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(by Jeff Timson). The Tim Hortons Brier, presented by Monsanto, begins Saturday, March 3 at the Credit Union Centre (formerly SaskPlace) in Saskatoon. It’s the 83rd edition of the Canadian Men’s Curling Championship, the sixth time that Saskatoon has hosted the Brier since it began in 1927 in Toronto, the 10th time the province has staged the event and the eighth year of title sponsorship by Tim Hortons.
Saskatoon joins Toronto, Calgary and Halifax as the only cities to host the Brier on at least six occasions. The last Brier in Saskatoon was in 2004, when Nova Scotia’s Mark Dacey shocked defending champion Alberta, skipped by Randy Ferbey, counting three in the 10th end for a thrilling 10-9 victory. The last Brier held in Saskatchewan was in 2006 in Regina, when won by Quebec’s Jean-Michel Ménard.
TSN (RDS in Quebec) will provide exclusive and comprehensive coverage of the Tim Hortons Brier, televising all morning, afternoon and evening round robin draws, plus the playoffs. The gold medal final is Sunday, March 11 at 6:00 pm local/8:00 pm AT. It’s the 10th consecutive year that the Brier final has been contested in Eastern prime time, starting in 2003 in Halifax.
Glenn Howard at the 2011 Tim Hortons Brier
(Photo by: Michael Burns)
Glenn Howard, representing the Coldwater & District Curling Club, will be making a record-tying 14th Brier appearance, equalling his brother Russ Howard. The 49-year-old skip is a three-time Canadian and world champion, having directed his team to victory in 2007 at the Tim Hortons Brier in Hamilton and the Ford World Men’s in Edmonton, as well as playing third for Russ Howard in 1987 and 1993. In addition, Howard has also been the Brier runner-up four times in the last six years.
Howard will also be making a Brier record seventh consecutive appearance as skip. His long-time front end of Brent Laing and Craig Savill will be making their eighth Brier appearance. New to the team this year is two-time world champion Wayne Middaugh, who plays third. Middaugh makes his eighth Brier appearance as well. Ontario has nine Brier wins, the last by Howard in 2007.
Alberta’s 37-year-old Kevin Koe, now of Calgary, is making just his second Brier appearance, but his first one couldn’t have been better, as he handed Glenn Howard his only defeat of the week, 6-5 in an extra end, to claim the 2010 title in Halifax. His team would then cap off the season with a victory in the Capital One World Men’s in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. New to his team this year, replacing Blake MacDonald at third, is long-time Saskatchewan skip Pat Simmons, joining regulars Carter Rycroft at second and Nolan Thiessen at lead. Alberta has won 25 Briers.
Newfoundland/Labrador’s Brad Gushue of St. John’s, who won Olympic gold in 2006 in Turin, Italy, will be making his ninth Brier appearance, but is still seeking his first win. The 2001 world junior champion was the runner-up in 2007 in Hamilton, losing the final to Glenn Howard. The 31-year-old skip will be trying to win just a second Brier title for his province since Jack MacDuff pulled off a shocker in 1976 in Regina.
New to his team this year are [P.E.I native] second Adam Casey and lead Geoff Walker, while Ryan Fry moves to third, replacing Gushue’s long-time third Mark Nichols, who retired.
At last year’s Brier in London, Gushue finished the round robin in first place, but lost to eventual winner Jeff Stoughton in the Page 1-2 game, then to Glenn Howard in the semi-final, before winning the inaugural bronze medal game over Kevin Martin.
This year’s youngest skip is Northern Ontario’s 26-year-old Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, who is making his third consecutive appearance and fifth overall at the Brier. His team finished an excellent third in 2010 but failed to make the playoffs last year.
Completing the field are British Columbia’s Jim Cotter of Vernon, Manitoba’s Rob Fowler of Brandon, New Brunswick’s Terry Odishaw of Moncton, Northwest Territories/Yukon’s Jamie Koe of Yellowknife, Nova Scotia’s Jamie Murphy of Halifax, Prince Edward Island’s Mike Gaudet of Charlottetown, Quebec’s Robert Desjardins of Chicoutimi and Saskatchewan’s Scott Manners of Battleford. Murphy and Manners are Brier rookies. Jamie Koe will once again play his brother Kevin during the round robin (Wednesday morning, Draw 12), as he did in 2010 when losing 8-3.
Saskatoon hosted its first Brier in 1946, followed by 1965, 1989 (when it set an attendance record of 151,538), 2000 (when it set another attendance record of 248,793, breaking the former mark of 242,887 by Edmonton in 1999) and 2004, when 238,129 fans attended. The Brier attendance record is now 281,985, established in Edmonton in 2005 at the first Tim Hortons Brier.
The Brier has been played in 31 cities across Canada, from Victoria to St. John’s. Manitoba has won a leading 27 Briers, while Alberta is next with 25. Saskatchewan has won seven Briers, the last by Rick Folk in Calgary in 1980. New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Yukon/Northwest Territories have yet to win.
The winner will represent Canada at the World Men’s Curling Championship in Basel, Switzerland, March 31-April 8. Since 1980, when the Labatt Brier was held in Calgary and a playoff format was introduced, 21 of 32 Brier winners have gone on to win the World Men’s. The latest was Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton, winner of the 2011 Tim Hortons Brier in London and the Ford World Men’s in Regina.
The winning team also earns a berth into the 2012 Capital One Canada Cup in Moose Jaw, SK, the 2013 World Financial Group Continental Cup in Penticton, BC and becomes one of the teams eligible for either the Pre-Trials or the 2013 Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials in Winnipeg, which will determine Canada’s representatives for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Once again, $130,000, representing ‘cresting television exposure value’, will be distributed to the four Page Playoff teams: $40,000 each to the winner and runner-up, $30,000 to the bronze medal team and $20,000 to fourth.
