Cornwall Curling Club

Congratulations to the Lorianne Davies and Roddie MacLean rinks who won the Cornwall The Dominion Club Championships today.

Lorianne, and her team of Melody Beck, Tracy MacDonald, and Lynda Turnbull beat the Sarah Clow rink 6-4 in this afternoon’s women’s final. Playing with Clow were Brielle Quilty, Christina Hennessey, and Monica LeBlanc.

The Roddie MacLean foursome, which includes Ron Giggey, Edgar Coffin, and George Younker edged out the John DeLuca team by a 4-3 score. Other members of the runner-up DeLuca rink were Tom Dunn, Brad Gardiner, and Steve DeWolfe.

In the semi-finals earlier on Sunday, MacLean got by Angus Kennedy 5-4 , DeLuca edged  Bob MacWilliams 7-6  in an extra end, Clow beat Paulette Richard 5-3, and Davies defeated Karen Currie 9-5.  Eight men’s and six women’s teams took part in the weekend competition.

The winning Davies and MacLean rinks will now advance to the provincial The Dominion playoffs,  March 18-21 here in Cornwall.
If they win the provincials, they will take part in the national event, November 23-28  at the Charlottetown and here at the Cornwall curling clubs.

Roddie MacLean team beat Angus Kennedy team 5-4
John Deluca  team beat Bob MacWilliams  team  7-6 (extra end)
Sarah Clow team beat Paulette Richard team 5-3
Lorianne Davies  beat Karen Currie  9-5
 
Finals at 4 PM today
John Deluca vs Roddie  MacLean
Lorianne Davies vs Sara Clow

 Here is the revised schedule for The Dominion Club Championship, which now takes place on Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday at 9 am
Ice 1: Gordon Peters vs Angus Kennedy 
Ice 2: Paul Neima  vs John DeLuca
Ice 3:  Brock Spence vs Ray Biagé
Ice 4:  Bob MacWilliams vs Roddie MacLean

Saturday at 11 am
Ice 1: Barb Duncan-Biagé vs Paulette Richard
Ice 2: Karen Currie vs Lorianne Davies
Ice 3: Debbie Rhodenhizer vs Sarah Clow

Saturday at 1:30 pm
Ice 1: Bob MacWilliams vs Brock Spence
Ice 2: Roddie MacLean vs Ray Biagé
Ice 3:  John DeLuca vs Angus Kennedy
Ice 4:  Paul Neima vs Gordon Peters

Saturday at 3:30 pm
Ice 1: Sarah Clow vs Karen Currie
Ice 2: Debbie Rhodenhizer vs Barb Duncan-Biagé
Ice 3:  Paulette Richard vs Lorianne Davies

Saturday at 6 pm
Ice 1: Paul Neima vs Angus Kennedy
Ice 2: John DeLuca vs Gordon Peters
Ice 3:  Bob MacWilliams vs Ray Biagé
Ice 4:  Roddie MacLean vs Brock Spence

Saturday at 8 pm
Ice 2: Sarah Clow vs Lorianne Davies
Ice 3: Barb Duncan-Biagé vs Karen Currie
Ice 4:  Debbie Rhodenhizer vs Paulette Richard

Sunday at 11 am
Semi-finals (top 4 teams)

Sunday at 4 pm
Final

Click for team rosters (PDF)

Due to weather and road conditions the 6:30pm & 8:30pm draws for the Dominion spiel are cancelled for tonight.  The first draw tomorrow at 9am will be the men’s draw. The ladies will play tomorrow at 11:00am.

The Clair Sweet rink from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary beat the Roddie MacLean foursome from the Cornwall Curling Club twice today to win the men’s section, while Carol Sweetapple beat Cornwall clubmate Diane MacKay in the final  to win the women’s division at  The Medicine Shoppe PEI Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, at the Crapaud Community Curling Club.

