SUMMERSIDE – The Charlottetown Curling Complex men’s and women’s teams came away with provincial championships in The Dominion tournament, an inter-club challenge started six years ago.
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Skip Phillip McInnis, of the Charlottetown curling complex, aims a seventh-end shot while lead Rodney Hood, left, and second Cory Arsenault prepare to sweep it into place.
Phillip McInnis, skip of the men’s team, described the final against the Silver Fox team of Leo Stewart as a tight contest. They traded singles until the fifth of eight ends, before stealing a deuce in the sixth to seal the game.
“The boys played very well; if we had a miss the next guy stepped up and made the shot,” and they capitalized on errors, he praised.
“The guys I have with me are new curlers, so we don’t play a lot of trying to run the rocks. We do try and keep it wide open,” and play the chances when they come.
Tammi Cudmore’s Charlottetown women’s team came through the tournament unbeaten, finally downing the Silver Fox women’s team of Kim Aylward by a score of 9-2 after six ends.
“My team’s just awesome: they set me up every end,” Cudmore commended, describing herself as the weakest link.
Cudmore had just returned from a three-week vacation, and noted that she was returning to the game after a five-year hiatus. She credits practice one night a week with her teammates Julie Scales, Jane DiCarlo, and Anne Chouinard as the needed formula, adding that DiCarlo injected a positive spirit when she joined the team in December.