The Silver Fox Entertainment Complex is offering Adult Curling Lessons, with Don Vickerson, on Wednesday evenings starting January 3 and continuing for the rest of the season, from 7-9. It’s open to club members and non-members. Price is $10 per night. Beginners are especially welcome.
Sign up on poster at the Club. Bring clean sneakers, and wear loose-fitting clothing.
O’LEARY – The Lauren Lenentine rink from Cornwall Curling Club is heading back to the New Holland Canadian junior curling championships, and this year they will be accompanied by the Alex MacFadyen team from the Silver Fox in Summerside.
Lenentine successfully defended her 2017 provincial title, going 7-0 (won-lost) in this year’s Pepsi P.E.I. junior curling championships, which wrapped up at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary on Friday evening.
Leslie Noye, second stone on the Alex MacFadyen rink from the Silver Fox in Summerside, keeps his eyes on the target broom as he releases a stone during P.E.I. Pepsi junior men’s curling championship at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. – Eric McCarthy
MacFadyen and his team of James Dalton, third stone; Leslie Noye, second stone Parker MacFadyen, lead, and coach David MacFadyen breezed through the four-team men’s modified triple-knockout championship with a 4-0 record. Their final three wins were in the A, B and C event finals – all against Mitchell Schut’s Cornwall rink. MacFadyen pulled out an 8-7 win in the title-clinching game.
Lenentine and her rink of Kristie Rogers, Breanne Burgoyne, Rachel O’Connor and coach Pat Quilty faced a Charlottetown/Cornwall/Crapaud rink skipped by Lauren Ferguson in the C final.
The Lenentine rink scored a single with the hammer in the first end, and stole its way to a 5-0 lead going into the fifth-end break, before Ferguson staged a comeback, conceding in the 10th trailing 6-3.
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Following today’s final games at the Pepsi Provincial Junior Curling Championships at the Maple Leaf Curling Club, it was time to present the trophies to the winners and runners-up, as well as the certificates to the winners of the Asham Coaching Awards, as voted on by all the coaches, and the Sportsmanship awards, as voted on by the players.
Here is the winning junior women’s team, Team Lenentine:
(L-R): Lauren Lenentine, Kristie Rogers, Breanne Burgoyne, Rachel O’Connor, Pat Quilty (Coach)
Here is the runner-up junior women’s team, Team Ferguson:
(L-R): Lauren Ferguson, Katie Shaw, Alexis Burris, Lexie Murray, David Murphy (Coach)
Here is the winning junior men’s rink, Team MacFadyen:
(L-R): Alex MacFadyen James Dalton, Leslie Noye, Parker MacFadyen, David MacFadyen (coach)
Here are the junior men’s runners-up, Team Mitchell Schut:
(L-R): Mitchell Schut, Nick Johnston, Liam Kelly, Colin MacKenzie, Lori Robinson (coach)
Asham Coach Award – Men’s Division winner: David MacFadyen, coach of Team MacFadyen,
Women’s Division winner: Pat Quilty, coach of Team Lenentine.
Sportsmanship Award – Junior Men’s Division winner: Alec Huestis from Team Devin Schut (no picture), Junior Women’s Division winner, Lexie Murray from Team Ferguson.
It was a clean sweep at the Pepsi Provincial Junior Curling Championships at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary for both the defending champion Lauren Lenentine jr. women’s rink from the Cornwall Curling Club, and the Alex MacFadyen jr. men’s foursome from the Silver Fox in Summerside. Both teams went undefeated, capturing all three sections of the modified triple knockout draw, so that the event wrapped up with the “C” finals on Friday evening without playing the Saturday championship round.
