Cornwall Curling Club

We are pleased to announce that the Seniors Daytime Curlers have generously donated $1200 towards training in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)/Automated External Defibrillator (AED).  Nine (9) Staff Members have already been trained under a separate donation. The Seniors’ donation will go towards additional training for this and subsequent years until all the funds are depleted. A sign-up sheet has been posted for a course on Sunday the 7th of March, at 1pm. Up to an additional fifteen members can be accommodated this year. We encourage all members interested in this course to “sign-up”, if you cannot be accommodated this year, you will be on the list for next spring.
We thank the Seniors Committee and its members for this generous donation. It will go a long way in securing safety at our Club.

 The 2010 CIS / CCA University Curling Championships – presented by The Dominion – will be held March 10-14 at the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, with 14 men’s and 12 women’s teams taking part. 

 The winning teams from this event will represent Canada at the 2011 FISU World Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey, January 27 to February 6th, 2011. 

Last year’s UPEI women’s entry, skipped by Sarah Clow, is back this year, with Christina Hennessey at third, Whitney Young joining the team at second, and Courtney Moore as lead. Coach is Angela Hodgson,

 The UPEI men’s team, who are also reigning PEI junior men’s champions, is the rink of Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Anson Carmody, and Alex MacFadyen. Their coach for this event is Tristan Chisholm. Casey and Carmody were on last year’s UPEI team, while MacFadyen was on the team from St. Francis Xavier.

The defending champion duo of Walter Callaghan and John Vincent from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton edged the Gordie MacDonald/Floyd Stewart twosome from Montague by a 5-4 score this afternoon to win the men’s and mixed section of the Ferguson Funeral Homes Provincial Stick Curling Championship, at the Crapaud Community Curling Club. Ruth Stavert and Gloria Clarke from Cornwall got by the Shirley Lank/Ruth Walsh pair from Cornwall and Crapaud by a 7-5 score to win the women’s section, a new addition this year. In the men’s and mixed consolation game, Edwin Walker and Clifford Picketts from Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club beat Grant Laird and Vernon Chowan from Cornwall by a 5-2 score. The winners and runners-up earn the right to compete in the 2010 Canadian Stick Curling Championship, April 9-11 at the Fort Garry Curling Club in Winnipeg.

It took two extra ends for Callaghan/Vincent to get by Leard/Chowan by a 5-4 score in one men’s and mixed semi-final, while MacDonald/Stewart blanked Walker/Picketts 7-0 in the other. Stavert/Clarke beat the Audrey Callaghan/Gail Jenkins team from Alberton and Charlottetown 7-2 in the women’s semi.

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. All games are six ends.

Eleven men’s and mixed teams, and five women’s rinks took part in this fourth annual PEI stick curling championship.

The defending champion duo of Walter Callaghan and John Vincent from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton edged the Gordie MacDonald/Floyd Stewart twosome from Montague by a 5-4 score this afternoon to win the men’s and mixed section of the Ferguson Funeral Homes Provincial Stick Curling Championship, at the Crapaud Community Curling Club. Ruth Stavert and Gloria Clarke from Cornwall got by the Shirley Lank/Ruth Walsh pair from Cornwall and Crapaud by a 7-5 score to win the women’s section, a new addition this year. In the men’s and mixed consolation game, Edwin Walker and Clifford Picketts from Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club beat Grant Laird and Vernon Chowan from Cornwall by a 5-2 score. The winners and runners-up earn the right to compete in the 2010 Canadian Stick Curling Championship, April 9-11 at the Fort Garry Curling Club in Winnipeg.

It took two extra ends for Callaghan/Vincent to get by Leard/Chowan by a 5-4 score in one men’s and mixed semi-final, while MacDonald/Stewart blanked Walker/Picketts 7-0 in the other. Stavert/Clarke beat the Audrey Callaghan/Gail Jenkins team from Alberton and Charlottetown 7-2 in the women’s semi.

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. All games are six ends.

Eleven men’s and mixed teams, and five women’s rinks took part in this fourth annual PEI stick curling championship.