The Brier competition involves 12 teams – representing the 10 provinces plus Northern Ontario and Yukon/Northwest Territories – playing a round robin, leading to the Page Playoff system involving the top four teams. The first and second place teams meet in the Page 1 vs 2 game, with the winner advancing to the final while the loser goes to the semi-final. The third and fourth place teams meet in the Page 3 vs 4 game, with the winner advancing to the semi-final. The loser plays in the bronze medal game Sunday morning against the semi-final loser.
The always-popular Ford Hot Shots, the pre-event curling skills competition, gets underway Friday, March 2 with the preliminary round from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm. The playoffs take place Saturday at 11:30 am, following the Opening Ceremonies, which start at 10:00 am (local times). Ford of Canada will provide the winner of the Ford Hot Shots with a two-year lease on a 2012 Ford Focus Titanium, an approximate retail value of $13,000. The second place finisher earns $2,000 while the third place finisher receives $1,000.
The first draw of the 2012 Tim Hortons Brier begins at 1:30 pm local/3:30 pm Atlantic on Saturday, March 3. Up-to-the-minute draw results will be available on the Canadian Curling Association website (www.curling.ca).
Click for team rosters. Click for draw schedule (add two hours for PEI time).
ST. ALBERT, Alta. — Team P.E.I. is ready to begin competition here at the Special Olympics National Winter Games today.
The Island team participated in Tuesday night’s opening ceremonies. Earlier Tuesday, the athletes got to practise in the venues they will compete.
“They are pretty excited and pumped up for the opening ceremonies,” said Team P.E.I. chef-de-mission Charity Sheehan just moments before the athletes paraded in.
Today’s schedule features the curling and floor hockey teams each playing three games that will determine divisions; figure skater Alyssa Chapman performing her Level 3 program; snowshoeing divisional races, and the one-kilometre skiing final.
Games updates and schedules available at www.stalbert2012.ca
Click to read this story in The Guardian.
Photo from SOPEI.com
Due to the current weather conditions, men’s hockey and stick curling have been postponed for the day. Rescheduling information will be available later on this morning and will be communicated to teams via team captains.
A decision regarding the darts competition will be made later this afternoon but is currently still planned to go ahead at 7pm this evening.
Information from: pei55plusgamessociety.ca
Owen Collier rink from the Montague Curling Club and the Sarah Parsons team from the host Crapaud Community Curling Club are PEI’s newest, and youngest, curling champions, winning the KFC Provincial age 12 and Under Curling Championships on Sunday.
Photo (L-R): Gayle Johnston (PEICA), Dawson Chatman, John Campbell, Owen Collier, Coach Nancy Collier
Kevin Smith (organizer). Missing from photo is Jayde Maynard.
Photo (L-R); Gayle Johnston (PEICA), Bridget Paterson, Sierra Clyke, Kaleigh Peters, Sarah Parsons, Kevin Smith (organizer)
The Collier rink, which includes John Campbell throwing fourth stones, along with second Dawson Chatman, and lead Jayde Maynard, with coaches Steve Ryan and Nancy Collier, finished round robin play with a 3-0 win-loss record. The runner-up Ryan Lowery rink was also from Montague, and also had a 3-0 record. The two teams were in different pools and did not play each other, with the winner determined by a points system combining ends won and score difference in addition to win-loss records. Other members of the Lowery team, coached by David Rice and Cody Dixon, are Darian Rice, Tyler Garnum, and Dawson Higginbotham. Third place went to defending champion Donald DeWolfe and his rink from Cornwall, with a 2-1 win-loss record. Carter Worth, Ben Wilson, and Riley Taweel, with coaches Avery Wells and Steve DeWolfe complete the DeWolfe rink.
Photo (L-R): Gayle Johnston (PEICA), Dawson Higginbotham, Tyler Garnhum, Darian Rice, Ryan Lowery, David Rice (coach), Kevin Smith (organizer)
Photo (L-R): Gayle Johnston (PEICA, Ben Wilson, Carter Worth, Donald DeWolfe, Steve DeWolfe (Coach), Kevin Smith (organizer).
Missing from photo: Riley Taweel
Rounding out the Parsons team are Kaleigh Peters, Sierra Clyke, and Bridget Paterson, with coach Dario Zannier. The runner-up rink in the girl’s division was skipped by Kristie Rogers out of the Cornwall Curling Club, with teammates Megan Stewart, Olivia MacPhail, and Rachel MacLean, and chaperone Michele Rogers. They finished with the same 2-1 record as the winning team, but in a separate pool. The third place team, from the Silver Fox curling and Yacht Club in Summerside was skipped by Elly Whitney-Coulter, with third Abbey MacFadyen, Cassidy Arsenault, and Chloe Hunter, with coach Shelley MacFadyen, and also had a 2-1 win-loss record.
Photo (L-R): Gayle Johnston (PEICA), Rachel MacLean, Olivia MacPhail, Megan Stewart, Kristie Rogers, chaperone Michele Rogers, Kevin Smith (organizer)
Photo (L-R): Gayle Johnston (PEICA), Chloe Hunter, Kassidy Arsenault, Abby MacFadyen, Elly Whitney-Coulter, Kevin Smith (organizer)
The Fair Play sportsmanship awards, as votes on by the teams, and the coaching awards, as voted on by their coaching peers, were presented at the closing ceremonies for the KFC Provincial age 12 and Under Curling Championships, Sunday at the Crapaud Community Curling Club.
The boys Fair Play award was presented to John Campbell, who thows fourth rock for the winning Owen Collier rink from the Montague Curling Club.
