You’ve seen it on TV, now see it live, right here at the Cornwall Curling Club! It’s Mixed Doubles curling, the two person per team version of our favorite sport, as played recently at the Canadian Juniors, where Cornwall’s Chloé McCloskey and coach Bill Hope, along with Evan Kearley from Newfoundland and Labrador,, won a silver medal, and on TV at the Continental Cup in Las Vegas.
Canadian Juniors Mixed doubles silver-medallists, from left, Evan Kearley, Chloé McCloskey and coach Bill Hope. (Photo, CCA/Michael Burns Photography/Mark O’Neill)
We`ve got a lot of curlers signed up for our Mixed Doubles mini-cashspiel, which gets underway Saturday at 8:30 am. If you aren`t participating, feel free to drop by the Club and check out this new style of curling. Nobody signed up for this year’s provincials, but we’ll be ready for next year!
Some info on Mixed Doubles Curling:
Teams are made up of two players; one male, one female.
Six rocks used per team per end (one placed at the beginning of each end, five thrown)
One player throws first and last stone per end, other player throws the three in between.