Score of the Month Award

Sport PEI, in partnership with SCORE Sport Charlottetown, is looking for that special moment in sport that will be remembered. Here are the criteria and details:

What was that special moment in your sport that stood out this month?

• The SCORE of the Month Award is open to teams and individuals who perform solo or as part of a team.
• A “team” is defined as a number of persons associated together in an activity. This includes all-star teams and contingents competing in individual disciplines in which there is a recognized team award.
• To be eligible, athletes/teams must participate in a sport which is a recognized member of Sport PEI
• An athlete or team may only win this award once per calendar year.
• The specific nomination deadline date will be the 5th of the following month.
• Please try to attach an action shot of athlete or team when sending in nomination.
• The Awards and Recognition Committee will review all nominations and determine the award recipient. The decisions of the Awards and Recognition Committee are final.
• The award recipient(s) will receive a gift from Sport PEI sponsored by SCORE, all nominees for the current month will be mentioned in a press release.

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Amateur Sport Awards

Sport PEI is once again calling upon the public and Island sport groups for nominations for the 2013 Amateur Sport Awards, which will be presented at the annual awards dinner, April 9, 2014. The nomination deadline is January 10 2014.

The Kyle Holland rink from the Charlottetown Curling Complex beat defending champion Tyler Smith and his Montague Curling Club team by an 8-5 score Monday evening to win the Pepsi Provincial Junior Men’s Championship at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. Team Holland includes Tony Nabuurs, who throws final stones, with Holland throwing third stones and calling the game, along with second Alex Sutherland, who was also on last year’s winning team, and lead Taylor McInnis. The team is coached by Angela Hodgson. Holland and McInnis were on last year’s runner-up rink, skipped by Chris Gallant, who is curling and attending school in Winnipeg this year.

(L-R): Kyle Holland, Tony Nabuurs, Alex Sutherland, Taylor McInnis, coach Angela Hodgson

In tonight’s game, the Charlottetown team blanked the first two ends, took a triple in the third, and stole a deuce in the fourth end to take a 5-0 lead. Smith came back with a triple in five, which was followed by a Holland deuce and steal of 1.

(L-R): Tyler Smith, Brooks Roche, Dylan Lowery, Ryan Lowery, coach Tammy Dewar

Smith took the next two ends to trail 8-5 coming home without hammer. In the final end, the Smith rink were lying three, when Tony Nabuurs made a double take out to seal the victory.. Other members of the runner-up Smith foursome are third Brooks Roche, second Dylan Lowery, and first stone Ryan Lowery, with coaches Tammy Dewar and Kevin Smith.

Meanwhile, it’ll be a return trip to the nationals for the Veronica Smith foursome, who beat their Cornwall clubmates the Amanda MacLean team by a 6-4 score in tonight’s Pepsi Provincial Junior Women’s final. The Smith team took singles in the first two ends. MacLean blanked the next two, and was kept to a single in the fifth. Smith took 1 in the sixth, and the teams then traded deuces and then singles to bring the final score to 6-4 for Smith, whose team is unchanged from last year, and includes third stone Chloe McCloskey, second Sabrina Smith, and first stone Katie Fullerton.

(L-R): Veronica Smith, Chloe McCloskey, Sabrina Smith, Katie Fullerton, coach Bill Hope

Smith was facing three in the last end, but made a draw to the four foot for the win. The Smith team is coached by Bill Hope and Paul Smith.

(L-R) Amanda MacLean, Jane DiCarlo, Emily Gray, Aleya Quilty, coach Lori Robinson

Playing with runner-up MacLean were third Jane DiCarlo, second Emily Gray, and lead Aleya Quilty, with coach Lori Robinson.

The Kyle Holland and Veronica Smith teams will advance to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, January 18-26, 2014 in Liverpool NS. Holland and Smith are also skipping UPEI teams in the Atlantic University Curling Championships, January 3-5 at the Capital Winter Club in Fredericton, NB. In that event, Veronica Smith will be joined with DiCarlo, Gray and Quilty from the Amanda MacLean rink, while Holland’s team will include McInnis at lead, along with Connor MacPhee and Andrew Cameron.

Veronica Smith punched her ticket to tonight’s championship game on Sunday morning by handing MacLean her first loss in the event. As Smith was the only team to go through round robin play undefeated, she sewed up first place and the bye to the final. In the semi-final, the MacLean foursome edged their Cornwall clubmates, the Emily Keen team, 7-6 in an extra end to advance to the 7 pm final.