Photo (L-R): Gayle Johnston (PEICA), John Campbell, Kevin Smith (organizer)
The girls Fair Play award was presented to Abby MacFadyen, third on the Elly Whitney-Coulter rink from the Silver Fox. Abby also accepted the women’s divison coaches award on behalf of her mother, Shelley MacFadyen.
Photo (L-R): Gayle Johnston (PEICA), Abby MacFadyen, Kevin Smith (organizer)
The coaching award for the boys side went to Doug Geldart, coach of Team Llewelyn from the Charlottetown Curling Club.
Photo (L-R): Gayle Johnston (PEICA), Doug Geldart, Kevin Smith (organizer)
The Owen Collier rink from the Montague Curling Club and the Sarah Parsons team from the host Crapaud Community Curling Club are PEI’s newest, and youngest, curling champions, winning the KFC Provincial age 12 and Under Curling Championships on Sunday.
The Collier rink, which includes John Campbell throwing fourth stones, along with second Dawson Chatman, and lead Jayde Maynard, with coaches Steve Ryan and Nancy Collier, finished round robin play with a 3-0 win-loss record. The runner-up Ryan Lowery rink was also from Montague, and also had a 3-0 record. The two teams were in different pools and did not play each other, with the winner determined by a points system combining ends won and score difference in addition to win-loss records. Other members of the Lowery team, coached by David Rice and Cody Dixon, are Darian Rice, Tyler Garnum, and Dawson Higginbotham. Third place went to defending champion Donald DeWolfe and his rink from Cornwall, with a 2-1 win-loss record. Carter Worth, Ben Wilson, and Riley Taweel, with coaches Avery Wells and Steve DeWolfe complete the DeWolfe rink.
Rounding out the Parsons team are Kaleigh Peters, Sierra Clyke, and Bridget Paterson, with coach Dario Zannier. The runner-up rink in the girl’s division was skipped by Kristie Rogers out of the Cornwall Curling Club, with teammates Megan Stewart, Olivia MacPhail, and Rachel MacLean, and chaperone Michele Rogers. They finished with the same 2-1 record as the winning team, but in a separate pool. The third place team, from the Silver Fox curling and Yacht Club in Summerside was skipped by Elly Whitney-Coulter, with third Abbey MacFadyen, Cassidy Arsenault, and Chloe Hunter, with coach Shelley MacFadyen, and also had a 2-1 win-loss record.
Six boys and six girls teams took part in this event. For less-experienced curlers in the 12 and Under age category, KFC is also sponsoring a Fun Tournament at the same club, on March 4, which offers three four-end matches, and allows players on a team to be any combination of boys and/or girls. Six rinks are taking part.
Photo: Angus Davies from KFC throws out the ceremonial first rock at the KFC 12 and Under on Sunday. Preparing to sweep the stone are (left) Sierra Clyke, and (right) Bridget Paterson.
The rink of Greg St. John, Phillip Chugg, Chris MacPherson, Monique Gauthier,and John Anthony Laybolt, along with head coach Dick St. John and assistant coach Ann Doucette, are off to the Special Olympics Canada National Winter Games in St. Albert Alberta.
The Nationals take place at the St. Albert Curling Club with practice on Tuesday, divisioning on Wednesday and competition on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with the finals and medal presentation on Saturday afternoon. More than 650 Special Olympics athletes from across Canada, representing 10 provinces and the Yukon and Northwest Territories, will compete in the Winter Games. The athletes will be accompanied by 250 coaches, managers and mission staff, and cheered on by many family and friends. The theme for these national games—“Just as Bold. Here for Gold.”—captures the fact Special Olympics athletes have the same dedication, spirit and dreams as other high-performing athletes.
Special Olympics Canada national games are held every two years, alternating between summer and winter games, just like the Olympic games.
Qualifying athletes from Canada and across the world represent their nations at the Special Olympics World Games, also held every two years, alternating between summer and winter games.
File photo: Greg and Dick St. John
Event website: www.stalbert2012.ca
Facebook: www.facebook.com/StAlbert2012
Special Olympics PEI on Twitter: @SpecialOPEI
Event Twitter handle: @stalbert2012
The rink of Greg St. John, Phillip Chugg, Chris MacPherson, and John Anthony Laybolt, who curl regularly in our Sunday evening league, are off to the Special Olympics Canada National Winter Games in St. Albert Alberta. Monique Gauthier has also joined the team for this event, along with head coach Dick St. John and assistant coach Ann Doucette. The team is in fine form for this event, having recently come off a gold medal finish at the Special Olympics New Brunswick Winter Games in Gagetown, N.B. The Nationals take place at the St. Albert Curling Club with practice on Tuesday, divisioning on Wednesday and competition on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with the finals and medal presentation on Saturday afternoon. More than 650 Special Olympics athletes from across Canada, representing 10 provinces and the Yukon and Northwest Territories, will compete in the Winter Games. The athletes will be accompanied by 250 coaches, managers and mission staff, and cheered on by many family and friends. The theme for these national games—“Just as Bold. Here for Gold.”—captures the fact Special Olympics athletes have the same dedication, spirit and dreams as other high-performing athletes. Special Olympics Canada national games are held every two years, alternating between summer and winter games, just like the Olympic games.
Qualifying athletes from Canada and across the world represent their nations at the Special Olympics World Games, also held every two years, alternating between summer and winter games.
File photo: Greg and Dick St. John
Event website: www.stalbert2012.ca
Facebook: www.facebook.com/StAlbert2012
Special Olympics PEI on Twitter: @SpecialOPEI
Event Twitter handle: @stalbert2012
(By Larry Wood).
