PEI’s Robyn MacPhee rink lost 7-6 to the Julie McEvoy team from Halifax in the quarter-finals of the Lakeshore Curling Club Cashspiel, a World Curling Tour event, which wrapped up Sunday in Lower Sackville NS. The Island squad had a 6-3 lead going into the eighth end, but McEvoy tied it with a triple, and stole a single in the extra end to pull out the win. In the semi-finals,, McEvoy was eliminated by the Jill Brothers rink of Halifax, which includes PEI native Erin Carmody at third stone, by a 10-2 score, with Brothers leading 5-0 after 2 ends.

It took an extra end for Nancy McConnery of Dartmouth to shade Haligonian Theresa Breen 8-7 in the other semi. McConnery then stole the final end to get by Brothers by a 5-4 score in the final of the $6500 total purse women;s event.

Facebook photo (L-R): Robyn MacPhee, Sarah Fullerton, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle McQuaid

The MacPhee rink will be practicing in Moncton next weekend, and play in the inaugural New Scotland Clothing Ladies Cashspiel Oct. 7-10 in Halifax.

The $8000 total purse men’s side of the Lakeshore event was won by Stuart Thompson, who beat Chad Stevens 5-4 in the final. Both teams are from Halifax. PEI’s Jamie Newson team didn’t make the playoffs, picking up one win against four losses.

It’s championship round day at the Lakeshore Curling Club World Curling Tour cashspiel in Lower Sackville Nova Scotia, and the Robyn MacPhee rink from PEI, with a 3-2 win-loss record so far, won’t be going home empty-handed in the $6400 total purse women’s side of the event, after advancing to the 9 am quarter-final round

Facebook photo (L-R): Robyn MacPhee, Sarah Fullerton, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle McQuaid

The Island squad, the only non-Nova Scotia team in the women’s event, includes Sarah Fullerton at 3rd, second Meaghan Hughes, and lead Michelle McQuaid, and will be playing the Julie McEvoy foursome, with the winner facing the Jill Brothers team in semi-final play at  1. The final goes at 5. Theresa Breen faces Kristin MacDiarmid in the other quarter, with the victor taking on Nancy McConnery in the semi.

On the $8000 total purse men’s side, PEI’s Jamie Newson team, which includes Matthew MacLean, Daniel Richard, and Connor MacPhee, went 1-4 in round robin play, and won’t be in today’s money round, which sees Chad Stevens play Matthew Manual and Stuart Thompson and Kendal Thompson face off in 8 am quarter-finals, with the winners of the two quarters facing Paul Dexter and Jamie Murphy,  respectively, in the noon semis. The final goes at 4.

Results at CurlingZone.com

Three individuals, one team to be enshrined Nov. 12
SUMMERSIDE – The P.E.I. Sports Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled its Class of 2016 on Thursday afternoon.

Three individuals – Bill Purcell, Ian (Tex MacDonald) and the late Thane A. Campbell – along with the 1977 P.E.I. Islanders’ senior baseball team will be enshrined at Credit Union Place on Saturday, Nov. 12.

Thane A. Campbell/Curling

Hon. Thane A. Campbell 1895-1978. Portrait drawn by Wayne Wright

Campbell, who was born in Summerside in 1895 and became the 19th premier of Prince Edward Island in 1935, contributed to the sport of curling for nearly 50 years.

He joined the Summerside Curling Club in 1928, and won the club championship in 1935.

Campbell was largely responsible for P.E.I. gaining inclusion in the Macdonald Brier championship for the first time in 1936. Some of his other highlights include helping bring the 1964 Brier to Charlottetown.

Campbell and Harold Gaudet organized “school boy” curling on P.E.I. in 1948, now known as the provincial juniors.

Campbell was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame as a builder in 1974. He passed away in 1978 at the age of 83.

[Campbell was also inducted into the PEI Curling Hall of Fame, in 2007, its inaugural year.]

Click for full story, including bios of the other inductees, in the Journal Pioneer.

Begins journey with Saskatchewan rink this week

(by Jason Simmonds)

SUMMERSIDE – Adam Casey admits there will be a few red-eye flights in his future.

The Seven Mile Bay native will play second stone for the Shaun Meachem-skipped Saskatchewan rink, which begins its 2016-17 schedule this weekend at a World Curling Tour event in Saskatoon, Sask.

“I’m lucky in that I’m pretty good adjusting to time, because I’ll be going back and forth from West Coast to East Coast a lot,” said a smiling Casey, who skipped the P.E.I. men’s champions the last two years.

Seven Mile Bay native Adam Casey will play second stone for the Shaun Meachem rink in Saskatchewan.

© Jason Simmonds/TC Media

But with third stone David Mathers returning home to Ontario, second stone Anson Carmody concentrating on his career and lead Robbie Doherty unsure how much time he could commit, the Casey-skipped rink decided to go its separate ways.

New team

Casey joins third stone Catlin Schneider and lead Dustin Kidby with Team Meachem.

“The goal is to make it to the Tim Hortons Brier, but, most especially, I want to get back here for the Roar of the Rings (Olympic qualifier in Summerside in November 2017),” said Casey, who just turned 27. “We are trying to pick and choose our schedule so we can earn as many points and be here in 2017.”

