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Monthly Archives: January 2012
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(by Marcel Vander Wier) Team Canada’s curling team will face the Czech Republic in the quarter-finals at the Youth Olympics today in Austria. The rink, which features O’Leary’s Emily Gray, won its final two games of the preliminary round on … Continue reading
The annual Touch of Gold mixed funspiel takes place Feb.17, 18, and 19 at the Montague Curling Club. $140 team entry fee guarantees three games, plus a steak barbecue, entertainment, prizes, and more. Enry deadline is Feb. 12. Please encourage … Continue reading
The PEI Curling Hall of Fame and Museum deadline for nominations for the next Induction Ceremony is March 31, 2012. Nominations can be mailed to : Box 9305, York, PE, C0A 1P0. Click to print nomination Form Photo: Previous Hall … Continue reading
Team Canada curlers came out strong on the final day of round-robin play at the First Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria, posting two wins and earning a spot in the quarterfinals. Starting the day tied for second place … Continue reading
Team Canada have finished in second place in their round robin pool with a 5-2 win-loss record, and will face the team from the Czech Republic in the quarter-finals of the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck Austria. This afternoon, the … Continue reading
The 27th annual Char-la-bel fun mixed skins bonspiel will take place on February 24 and 25 (revised dates) at the Charlottetown Curling Club, with one draw on Friday evening, and two draws on Saturday. Friday night’s events will include a … Continue reading
Saskatchewan: Steve Laycock (Photo Michael Burns) Six of the 16 teams that will make up the field for the SaskTel Tankard provincial championship are now known. The finals, which will be held at the Assiniboia Curling Club from February 1-5, … Continue reading
It has now been determined that Team Canada has qualified for the playoff round at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck Austria. The other qualifers in their pool are Sweden and Japan, while Italy and Russia will battle each … Continue reading
Team Canada, which includes PEI’s Gray at lead stone, beat Team Japan by a 9-4 score this morning in the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck Austria. Canada now takes a 4-2 win-loss record into their final round robin game against … Continue reading
The third annual Helen Robbins Memorial Junior Cash Spiel takes place on February 20 at the Montague Curling Club. Entry fee of $75 per team guarantees three games, with the first draw at 9 am. Male, Female and/or Mixed teams … Continue reading
(by Eric McCarthy) INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA – Canada’s mixed curling team remains very much in the medal hunt heading into Tuesday’s final round-robin games at the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria. Emily Gray-Photo by Leslie Ingram-Brown/WCF Team Canada, which has … Continue reading
MONTAGUE – Summerside Fire Department’s rink skipped by Gordon MacFadyen was the provincial winner for the third consecutive year in the P.E.I. Firefighters Curling Championship held this past weekend at the Montague Curling Club. The Jerry Hughes foursome representing the … Continue reading
The Canadian Winter Youth Olympics Curling team, which includes PEI curler Emily Gray, lost in an extra end to Sweden this afternoon, with a 6-5 final score. Earlier today, Team Canada beat Team Russia by a 7-1 score. Canada now … Continue reading
Jan. 16, 2012-The Scotties Tournament of Hearts provincial women’s curling championship, originally set as a triple knockout event starting on Thursday, has now been changed to a round robin format, beginning Friday morning January 20, with the final on Monday … Continue reading
Capital One Rocks & Rings is the acclaimed elementary school curling educational program that has reached over 160,000 school children. Capital One Rocks & Rings will be running our National Curling program from 10:30 to 11:45 am on Wednesday January … Continue reading
It took only six ends for Team Canada to amass a 7-1 score over Team Russia at the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck Austria this morning. At 11 am Atlantic time, the team, with PEI’s Emily Gray at lead, takes … Continue reading
(by Larry Wood)-In the end, it was just a matter of time. And the time was short. With one point required to lock up the World Financial Group Continental Cup trophy, Team World skip Thomas Ulsrud of Norway waited, and … Continue reading