Heather Nedohin of Edmonton skipped her team of Beth Iskiw, Jessica Mair and Laine Peters to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts title Sunday afternoon at the Enmax Centre in Red Deer with a 7-6 championship-final victory over two-time champion Kelly Scott of Kelowna.
The win was the first national championship for Nedohin as a skip. She played third for Cathy King in a 1998 triumph and finished runner-up to the title with the same team in 1999. Alberta’s last national women’s curling victor, in fact, was that same 1998 team.
Nedohin’s team racked up five straight wins to complete its Scotties run and earlier sidelined four-time Canadian champion Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg to reach the final match.
Team Alberta wins the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
(Photo by: Brennan Schnell)
The 36-year-old Nedohin will skip Canada’s representative at the World women’s curling championship March 17-25 at Lethbridge’s Enmax Centre.
The win also guaranteed her entry to the 2012 Canada Cup at Moose Jaw in December and the 2013 Continental Cup at Penticton next January.
In addition, Nedohin wins a total of $15,500 in prize money, $54,167 in cresting payments, $144,000 Sports Canada funding over two seasons and $40,000 Own The Podium funding for training and competition expenses.
Nedohin also was named tournament MVP while the Shot-of-the-Week award went to B.C. vice-skip Sasha Carter who executed a long raise double-kill in the eighth end of the tournament’s Page One-Two playoff match against Jones on Friday night.
RED DEER, Alta. – Alberta’s Heather Nedohin wins the Canadian women’s curling championship.
Her Edmonton team defeats B.C.’s Kelly Scott 7-6 in the final.
It’s the first Canadian championship for Nedohin has a skip.
She played third on Cathy Borst’s team that won in 1998.
It was also an Alberta team’s first championship at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts since 1998.
Nedohin, Beth Iskiw, Jessica Mair and Laine Peters will represent Canada at the women’s world championship next month in Lethbridge, Alta.
(By Charlotte MacAulay)
Sean Clarey was practically born with a curling broom in his hand.
While growing up and he spent a lot of his time at the Montague Curling Club as his parents Donald and Kathy Clarey were and still are avid curlers.
He started curling himself in 1994 and has never looked back.
And it certainly has paid off as he is on his way to the Canadian Men’s Curling championship, the Tim Hortons Brier.
Photos-Montague native Sean Clarey was throwing some rocks at the Montague Curling Club on Saturday getting ready for his national debut.
He is lead on the Mike Gaudet team, winners of this years provincial championships and they will represent the Island at the Tim Hortons Brier in Saskatoon March 3-11.
Sean, the son of Donald and Cathy Clarey spent his junior curling career playing out of Montague. Charlotte MacAulay photo
Mr. Clarey is lead on the Mike Gaudet team out of the Charlottetown Curling Club who won the PEI Tankard.
This is the first provincial win for Mr Clarey and he is looking forward to playing in Saskatoon March 3- 11, but it will be a very different atmosphere.
“There might be 50 people at most watching games here, but the Brier arena has 15,000 seats,” he said.
Despite that, Mr Clarey said he knows the ice will be excellent and he can’t wait for the match up with Newfoundland as former team mate Adam Casey is on that team.
As for his own team, Mr Clarey said they worked hard all year to make it to this point, but practising almost everyday throughout the fall and winter and curling in spiels around the maritimes gave them the edge.
(by Fred Rinne). It’s the game nobody aims to play in, but once there it’s not a game anyone wants to lose. The Bronze Medal game was played at the Scotties at the EnMax Centre in Red Deer Sunday morning, and Jennifer Jones’ Manitoba crew coming off a heart-wrenching loss to Alberta’s Heather Nedohin in Saturday’s semi-final, regained their composure for an 8-6 win over Quebec’s Marie-France Larouche.
The Manitobans put up a deuce in one, before Quebec answered with two of their own.
Jones wins the Bronze Medal game at the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. (Photo by: Andrew Klaver)
Jennifer Clark-Rouire played the first two ends at lead, with Dawn Askin up to the two-spot before Jill Officer rejoined the squad in the third.
Quebec stole three and four, actually Jones had a shot for as many as five in the fourth but ended up giving up the steal.
The teams swapped singles before the big end, seven, when Jones executed a perfect hit and stick for a quad, and Larouche just could not recover.
She was forced to one in eight, Jones blanked nine and made a tidy double in 10 with hammer to claim the third-place position.
The sport of curling keeps reinventing itself with new ways to enjoy the “roaring game”. Doubles curling came into prominance in the last couple of years, with Islanders Robert Campbell and Rebecca Jean MacDonald taking part in the World Mixed Doubles competition in St. Paul Minnesota last spring, and Emily Gray playing the sport as part of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck Austria in January.
Cornwall Curling Club members decided to give this new curling variant a try, taking part in the Club’s first-ever Doubles curling bonspiel on Saturday.
Photo: Opponent Mark MacDonald watches the house as Tracy MacDonald throws and Bob Fowler sweeps her rock in Doubles curling action Saturday at Cornwall (Photo by Karen Currie)
Doubles curling has two curlers per team instead of four, with two rocks pre-positioned on the sheet at the start of each end, and five stones instead of eight thrown per end. Player 1 delivers the first and last stones per end, while player 2 delivers rocks 2-4. No stone, in or out of the house, may be removed before three rocks are played. Both the thrower and the curler holding the broom may sweep each rock. Games are normally eight ends.
Click for demonstration video.
Curlers at Cornwall thought it was a lot of fun and a great way to sharpen their curling skills.
For the record, the team of Angus Kennedy and Myrna Sanderson came first in the competition, followed by Steven and Karen Montgomery, with Bob Fowler and Tracy MacDonald coming in third.
