January 8-12 2020, Montague Curling Rink
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Bryan Cochrane rink sweeps Tankard PEI Men’s Ch’ship
The Bryan Cochrane rink from the Cornwall Curling Club made it a complete sweep Saturday evening at the Montague Curling Rink, winning the “C” final of the modified triple knockout draw by a 7-4 score over the Philip Gorveatt team from the Charlottetown Curling Club to take the Tankard PEI Men’s title without needing to play the Sunday championship round.
(L-R): Scott Annear (President of the Montague Curling Rink), Mark O’Rourke, Morgan Currie, Ian MacAulay, Bryan Cochrane, Sandy Matheson (President of Curl PEI)
The Eddie MacKenzie rink, who played in two of the three section finals, would be the second place “Finalist” rink in the event, and includes third Tyler MacKenzie, second stone Tyler Smith, and lead Matt Nabuurs.
Meanwhile, Suzanne Birt is just one win away from her eleventh PEI Scotties title, after coming from behind to win the women’s “C” final 9-5 over the Veronica Smith squad from the Silver Fox club in Summerside. Birt is playing out of the host Montague club this year. Because Birt won two of the three modified triple knockout sections (“A” and “C”), she can repeat as Scotties champ with a win in either the 9 am or the 2 pm championship round games on Sunday, while Smith, the “B” section winner, needs to win both games.
In the final Tankard game, Cochrane, whose rink includes PEI natives Ian MacAulay at third and Morgan Currie at second stone, both from his reigning World Senior championship rink, along with ten-time PEI Tankard winner Mark O’Rourke at lead, opened with a deuce, with Gorveatt, whose team includes Kevin Champion, Sean Ledgerwood, and Mike Dillon, coming back with a deuce of their own. The next two ends were blanked, but a Cochrane triple in end five gave him a 5-2 lead at the fifth end break. Each team scored two singles in the second half to give Cochrand the 7-4 victory. In the afternoon “C” semi-final, Cochrane beat the Mitchell Schut Junior team, also from Cornwall 8-1 in eight ends, while Gorveatt edged clubmate Eddie MacKenzie 7-6 in an extra end.
Smith had a 5-3 lead after six ends in her game against Birt, but a deuce, a triple, and a single in the next three ends brought the score to 9-5 for Birt, and Smith ran out of rocks in the final end. Playing with Birt are third Marie Christianson, second Meaghan Hughes and lead Michelle McQuaid, with coach Mitch O’Shea, while Sabrina Smith, Emily Gray, and Whitney Jenkins, with coach Pat Aylward, round out the Smith foursome. Smith advanced directly to the “C” final by virtue of winning the “B” section, while Birt stole the final end to edge Summerside’s Melissa Morrow squad 7-6 in the “C” semi-final.
The Bryan Cochrane rink will now compete at the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario, while the winning women’s team will advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
Live end-by-end results from the combined PEI Scotties and Tankard event are available at: PEICurling.com/scoreboard
Eleven men’s and 5 women’s rinks took part this year.
Cochrane captures second Tankard section
The “B” section finals of the modified triple knockout format Scotties provincial women’s and Tankard provincial men’s championships took place at the Montague Curling Rink on Friday evening, and featured the same teams that squared off in the “A” section.
Team Cochrane
On the men’s side, Bryan Cochrane and his Cornwall Curling Club team of Souris native Ian MacAulay and Summerside-born Morgan Currie along with ten-time PEI Tankard veteran Mark O’Rourke, could win the Tankard on Saturday evening, after winning both the “A” and “B” sections with wins over Charlottetown’s Eddie MacKenzie squad. In the “B” final, Cochrane blanked the first two ends, and scored a triple in the third. The teams exchanged singles to put the score to 4-1 at the fifth end break. MacKenzie blanked the 6th and gave up a steal of one in the 7th, but narrowed the gap to a single point with a deuce in eight and a single steak in nine to trail 5-4 coming home without hammer. Cochane recorded the win with a triple for a final score of 8-4.
Team MacKenzie with Bryan Cochrane in the background
MacAulay and Currie are members of Cochrane’s reigning World Senior Men’s championship rink, while MacKenzie is looking for his seventh PEI Tankard, backed up by a team that includes reigning and four-time PEI junior champion skip Tyler Smith, and Tyler MacKenzie, a three-time PEI junior and two-time PEI Tankard winner, along with Matt Nabuurs who has been on one Junior and two Tankard championship teams.
Saturday Tankard play begins with a pair of 9 am games, with Cornwall’s Steve van Ouwerkerk and Mitchell Schut rinks squaring off for the right to play Cochrane in the 2 pm “C” semi-final, while Phil Gorveatt from Charlottetown and Jamie Newson from the Silver Fox square off in the other, with the winner facing MacKenzie in the other “C” semi. The winners of the 2 pm semis meet in the “C” final at 7 pm. If Team Cochrane is in that game and wins it, as a three-section winner, they will become PEI Tankard champ without the 9 am and, if necessary, 2 pm Sunday championship round.