Sweet, with teammates Bob Matheson, Cliff Poirier, and Wayne Arsenault, handed the MacLean rink their first loss of the tournament this morning, with an exciting come-from-behind  8-7 extra-end decision in the ”B” final of this double-knockout event. Sweet trailed 7-3 after five ends, but took a single in the sixth, and stole a single, a deuce, to tie the game, and another single in the extra end for the win. The two teams met again in the championship game, with Sweet taking four points in the first end, stealing a pair in the second,  taking another four in the sixth, and stealing another four-pointer in the seventh for a 14-4 victory. Both winner Sweet and runner-up MacLean will advance to the Maritime Masters, February 14-17 at the Beaver curling club in Moncton. Sweet can also compete in the Canadian Masters, March 28-April 4 in Saint John. Other members of the MacLean rink are Ron Giggey, Edgar Coffin, and George Younker. Eleven men’s teams took part in the PEI Masters.

In the four team women’s section, Diane MacKay of Cornwall eliminated six-time defending champion Jeanne Duffenais from the Silver Fox in the “B” final this morning, with an 8-4 win, taking a triple in the third, and stealing a deuce and a single in the final two ends. Val MacLean, Eileen Blanchard, and Marilyn Diamond round out the MacKay team.

MacKay then met “A” division winner and clubmate Carol Sweetapple in the final. MacKay grabbed an early lead, stealing  a deuce in the first end, and a single in the second. Sweetapple, playing with Marie MacDonald, Danielle Girard, and Karen Fisher, tied the game with a triple in the third, and stole the next two ends for a 5-3 lead. The teams both picked up a deuce and a single over the next four ends, for a final score of 8-6 for Sweetapple. Both rinks will advance to  the Maritime Masters, February 14-17 at the Beaver curling club in Moncton, with the winning Sweetapple team also earning the right to compete in the Canadian Masters, March 28-April 4 in Saint John.

Cornwall Curling Club Dominion Championship
Friday, January 29th, 2010
6:30 pm
Ice 2 B. MacWilliams vs R. MacLean
Ice 3 B. Duncan-Biage vs P. Richard
Ice 4 B. Spence vs Ray Biage
8:30 pm
Ice 1 P. Neima vs J. DeLuca
Ice 2 G. Peters vs A. Kennedy
Ice 3 D. Rhodenhizer vs S. Clow
Ice 4 K. Currie vs L. Davies

The Roddie MacLean and Carol Sweetapple teams from the Cornwall Curling Club have earned byes to tomorrow’s finals in the men’s and women’s divisions respectively of The Medicine Shoppe Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, being played at the Crapaud Community Curling Club.

In the eleven team men’s section, MacLean, with teammates Ron Giggey, Edgar Coffin, and George Younker, scored four points in the final end this morning to beat Lou Nowlan of Summerside, a five-time Masters champion, by a 9-6 score in the “A” section final of this double-knockout event. MacLean then beat Bob Acorn of Charlottetown by a 7-3 score to advance to the B section final, 10 am on Thursday. In that game, he’ll be playing Clair Sweet of O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club, who edged Louis Walsh of the Silver Fox 6-5 in an extra end this morning, and doubled Nowlan 6-3 this afternoon.

If Sweet wins the B final, he’ll face MacLean again in the 2 pm championship final. If MacLean is the winner, the final will not be necessary, and his team will be declared the champion. Playing with Sweet are Bob Matheson, Cliff Poirier, and Wayne Arsenault.

In the four team women’s division, Carol Sweetapple got by Cornwall clubmate Ruth Stavert by a 6-4 score to win this morning’s “A” final, but did not advance to the B final, losing this afternoon to six-time defending champion Jeanne Duffenais of the Silver Fox by a 7-1 score. Rounding out the Sweetapple rink are Marie MacDonald, Danielle Girard, and Karen Fisher.

