Cornwall Curling Club

After two days of play at The Dominion PEI Curling Club Championship at the Cornwall Curling Club, the Dave Ross team from Charlottetown remains undefeated on the men’s side, with a 4-0 win-loss record, while the Lorianne Davies squad from the host Cornwall club, and the Kim Aylward foursome from the Silver Fox lead the women, with 3-0 records.

There will be one less undefeated women’s team after the noon Saturday draw, when these two teams face off. Defending champion Vanessa Hamming from Crapaud, Sharon Horne from Alberton’s Western Community club, and Charlottetown’s Micki Cageorge have one win against two losses on the women’s side, while June Moyaert and her Montague rink are 0-3.

In games today, Aylward took a five-ender in a lopsided 13-1 win over Cageorge, and beat Moyaert 6-2. Davies stole triples in both a 9-2 win over Hamming, and a 7-2 victory over Horne.

In Friday men’s play, Ross beat Barry Cameron of the Silver Fox 9-2, and Cornwall’s Roddie MacLean 9-2. 

Kevin Ellsworth of Alberton and Donald Clarey of Montague are next in the men’s standings, with 3-1 and 2-1 record, respectively.  Kevin Smith of Crapaud, along with Cameron and MacLean are 1-2. Glen Betts of the Maple Leaf is winless in four starts.

Round robin play wraps up Saturday with men’s draws at 9:30 am and 2:30 and 8 pm, and women’s games at 12 noon and 5:30 pm. The championship round goes Sunday with the second and third place teams playing in the semi-finals at 1 pm, and the semi winner facing the first place team in the 5 pm finals.

The winning teams will advance to the national The Dominion Curling Club Championship, co-hosted by the Cornwall and Charlottetown curling clubs, November 23-28.

After opening day play at the Island Petroleum Junior Mixed Curling Championship at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, the Sarah Fullerton rink from Cornwall and the Silver Fox is 2-0, while the Adam Casey foursome is 1-0 in round robin play in  the five team 20 and Under division. The two 15 and Under division teams are playing a best of 5, with the Alex Matters rink of Charlottetown leading the Christopher Gallant foursome from the Charlottetown and Silver Fox clubs two games to none.

Fullerton, with teammates Justin Richard, Sara MacRae, and Corey Miller, and coach Brenda MacMillan, took four points in the first end of her opener, and hung on for a 7-6 win over the Spencer Pitre team from Charlottetown.  The Fullerton team then stole a triple in the first end of their second game, against Colton Griffin of the Western Community club in Alberton, and won by a 7-5 score.

Casey, whose team includes Anita Casey, Anson Carmody, and Hillary Thompson, with coach Jeff Wilson, doubled Cody Dixon of Montague 6-3 in his opener, and had a second round bye. Pitre won his second game, over Dixon, picking up seven points in ends six and seven in an 11-7 come-from-behind win, to finish the day at an even 1-1. Griffin is 0-1,  while Dixon is 0-2.

In the 15 and Under division, Matters, with teammates Emily Keen, Andrew Cameron, and Emma Matheson, with coach Derrick Cameron, won his first game 6-1 over Gallant, and his second by a 6-3 score.  Other members of the Gallant team are Jenny McLean, Kyle Holland, and Lauren MacFadyen. Dr. Don Vickerson is their coach.

Play continues Saturday at 11 am, and 2 and 7 pm. and wraps up on Sunday.

One men’s and one women’s draw, plus the opening ceremonies took place this evening, as The Dominion PEI Curling Club Championship got underway at the Cornwall Curling Club. The Cornwall and Charlottetown clubs will be the co-hosts of the national The Dominion Championship, November 23-28.

In the opening men’s draw, wins were recorded by Dave Ross of Charlottetown, Kevin Ellsworth of the Western Community club in Alberton, and Montague’s Donald Clarey rink. Ross  stole four points in the second end en route to an 8-6 win over Crapaud’s Kevin Smith team, Ellsworth beat Summerside’s Barry Cameron by a 5-2 score, and the Clarey foursome beat the Glen Betts team from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary by a 7-3 score. The Roddie MacLean rink from Cornwall had the bye in the first draw.

In the six team women’s division, Cornwall’s Lorianne Davies rink downed the Micki Cageorge team from Charlottetown 11-1 in six ends. Kim Aylward of Summerside’s Silver Fox club beat the Sharon Horne rink from Alberton 8-5, and defending champion Vanessa Hamming of Crapaud scored a five ender in a 13-6 win over the June Moyaert team from Montague.

Leigh Armstrong from The Dominion, MLA Ron McKinley, Cornwall Mayor Patrick MacFadyen, and PEI Curling Association president Shirley Lank were among those on hand for the opening ceremony.

