Cornwall Curling Club

Due to a last minute cancellation, the Cornwall Curling Club will be holding a Cashspiel this Friday evening Dec. 4, and Saturday Dec. 5th.
The event is open to all teams (Men’s, Women, Junior, Mixed). Entry fee is $120 per team, with half the entry fees going to the winners, and the other half to the Club.  For more info, or to sign up, call Ray Biagé at 675-2540 or the Cornwall Curling Club at 566-4427, or email manager@cornwallcurling.com.

The Lorne MacPhail Memorial Seniors Bonspiel takes place Dec. 2 and 3 at our Club. Here is the opening draw for Dec. 2nd:

9:00 AM
Ice 1 R. Biagé, G. Laird, L. Black, H. Smith
vs L. Callbeck, D. Girard, B. Craswell, G. Younker
Ice 2 V. Fisher, M. MacDonald, D. St. John, F. Legault
vs E. Stavert, D. Weeks, J. MacPhail, V. Vanderaa
Ice 3 J. DeLuca, A. MacCormac, K. Fisher, P. Cole
vs J. Fairhurst, P. Durant, G. Clark, J. Gillis

10:30 AM
Ice 1 D. MacKay, D. MacDonald, M. Cronin, D. Beer-Greene
vs C. Morrison, T. Dunn, M. Plamondon, F. Weiler
Ice 2 TBA, L. Fairhurst, G. Canfield, M. Craswell
vs L. Hardy & team (Alberton)
Ice 3 J. Farquharson, P. McCardle, S. Hayes, E. Blanchard
vs B. Atkinson, & team (Charlottetown)
Ice 4 K. Blanchard, R. Stavert, J. Anderson, D. Graham
vs F. Fall & team (Crapaud)

The Ontario men’s and women’s teams were the winners of this afternoon’s finals of  The Dominion National Curling Club Championships, Canada’s first-ever national championship for club curlers, played at the St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Toronto.

The women’s final against Manitoba went to two extra ends, with the 9th end being blanked, and Ontario winning 6-5  with a stolen single in the 1oth. The men’s championship game also went to an extra, where Ontario recorded a triple, for a 7-4 win.

The men’s team, skipped by Robert Stafford, are from the Chatham Granite club, while the women’s rink, with skip Kelly Cochrane, are from the High Park Curling Club, in Toronto.

In the final round robin draw on Saturday, PEI’s women’s team, from the Crapaud Community Curling Club, spoiled Newfoundland and Labrador’s chance to advance to a tiebreaker round, with the Newfoundland team  stealing a single in the eighth to force an extra end. With Newfoundland lying shot rock in the back four-foot with a guard at the top of the twelve, the ninth end came down to a final shot from PEI skip Vanessa Hamming. Her weight was dead-on s her rock came to a stop right on the button, winning the game for PEI, and eliminating the need for a tiebreaker.

The PEI women ended play with a 2-4 win-loss record, while the men’s team, skipped by Louis Walsh of the Silver Fox, were winless in six starts.

The next national The Dominion will be held on PEI, Nov. 23-28 2010 at the Charlottetown and Cornwall curling clubs, with the PEI playdowns taking place March 18-21 2010 in Cornwall.

The André Gauthier rink from the host Charlottetown Curling Club won the A section of the 30th Annual Alpine Fun Mixed Curling Bonspiel, which wrapped up yesterday, beating out Cornwall’s Ray Biagé foursome in a close 5-4 final that came down to the last rock. Playing on the Cornwall team were third Debbie Rhondenizer, second Debby Sigsworth, and lead Danielle Girard.

The Sarah Fullerton rink from the host Cornwall Curling Club, and the Jon Rennie team from the Riverside Curling Club in Rothesay NB were the winners of the 14th annual Pizza Delight/Howard Johnson Dutch Inn Junior Cashspiel, which wrapped up this afternoon. The Fullerton foursome, includes third Michelle McQuaid, second Sara MacRae, and lead Whitney Young, with coach Brenda MacMillan, edged the Anita Casey rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club 5-4 in the final, while the Rennie team stole a deuce in the second end, and followed a  triple in the fourth with a steal of one point in the fifth end on the way to an 8-3 win over the Shawn Pitre team from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton.

