The Provincial Stick Curling Championship, sponsored by the Ferguson-Logan Funeral Home, with Open and Women’s divisions, got underway today at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary, with twelve Open division (and combination of male or female) teams, divided into two pools, and six Women’s division two-person teams taking part in the round robin competition. After opening day, two Women’s division teams and one Open division team are still undefeated.
In the Women’s Division, the Gloria Thomson/Ann Barwise pair are 3-0, while the Gloria Clarke/Ruth Stavert twosome from Cornwall are 2-0. Only one Open team is still unbeaten – the Cornwall duo of Sterling Stratton and Barry Craswell.
Play continues with six draws on Wednesday. Two person stick curling games are six ends, and take about an hour to play. The championship round goes Thursday, with the finals at 2:30 pm.
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.
Live Curlcast results at: http://curlatlantic.com/scoreboard/#/competitions/1505-2015-ferguson-logan-funeral-home-stick-curling-championship-pei/scoreboard
Event website: https://peicurling.com/stick20142015/