 In the other qualifier game for the B final, Stavert lost out to another Cornwall clubmate, Diane MacKay, by a 9-3 score. MacKay scored five points in the fifth end en route to the win. So it’s Duffenais vs MacKay in the B final, Thursday morning at 10. The winner of that game will then play Sweetapple in the 2 pm final. Other members of the Duffenais rink are Georgie Coulson, Marg Nowlan, and Pat Barrett, while Val MacLean, Eileen Blanchard, and Marilyn Diamond complete the MacKay foursome.

Men’s and women’s winners and runners-up advance to the Maritime Masters Championships, February 14-17 at the Beaver Curling Club in Moncton.  Winners may also participate in the Canadian Masters, March 28-April 4 in Saint John.

(PEICA) Two men’s teams, skipped by Lou Nowlan of Summerside, and Roddie MacLean of Cornwall, along with two women’s rinks, with skips Carol Sweetapple and Ruth Stavert, both of Cornwall, are still undefeated after day two play at  The Medicine Shoppe Provincial Masters Curling Championships, being played at the Crapaud Community Curling Club.

In the opening women’s draw,  Sweetapple beat Cornwall clubmate Diane MacKay 8-5, while Stavert won an 8-3 victory over six-time defending champion Jeanne Duffenais of the Silver Fox.  On Wednesday morning at 10, Sweetapple and Stavert will square off in the A section final of this double-knockout event.  Stavert will play MacKay, and Sweetapple will take on Duffenais in the 2 pm draw. with the winners meeting in the B final Thursday morning at 10. If the A and B finals are won by the same team, they will take the women’s title, and the two losing teams would square off to determine second place on Thursday afternoon at 2.  If there are two different section winners, the championship game will take place Thursday at 2 pm.

In the men’s section, the undefeated Nowlan and MacLean teams have advanced to the A final Wednesday at 10 am.  In play today, MacLean beat Louis Walsh of Summerside 9-4, while Nowlan blanked Fred Fall’s Crapaud rink 5-0. Defending champion John Holmes of Summerside suffered his second loss, and was eliminated from further play after losing to Ernie Stavert of  Cornwall 7-6 in an extra end.  Stavert then lost 11-0 in the afternoon to Clair Sweet, to be eliminated from play. Also eliminated was Rupert Sweetapple of Cornwall, who lost 6-2 to Clair Sweet of O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club. In other games, Bob Acorn of Charlottetown picked up a 10-4 win to eliminate Bob Maynard of Summerside, and a 7-4 victory to knock John DeLuca of Cornwall out of further play.

On Wednesday morning at, Fred Fall will play Bob Acorn, while Louis Walsh will face Clair Sweet. The winners will play MacLean and Nowlan, respectively at 2 pm. The winners of those games will advance to the B section final, Thursday at 10 am. If the same team wins both A and B sections, they will take the title. If not, the final game will go Thursday afternoon at 2. 

Winners and runners-up from both the men’s and women’s sections advance to the Maritime Masters Championships, February 14-17 at the Beaver Curling Club in Moncton.
Winners may also participate in the Canadian Masters, March 28-April 4 in Saint John.

There is apparently a discrepancy between the draw on the draw board, and the one sent to the Guardian and posted to the website last night.

The drawmaster has decided to go with the latter, which is as follows:

6:30
Ice 1: J. DeLuca vs. D. Butler
Ice 2:  B. MacWilliams vs. L. Davies
Ice 3: R. Sweetapple vs. T.Dunn
Ice 4:  S. Jeffrey vs.  S. Berry
 
8:30
Ice 1: R. MacLean vs. B. Spence
Ice 2:  D. Rhodenizer vs. S. Clow
Ice 3:  J. MacKinnon vs. K. Currie
Ice 4: P. Neima vs. B.Fowler

DAVE STEWART
The Guardian

A Cornwall business owner is donating $1,500 towards the cost of an automated external defibrillator (AED) for the Cornwall Curling Club.
Ralph Manning, who operates a physiotherapy business in the town, read a story in The Guardian last Thursday about a Charlottetown man suffering a heart attack on one of the ice sheets Monday night.
Click to read this story in today’s Guardian.