The annual Fair Play sportsmanship awards, as voted on by all the players, and the Asham coaching awards, as voted on by their coaching peers, were handed out following yesterday’s O’Connor Glass 15 and Under Curling Championships finals at the Crapaud Community Curling Club.
Skip Jenny McLean from the winning girl’s rink out of the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside won the girl’s Fair Play honours, while Cameron Jenkins, skip of the Charlottetown Curling Club’s Jenkins rink, won the boys.
Photo (L-R): Sponsor David O’Connor, Jenny McLean
Photo (L-R): Sponsor David O’Connor, Cameron Jenkins
The coaching award for the girl’s division team went to Pat Quilty, coach of the Rachel O’Connor rink out of the Cornwall Curling Club.
Photo (L-R): Pat Quilty, sponsor David O’Connor
The coaches award for the men’s division teams went to David Parker, coach of the Cameron Jenkins rink from the Charlottetown Curling Club.
Photo: L-R: Sponsor David O’Connor, David Parker
The KFC 12 and Under championships get underway at 9 this morning, with draw and results available at peicurling.com/12andunder.
(By Larry Wood).
It boiled down to an extra 11th end, a last draw shot, a measure and a victory by two centimetres on the gauge. Alberta’s 6-5 sudden-death semi-final decision over Manitoba on Saturday night at the Enmax Centrium denied four-time Scotties Tournament Of Hearts champion Jennifer Jones of a fifth title for the second straight year.
The winning draw proposition was an open in-turn with Manitoba counting and guarded with a bite of the four-foot ring.
“I heard Laine (lead Peters) give the splits and I thought that would be back four-foot. A little heavy. That’s why the girls never laid a broom to it,” said Edmonton skip Heather Nedohin whose rock ground to a halt in the nick of time in that back four-foot.
Heather Nedohin and Team Alberta celebrate winning the Semi Finals at the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. (Photo by: Andrew Klaver)
“Honestly, from the overhead camera, I didn’t think it was us,” added Nedohin, reflecting what most people viewing the camera shot believed.
“Obviously, from a measure, it was that close,” said Nedohin.
“I didn’t see the umpire point to our rock. I was in Amy’s (alternate player Nixon’s) arms already. Because she didn’t think it was us and I said, ‘Neither do I’. And then she said, ‘Heather, it’s us’. And I just jumped into her arms. And then she said, ‘They’re re-measuring’. And I said, “I can’t handle this.”
Second later . . .
“I’m in shock right now. I’m going to enjoy this. That roar of the crowd was pretty sweet. I’m just so proud of the team. We battled against the No. 1 team in Canada and we played hard and we got it.
The victory moved Alberta (third Beth Iskiw, second Jessica Mair, lead Peters) against Kelowna’s Kelly Scott in today’s 4:30 p.m. Atlantic time Hearts final. The loss for Jones (Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn Askin) dropped her team to a bronze-medal match against Quebec’s Marie-France Larouche today at 11:30 a.m Atlantic.
Click for full story and video interviews at the CCA website.
Kelly Scott of BC will take on Alberta’s Heather Nedohin rink in the Scotties final tomorrow in Red Deer, after Nedohin eliminated Jennifer Jones of Manitoba in this evening’s semi-final by a 6-5 score in an extra end. Nedohin, with … Continue reading
The O’Connor Glass Provincial 15 and Under Curling Championships wrapped up today at the Crapaud Community Curling Club, with the Tyler Smith rink from the Crapaud and Charlottetown clubs winning the boy’s section, and the Jenny McLean team from the … Continue reading
(By Larry Wood) t ended with a near-miss for Marie-France Larouche but, otherwise, Saturday’s mid-day Page Three-Four sudden-death playoff match at the Scotties Tournament Of Hearts always seemed heavily weighted toward the home-province entry. Alberta’s Heather Nedohin guided her Edmonton … Continue reading
(Photo by Charlotte MacAulay) Two local curlers are heading for the nationals . Gordon MacDonald, Montague and Floyd Stewart, Murray Harbour, the top two men’s stick curlers in the province, will be wearing the team PEI jackets at the national … Continue reading
The curling portion of the Vogue Optical 55 Plus Winter Games takes place next week at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, with stick curling running Monday and Tuesday (click for schedule), and regular curling taking place … Continue reading
(Sports column by Joe MacIntyre). Summerside’s Mike Gaudet and his rink are off to Saskatoon, Sask., next week for the 2012 Tim Horton’s Brier. The Canadian men’s curling championship begins Saturday, March 3, with the Gaudet rink leaving next Thursday to … Continue reading
The O’Connor Glass Provincial 15 and Under Curling Championships are scheduled to wrap up today at the Crapaud Community Curling Club, with the semi-finals at 2:30 pm and the finals at 6 this evening. Only one tiebreaker was needed following … Continue reading
(By Larry Wood). Kelly Scott was rolling back the clock to more productive times Friday night at the Enmax Centrium. “It’s a feeling of complete confidence,” the diminutive 34-year-old Kelowna skip was saying in the wake of upsetting Scotties Tournament … Continue reading
(by Larry Wood, HeartChart Editor). Rebecca Jean MacDonald has had considerably more success at the Scotties than this year playing third for Kim Dolan, a good buddy. “It was a tough week,” said MacDonald. “We had one terrible game but … Continue reading
(by Larry Wood). When all was said and done, the Scotties Tournament of Hearts round-robin results more or less reflected most pre-tournament predictions. Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones and her team of Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer and Dawn Askin finished safely out … Continue reading
(by Gerry (Soupy) Campbell). The game has a longstanding tradition within the families of the P.E.I. team at this year’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts This year’s P.E.I. team at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts is a perfect example of how … Continue reading
(by Fred Rinne). For Island skipper Kim Dolan, who announced that this afternoon’s game was her last in competitive curling, it was an emotional afternoon. “It’s a great way to go out,” she said. “It would have been nice to … Continue reading