The two men’s and two women’s teams from the Atlantic region for the CIS/CCA Canadian University Curling Championships from March 14-18 in Welland, Ontario were chosen today as the Atlantic University Curling Championships wrapped up at the Cornwall Curling Club. … Continue reading
Team Canada came out strong on Day 2 of the 2012 Youth Olympic Games curling competition. Putting a 6-5 loss against home team Austria behind them, skip Thomas Scoffin, vice Corryn Brown, second Derek Oryniak and lead Emily Gray started … Continue reading
Two of the four teams that will advance to the CIS/CCA curling championships from March 14-18 in Welland, Ontario were chosen in this morning’s draw at the Atlantic University Curling Championships at the Cornwall Curling Club. UPEI’s Brett Gallant rink … Continue reading
Click to view a photo album from this morning’s draw at the Atlantic University Curling Championships at the Cornwall Curling Club. … Continue reading
PEI’s Suzanne Birt rink defeated the SilvanTirinzoni team of Switzerland 8-6 this afternoon in the bronze medal game to finish in third place at the International Bernese Ladies Cup in Bern Switzerland. Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg lost 5-3 to another Swiss rink, skipped by Michelle Jaeggi … Continue reading
Photo: Emily Gray PEI’s Emily Gray and the rest of Team Canada picked up their second win of the day, beating Great Britain 8-2 this afternoon to go to 2-1 at the World Youth Olympics in Innsbruck Austria. This morning they blanked Italy … Continue reading
PEI’s Suzanne Birt rink are playing in the consolation final, for third and fourth place teams, after losing to 11-4 to Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg in the semis this morning at the International Bernese Ladies Cup in Bern Switzerland. In the … Continue reading
Team Canada are now 1-1 at the World Youth Olympics in Innsbruck Austria, after picking up a 6-0 win over Italy this morning. They face Great Britain this afternoon at 4, which is 11 am PEI time. Photo: Team Canada … Continue reading
The 5th annual George’s deck and Recovery age 12 and under bonspiel is Sunday Jan 22nd at the Montague Curling Club. It is open to the first ten age 12 and under teams that register. There is NO entry fee for this event, which … Continue reading
(by Larry Wood) Thirty-one points. That’s what Team World requires today from the 110 available in the final two skins games that will conclude the World Financial Group Continental Cup at the Langley Events Centre. For a time on Saturday … Continue reading
Guardian photo by Brian McInnis Brett Gallant of the UPEI mens curling team lets go of his stone Saturday during a game against Colin Thomas of Memorial university in the Atlantic Curling Championships being played at the Cornwall Curling Club. … Continue reading
Play got underway this morning at the Atlantic University Curling Championships at the Cornwall Curling Club, with the A and B qualifiers from the 5 team men’s and women’s double knockout events representing the Atlantic region at the CIS/CCA University … Continue reading
PEI’s Suzanne Birt rink have advanced to the championship round at the International Bernese Ladies Cup in Bern Switzerland, missing their first chance on the B side of the event, with a 7-6 loss to Silvan Tirinzoni of Switzerland, but winning … Continue reading
Scotland’s Tom Brewster covered the pinhole with a last-rock draw and Sweden’s two-time Olympic gold medallist Anette Norberg and her team got untracked to win 20-point skins games at the World Financial Group Continental Cup on Saturday morning, extending the … Continue reading
The opening ceremonies of the first Winter Youth Olympic Games kicked off in Innsbruck, Austria, on Friday, January 13, and Canada’s curlers were looking forward to finally hitting the ice on Saturday. Corryn Brown, Emily Gray, Thomas Scoffin and Derek … Continue reading
(by Larry Wood) Vengeance was Team World’s in spades on Friday afternoon at curling’s World Financial Group Continental Cup competition when three Global duets swept the results in the second round of mixed doubles play at the Langley Events Centre. … Continue reading
PEI’s Suzanne Birt rink have a 2-1 win-loss record after Friday play at the 44th annual International Bernese Ladies Cup in Bern Switzerland. The Birt foursome, which includes Shelly Bradley, Robyn MacPhee, and Leslie MacDougall, won their opener 7-4 this … Continue reading
(Winter Youth Olympics website) [PEI’s Emily Gray is on the World Youth Olympics curling team] 16 top level junior curling teams from around the world are set to gather at the Innsbruck Exhibition Centre, Austria, to compete in the inaugural … Continue reading