Holland captured the A event of the triple knockout portion of the junior men’s championship, and then won the Page A vs B game on Sunday night by an 8-0 score over Cornwall’s Matthew MacLean team to advance directly to tonight’s championship game, while Smith, who took the fourth and final qualifying spot for the Page round, beat Alex MacFadyen of Summerside 7-4 in the Page B vs C game, and MacLean 8-4 in the semi.

Eight junior men’s and seven junior women’s teams took part in this year’s event.

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(by Mike Carson)

SUMMERSIDE – The Kyle Holland rink from the Charlottetown Curling Complex is the men’s Pepsi P.E.I. junior curling champion.

Holland held on to outlast a tough Tyler Smith rink from Montague, the defending junior champions.

Skip Kyle Holland (right) keeps a close eye on the rock as sweepers Tony Nabuurs (left) and Taylor McInnis guide it into the house in action at the Pepsi P.E.I. junior curling championships held at the Silver Fox Curling Club. The Holland rink from the Charlottetown Curling Complex won the championship eight to five over defending champions, the Tyler Smith rink from Montague. © Mike Carson/Journal Pioneer

The Holland rink got off to an early lead scoring two in the third end and three more in the fourth and seemed to be cruising.

The Smith foursome made it interesting in the final end and was poised to take the lead.

The Montague rink was sitting three when Holland’s mate, Tony Nabuurs, made a crucial double take out to seal the win.

Holland credited the win to his team’s consistent play.

“The boys came out really strong and we were all playing really nice,” he said. “All of our hits were very good. We played our game and it ended up working for us.”

The Kyle Holland rink from the Charlottetown Curling Complex is the Pepsi P.E.I. junior men’s curling champion. Team members are: Kyle Holland, skip (right); Tony Nabuurs, mate; Alex Sutherland, second; and Taylor McInnis, lead. At left is coach Angela Hodgson. 

© TC media photo by Mike Carson

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The Kyle Holland rink from the Charlottetown Curling Complex beat defending champion Tyler Smith and his Montague Curling Club team by an 8-5 score this evening to win the Pepsi Provincial Junior Men’s Championship at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. Team Holland includes Tony Nabuurs, who throws final stones, with Holland throwing third stones and calling the game, along with second Alex Sutherland, and lead Taylor McInnis. The team is coached by Angela Hodgson. Holland and McInnis were on last year’s runner-up rink, skipped by Chris Gallant, who is curling and attending school in Winnipeg this year. In tonight’s game, the Charlottetown team blanked the first two ends, took a triple in the third, and stole a deuce in the fourth end to take a 5-0 lead. Smith came back with a triple in five, which was followed by a Holland deuce and steal of 1. Smith took the next two ends to trail 8-5 coming home without hammer, and ran out of rocks in the final end. Other members of the runner-up Smith foursome are third Brooks Roche, second Dylan Lowery, and first stone Ryan Lowery, with coaches Tammy Dewar and Kevin Smith.

Meanwhile, it’ll be a return trip to the nationals for the Veronica Smith foursome, who beat their Cornwall clubmates the Amanda MacLean team by a 6-4 score in tonight’s Pepsi Provincial Junior Women’s final. The Smith team took singles in the first two ends. MacLean blanked the next two, and was kept to a single in the fifth. Smith took 1 in the sixth, and the teams then traded deuces and then singles to bring the final score to 6-4 to Smith, whose team is unchanged from last year, and includes third stone Chloe McCloskey, second Sabrina Smith, and first stone Katie Fullerton. The team is coached by Bill Hope and Paul Smith. Playing with runner-up MacLean were third Jane DiCarlo, second Emily Gray, and lead Aleya Quilty, with coach Lori Robinson.

The Kyle Holland and Veronica Smith teams will advance to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, January 18-26, 2014 in Liverpool NS. Holland and Smith are also skipping UPEI teams in the Atlantic University Curling Championships, January 3-5 at the Capital Winter Club in Fredericton, NB. In that event, Veronica Smith will be joined with DiCarlo, Gray and Quilty from the Amanda MacLean rink, while Holland’s team will include McInnis at lead, along with Connor MacPhee and Andrew Cameron.

Veronica Smith punched her ticket to tonight’s championship game on Sunday morning by handing MacLean her first loss in the event. As Smith was the only team to go through round robin play undefeated, she sewed up first place and the bye to the final. In the semi-final, the MacLean foursome edged their Cornwall clubmates, the Emily Keen team, 7-6 in an extra end to advance to the 7 pm final.

Holland captured the A event of the triple knockout portion of the junior men’s championship, and then won the Page A vs B game on Sunday night by an 8-0 score over Cornwall’s Matthew MacLean team to advance directly to tonight’s championship game, while Smith, who took the fourth and final qualifying spot for the Page round, beat Alex MacFadyen of Summerside 7-4 in the Page B vs C game, and MacLean 8-4 in the semi.

