Cornwall Curling Club

Welcome to the Cornwall Curling Club's News section, which will keep you up-to-date on all the activities at our Club during the curling season. Be sure to sign up on the right to get our News via email. Also, check out the PEI Curling news on the right from PEICurling.com.

The Dominion Provincial Club Championship takes place March 18-21 at our Club.  We are looking for volunteers to time the games. Note that the old clocks with the remotes that didn’t always work have been replaced with laptops, with monitors against the glass for the players to view.  Training will be provided. If you can help out, contact the club at 566-4427 or manager@cornwallcurling.com.

Sign up now at the Club for the annual  Countryview Golf Closing Spiel, which will take place the evenings of April 8 and 9, and day of the 10th.  It will be single entry, Red vs Blue again, so wear your colours proudly!

Saturday will include morning treats, a lunch from the barbecue between noon and 1 pm, entertainment throughout the day, and a delicious supper to end off the season on a full stomach!

Photo (L-R): Audrey Callaghan (PEICA/Western CCC), Veronica Smith, Katie Fullerton, Sabrina Smith, Chloe McCloskey, Paul Smith (coach)

The Veronica Smith rink from the Cornwall Curling Club, which includes 3rd Katie Fullerton, 2nd Sabrina Smith, and lead Chloe McCloskey, with coaches Paul Smith and Sarah Fullerton, beat the Caroline Rose team from Montague by a 7-2 score this afternoon to win the girls division of the M&M Meat Shops Provincial Curling Championships, at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. Other members of the runner-up Rose team are Sarah MacPhee, Jessica Chapman, and Leah Deveau, with coach Carolyn MacPhee.

Rose beat Fallon Arsenault of Summerside 14-1 in the final round robin draw this morning, while Smith defeated Emily Keen of Charlottetown 11-2. The Jenny McLean team from Summerside, who were tied with Smith and Rose at 3-1 going into the last round robin draw, lost 8-1 to Emma Cousins of the Maple Leaf.

Photo (L-R): Audrey Callaghan (PEICA), Kyle Hughes, Jonathan Schut, Matthew MacLean, Marshall Smallman, Shannon Smallman (Coach)

Meanwhile, the combined Charlottetown/Maple Leaf rink of Kyle Hughes, Matthew MacLean, Marshall Smallman, and Jonathan Schut, with coach Shannon Smallman, beat the Alex Matters foursome from Charlottetown by a 7-2 score Saturday evening to win the boys division. MacLean and Smallman, from the Maple Leaf club in O’Leary, were on last year’s winning team, and also won the 17 and Under this year. As the rules permit no more than two players from a team winning a higher age division to be on one team, MacLean and Smallman teamed up with Charlottetown’s Hughes and Schut. Other members of the runner-up Alex Matters rink are Chris Gallant, Kyle Holland, and Andrew Cameron, with coaches Peter Gallant and Derrick Cameron. The third team entered in the boys section, skipped by Brandon MacNevin of the Silver Fox, did not manage to pick up a win in double round robin play, while Hughes and Matters both finished at 4-1, with Matters beating Hughes 7-5 in their first round robin encounter, and Hughes doubling Matters 4-2 in their second game.

We are looking for three more volunteers  to take the CPR/AED (defibrillator) course,  Sunday at 1 pm at the Club.  If interested, get in touch with Bev at manager@cornwallcurling.com or 566-4427.

Due to weather and road conditions, Thursday evening’s draws are cancelled.

The  Lorianne Davies rink from the Cornwall Curling Club, along with club member Donna Butler,  who curls with the defending champions Kyle Stevenson rink, are among the fourteen entries in this weekend’s  M&M Meat Shops Provincial Mixed Curling Championship, just down the road at the Crapaud Community Curling Club. Playing with Lorianne, who throws third, are fourth stone Rob Young, second Mark MacDonald, and lead Melody Beck.  The Davies foursome were runners-up in this event in 2008. Playing with Butler are skip Kyle Stevenson, second Doug MacGregor, and lead Tricia Affleck.

Play gets underway Thursday at 4.

Complete draw and results at peicurling.com/mixed.

Cornwall’s Veronica Smith team are competing in the M&M Meat Shops 15 and Under championships, which get underway Friday at 1 pm at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. Other members of the Smith rink are Katie Fullerton, Sabrina Smith, and Chloe McCloskey, with coaches Paul Smith and Sarah Fullerton. Jonathan Schut, who normally plays with Cornwall’s Jeff Taylor team, is playing on the Kyle Hughes rink for this event. The team also includes defending champions Matthew MacLean and Marshall Smallman from the Maple  Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. As they also won the 17 and Under this year, only two players from that team are allowed on the same time for a lower age group competition.

Complete draw and results at peicurling.com/15andunder

Coming up next weekend is the KFC 12 and Under, with Cornwall boys teams skipped by Devon Schut and Cameron MacKay, and a girls team skipped by Megan Ching. More on this next week.

Cornwall’s Sarah Fullerton and Jeff Taylor rinks finished first and second, respectively, in this past weekend’s 1st annual Helen Robbins Junior Cashspiel in Montague. Robbins was a recipient of the Order of PEI and a PEI Curling Hall of Fame member, who was very active in junior curling development.

(info from the Eastern Graphic)

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.
Beverly McCormick
Manager
Cornwall Curling 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.