Photo (L-R): Lauren Lenentine, Kristie Rogers, Breanne Burgoyne, Rachel O’Connor, Pat Quilty (Coach)
The Lauren Lenentine rink, which includes third stone Kristie Rogers, second Breanne Burgoyne, and lead Rachel O’Connor, with coach Pat Quilty, beat Charlottetown’s Annika Kelly rink 11-1 in the A final, and went on to defeat the Lauren Ferguson rink from Crapaud, Cornwall, and Charlottetown 6-4 in the B, and 6-3 in the C final of the six-team field. Katie Shaw, Alexis Burris, and Lexie Murray, with coach David Murphy, round out the runner-up Ferguson team, while third Cynthia Pearson, second Tatiana Kelly, and lead Meghan Ching, with coach Mitch O’Shea complete the Kelly rink, the other section winner.
Photo (L-R) Alex MacFadyen, James Dalton, Leslie Noye, Parker MacFadyen, coach David MacFadyen
In the four-team Jr. Men’s division, the Alex MacFadyen team, with third James Dalton, second stone Leslie Noye, and lead Parker MacFadyen, with coach David MacFadyen, played the Mitchell Schut rink from Cornwall in all three finals, winning 7-3, 9-4, and 8-7. Schut got off to a bad start in the C final, giving up four in the first end, but fought back to narrow the gap to one by the end of the game. Nick Johnston, Colin MacKenzie, and Liam Kelly, with coaches Bill Hope and Lori Robinson, complete the runner-up Team Schut.
The winning Lenentine and MacFadyen rinks now advance to the 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Jan. 21 – 28 in Shawinigan Quebec.
The “C” finals of the modified triple knockout draw of the Pepsi Provincial Junior Curling Championships go at 6:30 this evening at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. Two teams, the defending champion Lauren Lenentine junior women’s team from Cornwall, and the Alex MacFadyen junior men’s rink from the Silver Fox in Summerside, have won the first two of the three sections of the draw, and a win by either of them this evening would book their ticket to the 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Jan. 21 – 28 in Shawinigan Quebec. Their opponents, the Lauren Ferguson team from Crapaud, Cornwall, and Charlottetown, and the Mitchell Schut foursome from Cornwall would have to win tonight’s game and two championship round games on Saturday at 9:30 and 2, in order to take the provincial title.
Lenentine beat Charlottetown’s Annika Kelly 8-5 while Ferguson got by Cornwall’s Sydney Howatt by the same score this afternoon to advance to the C final. Lenentine beat Ferguson in the A final, and Kelly in the B, while MacFadyen got by Schut in both the A and B finals. Schut beat Charlottetown’s Chase MacMillan team this morning to advance to the junior men’s C final.
End by end results are available at PEICurling.com. Six junior women’s and four junior men’s teams began play on Wednesday.
The defending champion Lauren Lenentine rink from Cornwall remains undefeated and is one step closer to repeating as Junior Women’s champion at the Pepsi Provincial Juniors at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary, after winning both the “A” and now the “B” finals of the modified triple knockout draw. This puts the team into both Saturday finals, where they will win the event if they win either game, while their opponent, the C finalist, would have to win both. If Team Lenentine advances to and wins the C event final at 6:30 this evening, they will be declared the champion at that point, and the championship round would not be played.
The Lenentine squad beat the Lauren Ferguson team from Crapaud, Cornwall, and Charlottetown by a 6-4 score in the B final this morning, stealing singles in the fifth through seventh ends. There were also two games in the C event this morning, with Annika Kelly of Charlottetown eliminating Cornwall’s Emily Sanderson team in a closely-fought 8-5 battle. Kelly got out of the gate fast with a three-point first end, but Sanderson scored a trio of singles to tie it up, and pulled ahead with a stolen single in the seventh. Kelly recovered with a deuce in eight and a pair of stolen singles to pull out the win. The other game saw Sydney Howatt eliminate her Cornwall clubmate Rachel MacLean with a 5-2 win. MacLean led 1-0 after the first five ends, with Howatt recording a triple in end six and a ninth-end steal for the win.
