Photos of Stick Winners
Here are photos of the winners of the provincial Stick championship, sponsored by Ferguson-Logan Funeral Home, which wrapped up Feb. 12 at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. Both the Open (any combination of men and/or women) and Women’s divisions were won by Cornwall Curling Club teams.
Open Division winners (L-R): Barry Craswell, Sterling Stratton
Women’s Division winners (L-R): Gloria Clarke, Ruth Stavert, with trophy presented by Clair Sweet of the Maple Leaf Curling Club
Cornwall teams sweep PEI Stick Championship divisions
The 2015 PEI Stick Championship, sponsored by the Ferguson-Logan Funeral home in Montague, wrapped up this afternoon at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary, with teams from the Cornwall Curling Club winning both the Open (any combination of male/female) and Women’s divisions.
The Sterling Stratton/Barry Craswell duo edged Floyd Stewart and Gordon MacDonald from the Montague Curling Club 5-4 in the Open final. The two teams topped their respective round robin pools with 4-1 records, giving them byes into the semi-finals. Stewart/MacDonald edged their clubmates Bob Leard and Larry Dewar 5-4 in an extra end in the semis, while Stratton/Craswell stole a single in the fourth end, and deuces in five and six to beat the Blair Bernard/Dale Dennis team from the host club 7-2 to advance to the final. 12 Open Division teams were entered.
In the six team women’s division, the Gloria Clarke/Ruth Stavert rink edged their Cornwall clubmates Myrna Craswell and Etta Reid 5-4, stealing a point in the fourth end to give them the edge in the game. Reid was on last year’s winning team, while Stavert/Clarke won the previous four years. Craswell/Reid had a 4-1 round robin record, while Clarke/Stavert went 3-2. Clarke/Stavert beat the Audrey Thomson/Ann Barwise twosome 7-4 in the semi-final to advance to the final. Thomson/Barwise had a 4-1 round robin record.
The four open division teams in the semis (Laird/Dewar, Bernard/Dennis and the final (Stratton/Craswell, Stewart/MacDonald), along with the top two women’s rinks from this year’s event (Clarke/Stavert and Craswell/Reid) 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.
Linescores and standings at: http://curlatlantic.com/scoreboard/#/competitions/1505-2015-ferguson-logan-funeral-home-stick-curling-championship-pei/scoreboard
PEI Stick Curling Playoff round set
Round robin play wrapped up on Wednesday at the Provincial Stick Championship, sponsored by the Ferguson-Logan Montague Funeral Home, and held at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary.
The 12 team, two pool Open Division (any combination of male/female players) quarter-finals go at 10:45 am on Thursday, with Bazil and Sterling Higginbotham from Montague playing Blair Bernard and Dale Dennis from the host club, and Bob Leard and Larry Dewar from Montague taking on Orville Willis and Sherrill Barwise from the Maple Leaf.
The semi-finals at 12 noon see Cornwall’s Sterling Stratton and Barry Craswell face the winner of the quarter-final game between the Higginbothams and Bernard/Dennis, while Floyd Stewart and Gordon MacDonald from Montague take on the winner of the Leard/Dewar vs Willis/Barwise match.
The winners of the semis square off in the 2:30 pm final.
In the six team, one pool Women’s Division, Audrey Thompson and Ann Barwise from the Maple Leaf take on Cornwall’s Gloria Clarke/Ruth Stavert duo in the 12 noon semi, with the winner facing Cornwall’s Myrna Craswell/Etta Reid twosome in the 2:30 pm final.
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 results at http://curlatlantic.com/scoreboard/#/competitions/1505-2015-ferguson-logan-funeral-home-stick-curling-championship-pei/scoreboard
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.
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.