The ice is out, and it’s time to wrap up another great season at our Club!
Team Ferguson returning from the Canada Games
One of the highlights of the year was the Lauren Ferguson rink competing in THREE Canadian Championships – the Canadian Juniors, the Canada Games, and the Under 18, with David Murphy coaching the first two, and Pat Quilty subbing in the U18 while David was curling in the Canadian Masters. They also won the Fall Fling in Summerside. Team member Alexis Burris and coach Quilty both won Balance Plus Fair Play awards at the U18.
Team Mitchell Schut was also both Canada Games and U18 reps.
We also hosted both the Maritime and the Canadian Stick Curling Championships, along with the PEI Under 18 championships, and by all reports, all went well!
Here is a month-by-month recap of our season. Click on each story for more info.
August:
2018 Canada 55+ Games in Saint John, N.B.:
The Cornwall rink of Gloria Clarke, Ruth Stavert, Elaine Hughes, and Janette Fraser won the 65-plus women’s curling division, while Cornwall member Marjorie Matthews earned two gold medals and a silver in track and field, In bocce, Adrian Clarke and Cornwall member Ernie Stavert were in a four-way tie for first but lost on tie-breaking rules.
September:
Cornwall’s Team Howatt made it to the medal round at the Halifax Harvest Spiel
October:
New Mixed Doubles League kicks off, with nine teams taking part.
Kaitlyn Jones rink, with Cornwall’s Lauren Lenentine, wins Crystal Slam Junior Event in Quebec
November:
Sackville NB teams win 1st and 2nd place at 6th annual Masters Plus spiel
Cornwall hosts USA Ladies for lunch and curling
Seniors Learn to Curl program gets underway in Cornwall
Jill Brothers beats Cornwall’s Veronica Smith to win her 4th consecutive Dave Jones Cashspiel
Sanderson/Kennedy team repeat as Cornwall Mixed Doubles Cashspiel overall winners
December:
Kaitlyn Jones rink with Cornwall member Lauren Lenentine, repeats as Nova Scotia junior champs
Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut and Lauren Ferguson rinks win Canada Games trials.
Karen Currie rink wins Cornwall’s annual Murphy’s Pharmacies Ice Queens Women’s Funspiel
January:
Sandy Hope rink repeats as PEI Masters Women’s Champs
Kim Nicholson rink are our PEI Women’s Curling Club Ch’ships women’s reps
Mark MacDonald team wins 2019 Kenmac Energy Mixed Funspiel
Suzanne Birt beats Cornwall’s Veronica Smith 10-4 to win her tenth Scotties
Cornwall’s Lauren Lenentine wins PEI Curling Hall of Fame bursary
February:
Brayden Snow, and Cornwall’s Rachel MacLean teams go undefeated to win PEI Under 16 titles
Cornwall teams finish out of the playoffs at PEI Curling Club Ch’ships
Clean sweep for Cornwall Stick Curlers at the Vogue Optical 55+ Games
Cornwall (Regular) Curlers do well at Vogue Optical 55+ Games
Cornwall’s Lauren Lenentine to play for Manitoba team next season
14 teams take part in U13 Spiel at Cornwall
DAL women, with Cornwall’s Lauren Lenentine, and DAL men go undefeated to win AUS Curling Ch’ships
March:
Cornwall teams wrap up Round Robin play at the Canada Games
Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut foursome repeats as PEI Under 18 Boy’s Champs
Team Ferguson goes undefeated to repeat as PEI U18 Girl’s Champs
Host Cornwall Curling Club teams win both divisions at Maritime Stick Ch’ships
Cornwall’s Berry rink wins Maritime Masters Women’s Championship
Cornwall’s O’Connor/Abraham 1-4 at Mixed Dbls with 2 games left (Curling Canada)
Cornwall’s Ferguson and Schut finish fourth at U18 Mixed Doubles Test Event in Fredericton
Cornwall’s Rachel MacLean and Amy Spence competed in PEI Mixed (fours) Ch’ship in Montague
April:
Red wins Leary’s Independent Grocer Closing Spiel again!
Passings:
Paul Horne, who survived a cardiac incident on the ice at our Club in 2010, passed away in December, while former Club President Joe Doyle passed in January.
Upcoming:
Remaining events this year are our Annual General Meeting on May 24th, and our annual Golf Tournament on June 15
Next season will be somewhat of a transition year at the Club, with our long-time Manager, Bev McCormick, retiring, and Lance Lowther, our only head ice-maker since the Club began, also announcing that he is stepping back. We wish them the best of luck in the future and note that our Club will have a number of changes to deal with, but we’re sure things will go well, with help from our members and our Board of Directors! We hope to see everyone back at the Club in mid-October for our 2019-2020 season!
YOU Two will surely be missed at the the curling club. Hope you have a great retirement.