Lenentine plays Kelly, with Howatt facing Ferguson in the “C” semi-finals at 2 this afternoon, with the winners going to the 6:30 pm “C” final.
Meanwhile, in the Junior Men’s division, the Mitchell Schut team from Cornwall will be competing in their third section final, at 6:30 this evening. They will have to beat the Alex MacFadyen team from the Silver Fox three times – the C final, and both Saturday championship round games in order to win the championship, while a win in any of these games would punch MacFadyen’s ticket to the 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Jan. 21 – 28 in Shawinigan Quebec.
Schut eliminated the Chase MacMillan team from Charlottetown with a 7-2 win this morning, after MacMillan sent Mitchell’s brother Devin to the sidelines with a 9-3 win on Thursday evening.
A chance to make curling history will be on the line when the inaugural Canad Inns Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials get underway Tuesday in Portage la Prairie, Man.
Mike and Dawn McEwen are among the 18 teams playing for the right to represent Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics. (Photo, Curling Canada/Michael Burns)
The event, scheduled for Jan. 2-7 at Stride Place, will determine Canada’s first Olympic mixed doubles curling team, after the event was declared an official Winter Olympic medal sport by the International Olympic Committee in 2015.
And considering the level of talent that will be on display in Portage, it’s not a stretch to say that the 2018 Canad Inns Mixed Doubles Curling Trials will be the most competitive mixed doubles competition ever staged.
Eighteen teams, including numerous Olympic, World and Canadian champions, will gather in Portage for the seven-day competition, which will feature six draws daily at Stride Place Tuesday through Thursday, with tiebreakers, if necessary, and the opening round of the eight-team playoffs set for Friday.
The teams are split into two nine-team pools, with seedings based on the Canadian Mixed Doubles Rankings. The teams will play a single round-robin within their pools, before eight teams (first and second in each pool, and the next four best win-loss records) move on to the playoffs.
CLICK HERE to see the full list of teams and the complete event schedule. CLICK HERE to view the practice schedule for Jan. 1 at Stride Place.
Among the entries are seven former Olympic gold-medallists, including two teams — Jennifer Jones/Mark Nichols (Winnipeg/St. John’s) and Kaitlyn Lawes/John Morris (Winnipeg/Canmore, Alta.) — who’ve won Olympic titles in four-player curling. The other past Olympic gold winners are Dawn McEwen (playing with husband Mike McEwen), Brad Gushue (playing with Val Sweeting) and Jill Officer (playing with Reid Carruthers).
The winning team, accompanied by national mixed doubles coach Jeff Stoughton of Winnipeg, will join Canada’s four-player teams (skipped by Rachel Homan and Kevin Koe) at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, scheduled for Feb. 9-25. Mixed doubles curling, featuring eight countries, will actually get underway the day before the Opening Ceremonies, on Feb. 8, and will conclude with the gold- and bronze-medal games on Feb. 13.
Canada will enter the inaugural Olympic mixed doubles competition as the top-ranked country in the world in the discipline.
CLICK HERE to download the event media guide for the 2018 Canad Inns Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials.
Tickets for the 2018 Canad Inns Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials are now available at www.curling.ca/2018mixeddoublestrials/tickets/.
CBC Sports will offer live-streaming coverage of every draw at cbcsports.ca and via the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android devices. In addition, broadcast coverage of the final two days of the event, including the playoffs and final, will be available on CBC. Also, Radio-Canada will offer live-streaming coverage of the closing weekend.
O’LEARY – The Alex MacFadyen rink from the Silver Fox in Summerside, and Lauren Lenentine’s defending-champion women’s rink from the Cornwall Curling Club are still undefeated after two days of play at the 2018 Pepsi P.E.I. junior curling championships.
The competition for curlers under 21 years of age will decide the Prince Edward Island representatives for the New Holland Canadian curling championships in Shawinigan, Que., from Jan. 21 to 28.