Click for full story in the Journal Pioneer

The Curl PEI Annual General Meeting will take place at 7pm on Thursday October 13, 2016 at the House of Sport (the Sport PEI building at 40 Enman Cres. in Charlottetown).

Any member club wishing to have an item of business placed on the agenda of the AGM must submit it to me by 4pm on September 22, 2016.

 Amy Duncan

 Executive Director, Curl PEI

Tel: 902-368-4208

Fax: 902-368-4548

[email protected]

New regulations covering brush-head technology and sweeping technique for play at World Curling Federation events were approved on Saturday at the WCF’s Annual General Assembly in Stockholm, Sweden.

The new regulations came about as a result of research conducted jointly by the National Research Council of Canada and the WCF, with contributions from Curling Canada, during the first Sweeping Summit, held last May in Kemptville, Ont.

“The new sweeping regulations are the direct result of a spirit of collaboration between a number of parties, all of whom simply wanted the best for the sport of curling,” said Katherine Henderson, Chief Executive Officer of Curling Canada. “We wouldn’t be at this point today if it weren’t for the hard work put in by the World Curling Federation, Canada’s National Research Council, the World Curling Players Association, the players from around the world who took part in the Sweeping Summit in Kemptville and our own Curling Canada senior staff members who participated in the Summit. It truly is a statement about what makes our sport so wonderful, and I’m truly thankful for everyone’s efforts to resolve this situation.”

With the new WCF regulations in place, Curling Canada is introducing a revised Moratorium that will cover brush-heads and sweeping for Curling Canada events. It will be in place through the 2017-18 season. You can CLICK HERE to read it.

The most notable change is that a standardized fabric (material, weave, coating and colour) will be adopted for use in all championship events. As well, new guidelines have been adopted that cover use of target and sweeping brooms, as well as sweeping technique — all the result of the extensive research and testing done in Kemptville.

You can read a summary of the Sweeping Summit findings by CLICKING HERE.

You can read the World Curling Federation news release HERE. Additionally, CLICK HERE to read the WCF’s position on equipment used for recreational and/or domestic curling.

Click to read this story at Curling Canada

Team Registration Deadline for the 2018 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials is November 25, 2016.

This is the deadline to register your team for a chance to become Olympians!

Qualification

18 Teams – Round Robin play with 2 (two) pools of 9 (nine)

Playoffs:
8 (eight) Qualifiers – The 1st and 2nd place finishers within each pool and the next best 4 (four) win/loss records qualify for a modified double-knockout playoff. The A-side winner plays B-side winner in the final.  (Meaning you are allowed one loss after you qualify up until the Championship game)

Teams:
1 – 2016 Team that represented Canada at the 2016 Mixed Doubles Worlds (Dustin Kalthoff/Marliese Kasner)
3 – Top three finishers at 2017 Canadian Mixed Doubles Championship (April 5-9, Saskatoon)
4 – Regional Bonspiel Qualifiers
10 – Top teams from the CMDR not already qualified

Your team will be advised on November 1, 2017, whether or not you have qualified for the Trials.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a CMDR entry, each player entered must have competed in, or will compete in, three (3) Curling Canada Sanctioned Mixed Doubles events from September 1, 2015, to October 31, 2017*

The CMDR team points will be accumulated as below:
•    September 1, 2015 – May 1, 2016 – 75% value carried over from each players best three mixed doubles point’s events.
•    September 1, 2016 – November 1, 2017 – Mixed Doubles teams best six results from either mixed doubles events and/or CTRS events. Only 3 CTRS point events will count. (CTRS points will be accumulated from September 1, 2016,  to May 1, 2017, and are individually based)

FYI

•    Members of the four-player men’s and women’s curling team representatives for the 2018 Olympics will not be eligible to participate in the 2018 Mixed Doubles Curling Trials.
•    If both players from a Mixed Doubles Trials-eligible team are competing at the 2018 Olympics, that team will be replaced by the first team on the waiting list.
•    If your Mixed Doubles team has an individual player competing at the 2018 Olympics, you will have an opportunity to replace that player.
•    The replacement player must have been playing on a Men’s or Women’s team ranked in the top 12 of the Canadian Team Ranking System following the 2016-17 season, or on a Mixed Doubles Team ranked in the top 20 as at November 1, 2017.
•    Deadline to re-submit your new team line up is December 14, 2017
•    If two (2) or more teams decide to not re-submit a team for the 2018 Mixed Doubles Curling Trials, the event will become a 16-team round robin event with two pools of 8 (eight). Playoff format will remain the same.

There will be three (3) teams placed on a waiting list based on the CMDR.  The waiting list teams will advise Curling Canada by November 3, 2017, if they wish to be placed on the waiting list knowing that the possibility to participate in the Mixed Doubles Curling Trials will not be known until December 15, 2017.

*Curling Canada Sanctioned Events: 2015 Canad Inns Mixed Doubles Classic, 2015 Wall Grain Mixed Doubles Classic, 2016 Canadian Mixed Doubles Championship, 2016 Canad Inns Mixed Doubles Championship, 2017 Canadian Mixed Doubles Championship plus 3 Regional Events TBD.

Team Information / Application Form/Participation Agreement:

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The application form and participation agreement must be received by Curling Canada no later than November 25, 2016

By Mail: 1660 Vimont Court, Orleans, Ontario K4A 4J4 (Attn: Paul Noble)

Or by E-Mail: [email protected]