A Maritime Stick Curling Championship will take place at our Club on March 16, 17, and 18. Contact the Club for more info.

The combined Cornwall/Charlottetown rink of Shirley Berry, Sandy Hope, Shelley Ebbett, and Arleen Harris, with coach Butch McGee, beat the Karen MacDonald foursome from the Charlottetown Curling Club by a 9-1 score this morning to win the Credit Unions of PEI Senior Women’s Curling Championship at the Charlottetown Curling Club. As Berry had won two of the three sections of the triple knockout draw, she could win the championship by taking either Monday game, and she did with the first one, following a triple in the second end with a stolen deuce, and four consecutive stolen singles. Playing with runner-up MacDonald were Paula Creamer, Kay Atkinson, and Karen Hardy.

On the men’s side, Peter MacDonald and his Charlottetown Curling Club team had also won two triple-knockout sections, and also won with the first championship game, against defending champion Mel Bernard of Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club, by a 7-5 score.
MacDonald opened with a deuce in end one. Bernard blanked the second, and took a single point in the third end. MacDonald recorded a deuce in end four, and Bernard settled for a single in five to give MacDonald a 4-2 lead at half time. Bernard stole a deuce in the sixth end. MacDonald took one in the seventh, and stole another in the eighth. Bernard took one in the ninth, giving MacDonald a 6-5 lead and last rock advantage in the final end, where he picked up a single for the win. Other members of the winning MacDonald rink are Peter Gallant, Rod MacDonald, and Doug MacGregor, with Blair Jay, Douglas Simmons, and Earle Proude rounding out the runner-up Bernard foursome.

The winning Shirley Berry and Peter MacDonald rinks will now advance to the Canadian Seniors, March 19-28 at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club.

Eleven men’s and seven women’s teams took part in the PEI Seniors championships, for curlers age 50 and over.

 The Tiffany Sweet rink from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary went undefeated to sweep all three triple-knockout sections to capture the women’s section of the Sylvan Learning Provincial age 17 and Under Curling Championships at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club. All three section finals were against the same team – the Veronica Smith foursome from the Cornwall Curling Club. Sweet won the A section Friday afternoon by a 6-3 score, the B section by a 5-4 score on Saturday morning, and the C final on Sunday morning, also by a 5-4 score, but in an extra end. Sweet, and teammates Chantal Clements, Kathleen O’Meara, and Laura O’Meara, with coaches Clair and Ralph Sweet now advance to the Atlantic 17 and Under Championships, April 2-4 at the Riverside Golf and Curling Club in Rothesay NB. Other members of the runner-up Smith rink are Katie Fullerton, Sabrina Smith, and Chloe McCloskey, with coaches Paul Smith and Sarah Fullerton.

The Diane MacKay rink from the Cornwall Curling Club won the women’s title at the Maritime Masters curling championship,  for curlers age 60 and over, which wrapped up Wednesday at the Beaver Curling Club in Moncton.

MacKay and her rink of Val MacLean, Eileen Blanchard and Marilyn Diamond completed the three-day bonspiel with a 4-1 win-loss record. Sue Anne Bartlett of Halifax finished second with a 3-2 record, while  the  Cornwall team of Carol Sweetapple, Marie MacDonald, Shirley Lank and Karen Fisher tied for third with two other teams at 3-2.

Rod Aube of the Capital Winter Club in Fredericton captured the men’s title with a 4-1 record. Other members of the Aube rink are  Jack Healey, Gord Tuttle and Bon Brannen. The Haylett Clarke of New Glasgow, NS was second with a 3-2 record.

Here are pictures of the winning teams and the runners-up from Cornwall’s  The Dominion Club Championship, held over the weekend.