Eight junior men’s and seven junior women’s teams took part in this year’s event.

Capital One Canada and the Canadian Curling Association are once again giving a lucky fan the chance to throw a rock to the button to win $1 million Cdn.

Bob Stewart of Longbow Lake, Ont., was last season’s finalist in the Capital One Million Dollar Button contest. (Photo, courtesy Capital One)

The Capital One Million Dollar Button contest has returned, and it will culminate in March at the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier in Kamloops, B.C., where a fan will have a shot to win $1 million by drawing to the button during the fifth-end break of the gold-medal game on March 9. The attempt will be broadcast live by TSN.

For more details, click on www.milliondollarbutton.ca

“Nothing beats the excitement of seeing curling’s biggest fans get their chance to stand on competition ice to shoot for a million dollars,” said Clinton Braganza, Vice-President Brand Marketing, Capital One Canada. “We love giving Canadian curling fans a chance to get in the action and this year will be no exception.  We wish the 2014  participants the best of luck.”

In order to win the Capital One Million Dollar Button’s grand prize of a one-time payment of $1 million, the contest’s finalist must successfully deliver a rock from the hack and place the stone within the button on a regulation curling sheet. The contest’s finalist will have just one opportunity to execute the shot.

Four lucky semifinalists will win an all-expenses-paid trip for two to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Montreal, where they will compete for the finalist position. The person who places the stone closest to the button at that event will become the finalist in Kamloops

The finalist will receive an all-expenses-paid trip for themselves and three friends, who will be their own personal “cheer squad.”

“We’re very happy to have the Capital One Million Dollar Button contest back as part of our Season of Champions events,” said Greg Stremlaw, the Chief Executive Officer of the CCA. “There’s already so much to offer to our great fans, but thanks to our partnership with Capital One, there’s even more value. Watching our top players make draws to the button is always exciting, but watching someone do it for a million dollars would be amazing.”

The Capital One Million Dollar Button contest opened on December 5, 2013, and people can enter once per day until January 11, 2014. Fans can enter or review the full contest rules by visiting milliondollarbutton.ca.

About the Canadian Curling Association
The Canadian Curling Association (CCA) is the national sport governing body responsible for the development, promotion and organization of curling in Canada. In cooperation with its Provincial and Territorial Member Associations from across Canada, the CCA provides programs and services to curlers ranging from the youngest ‘little rocker’ (age 7 and up), to those participating at ages 70 and over – and from aspiring Olympians to Canadians with special needs, coaches, curling facility operators, ice makers and officials.
The CCA also oversees and provides the comprehensive management of the Season of Champions event portfolio; develops and administers the Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS) for Olympic qualification and organizes and operates the championship system for Juniors (under 20), Seniors (over 50), Mixed, Women, Men, University and Wheelchair.

About Capital One
With offices in Toronto and Montreal, Capital One has offered Canadian consumers a range of competitive MasterCard credit cards since 1996, when the company first introduced the Platinum MasterCard in Canada. Capital One Canada is a division of Capital One Bank, a subsidiary of Capital One Financial Corporation of McLean, Virginia (NYSE: COF). Capital One is committed to promoting curling by supporting the in-school curling program, Capital One Rocks & Rings, which has already introduced the sport of curling to over 500,000 Canadian kids.

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Team Chad Stevens won the Atlantic Curling Tour Championship this afternoon at the Dartmouth Curling Club, beating Team Tom Sullivan. in the final.

Stevens beat Ian Fitzner-LeBlanc in the semi-finals, while Sullivan defeated Doug MacKenzie.

PEI’s only team in the event, skipped by Jamie Newson, went 0-2, losing to MacKenzie, and to Mark Dacey.

CurlEast photo: Team Chad Stevens

Team Stevens includes Chad Stevens, Cameron MacKenzie, Scott Saccary, Phil Crowell, and Tyler Gamble.

Here are the other draw results from the event (info from  @AtlCurlingTour Twitter feed)

Draw 1 (Fri 6:30pm) – Stevens over Buott, Murphy over Steele, Sullivan over Saccary, Fitzner over Smith

Draw 2 (Fri 9:30pm) MacKenzie over Newson, Dacey over MacDougall

Draw 3 (Sat 8am) Saccary over Smith, Fitzner over Sullivan, Stevens over Steele, Murphy over Buott

Draw 4 (11:00am) Mackenzie over MacDougall, Dacey over Newson

Draw 5 (Sat 2pm) Murphy over Buott, Stevens over Murphy, Sullivan over Smith, Fitzner over Saccary

Draw 6 (Sat 5pm) Fitzner over Dacey, Sullivan over Murphy