There is no admission charge to watch this combined event, with the women’s championship sponsored by Kruger Products, Canada’s #1 tissue products manufacturer and the longest national corporate sponsor of amateur sport in Canada, along with local event sponsors O’Connor Glass, Tim Hortons, and Bogside Brewing. 50/50 draws will be held, with proceeds going toward the Montague Junior Curling Program.
The kitchen will be open for lunch (soup or chili and sandwiches) and supper (regular menu). Food and beverages are also available at the Bogside brewery, only a three-minute walk from the club, and at Tim Hortons, just a six-minute walk away.
Live end-by-end results are available at: PEICurling.com/scoreboard
The winning women’s team will advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at
Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, while the men’s championship rink will compete in the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario.
Cochrane rink wins PEI Tankard “A” section
Bryan Cochrane
The 7 pm draw featured three very close games decided by a single point, and one not-so-close one, with Cochrane and his team of Island natives Ian MacAulay and Morgan Currie, along with ten-time PEI Tankard winner Mark O’Rourke in the lead position, needing only eight ends to beat Charlottetown’s Eddie MacKenzie rink by an 8-1 score, stealing a pair of singles, a triple and another single to lead 6-0 after four ends. MacKenzie’s loan single came just before the 5th end break, but another pair of Cochrane singles in ends 7 and 8 brought the game to handshakes.
Suzanne Birt
Birt’s game against Veronica Smith and her Silver Fox rink was very evenly matched, with Birt leading 2-1 after a low-scoring first five ends. Smith pulled ahead with a sixth-end deuce, but Birt took a pair in the seventh to regain the lead. Smith tied the game with a single in the eighth, but Birt’s ninth end deuce gave her a two-point lead coming home without last rock advantage. Smith was kept to a single in ten, with Birt winning the “A” final by a 6-5 score.
In Tankard “B” section games, Charlottetown’s Philip Gorveatt edged Cornwall’s John Likely 5-4, while Cornwall’s Steve vanOuwerkerk got by the Darren Higgins rink from the Fox by a 6-5 score.
With the modified triple-knockout format, the top teams in a section also drop down to compete in the next section. If ten-time PEI Scotties winner Birt, or Cochrane, who is the reigning World Senior Men’s champion, were to capture all three sections, they would win the event without the Sunday championship round being played, If a team were to win two sections, they would have a “double life” in the championship round and take their respective championship with a win in either game, while their opponent, the winner of the other section, would have to win both,
In the Tankard, Gorveatt now faces Cochrane, and MacKenzie takes on vanOuwerkerk in B section semi-finals at 2 pm Friday, with the winners advancing to the 7 pm “B” final. On the Scotties side, Smith plays Melissa Morrow and her Silver Fox team at 2 pm, with the winner facing Birt in the “B” final at 7 pm Friday. Morrow got by Tammy Dewar and her host club team 7-6 in an extra end on Thursday afternoon to advance to the “B” semi-final.
Friday morning 9 am play features “C” division games. The “C” finals are Saturday at 7 pm.
The championship round games, if needed, go Sunday at 9 am and, if necessary, 2 pm.
There is no admission charge to watch this combined event, with the women’s championship sponsored by Kruger Products, Canada’s #1 tissue products manufacturer and the longest national corporate sponsor of amateur sport in Canada, along with local event sponsors O’Connor Glass, Tim Hortons, and Bogside Brewing. 50/50 draws will be held, with proceeds going toward the Montague Junior Curling Program.
The kitchen will be open for lunch (soup or chili and sandwiches) and supper (regular menu). Food and beverages are also available at the Bogside brewery, only a three-minute walk from the club, and at Tim Hortons, just a six-minute walk away.
Live end-by-end results are available at: PEICurling.com/scoreboard
The winning women’s team will advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at
Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, while the men’s championship team will compete in the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario.
PEI Tankard starts Wednesday
There is no admission charge to watch this combined event, with the women’s championship sponsored by Kruger Products, and with the help of local event sponsors O’Connor Glass, Tim Hortons, and Bogside Brewing. 50/50 draws will be held, with proceeds going toward the Montague Junior Curling Program.
The kitchen will be open for lunch (soup or chili and sandwiches) and supper (regular menu). Food and beverages are also available at the Bogside brewery, only a three-minute walk from the club, and at Tim Hortons, just a six-minute walk away.
Defending champions the John Likely team from Cornwall are back looking to defend their titles.