Round robin play continues on Friday and Saturday, with men’s draws at 9:30 am, and 2:30 and 8 pm. Women’s draws are 12 noon and 5:30 pm.

The championship round is on Sunday, with the semi-finals at 1 and the finals at 5 pm.

It was an all Nova Scotia final in the men’s section of the second annual Maritime Stick Curling Championships, sponsored by Ferguson Funeral Homes, which wrapped up this afternoon at the Cornwall Curling Club.

Photo (L-R): Ron Crowe, Ted Lohnes

L-R: Wayne Gormann/Ray Shillington

The duo of Ted Lohnes and Ron Crowe beat the team of Wayne Gormann and Ray Shillington by a 7-1 score in the final, taking two points in the opening end, and stealing a deuce and a single in the next two ends to build up an early 5-0 lead.

Left to right: Bob Leard (Stick Curl PEI), Vernon Chowan, Grant Laird

L-R: Bob Leard (Stick Curl PEI), Kerry Gardner, Vince Clark

Lohnes/Crowe doubled PEI’s Grant Laird/Vernon Chowan twosome 4-2 in one semi-final, while Gormann/Shillington got by the Vince Clark/Kerry Gardner pair, also from Nova Scotia, by a 7-5 score in the other.

The Clark/Gardner team edged the Laird/Chowan rink 4-3 in the consolation final, between the losers of the semi-final matches. Twelve teams participated in the men’s division.

Photo (L-R) Bob Leard (Stick Curl PEI), Ruth Stavert, Gloria Clarke

In the four team women’s divison, with all PEI teams this year, the Ruth Stavert/Gloria Clarke team from the host Cornwall Curling Club beat out the team of Cornwall’s Shirley Lank and Crapaud’s Ruth Walsh by a 7-1 score in the final. Lank/Walsh had finished the round robin in first place with a 5-1 win-loss record, while Stavert/Clarke were second at 3-2.

L-R: Ruth Walsh, Shirley Lank

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.

Next year’s Maritime Stick championship will be in New Brunswick.

This year’s event was run under the auspices of Stick Curl PEI, who would like to thank sponsors Ferguson Funeral Homes, Bob’s Stick, and Harold Brister, for their support to this event.

For more information on stick curling, including complete rules of play, visit www.stickcurling.ca.

The second annual The Dominion Provincial Club Curling Championship gets underway this afternoon, following the Maritime Stick finals,  at the Cornwall Curling Club, with opening men’s draw at 5:30, followed by the opening ceremonies and a reception. The opening women’s draw is scheduled for 8 pm.  Club champions from all seven PEI clubs will be competing in the men’s section, along with women’s champions from six clubs. Defending champions are the Vanessa Hamming rink from the Crapaud Community Curling Club, and the Louis Walsh foursome from the Silver Fox. Hamming and her team are back this year. The winning provincial rinks will advance to the national The Dominion Curling Club championship, which is cohosted by Cornwall, and the Charlottetown Curling Club, and will take place November 23-28.

The provincial and national club championships, sponsored by The Dominion, one of the country’s largest property and casualty insurers, are designed to give regular club curlers across the country an opportunity to compete in provincial and national level competitions. Any profit generated from provincial or national Dominion Curling Club Championship events will be directed to charities including the Canadian Paraplegic Association, as well as developmental curling initiatives in communities across Canada.

In the provincial event, the men’s and women’s divisions will play round robin formats, with alternating men’s and women’s draws at 5:30 (men) and 8 pm (women) on Thursday, and on Friday at 9:30 am (men), and 12 noon (women), 2:30 (men), 5:30 (women) and 8 pm (men). The round robin wraps up on Saturday with men’s draws at 9:30 am, and 2:30 and 8 pm, and women’s play at 12 noon and 5:30 pm.

Tiebreakers, if needed, go Sunday at 10 am, with the semi-finals at 1 and the final at 5 pm.

End by end results will be available at peicurling.com/thedominion.

Here are the men’s team rosters (skip to lead, fifth, club)

Dave Ross, Nick Fraser, Paul Gaudet, Lester Wah,   Charlottetown
Roddie MacLean, Paul Durant, Edgar Coffin, George Younker,  Cornwall
Kevin Smith (throws 1st), Calvin Smith (throws 4th), Todd Gilbert (throws 3rd), Donald Whitehead (throws 2nd), Crapaud Community
Glen Betts, Rodney Ellis, Lowell Morrison, Reggie Clements, Ricky Cook (5th), Maple Leaf (O’Leary)
Donald Clarey, Larry Richards, Elliot Morrison, Cameron Lerch, Mike Clarey (5th), Montague
Barry Cameron, Corey Montgomery, Andrew Windsor, Steven Arsenault, Silver Fox (Summerside)
Kevin Ellsworth, Fred Fraser, Alan Gaudet, Gifford Costain, Western Community (Alberton)

