The Provincial Stick Championship, sponsored by the Ferguson-Logan Montague Funeral Home, will be held at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary February 10-12, 2015. This event has two divisions – an open division for any combination of men and/or women, and a women’s division, for women’s teams. The open division has 12 teams entered, while the women’s has six. The defending open division champions are the Roddie MacLean/John Dunsford duo from the Cornwall Curling Club, while their clubmates, the Elaine Hughes/Etta Reid team won the women’s title last year. MacLean/Dunsford and Hughes are not back this year. Etta Reid is curling with Myrna Craswell this time.
Event website: PEICurling.com/stick20142015
Live Curlcast results: http://curlatlantic.com/
Here is the round robin draw and schedule.
Here are the round robin pools:
| Open Pool A | Open Pool B | Women Pool C | |||
| A | Turner | O1 | Glydon | W1 | Thomson |
| B | Stewart | O2 | W. Callaghan | W2 | A. Callaghan |
| C | Hogan | O3 | Desroches | W3 | Pineau |
| D | Higginbotham | O4 | Bernard | W4 | Craswell |
| E | Leard | O5 | Willis | W5 | Clarke |
| F | Pendergast | O6 | Stratton | W6 | Murphy |
Each team plays a single round robin.
Open Division Playoff Round:
Q1(O) – 2 Place pool A vs 3rd place pool B
Q2(O) – 3rd place pool A vs 2nd place pool B
SEMI (O) 1 – winner of Q1(O) vs 1st place pool B
SEMI (O) 2 – winner Q2(O) vs 1st place pool A
Final (O) – winner SEMI (O) 1 vs winner of SEMI (O) 2
Women’s Division Playoff Round:
SEMI (W) – 2nd place vs 3rd place
FINAL (W) winner SEMI (W) vs 1st place
TIES
Games – Teams play an extra end with 3 rocks each
Each pool plays a single round robin.
Playoffs – 1st by wins and losses by team, 2nd by head to head results, 3rd by points – 5 Pts for a win, 2 pts for a loss, 1 Point per end, ½ pt for a blank end, 3 pts (MAX.) difference of score
Open Division Team Rosters
| Skip | 3rd | Club |
|---|---|---|
| Blair Bernard | Dale Dennis | Maple Leaf |
| Walter Callaghan | Roger Gavin | Western Community |
| Ron DesRoches | Dale Howard | Western Community |
| Bill Glydon | Alvin Hackett | Western Community |
| Bazil Higginbotham | Sterling Higginbotham | Montague |
| Victor Hogan | Dianne Hogan | Western Community |
| Bob Leard | Larry Dewar | Montague |
| Fr. Art Pendergast | Pete Larter | Western Community |
| Floyd Stewart | Gordon MacDonald | Montague |
| Sterling Stratton | Barry Craswell | Cornwall |
| Robert Turner | Blair Collicutt | Maple Leaf |
| Orville Willis | Sherrill Barwise | Maple Leaf |
Women’s Division Team Rosters
| Skip | 3rd | Club |
|---|---|---|
| Audrey Callaghan | Janet Hackett | Western Community |
| Gloria Clarke | Ruth Stavert | Cornwall |
| Myrna Craswell | Etta Reid | Cornwall |
| Shirley Murphy | Frances Ellsworth | Western Community |
| Marie Pineau | Georgie Wallace | Maple Leaf/ Western |
| Audrey Thomson | Ann Barwise | Maple Leaf |
The four open division teams in the semis and the final, along with the top two women’s rinks from this year’s event earn the right to compete in the Maritime Stick Curling Championships, March 11-13 in Amherst, NS.
The top two Open and Women’s division teams (the Women’s division, introduced when PEI hosted the event, is back this year) also earn the right to compete in the 2015 Canadian Open Stick Curling Championship, April 2-5 at the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This is an “open” event, but reserves entries for the top two teams from each of BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI.
In stick curling there are two curlers per team, who deliver their rocks with delivery sticks, with each team member delivering from opposite ends. Sweeping is allowed only from the hog line to the back of the house at the playing end. Two curlers, one from each team, alternately deliver 6 stones each per end, while their teammate skips that end. The roles are then reversed, and the partners deliver the stones back. No stone may be removed from play until the fourth stone of each end. Games are six ends and take about an hour to play. For more information on stick curling, including complete rules of play, visit www.stickcurling.ca.