Alex MacFadyen watches his stone after turning it over to sweepers. – Eric McCarthy
MacFadyen and his rink of James Dalton, Leslie Noye and Parker MacFadyen, moved to 3-0 (won-lost) in the modified triple knockout men’s championship with a 9-4 win over Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut in the B final Thursday evening at the Maple Leaf Curling Club. He stole three in the eighth end to trigger the handshakes.
That win puts MacFadyen directly into the C event final in Friday’s 6:30 p.m. draw, where a victory would book his team’s tickets to Shawinigan.
Meanwhile, Lenentine, whose team consists of Kristie Rogers, Breanne Burgoyne and Rachel O’Connor, boosted her record to 4-0 in the six-team women’s championship with a 9-3 win over Rachel MacLean in Thursday evening’s draw. That victory advances her to Friday’s 9:30 a.m. women’s B final against Lauren Ferguson, whose Charlottetown/Cornwall/Crapaud rink won its Thursday evening game 11-3 over Charlottetown’s Annika Kelly, sealing the deal with a five-ender in the sixth. Rounding out the Ferguson rink are Katie Shaw, Alexis Burris and Lexie Murray.
Friday evening curling on arena ice is starting on January 5th at the Belfast Recreation Centre. Registration is 6 pm, followed by Team Curling at 6:30, and Pickup Curling at 8 pm.
No experience is necessary. Canteen and bar will be open. All ages are welcome. Help pass the winter months with great Friday evening fun, friendship, and exercise!
Registration fee is $80 per person for Team Curling and $9 a night for Pickup Curling.
For more info contact:
Cliff McKenna [email protected] 902-659-2188 or
Billy Bell [email protected] 902-969-5214 or
Val Murray [email protected] or 902-628-7079
The Alex MacFadyen rink from the Silver Fox club in Summerside remains undefeated in the four-team junior men’s division, and needs to win just one of their next three games in order to become the Pepsi Provincial Junior Men’s champions. They captured the “A” final on Wednesday, and the “B” final this evening, both against Mitchell Schut and his Cornwall team, winning this evening by a 9-4 score, after stealing a triple in the eighth end to bring the game to an early conclusion. This win puts the MacFadyen team into the “C” final of the modified triple-knockout draw, as well as both games of the two-game championship round. A win in any of these games will give him the title, without having to play the subsequent games.
In the other junior men’s game this evening, the young Chase MacMillan rink from Charlottetown eliminated the Devin Schut team with a 9-3 win in eight ends, leading 6-0 at the fifth end break. MacMillan now takes on Mitchell Schut in the “C” semi-final at 9:30 am Friday, with the winner facing MacFadyen in the “C” final at 6:30 pm.
On the Junior Women’s side, the defending champion Lauren Lenentine rink from Cornwall, who won the “A” final, is still undefeated, and will play their clubmates the Lauren Ferguson rink in the “B” final at 9:30 am Friday. Lenentine led 7-0 after three ends in her “B” semi-final game this evening against clubmate Rachel MacLean, going on to win 9-3 in seven ends. The other Lauren (Ferguson) and her team from Crapaud, Cornwall, and Charlottetown downed Charlottetown’s Annika Kelly squad by an 11-3 score in only six ends, recording both a four and a five-point end.
The “C” event also gets underway on Friday morning at 9:30, with Cornwall’s Sydney Howatt and Rachel MacLean facing off in one “must win” game, and Emily Sanderson of Cornwall taking on Kelly in the other. The winner of Howatt vs. MacLean takes on Ferguson in one “C” semi-final at 2 pm, with the winner of Sanderson vs. Kelly facing Lenentine in the other. The winners advance to the “C” final at 6:30.
The two-game championship round is scheduled for Saturday at 9:30 and 2 pm. If Lenentine, who won the A final, also wins the B and C finals, the championship round would not be required.
The eventual junior men’s and women’s winners advance to the 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Jan. 21 – 28 in Shawinigan Quebec.