Here are the women’s team rosters (skip to lead, fifth, club)

Micki Cageorge, Velma MacLean, Debbie Mol, Wilma Smith, Charlottetown
 
Lorianne Davies, Melody Beck, Tracy MacDonald, Lynda Turnbull, Cornwall
 
Vanessa Hamming, Ruth Walsh, Lindsay Moore, Heather MacRae, Crapaud Community
 
June Moyaert, Shelley Rice, Darlene Larter, Carole Sullivan, Montague
 
Kim Aylward, Jeanne Duffenais, Michelle Weaver, Debbie Caissy, Silver Fox (Summerside)
 
Sharon Horne, Kim Ellsworth, Wendy Fraser, Cheryl Bell, Western Community (Alberton)

Round robin draw

Thursday March 18 5:30 pm (men)
Dave Ross vs Kevin Smith, Barry Cameron vs Kevin Ellsworth, Glen Betts vs Donald Clarey

Thursday March 18 8 pm (women)
June Moyaert vs Vanessa Hamming, Kim Aylward vs Sharon Horne, Micki Cageorge vs Lorianne Davies

Friday, March 19 9:30 am (men)
Kevin Ellsworth vs Donald Clarey, Glen Betts vs Roddie MacLean, Barry Cameron vs Dave Ross

Friday, March 19 12 noon (women)
Kim Aylward vs Micki Cageorge, June Moyaert vs Sharon Horne, Lorianne Davies vs Vanessa Hamming

Friday March 19 2:30 pm (men)
Glen Betts vs Kevin Smith, Dave Ross vs Donald Clarey, Roddie MacLean vs Kevin Ellsworth

Friday March 19 5:30 pm (women)
Sharon Horme vs Lorianne Davies, Vanessa Hamming vs Micki Cageorge, June Moyaert vs Kim Aylward

Friday March 19 8 pm (men)
Dave Ross vs Roddie MacLean, Kevin Ellsworth vs Kevin Smith, Barry Cameron vs Glen Betts

Saturday March 20 9:30 am (men)
Glen Betts vs Kevin Ellsworth, Roddie MacLean vs Kevin Smith, Barry Cameron vs Donald Clarey

Saturday March 20 12 noon (women)
Micki Cageorge vs June Moyaert, Lorianne Davies vs Kim Aylward, Vanessa Hamming vs Sharon Horne

Saturday March 20 2:30 pm (men)
Kevin Smith vs Donald Clarey, Barry Cameron vs Roddie MacLean, Glen Betts vs Dave Ross

Saturday March 20 5:30 pm (women)
Vanessa Hamming vs Kim Aylward, Lorianne Davies vs June Moyaert, Sharon Horne vs Micki Cageorge

Saturday March 20 8 pm (men)
Barry Cameron vs Kevin Smith, Dave Ross vs Kevin Ellsworth, Roddie MacLean vs Donald Clarey

Sunday March 21 10 am
Tiebreakers, if needed

Sunday March 21 1 pm
Semi-finals: 2nd vs 3rd place

Sunday March 21 5 pm
Finals: 1st vs winner semi-final

Nova Scotia rinks finished in first place in both round robin pools at the Ferguson Funeral Homes Maritime Stick Curling Championship, which wraps up Thursday afternoon at the Cornwall Curling Club.  Three teams finished at 3-2 records in the first pool, with the Ted Lohnes/Ron Crowe duo from Nova Scotia grabbing first place after points were compared, followed by the Wayne Gorman/Ray Shillington twosome, also from NS. The New Brunswick rink of Ken Grattan and Al Gauvreau finished third. The other three teams in the pool, all from PEI, had 2-3 win-loss records.

In the second pool, the Nova Scotia team of Vince Clark and Kerry Gardner were first, with a 4-1 win-loss tally. Two PEI rinks, the Grant Laird/Vern Chowan duo from the host club, who were awarded second place, and the third place Bob Leard/Barry MacDonald team, were 3-2. Two teams went 2-3, with one at 1-4.

At 10 am Thursday, the second place team from one pool will play the third place team from the other, with Gorman/Shillington facing Leard/MacDonald, and Grattan/Gauvreau playing Laird/Chowan. The winners will then take on first place teams Lohnes/Crowe and Clark/Gardiner at 12 noon, with the winners of those two games playing in the 2 pm final, and the losers going to the consolation game at the same time.