It was her 100th and final game since her appearances at the Canadian women’s curling championship began in 1983, and it ended on a high note, with 53 year old Kim Dolan drawing for five points in the 9th end … Continue reading
There’s a new winner this year in the men’s division of the Ferguson’s Funeral Homes Provincial Stick Curling Championships, which wrapped up this afternoon at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, with the Floyd Stewart/Gordon MacDonald duo … Continue reading
PEI’s future curling stars take to the ice this weekend at the Crapaud Community Curling Club, with the O’Connor Glass Provincial age 15 and Under championships running Thursday afternoon through Saturday evening, and the KFC Provincial 12 and Under going … Continue reading
(by Larry Wood). Four-time Canadian champion Jennifer Jones of Manitoba was riding a four-game winning streak and a one-game lead atop the Scotties Tournament of Hearts standings on Wednesday night. But the story of the tournament heading into the last … Continue reading
(by Fred Rinne). It was steal-and-steal alike at the Enmax Centrium in Draw 13 of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Red Deer Wednesday afternoon. Two of the hottest teams in the draw, Quebec’s Marie-France Larouche, coming off two wins … Continue reading
(from the Ocean 100 Facebook page) Scottie’s Update: Not a very lucky Draw 13 for Team PEI. PEI lost to Team Canada 10-4 in a game that ended after 8 ends. Team PEI faces Team NS in the evening draw. … Continue reading
The 10 am Thursday semi-finalists have now been determined for the Ferguson Funeral Homes PEI Stick Curling Championships at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, with the winners advancing to the championship game, and the losers playing … Continue reading
The 2012 Provincial Mixed Curling Championship takes place March 16-19 at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside. Entries close February 23, and must be made online at PEICurling.com. Entry fee is $50 per player, plus a CCA … Continue reading
(by Larry Wood). Suddenly, it’s a real horse-race. With seven teams operating within a game of one another at the top of the Scotties Tournament Of Hearts heap. Defending champion Amber Holland of Kronau, Sask., gassed a last-rock draw looking … Continue reading
(by Eric McCarthy) ALBERTON – Changing from a wide-open take-out game to a junk game worked for the Shirley Berry Cornwall/Charlottetown rink Tuesday in the sudden-death final of the P.E.I. Credit Unions Provincial Senior Women’s Curling Championship. Berry, who has … Continue reading
PEI’s future curling stars take to the ice this weekend at the Crapaud Community Curling Club, with the O’Connor Glass Provincial age 15 and Under championships running Thursday afternoon through Saturday evening, and the KFC Provincial 12 and Under going … Continue reading
Nancy Cameron of Team PEI just filed this report from the Scotties in Red Deer, on the Ocean 100 Facebook page: Hello from Red Deer….The flu is taking its toll on some of the curlers….So far so good for us….We … Continue reading
The Ferguson Funeral Homes Provincial Stick Curling Championships got underway this morning at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside. The two and three-time defending champions, the Ruth Stavert/Gloria Clarke duo from the Cornwall Curling Club, and the … Continue reading
The Cornwall and Charlottetown rink of Shirley Berry, Sandy Hope, Shelley Ebbett and Arleen Harris, with coaches Bill Hope and Butch McGee, had to win both championship round games against the June Moyaert foursome from Montague in order to become … Continue reading
(by Larry Wood). While a flu bug appears to be causing havoc at the Scotties Tournament Of Hearts at the Red Deer Centrium, teams from Saskatchewan and Manitoba managed their fourth wins Tuesday morning to match those of the leaders, … Continue reading
Parents are reminded that if you have a junior curler or child in Little Rocks programs, these activities likely qualify for child fitness tax receipts. Parents can claim up to $500 per child for fees paid in 2011 that relate … Continue reading
Attention Senior Curlers: We are in the process of organizing a Senior Curling League at the Silver Fox Curling Club in Summerside for next season. It will be held on Thursday nights starting approximately November 1, 2012 and wrapping up before the … Continue reading
The Asham coaching award winners, as voted on by their coaching peers, along with the Fair Play sportsmanship awards, voted on by all the curlers, were announced at the conclusion of the O’Connor Glass Provincial 17 and Under Curling Championships, … Continue reading
(By Larry Wood). It was supposed to be the great rematch Monday night at the Enmax Centrium. A re-run of last year’s gut-clencher at Charlottetown where Amber Holland threw a monkey wrench into Jennifer Jones’s hopes for a record-tying fourth … Continue reading
PEI’s Kim Dolan rink recovered successfully from a 4 point seventh end by Saskatchewan’s Michelle Englot team at the Scotties in Red Deer this evening. Trailing 7-4, the Islanders took a single in the eighth, stole a deuce in the … Continue reading
The 2012 Ferguson Funeral Homes Provincial Stick Championships get underway on Tuesday morning and wrap up Thursday afternoon at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. Twelve men’s and four women’s rinks from six PEI curling clubs are … Continue reading
The PEI Credit Unions Provincial Senior Women’s Curling Championship will now be decided with the 2 pm Tuesday draw. Four-time champion Shirley Berry and her Cornwall and Charlottetown rink forced the sudden death final with an 8-7 extra-end win over … Continue reading
The two game championship round is set at the PEI Credit Unions Provincial Senior Women’s Curling Championships being played at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. The defending champion June Moyaert rink from the Montague Curling Club, who won … Continue reading
Photo (L-R): Glen MacLean (coach), Matthew MacLean, Marshall Smallman, Kevin Gallant, Allan MacLean, David O’Connor (Sponsor) The Matthew MacLean rink from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary will join the Veronica Smith foursome from the Cornwall Curling Club as … Continue reading