(by Fred Rinne) Team World at the World Financial Group Continental Cup, desperate for a victory following a devastating shellacking a year ago at St, Albert, AB., inched in front of the 2012 competition Thursday afternoon with a mixed doubles … Continue reading
PEI’s Emily Gray and the other members of her team will be hitting the ice on Saturday morning against Germany at the inaugural World Youth Olympics in Innsbruck Austria. Team third Corryn Brown will be carrying the flag for Canada … Continue reading
The Atlantic University Curling Championships take place this Saturday and Sunday at the Cornwall Curling Club. Entries have closed for the Scotties Tournament of Hearts provincial women’s curling championships at the Charlottetown Curling Club from Jan. 19-23, with six teams … Continue reading
The Cornwall Curling Club, sporting a brand new clubhouse, is hosting the Atlantic University Curling Championships, which take place Saturday and Sunday, with five men’s teams, and an equal number of women’s rinks taking part. This event will use a … Continue reading
The annual Mark’s Work Wearhouse cashspiel starts this Friday at the Charlottetown Curling Club, with a draw at 6:00 pm, and continues Saturday with draws at 10:00, 1:30, and 5:00. Sunday will feature the men’s semifinals at 10:00 am, alongside … Continue reading
(CCA) The road to the 2012 Tim Hortons Brier continues with an update from the East. New Brunswick: Nine-time Brier vet James Gratton and his Oromocto Curling Club team of Charlie Sullivan Jr., Steven Howard and Peter Case are in. … Continue reading
(albertoncurlingclub.ca)The local St. Anthony’s Legion team skipped by Kevin Ellsworth of the WCCC has won the PEI Provincial Legion Championship for 2012. The tournament which ran from January 6 to 8 saw eight teams from across the Island compete for … Continue reading
[Emily is from O’Leary, and is participating in the first Winter Youth Olympic Games, starting Friday in Innsbruck Austria. She arrived there Monday morning. This story is reprinted from the CCA website] As I write this, I am sitting at … Continue reading
(CCA) The World Financial Group Continental Cup, presented by Monsanto, gets underway Thursday at the Langley Events Centre. It’s the second year of title sponsorship by World Financial Group and the eighth edition of this unique international curling competition, featuring … Continue reading
TSN on Sunday announced a new multi-year curling partnership with The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company that will see Canada’s trusted insurance company become the title sponsor of TSN’s annual curling skins event. Beginning January 2013, THE DOMINION ALL-STAR … Continue reading
Alberta’s Kevin Koe added another victory to his impressive curling resume, as he hurried hard to win the 2012 TSN CURLING SKINS GAME and take home $43,900 in prize money over the course of the two-day invitational curling event at … Continue reading
In a battle of two PEI teams for the Atlantic Curling Tour Championship title this afternoon at Curling Beausejour in Moncton, the Island rink skipped by Brett Gallant doubled the Rod MacDonald team by a 6-3 score. The event featured the top … Continue reading
The winners of the Fair Isle Ford Sweep Into Montague bonspiel at the Montague Curling Club this weekend was the team of David Rice, Tracy Yorston-Campbell, Darryl Campbell and Shelley Rice. Runner-up honours went to the team of Mike Clarey, … Continue reading
Although three out of four semi-finalists in the Perth Masters in Perth Scotland were from Canada, only one, Mike McEwen of Winnipeg, advanced to the final game, which he won 6-1 over Thomas Ulsrud of Norway. In the semi-finals, the … Continue reading
Three out of four semi-finalists in the Perth Masters in Perth Scotland were from Canada, but only one, Mike McEwen of Winnipeg, has advanced to the final game, with the Brad Gushue rink, which includes PEI native Adam Casey at … Continue reading
Two PEI rinks, skipped by Brett Gallant and Rod MacDonald are in the noon finals of the Atlantic Curling Tour Championship at Curling Beausejour in Moncton, which features the top points earners on the Tour this year. The Rod MacDonald … Continue reading
Two PEI rinks are in the 9 am Sunday semi-finals of the Atlantic Curling Tour Championship, which features the top points earners on the Tour this year. PEI’s Rod MacDonald foursome will play New Brunswick’s Jason Vaughan, rink, while the … Continue reading
Three out of four semi-finalists in the Perth Masters in Perth Scotland are from Canada, including the Brad Gushue rink, which includes PEI native Adam Casey at second, along with Mike McEwen of Winnipeg, and Steve Laycock of Saskatoon. Thomas … Continue reading