With one round robin draw remaining, Thursday at noon,  in the four team women’s section, with all teams coming from PEI, the rink of Shirley Lank and Ruth Walsh from the Cornwall and Crapaud clubs have sewn up first place with a 4-1 win-loss record.  The other three teams are at 2-3. Lank/Walsh will play the second place finisher in the women’s final, at 2 pm.

As our Club is hosting The Dominion Provincial Curling Club Championships, there is no league curling on Thursday evening, March 18.

After opening day play at the second annual Maritime Stick Curling Championships, sponsored by Ferguson’s Funeral Homes,  being played at the Cornwall Curling Club, only one rink, the Nova Scotia duo of Ted Lohnes and Ron Crowe, remains undefeated, with a 2-0 win-loss record. Five men’s rinks — two from Nova Scotia, two from PEI, and one from New Brunswick, are 2-1. In the women’s section, with all teams entered this year coming from PEI,  all four teams are at 1-1. Round robin play continues on Wednesday, with draws at 10 and 11:15 am, along with 12:45, 2 and 3:30 pm.

The final women’s round robin draw is Thursday at noon, with first and second place teams playing off in the final at 2 pm. In the 12 team men’s division, second and third place men’s teams in opposite pools play off at 10 am Thursday, with the winners playing against the first place teams at noon. The winners of the noon contests will then play in the final at 2 pm, while the losers will play in the consolation final at the same time.

Many of the best stick curlers in the three Maritime provinces will  be here at the Cornwall Curling Club Tuesday March 16 through Thursday the 18th for the second annual Maritime Stick Curling Championships, sponsored by Ferguson Funeral Homes. There are two men’s pools, with four Nova Scotia teams, one New Brunswick rink, and seven PEI duos. For the first time there is also a women’s pool, with all the women’s teams coming from PEI for this year. Defending men’s champions are the rink of Vince Clark and Lorne Breckon from the Truro Curling Club. Clark is back this year, with teammate Kerry Gardner.

The Cameron MacKay and Megan Ching rinks from the Cornwall Curling Club won the KFC Provincial Age 12 and Under Curling Championships, which wrapped up on Sunday at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton.

Photo (L-R) Audrey Callaghan (PEICA, and Western club), Cameron MacKay, Alexander MacKay,
Carter Worth, Avery Wells, coach Geoff Scutt (back row), Angus Davies from sponsor KFC.

MacKay, and his team of Alexander MacKay, Carter Worth, and Avery Wells, with coach Geoff Scutt,  beat the Alex MacFadyen rink from the Silver Fox by a 5-3 score in the final on Sunday afternoon, stealing the final two ends. Other members of the runner-up MacFadyen team are Matthew MacDonald, James Dalton, and Parker MacFadyen, with coach David MacFadyen. The MacKay rink beat the Owen Collier rink from Montague 5-3 in the semi-final, earlier on Sunday. Playing with Collier were John Campbell, Dawson Chatman, and Milo Ryan, with coaches Steve Ryan and Rachel Collier.

Collier, Devin Schut of Cornwall, and Dillon Vincent of Western, finished with 2-1 records in their pool, and advanced to the playoff round, with the winless Cameron Jenkins team from Charlottetown being eliminated. All three teams in the other pool, skipped by MacFadyen, MacKay, and Montague’s Brooks Roche, finished with 1-1 records and  advanced to the playoffs, with draw to the button rankings used to determine playoff placements.

In the crossovers between second and third place teams, MacKay edged Vincent 6-5, and Roche downed Schut 9-1. MacKay then went on to beat Roche 7-2 to advance to the semi-final. The two first place teams, skipped by MacFadyen and Collier, played off, with MacFadyen winning 8-3 to advance directly to the final, and Collier getting a second chance in the semi.

Photo (L-R): Audrey Callaghan (PEI Curling Assoc. and Western club), Megan Ching,
Rachel O’Connor, Lauren Lenentine, Breanne Burgoyne, Sara MacRae (coach)

The girl’s division was decided Saturday evening, with the Cornwall Curling Club rink of Megan Ching, Rachel O’Connor, Lauren Lenentine, and Breanne Burgoyne, with coach Sara MacRae, taking only three ends to blank the Laura Gillis rink from the host Western Community Curling Club  by an 11-0 score in the  final. Other members of the runner-up Gillis foursome are Emma-Jean Griffin, Hailey Wilson, and Karlei Lewis, with coach Norma Jean Griffin.

The Gillis team edged out the third team in the competition, skipped by Crapaud’s Kayla Schut rink, 7-6 in an extra end in the semi-final. All three teams finished round robin play with identical 1-1 win-loss records, so draw to the button results were used to determine playoff rankings. Playing with Schut were Laurel Parsons, Kaleigh Peters-Ellis, and Sarah Parsons, with coaches Dario Zannier and Phyllis Stretch.