The B section finals of the modified triple knockout draw are coming up at the Pepsi Provincial Junior Curling Championships at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary.
Just like the “A” section, it’ll be Summerside’s Alex MacFadyen taking on Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut, at 6:30 in the junior men’s B section final this evening. The B semi, like the A, was a battle between siblings Mitchell and Devin Schut, with Mitchell again coming out ahead, this time by a 7-4 score. Devin Schut, along with Charlottetown’s Chase MacMillan now have two losses, with one facing elimination in the other 6:30 pm junior men’s game.
Also at 6:30 are the junior women’s “B” semi-finals, with “A” winner Lauren Lenentine taking on Cornwall clubmate Rachel MacLean, and “A” runner-up Annika Kelly facing Lauren Ferguson and her Crapaud, Cornwall, and Charlottetown rink. The winners square off in the B final at 9:30 am Friday.
Ferguson beat Sydney Howatt of Cornwall 9-3 this afternoon, while MacLean beat clubmate Emily Sanderson 7-5 to advance. Howatt and Sanderson drop down to the last chance “C” flight of the six team draw. Both “C” finals go at 6:30 on Friday evening with the championship games, if needed, taking place at 9:30 am and 2 pm on Saturday.
If “A” section winners MacFadyen or Lenentine were to win all three sections, they would win the event without a championship round being played. If a team wins two sections, they will advance to a championship game against the winner of the other section and will take the championship if they win the game. If the other team wins, there will be a second championship game, with the winner of that game going to the nationals. If there are three separate section winners, the team that played in the most section finals will earn a bye to the second championship game where they will face the winner of a game between the other two finalists.
Live, end-by-end results are available at PEICurling.com. Six junior women’s and four junior men’s teams began play on Wednesday.
The winning Junior Men’s and Women’s champions will advance to the 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Jan. 21 – 28 in Shawinigan Quebec.
O’LEARY – It was a good start to the day for the Lauren Lenentine and Alex MacFadyen rinks at the Pepsi P.E.I. junior curling championships.
They won the A section finals as defending-champion Lenentine defeated Annika Kelly of Charlottetown 11-1 in six ends, and MacFadyen posted a 7-3 win over Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut in eight ends at the Maple Leaf Curling Club on Thursday morning.
Lenentine scored a deuce with hammer in the first end, and then stole three in the second end to take control early. After Kelly got one point back in the fourth, Lenentine counted four in the fifth to go into the break up 9-1.
Alex MacFadyen watches his stone after turning it over to sweepers. MacFadyen and his Silver Fox rink from Summerside scored a 7-3 win over Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut in the A section final of the modified triple-knockout Pepsi P.E.I. junior curling championships in O’Leary on Thursday morning. – Eric McCarthy
A steal of three in the third end gave MacFadyen a 4-0 lead, and another steal of one in the fifth made it 5-0.
In the modified triple-knockout format, section winners drop down to compete in the next section. MacFadyen will face the winner of the 2 p.m. matchup between brothers Mitchell and Devin Schut in the B section final on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
Lenentine and Kelly will both drop down to the B semifinals, also on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
The women’s B final goes Friday at 9:30 a.m.
This is a free event. Open to the first 16 U13 age teams to register.\
A free lunch consisting of Hamburger and Fries plus a pop will be served to the curlers.
There will also be Tim Horton’s Coffee available for parents to enjoy.
The Lauren Lenentine and Alex MacFadyen rinks have won the first of three modified triple-knockout sections in the Pepsi Provincial Junior Curling Championships being played at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. Defending Junior Women’s champ Lenentine, from Cornwall, downed Charlottetown’s Annika Kelly foursome 11-1 in only six ends, helped out by a stolen triple in the third end, and a four point fifth end. It was handshake time after a steal of two in the sixth .
Team Lenentine
The MacFadyen squad, from the Silver Fox in Summerside, stole a triple in the third end in a 7-3 decision over Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut team in a game that went eight ends.