Left to right: Brenda MacMillan (Tournament organizer and coach of the Fullerton rink), Sarah Fullerton, Michelle McQuaid, Sara MacRae, Whitney Young 

Left to right: Brenda MacMillan (tournament organizer), Jon Rennie, Chris MacRae, Andrew Perrin, Tyler Milligan, Paul Brayshaw (coach)

Playing with Rennie were Chris MacRae, Andrew Perrin, and Tyler Milligan, with coach Paul Brayshaw. Other members of the Casey squad are Abby Burgess, Hillary Thompson, and Jessica van Ouwerkerk, with coach Jeff Wilson, while Daniel McCarthy, Jeff Duggan, and Colton Griffin, with coach Roger Gavin, round out the Pitre foursome.

In semi-final play this morning, Casey beat Cornwall’s Veronica Smith 8-5, while Fullerton had a 9-6 win over Amanda MacLean of O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club. In the junior men’s section, Rennie beat Cornwall’s Jeff Taylor 6-1, while Pitre made up for dropping three points in the first end to Sam Ramsay of Summerside, by scoring three points in the second end, followed by steals of 2, 3, and 1 point in the following ends to bring the game to a swift conclusion with a 9-3 win.

In addition to the final, the junior men’s division had two consolation matches, with Cornwall’s Tyler Smith beating Matthew MacLean of O’Leary 7-5, and Spencer Pitre and his Charlottetown team beating clubmate Alex Matters by a 7-4 score.

In round robin play, the Veronica   Smith rink  finished with a perfect 4-0 record, while Casey, Fullerton, and MacLean had one loss.

In the junior men’s section Rennie went 3-0 in the round robin, while Taylor and Shawn Pitre were 2-1, and Ramsay was 1-2 in his pool, tied with Spencer Pitre and Matthew MacLean, until tiebreaking rules came into play.

Eight junior men’s rinks, and ten junior women’s teams, from PEI, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador took part in the cashspiel.

Next year’s 15th annual event  will go earlier in the season, October 29-31, because of contention with Cornwall’s co-hosting of The Dominion National Curling Club Championship.

Play got underway at 8:30 this morning in the semi-final round of the 14th annual Pizza Delight/Howard Johnson Dutch Inn Junior Cashspiel here at the Cornwall Curling Club.

The Junior women’s semis see the Veronica Smith team from the host club taking on the Anita Casey foursome from the Silver Fox, and Cornwall’s Sarah Fullerton rink playing the Amanda MacLean team from O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club.  Smith finished round robin play with a perfect 4-0 record, while the other three teams each had one loss.

In the junior men’s semi-finals,  Cornwall’s own Jeff Taylor team are battling the Jon Rennie rink from Rothsay NB, while the Sam Ramsay squad  from Summerside is playing Shawn Pitre and his team from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. Rennie went 3-0 in the round robin, while Taylor and Pitre were 2-1, and Ramsay was 1-2 in his pool, tied with Spencer Pitre’s Charlottetown team and with the Matthew MacLean rink from O’Leary, until tiebreaking rules came into play.

The junior men’s consolation round begins at 11, with the junior men’s and women’s finals set for noon.

The 15th annual event next year will go earlier in the season, October 29-31, because of contention with Cornwall’s co-hosting of The Dominion National Curling Club Championship.

Our ice plant is up and running again, and head icemaker Lance Lowther reports that the ice remains in great shape, despite the plant being down in very mild weather. The plant’s condenser failed, and had to be replaced with a temporary one until a new one can be obtained. The Cornwall Curling Club would like to thank Lowther Refrigeration for the excellent emergency service they provided!