Women’s winners (L-R):  Lynda Turnbull, Tracy MacDonald, Melody Beck, Lorianne Davies (skip), organizer Ray Biagé

Women’s runners-up (L-R):   Monica LeBlanc, Christina Hennessey, Brielle Quilty, Sarah Clow (skip), organizer Ray Biagé

Men’s winners (L-R): Paul Durant,  George Younker, Edgar Coffin, Ron Giggey, Roddie MacLean (skip), organizer Ray Biagé

Men’s runners-up (L-R): Steve DeWolfe, Brad Gardiner, Tom Dunn, John DeLuca (skip), organizer Ray Biagé

The PEI representatives at the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors will be coming home with a number of awards.

Photo (L-R) Elaine de Ryk (CCA Representative), Michelle McQuaid

Michelle McQuaid, third on the Sarah Fullerton rink, was the recipient of the Joan Mead Legacy Award. which includes a $500 scholarship. This award, in honour of former CBC curling producer Mead, is selected by the officials, and awarded annually to a junior curler who best exemplifies leadership, excellence and fair play.

Alex MacFadyen, lead on the Brett Gallant rink, made the First All-Stars Team, determined by shooting percentages during the round robin. MacFadyen’s percentage was 86.

Anson Carmody of the Gallant team won the Fair Play award for men’s second stones, as selected by the officials.

Peter Gallant, who coached his son’s team, won the men’s ASHAM National Coaching Award, voted on  by the coaches in the event.

For additional photos, visit: http://www.seasonofchampions.ca/2010juniors/news_photos.asp

Cornwall hosts the Olympics!

P.E.I. women taking simple strategy to nationals
JASON SIMMONDS
The Journal Pioneer

CHARLOTTETOWN - Coach Brenda MacMillan has a simple strategy for the P.E.I. women’s entry at the 2010 M&M Meat Shops Canadian junior curling championships.
“The No. 1 goal is we want to go and have fun, but we also want to try and do well,” said MacMillan. “If we finish in the top half we will be happy.
“If it’s more than that, it will be icing on the cake for us.”
Skip Sarah Fullerton, 18, third stone Michelle McQuaid, 18, second stone Sara MacRae, 18, and lead Whitney Young, 19, of the Cornwall Curling Club will be competing in their first national junior championship in Sorel-Tracy, Que.
The rink earned P.E.I.’s berth by defeating the Anita Casey rink from the Charlottetown Curling Club rink 9-2 in the provincial final in O’Leary.
“The girls right now are pretty excited,” said MacMillan.
Familiarity is not an issue with the Fullerton foursome. MacMillan, who started coaching the rink last season, added Fullerton, McQuaid and McRae have curled together for approximately nine years.
The Fullerton rink, which also represented P.E.I. at the 2005 Canada Winter Games, won last year’s Atlantic 18-and-under championship in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Thus, this rink does have some big-game experience and enters the nationals enjoying a very successful year.
“We’ve really done well so far this season on the cashspiel circuit,” noted MacMillan.
They won in Summerside, Cornwall and finished second in Sackville, N.B. MacMillan said the rink curled well in the Charlottetown Super League as well.
“The biggest turning point for this team was Halloween weekend,” she said. “We went to Ottawa to the big OVCA Superspiel, a major junior cashspiel up there and there’s teams from the States and sometimes teams from Europe come over.”
Overall, the rink went 1-4.
“They felt it gave them the edge to work harder to win the provincial (championship),” said MacMillan.
As is the key in any round-robin format, MacMillan agrees a good start is important.
“We’d like to win our first couple of games and get us rolling,” she said. “But I told the girls to take it one rock and one end at a time.
“Don’t look at it that after 10 ends I want to be the winner. If something happens that the rock doesn’t do what you want it to do, go on to the next one. Don’t dwell on it.”

The Charlottetown Curling Club’s Erin Carmody foursome will play the Tammy Dewar rink from the host Montague Curling Club in the two game championship round, Tuesday at 2 and 7 pm, as the Scotties Tournament of Heart Provincial Women’s Curling Championship wraps up in Montague.

Carmody took the C title in the triple knockout competition tonight, beating Cornwall’s Donna Butler rink by a 7-5 score. As Carmody also won the A section, she has a big advantage in the championship round, as, by winning two sections, she will take the championship if she wins either game, while Dewar, who won only the B section, must win both to take the title.