In the modified triple-knockout, section winners drop down to compete in the next section. MacFadyen will now take on the winner of a 2 pm match between the Schut brothers (Mitchell and Devin) in the “B” section final at 6:30 pm. Mitchell got by older brother Devin 7-5 in their previous encounter on Wednesday.
Lenentine and Kelly both drop down to “B” semi-finals at 6:30 pm. Kelly will play the winner of a 2 pm match between Cornwall’s Sydney Howatt and Crapaud, Cornwall, and Charlottetown’s Lauren Ferguson teams, while Lenentine awaits the victor of the 2 pm contest between her Cornwall clubmates Rachel MacLean and Emily Sanderson. The women’s “B” final goes at 9:30 am Friday.
If a team wins all three sections, they will win the event without a championship round. If a team wins two sections, they will advance to a championship game against the winner of the other section and will take the championship if they win the game. If the other team wins, there will be a second championship game, with the winner of that game going to the nationals. If there are three separate section winners, the team that played in the most section finals will earn a bye to the second championship game where they will face the winner of a game between the other two finalists.
Live end-by-end results are available at PEICurling.com. Six junior women’s and four junior men’s teams are competing.
The winning Junior Men’s and Women’s champions will advance to the 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Jan. 21 – 28 in Shawinigan Quebec.
O’LEARY – The Alex MacFadyen rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club will meet Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut rink, and defending women’s champion Lauren Lenentine will meet the Annika Kelly rink Thursday at 9:30 a.m. in the respective men’s and women’s ‘A” event qualifiers of the P.E.I. Pepsi Junior Curling championships.
Leslie Noye, second stone on the Alex MacFadyen rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club keeps his eyes on the target broom as he releases a stone during the opening draw of the P.E.I. Pepsi Junior Men’s Curling Championship. The modified triple knock-out men’s and women’s championships got underway at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary Wednesday afternoon. – Eric McCarthy
The modified triple knock-out championships got underway at the Maple Leaf Curling Club Wednesday afternoon in O’Leary. There are four men’s teams and six women’s teams vying for the opportunity to represent P.E.I. at the 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships Jan. 21-28 in Shawinigan, Que.
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20 men’s teams, including the Saskatchewan rink skipped by PEI’s Adam Casey, will be competing for an $18,000 purse – and 13 women’s teams, including the Robyn MacPhee rink from Charlottetown, are chasing a $12,000 purse at the Curl Mesabi … Continue reading
The Wendy’s Saturday Morning Junior Developmental League draw that was scheduled for the 20th of January at the Cornwall Curling Club is rescheduled to the 13th of January, to accommodate a date change for another event. Eight teams, from Cornwall, Charlottetown, and the Silver … Continue reading
The Belfast and Area Curling Club at the Belfast Recreation Centre are planning to have curling on Fridays, starting January 5th through to the end of the season. Message (Facebook: @belfast.reccentre) or call (902-659-2277) the rink with your name and/or … Continue reading
OTTAWA — Brad Gushue of St. John’s moved into a tie for second with Mike McEwen by jumping on two costly misses by the Winnipeg team to score three in the second end and go on to an 8-3 win … Continue reading
This weekend’s One on One Tuff Spiel at the Silver Fox has been cancelled. … Continue reading
This is a final reminder that the entry deadline for the Pepsi Provincial Junior Men’s and Junior Women’s Curling Championships is 11:59 pm today, Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Entry fee is $170 per team, plus $42 per player participant fees. … Continue reading
OTTAWA – The cream of Canadian women’s curling is rising to the top at the 2017 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings. Hometown favourite Rachel Homan defeated Toronto’s Allison Flaxey 5-3 Tuesday evening to join Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones and Chelsea … Continue reading
