Field Complete for PEI Canada Games Curling Trials
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Junior Men's Qualifiers
Junior Women's Qualifiers
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Amanda MacLean |
Kassinda Bulger |
Emily Gray |
Aleya Quilty |
Glen MacLean/
Shelley Gray |
Maple Leaf |
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Jenny McLean |
Meaghan MacDonald |
Rachael Gardiner |
Lauren MacFadyen |
Don Vickerson |
Silver Fox |
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Veronica Smith |
Katie Fullerton |
Sabrina Smith |
Chloe McCloskey |
Sarah Fullerton/
Paul Smith
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Cornwall |
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Leah Deveau |
Sarah MacPhee |
Jessica Chapman |
Carolyn Rose |
Carolyn MacPhee |
Montague |
Nov. 23-Following a tiebreaker game this afternoon at the pre-Trials event at the Silver Fox, all eight teams have now been qualified for the Canada Games Curling Trials, Dec. 11-14 at the Charlottetown Curling Club. The young Tyler Smith rink from the Cornwall Curling Club made it through to the Trials this afternoon, with a 7-4 victory over the Alex Matters foursome from Charlottetown. The eleven year old Cornwall skip stole a deuce in the 5th end en route to the victory. This makes a hat trick for the Cornwall club, with all three teams entered advancing to the Trials. Two teams are from the Montague Curling Club, two from the Maple Leaf club in O’Leary, and one team is from the Silver Fox in Summerside. The eventual winners of the Trials in Charlottetown next month will advance to the Canada Games, February 11-27, 2011 in Halifax, at the Mayflower Curling Club.
Seven of Eight Canada Games Curling Qualifiers Determined
Nov. 22-After Sunday play at the PEI Canada Games Curling Pre-Trials at Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club, all but one of the qualifiers for the Trials, December 11-14 in Charlottetown, have been determined.
In the six team round robin Junior Men’s section, three teams finished with identical 3-2 win-loss records and grabbed the first three qualifying spots. These teams are the Tony Nabuurs rink from Montague, Cornwall’s Jeff Taylor foursome, and the Matthew MacLean team from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. In Sunday’s final round robin draw, Taylor and his team beat their Cornwall clubmates, skipped by 11 year old Tyler Smith, by a 6-2 score. MacLean defeated Alex Matters of Charlottetown 5-2, stealing a deuce in the final end.
Nabuurs was already qualified going into Sunday play, with a 3-1 record, and lost his Sunday contest 7-5 to the Shawn Pitre team from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. This resulted in three teams having identical 2-3 round robin records, forcing two tiebreaker rounds, as PEI Curling Association rules dictate that no team may be eliminated solely on win-loss records. The Matters and Pitre rinks squared off in the first tiebreaker on Sunday afternoon, with Matters eliminating Pitre with an 8-3 win. Matters now plays Cornwall’s Smith in the second tiebreaker, Monday at 2 pm, with the
winner advancing to the Trials in Charlottetown.
All four qualifiers have been determined in the eight team triple-knockout junior women’s section. The Amanda MacLean rink from O’Leary’s Maple Leaf Club went undefeated in the competition, grabbing the first qualifying spot for the Trials by doubling the Jenny McLean foursome from the host Silver Fox club by a 6-3 score on Saturday. McLean went on to win the second qualifier, 7-5 over Leah Deveau of Montague, on Sunday morning. Going into her final shot, McLean was facing two Deveau counters, one of which was touching the button. She made a clutch draw to the button, aided greatly by her sweepers, outcounting the opposing rock by a small margin to pick up the win.
The final two qualifiers were decided in the 2 pm draw on Sunday, with Cornwall’s Veronica Smith rink beating the Kim Dunbar foursome from Charlottetown by a 7-2 score. The final qualifying spot went to Montague’s Deveau, who came back from her earlier loss to McLean with a decisive 9-3 victory over Emily Keen of Charlottetown.