In tonight’s game, Butler was ahead 4-2 after stealing a deuce in the seventh end, but Carmody took four points in the eighth. The teams traded singles in the last ends, to give Carmody the win by a two point margin.

Other members of the Carmody rink are third Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Kathy O’Rourke, who throws second stone, but calls the game, and lead Trisha Affleck.

The Butler rink includes Carolyn Coulson, Melissa Andrews, Lori Brine, and fifth player Leita Chisholm, along with coach Kathie Gallant. The Dewar team includes June Moyaert at third, Darlene London at second stone, and Gail Greene in the lead position. Moyaert was on the Jennifer Ramsay rink, the last team from Montague to win the women’s championship, in 1988.

The PEI Scotties winning team will advance to the national Scotties, January 30 to February 7 in Sault Ste. Marie Ont.

It’s down to three teams and a maximum of three games at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Provincial Women’s Curling Championships in Montague. This afternoon, A final winner Erin Carmody from the Charlottetown Curling Club eliminated five-time PEI women’s champion Suzanne Birt in an 8-7 decision, while Cornwall’s Donna Butler rink beat the host Montague Curling Club’s Tammy Dewar team, winners of the B final, by a  7-4 score. Butler and Carmody now face off in the C final of this triple-knockout event, set for 7 pm.

Photo (L-R): Donna Butler, Carolyn Coulson, Melissa Andrews, Lori Brine, Leita Chisholm

Butler, with teammates Carolyn Coulson, Melissa Andrews, Lori Brine, and fifth player Leita Chisholm and coach Kathie Gallant, got off to an early start in her game, picking up a triple in the first end, and stealing a single in the second. Dewar narrowed the gap to 5-3 after eight, but Butler took a deuce in the ninth, and ran the hometown favorites out of rocks in the final frame.  Carmody and Birt were tied at three at the half,  but Carmody took a deuce in the sixth, and a triple in the eighth to build up an 8-4 lead.  Birt fought back with a deuce in the ninth, but a steal of one in the tenth left her one short of the tie.

The winners of all three finals will then advance to the championship round, Tuesday at 2 and 7 pm. If Carmody wins this evening, she will have a big advantage, as, by winning two of the three finals, she will play in both Tuesday games, and win the title in she takes either. If Butler wins, she will play Dewar in the 2 pm game, with the winner facing Carmody in the 7 pm match. 

The PEI Scotties winning team will advance to the national Scotties, January 30 to February 7 in Sault Ste. Marie Ont.

Photo (L-R): Sarah Fullerton, Michelle McQuaid, Sara MacRae, Whitney Young, Brenda MacMillan (coach)

The Sarah Fullerton foursome from the Cornwall Curling Club won their first Pepsi Provincial Junior Women’s Championship this evening at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary with a 9-2 victory over the Anita Casey team from the Charlottetown Curling Club. Fullerton, and her rink of Michelle McQuaid, Sara MacRae, and Whitney Young, with coach Brenda MacMillan, had won two of the three sections in the triple knockout draw, giving them the ability to take the Juniors title by winning either of the two championship round games, but only the first was needed. Fullerton, with hammer, scored a single in the first end. Casey blanked the second and took a single point in the third end. Fullerton pulled ahead with a deuce in the fourth, and built up a sizable lead with a stolen triple and single in the next two ends. Casey, and her rink of Abby Burgess, Hillary Thompson, and Jessica van Ouwerkerk, with coach Jeff Wilson, picked up a single point in the seventh, but shook hands after Fullerton recorded another deuce in the eighth end.

The winning Fullerton rink, who were the PEI Canada Games representatives in 2007, and won three of the last four provincial 17 and Under championships, will join the Brett Gallant foursome, who won their fifth consecutive Junior Men’s title earlier on Monday, at the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, January 16-24 in Sorel-Tracy Quebec, where the Gallant rink will be looking to defend their Canadian title.