The Crapaud Community Curling Club’s Duffy’s Beer Funspiel takes place on December 30, with $15 per person entry fee guaranteeing three four-end games. Everyone is welcome, but no provincial teams or regular evening league teams are permitted. Drop in and … Continue reading
Everyone, even if you have never curled, is welcome to attend the BARNONE Brewery and Hop Farm Funspiel, January 12 and 13 at the Crapaud Community Curling Club. Three six-end games guaranteed, $100/team. Pizza and prizes! Call Bobbi-Jo Crossman at (902) … Continue reading
OTTAWA — Brad Jacobs stole three in the third end – thanks largely to Brad Gushue’s final stone catching on some debris – and rode that lead to a 7-4 victory at the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Monday … Continue reading
OTTAWA (by Robin Short) — It really is a small world, sometimes. Shortly after winning Canada’s first gold medal in Olympic men’s curling a dozen years ago, Brad Gushue and Mark Nichols were invited to instruct at a curling camp … Continue reading
He was introduced to curling by his grandfather, who is now in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease. (by Robin Short) OTTAWA — He’s 27 and having the time of his life, a quasi-professional in the world of amateur curling … Continue reading
The best deal in curling is on again, on January 13, at the Montague Curling Rink. The George’s Deck and Recovery Funspiel for curlers under age 13 has no entry fee, guarantees three games, and includes lunch! Entry is open … Continue reading
OTTAWA — The last time Brad Gushue and his Newfoundland rink won Canada’s Olympic trials, as the veteran skip puts it, “we were younger, much more intense and much more high-strung.” Adds third, Mark Nichols: “Whoa, man. That was so … Continue reading
The Veronica Smith rink from the Cornwall Curling Club finished as runners-up to the Sylvie Robichaud team in the 10 team women’s division of the WFG Jim Sullivan Classic cashspiel, which wrapped up this afternoon in Saint John NB. Smith … Continue reading
The Liam Marin rink from Saint John, which includes PEI’s Tyler Smith at third, will be New Brunswick’s Junior Men’s representatives at the the 2018 New Holland Canadian Juniors, operated by Curling Canada, from January 13-21, 2018 at the Centre municipal de … Continue reading
It’ll be Cornwall PEI’s Veronica Smith rink facing Moncton’s Sylvie Robichaud foursome in the 3 pm Women’s final at the WFG Jim Sullivan Classic in Saint John. Smith beat Shelly Graham and her Moncton rink 6-2 in this morning’s quarter-final, … Continue reading
PEI’s Robyn MacPhee and Veronica Smith rinks both made Sunday’s playoffs in the 10 team women’s division of the WFG Jim Sullivan Classic in Saint John. No PEI teams are entered in the 18 rink men’s section. MacPhee finished round … Continue reading
NO HOME-SWEET-HOME FOR TEAM HOMAN AT TIM HORTONS ROAR OF THE RINGS OTTAWA — It was not a warm welcome home for Rachel Homan and her Ottawa-based team in the opening draw of the 2017 Tim Hortons Roar of the … Continue reading
Two PEI teams, skipped by Robyn MacPhee and Veronica Smith, are among the 10 women’s teams taking part in the WFG Jim Sullivan Classic cashspiel at the eight sheet Thistle-St. Andrews Curling Club in Saint John New Brunswick this weekend. … Continue reading
The Harvey’s General Store and MacDonald’s Excavation Cashspiel takes place Jan 19-21, 2018 at the Crapaud Community Curling Club, and is open to all teams, at a cost of $240/team. To enter, contact: Calvin Smith @ 902-628-7019 or email … Continue reading
This fall, Belfast and area lost a great friend and someone that was the glue that held a lot of great community organizations together, Gary Oulton. To honour his dedication to the Belfast and Area Curling Club at the Belfast … Continue reading
This is a reminder that the entry deadline for the Pepsi Provincial Junior Men’s and Junior Women’s Curling Championships is Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Entry fee is $170 per team, plus $42 per player participant fees. The Pepsi Juniors take place … Continue reading