Despite a brief ice plant shutdown for emergency maintenance, which forced the cancellation of Thursday evening and Friday morning draws, the ice will be in great shape for the 14th annual Pizza Delight/Howard Johnson Dutch Inn Junior Cashspiel, which gets underway at 4 pm this afternoon, and wraps up on Sunday. Ten junior women’s teams and eight junior men’s rinks, from Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and PEI are entered in the event, PEI’s longest running junior cashspiel. There are no teams from Nova Scotia this year, as their junior regional playdowns are the same weekend.

Drop into the Club for some great curling action, and follow the results online at cornwallcurling.com/bonspiel04.html.

(SportPEI) The PEI Curling Association is looking to expand its programs this season by attracting those who are either vision impaired, or wheelchair bound, to the sport.

A demonstration and workshop for interested participants, or volunteers who would like to coach and guide, is being held at the Crapaud Community Curling Club on Sunday December 6.  It is hoped that representatives from all PEI curling clubs can attend these sessions.

Click for event poster.

The wheelchair demonstration will be held from 10.00am-1.00pm, and the vision impaired session will go from 1.30pm-4.00pm. The Crapaud rink will be fully accessible to curlers with both disabilities.

Leading the vision impaired session will be Shawny Ross, who became involved with the Ottawa Blind Curling Club before moving to Prince Edward Island eight years ago. She has introduced a program at the Charlottetown Curling Club, and is looking to expand the sport not only recreationally, but so the province can compete at the national vision impaired championships, which have been ongoing for six years.

Vision impaired curling involves four curlers, and a sighted guide, who will be on the ice giving direction on shot selection, location etc.

Leading the wheelchair-bound workshop will be Chris Daw. Daw is an outstanding athlete in a variety of sports including wheelchair basketball and rugby, but it is in wheelchair curling where he has excelled, including winning gold at the 2006 Paralympic Games in Torino, Italy.  He is also an accomplished motivational speaker,  preaching his message of “No Limits” to both the able-bodied and the physically challenged.

Wheelchair curling is played in exactly the same way as regular curling, except the chairs are stationary on the ice, and the rock is released using a delivery stick.

“We are delighted to be able to put on this workshop and clinic,” said Gayle Johnston, Technical Coordinator for the PEI Curling Association. “To have Shawny and Chris deliver the sessions will be informative and educational, and we encourage anybody who may be visually impaired, or who uses a wheelchair, to come out and see what it is all about. Curling is the most social of sports, and disability should be no barrier to participating and having fun.”

Those interested in the wheelchair session should contact Johnston at 368-1071 or gaylej@pei.sympatico.ca, while information and registration for the vision impaired session should be directed to Shawny Ross at 367-2790 or Shawny@eastlink.ca.

The 14th Annual Pizza Delight/Howard Johnson Dutch Inn Junior Cashspiel, gets underway Friday afternoon, and wraps up Sunday at the Cornwall Curling Club. Ten junior women’s teams and eight junior men’s rinks, from Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and PEI are entered in the event, PEI’s longest running junior cashspiel. There are no teams from Nova Scotia this year, as their junior regional playdowns are the same weekend.

Organizer Brenda MacMillan says the event’s longevity is partly due to good sponsors over the years, including Neil MacDonald of Pizza Delight, and Rekis Stutvoet of the Dutch Inn. She says they are planning a much larger event next year, for the 15th anniversary. That event will go a few weeks earlier, November 5-7, due to contention with the national The Dominion Curling Club championship being co-hosted at the Cornwall club.

Island entrants this year include seven of the eight PEI Canada Games Trials contenders — Amanda MacLean, Jenny McLean, Veronica Smith, Leah Deveau, Matthew MacLean, Tyler Smith, and Jeff Taylor, along with the host club’s Sarah Fullerton rink, winners of the recent Fall Fling junior cashspiel in Summerside, and the runner-up Anita Casey team from the Silver Fox. The Pitre brothers, Spencer and Shawn, are also skipping teams in the event. Last year’s PEI junior men’s runner-up team, skipped by Sam Ramsay of Summerside, will also be in attendance, along with last year’s UPEI women’s representatives at the CIS Curling Championships, the Sarah Clow rink. The Alex Matters foursome from the Charlottetown Curling Club round out the PEI contingent.