(by Larry Wood). Experience took a step forward at the Scotties Tournament Of Hearts on Sunday night. Defending champion Amber Holland of Kronau, Sask., faced a must out-turn double-kill with her last rock against Alberta’s Heather Nedohin at the Enmax … Continue reading
(By Con Griwkowsky, QMI Agency) Sometimes, stuff just happens. Just ask Prince Edward Island skip Kim Dolan. The personable restaurant owner from Charlottetown skipped five P.E.I. teams at the Scotties. Last time was nearly 20 years ago, back in 1992. … Continue reading
Montague’s June Moyaert edged A final winner Shirley Berry of Cornwall and Charlottetown by a 7-6 score in the 11 am draw today to win the B section of the triple knockout Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Women’s Curling … Continue reading
PEI’s Kim Dolan rink lost a close game against four-time Canadian champion Jennifer Jones and her Manitoba team at the Scotties in Red Deer this morning, by a 9-8 score. Larry Wood of the CCA picks up the story: There was abundant … Continue reading
Photo (L-R): David O’Connor (Sponsor), Veronica Smith, Katie Fullerton, Sabrina Smith, Chloe McCloskey, Paul Smith (Coach) The Veronica Smith rink from the Cornwall Curling Club went undefeated with a 7-0 win-loss record to win the women’s title today at the O’Connor … Continue reading
The Shirley Berry rink from the Cornwall and Charlottetown curling clubs captured the A flight of the triple knockout Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Women’s Championships Saturday at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, beating the Paula Baglole … Continue reading
(by Terry Jones, QMI Agency). RED DEER, Alta. – How did this happen? How did the city which played host to the much-maligned “Redneck Brier” of 1994 become the go-to town for the Scotties Tournament of Hearts? And how, exactly … Continue reading
Kim Dolan (CCA photo by Andrew Klaver) (By Larry Wood) First a two-year lease on a Ford gas buggy, then a first-round upset victory over Alberta at the Scotties Tournament Of Hearts. Was Saturday the biggest curling day ever for … Continue reading
Round robin play wrapped up this evening in the women’s section, while the men’s double round robin concludes with tomorrow’s 10 am draw at the O’Connor Glass Provincial 17 and Under Curling Championship at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht … Continue reading
PEI lost to Ontario’s Tracy Horgan rink by a 7-6 score in an extra end in their opener this afternoon at the Scotties in Red Deer. PEI skip Kim Dolan had the last rock in the extra, but didn’t make … Continue reading
From the Ocean 100 Facebook page, here is another report from Nancy Cameron, a team member on PEI’s Kim Dolan rink, competing at the Scotties, in Red Deer: Hello from Red Deer….Yesterday was a great day, so nice practicing on … Continue reading
The Trustees of the Joyce Myers Trust Fund created a Scholarship Fund as a means to assist talented full time student athletes in Atlantic Canada. Priority will be given to athletes attending Atlantic universities, colleges or vocational schools. Download Application: Scholarship application (PDF) Scholarship … Continue reading
(by Marcel Vander Wier) It’s been 20 years since Kim Dolan has skipped a team into the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Her last national appearance for Prince Edward Island came in 1992, where Dolan earned her rink a 4-7 … Continue reading
PEI’s Kim Dolan rink are “on the ground” in Red Deer for the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Team member Nancy Cameron posted the following update on the Ocean 100 Facebook page today: Nancy Cameron: Well HELLO from Red Deer! … Continue reading
Three draws are in the books after opening day play at the PEI Credit Unions Provincial Senior Women’s Curling Championships, for curlers age 50 and over, being played at Alberton’s Western Community Curling Club, with eight teams taking part. Four-time … Continue reading
The O’Connor Glass Provincial age 17 and Under Curling Championships got underway this afternoon at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, with six women’s and four men’s teams taking part. Following the two opening day draws, the … Continue reading
The 2012 Ferguson Funeral Homes Provincial Stick Championships get underway on Tuesday morning and wrap up Thursday afternoon at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. Twelve men’s and four women’s rinks from six PEI curling clubs are … Continue reading
The Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Women’s Curling Championship, for curlers age 50 and over, gets underway Friday morning at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, with the winning team joining the men’s winners, the Charlie Wilkinson rink … Continue reading
The 2012 Provincial Mixed Curling Championship takes place March 16-19 at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside. Entries close February 23, and must be made online at PEICurling.com. Entry fee is $50 per player, plus a CCA … Continue reading
(parasportpei.ca) ParaSport & Recreation PEI and the Cornwall Curling Club are excited to announce that they have partnered to offer a FREE Wheelchair Curling Demonstration and Bonspiel. This event has been initiated by the Cornwall Curling Club as part of … Continue reading
The Maritime Masters Curling Championships wrapped up today at the Bluenose Curling Club in New Glasgow NS. The three PEI teams entered finished out of the winners’ circle, with the Louis Walsh and Shirley Berry teams finishing fourth in the … Continue reading
Opening draw is Friday afternoon at 2 for the Provincial age 17 & Under Curling Championships, sponsored by O’Connor Glass and taking place at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, with the winning men’s and women’s rinks … Continue reading
The Suzanne Birt rink reported on their Facebook page this evening that three-time Provincial Junior Champion skip Sarah Fullerton has joined their team, replacing Robyn MacPhee, who has decided to take a year off from curling “to pursue other activities … Continue reading
PEI’s Louis Walsh team from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club, undefeated after opening day play, had a tough day two at the Maritime Masters Curling Championships at the Bluenose Curling Club in New Glasgow NS, losing both their … Continue reading
The Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Women’s Curling Championship, for curlers age 50 and over, gets underway Friday morning at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, with the winning team joining the men’s winners, the Charlie Wilkinson rink … Continue reading
The Charlie Wilkinson rink from the Charlottetown Curling Club doubled the Mel Bernard team from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club by a 10-5 score in the final to win the Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Men’s Curling … Continue reading
The annual Whitecap Junior Curling Camp, which has been held two separate weeks in past years, will have only one session this year, from August 19-24 at the Halifax Mayflower Curling Club, so space will fill up fast. Only 96 … Continue reading
Two teams, skipped by Louis Walsh from Summerside PEI’s Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club, and Peter Taylor from the Carleton Curling Club in Saint John NB share the lead with 2-0 win-loss records after opening day play in the … Continue reading
L-R: Patsy Hayes, Janet Whiteway, Ashlee London and Darlene London Click for full list and photos of winners (Facebook). … Continue reading
(By Rory Munro. Reprinted from the CCA website) Let’s face it, curling is a world-wide phenomena. But, nowhere is it more of an addiction than here in Canada, where fans of the Roarin’ Game can get slap-happy in anticipation of … Continue reading
The Mel Bernard rink from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside beat the Rod MacDonald foursome from the Charlottetown and Montague curling clubs by a 9-4 score this afternoon to advance to the 6 pm final of … Continue reading
(by Tim Gall) P.E.I. women’s coach and a player receive national awards at the Canadian junior championships in Ontario NAPANEE, ONT. — Despite missing the playoffs, Prince Edward Island came home with some hardware from the Canadian junior curling championships. … Continue reading
Alberta, skipped by Brendan Bottcher of Edmonton, proved it was the best team of the week by taking the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Men’s final, 9-6 over a stubborn Northern Ontario (Brennan Wark of Thunder Bay), Sunday evening in … Continue reading
HALIFAX — After six years apart, one of the most successful teams in Canadian women’s curling history is getting back together — with a twist. Colleen Jones and Kim Kelly will join forces with skip Mary Anne Arsenault to form … Continue reading
The three finalists are now determined for the Monday championship round at the Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Men’s Curling Championship at the Crapaud Community Curling Club. The Mel Bernard foursome from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club … Continue reading
(Posted by Jeff Timson) Northern Ontario (Brennan Wark of Thunder Bay) advanced to tonight’s M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Men’s Curling Championship final (live on TSN/RDS at 8:00 pm Atlanticc) against Alberta’s Brendan Bottcher of Edmonton after beating Manitoba, 7-3 … Continue reading
Toniight’s game in the Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Men’s Curling Championships, which was originally scheduled for 6 pm at the Crapaud Community Curling Club, is now starting at 7. The previous draw was delayed two hours due to … Continue reading
Due to weather and road conditions, today’s 1 pm draw at the Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Men’s Curling Championship being played at the Crapaud Community Curling Club has been delayed until 3 pm. The time for the draw … Continue reading
On Saturday, the team of Rod MacDonald, John Likely, George Koke, and Doug MacGregor, from the Charlottetown and Montague curling clubs, won the B section of the triple knockout Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Men’s Championship, taking place at … Continue reading
The first draw is scheduled for 8 am Monday at the Maritime Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, taking place at the Bluenose Curling Club in New Glasgow NS. The winners and runners-up from the Medicine Shoppe … Continue reading
They’re going to Sweden! That was the stated goal of the Alberta women’s team, skipped by Jocelyn Peterman of Red Deer, when they arrived in Napanee for the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships. Well, mission accomplished. They’ll now … Continue reading
(CCA) The first and second team all-stars and Award winners at the 2012 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors have been announced. All-Stars (determined by shooting percentages during the round robin) Women First Team (click for photo – r to l) … Continue reading
(by Tim Gall) NAPANEE, ONT. — Prince Edward Island teams closed out the round robin with losses Friday afternoon at the Canadian junior curling championships in Napanee, Ont. The Cornwall-Charlottetown team of Sarah Fullerton, Michelle McQuaid, Sara MacRae and Hillary … Continue reading
Charlottetown’s Charlie Wilkinson rink, which includes 3rd Ken McGregor, 2nd Phillip MacInnis, and lead Bill Doherty, is now the only defeated team at the Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Men’s Curling Championship, for curlers age 50 and over, being … Continue reading
(by Jeff Timson) Manitoba, skipped by Shannon Birchard of Winnipeg, stole one in the 10th end to defeat Yukon, 8-7, claim first place and earn a bye to Saturday’s final [live on TSN at 8:00 pm AT] at the M&M … Continue reading
PEI rinks to finish play against Quebec today. (by Tim Gall) NAPANEE, ONT. — It was too little too late for playoffs, but the Sarah Fullerton rink is on a three-game winning streak after two more victories Thursday at the … Continue reading
(CCA/PEICA) PEI’s Sarah Fullerton rink was on a winning note today at the Canadian Juniors in Napanee Ont., putting a major crimp in Nova Scotia’s playoff plans this morning by defeating the Emily Dwyer team from Halifax, 6-4, and then … Continue reading
Day one is over at the PEI Credit Unions Provincial Senior Men’s Curling Championships, for curlers age 50 and up, being played at the Crapaud Community Curling Club, with two draws completed, and all nine teams seeing action in the triple … Continue reading
The 2012 Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Seniors Curling Championships, for curlers age 50 and over. will take place on consecutive weekends this year, with the men’s event going Feb. 9-13 at the Crapaud Community Curling Club, and the women’s … Continue reading