Likely, whose team this year includes Steve Burgess from last year’s edition, along with two members of Tyler Smith’s championship Junior team, Ryan Abraham and Jake Flemming, will be facing ten other teams, including another Cornwall rink which includes three members of the reigning World Senior Men’s Championship team — Ontario’s Bryan Cochrane and PEI natives Ian MacAulay and Morgan Currie, along with Mark O’Rourke. MacAulay and Currie are eligible under Curling Canada’s new “Birthright Status” eligibility rule for the Brier and the Tournament of Hearts, while Cochrane would be the team’s permitted “free agent”.
Other teams include the Mitchell Schut junior rink from Cornwall, who were finalists in the recent Pepsi Juniors, the Steve vanOuwerkerk foursome, also from Cornwall, the Darren Higgins and Jamie Newson rinks from the Silver Fox, Charlottetown’s Philip Gorveatt, Rod MacDonald and Eddie MacKenzie teams, and the Philip MacDonald and Keith Nabuurs foursomes from the host Montague club.
Teams have been seeded in their respective modified triple knockout draws based on cashspiel winnings, with Cochrane seeded 1st, followed by Newson, Higgins, vanOuwerkerk and Gorveatt. Draws go daily at 9 am and 2 and 7 pm from the 8th through the 11th, with the Championship Round (not needed if a team wins all three draw sections) going Sunday the 12th at 9 am and, if needed, 2 pm. Opening ceremonies are at 6:15 on the 8th.
The winning team will represent PEI at the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario.
Tankard Draw Tree
Schedule
Tankard Games are in light blue
Scotties Games are in pink
Qualifying games have game number highlighted in yellow
Date | Time | Draw | Ice 1 | Ice 2 | Ice 3 | Ice 4 |
Wed 08-Jan | 9 am | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
2 pm | 2 | A | 7 | 6 | 5 | |
6:15 pm | Opening Ceremonies | |||||
7 pm | 3 | 9 | B | 8 | 10 | |
Thu 09-Jan | 9 am | 4 | 12 | C | D | 13 |
2 pm | 5 | F | 11 | 15 | 14 | |
7 pm | 6 | 19 | 18 | E | 20 | |
Fri 10-Jan | 9 am | 7 | 17 | 16 | H | G |
2 pm | 8 | 22 | 21 | 23 | 24 | |
7 pm | 9 | J | I | 25 | ||
Sat 11-Jan | 9 am | 10 | 27 | 26 | ||
2 pm | 11 | 29 | 28 | K | ||
7 pm | 12 | L | 30 | |||
Sun 12-Jan | 9 am* | 13 | MA | WA | ||
2 pm* | 14 | WB | MB |
*If required
Explanation for MA/WA and MB/WB Championship Round games:
1. One team wins all three qualifiers: Championship Round is not required.
2. One team wins two qualifiers. They play in both X and Z (and win the event if they win either game), the other winner plays in Y (and has to win both games).
3. Three separate winners: the team that played in the most qualifying games plays in Z and the other winners play off in X and Y. If there is a tie in number of qualifying games played, then the team that qualified earliest goes to Z and the other two teams play off in X and Y.
Team Rosters – Tankard
(Number = throwing order, S=skip)
M – Team Cochrane
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
Bryan Cochrane (4-S), Ian MacAulay (3), Morgan Currie (2), Mark O’Rourke (1)
M – Team Gorveatt
Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown, PE
Philip Gorveatt (4-S), Kevin Champion (3), Sean Ledgerwood (2), Mike Dillon (1)
M – Team Higgins
Silver Fox Curling Club, Summerside, PE
Darren Higgins (3-S), Terry Arsenault (4), Mike Spencer (2), Jonathan Greenan (1), Rod MacDonald (Coach)
M – Team Likely
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
John Likely (4-S), Ryan Abraham (3), Steve Burgess (2), Jake Flemming (1)
M – Team MacKenzie
Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown, PE
Eddie MacKenzie (4-S), Tyler MacKenzie (3), Tyler Smith (2), Matt Nabuurs (1)
M – Team Nabuurs
Montague Curling Club, Montague, PE
Keith Nabuurs (4-S), Bennett Crane (3), Robert Donahoe (2), Adam Nabuurs (1)
M – Team Newson
Silver Fox Curling Club, Summerside, PE
Jamie Newson (4-S), Dennis Watts (3), Erik Brodersen (2), Andrew MacDougall (1), Doug MacGregor (Alternate)
M – Team P.MacDonald
Montague Curling Club, Montague, PE
Philip MacDonald (4-S), Shane MacDonald (3), Ernie Mutch (2), Alan Munro (1)
M – Team R.MacDonald
Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown, PE
Rod MacDonald (3-S), Tyler Harris (4), Sean Clarey (2), Paul Brown (1)
M – Team Schut
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
Mitchell Schut (3-S), Chase MacMillan (4), Liam Kelly (2), Cruz Pineau (1), Brenda MacMillan (Coach)
M -Team vanOuwerkerk
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
Steve vanOuwerkerk (4-S), Sam Ramsay (3), Nick VanOuwerkerk (2), Patrick Ramsay (1)