MacPhee rink 4-2 in an abbreviated game. 

Playing with Birt were Shelly Bradley, Robyn MacPhee, and Leslie MacDougall. The Rebecca Jean MacPhee team includes Kim Dolan, Kim’s daughter Sinead Dolan, and Nancy Cameron. All three PEI rinks finished round robin play with 3-2 win-loss records.  The fourth PEI team in the event, skipped by Donna Butler, with teammates Carolyn Coulson, Melissa Andrews, and Jackie Reid, finished play on Saturday, with a 2-3 win-loss record.

The semi-final round saw another all-PEI battle, as the Scotties silver medallist Kathy O’Rourke foursome edged out the Birt team by a 7-6 score to advance to the finals. O’Rourke opened the scoring with hammer, and took a single, followed a deuce for Birt. Three in the third gave O’Rourke a two point margin, and a stolen deuce in six gave her a 7-3 lead.  Birt, who won the event in 2008, took a single in seven, and stole a deuce in the final end to narrow the gap, but came up one short.

In quarter-final action Sunday morning,  MacPhee  doubled defending event champion and World Senior champ Colleen Pinkney of Truro by a 6-3 score, O’Rourke edged Mary Jane McGuire of Fredericton 5-4, and  Birt  got by Sylvie Robichaud of Moncton 4-3 in an extra end. In the other game, Ashley Howard remained the only undefeated team in the event, easily beating Haligonian Theresa Breen 7-1, aided by consecutive three-point ends.

Part of the proceeds from this 20 team women’s event, which features a total purse of $11,ooo, go to support the Moncton Autism Resource Centre.

Click here for results website.

The semi-finals get underway at 11:30 this morning at the sixth annual Lady Monctonian women’s cashspiel at Curling Beauséjour, and three of the four teams competing are from PEI.

In quarter-final action this morning, PEI’s Rebecca Jean MacPhee rink doubled defending event champion and World Senior champ Colleen Pinkney of Truro by a 6-3 score, Kathy O’Rourke edged Mary Jane McGuire of Fredericton 5-4, and Suzanne Birt, who won the event in 2008, got by Sylvie Robichaud of Moncton 4-3 in an extra end. In the other game, Ashley Howard of Moncton and now attending UNB in Fredericton, remains the only undefeated team in the event, easily beating Haligonian Theresa Breen 7-1, aided by consecutive three-point ends.

The semi-final matchups of this $11,000 20 team event see Howard play MacPhee, and Birt take on O’Rourke.

Playing with Suzanne Birt are Shelly Bradley, Robyn MacPhee, and Leslie MacDougall. The Scotties silver medallist Kathy O’Rourke rink includes Erin Carmody, Geri-Lynn Ramsay, and Tricia Affleck, while the Rebecca Jean MacPhee team includes Kim Dolan, Kim’s daughter Sinead Dolan, and Nancy Cameron. All three PEI rinks finished round robin play with 3-2 win-loss records. Playing on the Howard rink are Shannon Williams, Lucille Savoie, and Pan Nicol. 

 The fourth PEI team in the event, skipped by Donna Butler, with teammates Carolyn Coulson, Melissa Andrews, and Jackie Reid, finished play on Saturday, with a 2-3 win-loss record.

The final and consolation final are at 2:30 pm.  Part of the proceeds from this event go to support the Moncton Autism Resource Centre.

Click here for live results website.