Reigning world champion Jeff Stoughton swept up another curling victory, as the Winnipeg native pocketed $14,800 in prize money and secured his spot in the final of the 2012 TSN CURLING SKINS GAME. Stoughton now faces Kevin Koe in the … Continue reading
(TSN) The past four Canadian world champions battle for bragging rights and cash during the fan favourite TSN Curling Skins Game live this weekend from Casino Rama in Rama, ON. The annual invitational event features four of the best curling … Continue reading
PEICurling.com photo (L-R): Suzanne Birt, Shelly Bradley, Robyn MacPhee, Leslie MacDougall (by Joe MacIntyre) The Suzanne Birt ladies curling team leaves for the International Bernese Ladies Cup in Bern, Switzerland, on Tuesday. The 32-team event gets underway on Friday, and … Continue reading
Photo: Jonathon Smith, left, of Victoria, and Charlie Ralph of Desable finish the framing for new kitchen walls at the Crapaud Community Curling Club (Guardian photo by Mitch MacDonald) (By Mitch MacDonald) The final touches are underway on a massive … Continue reading
The results website is now up at www.playdowns.com/nbca/event.php?id_cmp=32 for the Atlantic Curling Tour championship, which gets underway on Friday and wraps up on Sunday at Curl Moncton’s Beausejour club. The event features the top teams from the Tour, as determined … Continue reading
The spotlight will be on the new Cornwall Curling Club later this month for the Atlantic University Curling Championships from January 13-15, and the Labatt Tankard provincial men’s curling championships from January 26-31. Work is now complete on the new … Continue reading
Two Prince Edward Islanders, one from the west and one from the east, are travelling to Austria this weekend to compete in the Youth Winter Olympics. Emily Gray of O’Leary and Sam Walsh of Morell will be part of a … Continue reading
The Canadian Curling Association (CCA) has allocated funds from certain championship events for the purpose of providing financial assistance to the membership of the CCA including Provincial / Territorial Member Associations and affiliated curling facilities. This funding is known as … Continue reading
Alberta: The excitement is building in advance of the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, and nowhere is it more evident than here in “Wild Rose” country. Curling fans across the province are anxious to know which team will be wearing … Continue reading
On Sunday 29 Jan. 2012 the PEICA will be holding a junior (age 20 & under) Learn to Curl/Skills Development and Talent Identification Camp open to all Island junior teams and individuals from novice to intermediate level. Please Note: The camp will focus on novice to … Continue reading
Photo by Waldron Leard: Eastern Kings Sportsplex curling Besides PEI’s seven curling clubs, recreational curling has been taking place in Kings County for the last few year, at both the Belfast arena, and at the Eastern Kings Sportsplex in Souris. … Continue reading
By Mike Youds Daily News Staff Reporter A young Kamloops athlete will hold high the Maple Leaf when the Canadian Youth Olympic team parades into Bergisel Stadium in Innsbruck, Austria, next week for the inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games. Corryn … Continue reading
The Cornwall Curling Club, sporting a brand new clubhouse, will host the Atlantic University Curling Championships from January 13-15, 2012, with five men’s teams, and an equal number of women’s rinks taking part. This event will use a double knockout … Continue reading
(by Marcel Vander Wier) Make it three in a row. Sarah Fullerton’s rink, based out of Charlottetown-Cornwall, will represent P.E.I. for the third straight year at the national junior curling championship this February. The team won the 2012 Pepsi provincial … Continue reading
Entries have closed for the provincial Masters curling championships, for curlers age 60 and over, with six men’s and four women’s rinks entered. The event will take place at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary from Jan. 23-26. Entries … Continue reading
Both the men’s and women’s sections of the Pepsi Provincial Junior Curling Championships wrapped up this afternoon at the Charlottetown Curling Club, with the Sarah Fullerton foursome from the Charlottetown and Cornwall clubs beating the Amanda MacLean rink from the Cornwall … Continue reading
Click to view our album of photos from today’s Pepsi Provincial Juniors finals at the Charlottetown Curling Club. … Continue reading
(by Gerard McLaughlin, Times & Transcript) The Atlantic Tour Championship, the final and biggest event on the tour schedule, starts Friday in Moncton. The championship field features only the 16 leading teams on the tour that concluded its season two weeks … Continue reading