New Brunswick’s Jon Rennie, who was on the New Brunswick Junior Men’s championship team last year, is here skipping a new team. Other New Brunswick teams are skipped by Sarah Ronalds and Jessica Daigle. Representing Newfound.and Labrador will be the Amanda Rumboldt foursome from Stephenville.

Both the junior men’s and junior women’s divisions will play round robin draws with two pools, beginning Friday afternoon at 4 pm, and wrapping up Saturday evening. Semi-finals go Sunday morning at 8:30, with the consolation finals at 11 am on two ice sheets, and the event finals starting an hour later on the other two sheets.

Round robin draws and results  at cornwallcurling.com/bonspiel04.html

Drop into the Club this weekend to watch some of Atlantic Canada’s best junior curlers!
Junior Women’s Rosters (Skip, Third, Second,  Lead, Coach-Club)

Sarah Fullerton, Michelle McQuaid, Sara MacRae, Whitney Young, Brenda MacMillan (Coach)- Cornwall PE
Sarah Ronalds, Jillian Holmes, Misty Hicks, Samantha Nason, Dale Ronalds (coach)- Beausejour (Moncton NB)
Anita Casey, Abby Burgess, Hillary Thompson. Jessica van Ouwerkerk, Jeff Wilson (coach)- Silver Fox (Summerside PE)
Sarah Clow, Brielle Quilty. Christina Hennesey, Monica LeBlanc, Angela Hodgson (coach)- Cornwall PE
Amanda Rumboldt, Ashley Rumboldt, Chloe Deaves, Bronwyn Woolfrey, Susan Curtis (coach)- Caribou (Stephenville NL)
Amanda MacLean, Kassinda Bulger, Emily Gray, Aleya Quilty, coaches Glen MacLean/Shelley Gray-Maple Leaf (O’Leary PE)
Jenny McLean, Meaghan MacDonald, Rachael Gardiner, Lauren MacFadyen, Don Vickerson (coach)-Silver Fox (Summerside PE)
Veronica Smith, Katie Fullerton, Sabrina Smith, Chloe McCloskey,coaches Paul Smith/Sarah Fullerton-Cornwall PE
Jessica Daigle, Natalie Menzies, Krista Flanagan, Jade Carruthers, Allan Menzies (Coach)- Thistle St. Andrews (Saint John NB)
Leah Deveau, Sarah MacPhee, Jessica Chapman, Carolyn Rose, Carolyn MacPhee (coach)-Montague PE

Junior Men’s Rosters (Skip, Third, Second,  Lead, Coach-Club)

Matthew MacLean, Marshall Smallman, Kevin Gallant, Alan MacLean, coaches Glen MacLean/Shannon Smallman-Maple Leaf (O’Leary PE)
Alex Matters, Chris Gallant, Andrew Cameron, Kyle Holland, Derrick Cameron (coach)- Charlottetown PE
Jon Rennie, Chris MacRae, Andrew Perrin, Tyler Milligan, Paul Brayshaw (coach)- Riverside Curling Club, Rothsay NB
Shawn Pitre, Daniel McCarthy, Jeff Duggan, Colton Griffin, Roger Gavin (coach) Western (Alberton PE)
Tyler Smith, Parker O’Connor, Noah O’Connor, Tyson Smith, Kevin Smith (coach)- Cornwall PE
Jeff Taylor, Alex Sutherland, Alex Jenkins, Jonathan Schut, AJ Campbell (coach)-Cornwall PE
Sam Ramsay, Justin Richard, Eric Pidgeon, Corey Miller, Peter Pidgeon (coach)-Silver Fox (Summerside PE)
Spencer Pitre, Matthew Nabuurs, Connor MacPhee, Sean Noonan-Charlottetown PE