It has been decided by the organizing committee and drawmaster of the 2020 Kenmac Bonspiel, along with the management team of the Cornwall Curling Club, that the current weather conditions will impede our ability to move forward with the three evening draws scheduled for this evening, Friday January 17th.
The weather and road conditions are just too unpredictable, with some roads being deemed unsafe to drive by local RCMP.
Therefore we have cancelled these 3 draws : 4:45pm, 6:16pm, and 8pm.
It was considered that we would try to re-schedule them , however many participants have plans throughout the weekend that would not allow them to re-schedule. This would cause scheduling conflicts.
Therefore the decision has been made to reduce the entry fee to $30.00 per participant.
This entry fee will include:
Every team will receive two games tomorrow (Saturday , January 18th, as per previous schedule announced/posted draw).
(Any ties will be decided by a draw to the button, with sweepers.)
Our awards and prizes will be presented at 6:15 pm.
We will proceed with our beautiful banquet tomorrow evening at 6:30 pm; a lovely meal of balsamic prime rib with fixings catered by the talented Jenn and her crew at Creative Kitchen will be served!
We have moved our trivia entertainment and music, along with draw prizes and reverse draw, to tomorrow evening AFTER dinner. It promises to be a great time!
We welcome all to stay around the club tomorrow night for an evening of laughter, trivia fun, and friendship!! There will be drink specials and snacks! (Given the current changes the committee has decided you will not need to be present to win.)
See you all tomorrow! Be safe and warm!
Lori Fitzpatrick
Club Manager, Cornwall Curling Club
Congratulations to Cornwall Curling Club member Lauren Ferguson who earned her External Sport Credit this week! Good luck at Nationals!
Left to right: Lauren Ferguson, Maribeth Rogers-Neale with the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, and Amy Duncan, Executive Director of Curl PEI
The External Sport Credit Program (ESCP) gives eligible student-athletes the opportunity to earn graduation credits in grades 10, 11 and 12. While described as a sport credit, it is an educational credit and therefore, learning is emphasized throughout the entire process of becoming a high-performance athlete. Click for more info on the External Sport Credit Program.
Team Ferguson at the airport just before departing for the 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Langley BC.
As you know, blowing snow is currently affecting visibility.
Environment Canada is calling for winds to diminish from north 50 km/h gusting to 80 to northwest 40 gusting to 70 later this afternoon. We will assess the weather situation at that time.
We will send out an announcement via our website, email, Facebook, Twitter, answering machine by 3:30 pm today as to whether or not Friday evening’s Kenmac Bonspiel draws will proceed or be re-scheduled.
Lori Fitzpatrick
Club Manager, Cornwall Curling Club
Best of luck to Cornwall’s first-ever team at the national men’s curling championship, as they prepare to compete in the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario! Club President Bryan Sutherland extended his best wishes to Team Cochrane on behalf of the Club, and presented them with a donation on behalf of our membership.
(L-R): Skip Bryan Cochrane, third Ian MacAulay, Club President Bryan Sutherland, lead Mark O’Rourke, second Morgan Currie
There’s LOTS of experience on this team, as Bryan, Ian, and Morgan are reigning World Senior champs, while Mark is a former Canadian Mixed champion, and has competed for PEI at thirteen Briers either as a second, lead, or alternate.
We, along with fans and relatives from Souris, Summerside, the Cornwall area, and everywhere else on PEI, will be cheering them on!
Canada’s best Under-21 curlers are headed to Beautiful B.C. this week to take part in the 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships.
The 2020 New Holland Canadian Juniors will begin Saturday and run through to Jan. 26 at the George Preston Recreation Centre in Langley, B.C.
And there will be no shortage of intriguing storylines as Canada’s future stars battle for the right to represent Canada at the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships, Feb. 15-22 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Karlee Burgess will be playing to win her unprecedented third Canadian Junior Women’s Curling Championship, beginning Saturday in Langley, B.C. (Photo, Curling Canada)
On the women’s side, Karlee Burgess has a chance to make history as the first female player ever to win three times at the New Holland Canadian Juniors, but she’ll be doing it for a new province this year.
Burgess, who won Canadian and World Junior gold playing second for Nova Scotia (in 2016 with Mary Fay, and two years later playing for Kaitlyn Jones), moved to Manitoba in the off-season and will be playing vice-skip for Manitoba’s Mackenzie Zacharias (Altona) in her final year of junior eligibility. Burgess was a bronze-medallist at the 2019 New Holland Canadian Juniors with Nova Scotia. Also moving to Manitoba was Lauren Lenentine, who played vice-skip for Nova Scotia last year, and was the alternate for Team Jones at the 2018 World Juniors.
Alberta, meanwhile, will go for back-to-back gold medals with two members of Selena Sturmay’s Edmonton team that prevailed last year in Prince Albert, Sask., remaining.
Abby Marks has moved from vice-skip to skip, while second Paige Papley moves up from lead.
Also in the field is 2017 Canadian Under-18 champ Kira Brunton and her Northern Ontario team from Sudbury.
Team Ferguson
[P.E.I. is represented by the Lauren Ferguson team from the Cornwall Curling Club.]
On the men’s side, meanwhile, there will be a new champion for the first time since 2016 as three-time defending champion Tyler Tardi of B.C. has moved up to the men’s ranks.
That will open the door for the likes of Northern Ontario’s Jacob Horgan, a two-time silver-medallist playing for his older brother Tanner. Jacob, who skipped Northern Ontario to the 2017 Canadian Under-18 championship, is skipping at the Under-21 nationals for the first time, and will be making his seventh appearance at the event with his Sudbury-based team.
Also in the mix on the men’s side will be Tardi’s cousin Jacques Gauthier, who’s skipping Manitoba #2. Gauthier, whose team is based in Winnipeg, played vice-skip for JT Ryan’s Manitoba team that lost the 2019 gold-medal game to Tardi’s B.C. team in Prince Albert, Sask., and was also the alternate for Tardi’s Canadian team that won gold at the 2018 World Juniors in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Meanwhile, Saskatchewan’s Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon) will be aiming to improve on the bronze medal his team won last year in Prince Albert, while Nova Scotia’s Graeme Weagle (Chester) looks to add to the gold medal he won at the 2018 Canadian Under-18 Championships.
With the Yukon and Nunavut unable to field men’s teams for the 2020 New Holland Canadian Juniors, B.C. and Manitoba will have two teams in the field to fill out the 14-team draw — B.C. gets the second team as the host team, while Manitoba was the highest-placed team behind B.C. at the 2019 New Holland Canadian Juniors to earn the second berth.
Gauthier’s team goes in as Manitoba #2 after losing the provincial final to Brett Walter; both the Walter and Gauthier teams hail from the Assiniboine Club in Winnipeg.
Meanwhile, B.C. will be represented by champion Hayato Sato and his team from New Westminster, and runner-up Johnson Tao and his team from Richmond.
[At the P.E.I. Juniors, Tyler Smith and his Montague Curling Rink team swept the provincial junior men’s championship for a repeat trip to the nationals.]
Selected round-robin games from the New Holland Canadian Junior Championships will be streamed live at Curling Canada’s YouTube page, which you can access by CLICKING HERE.
Fourteen men’s and 14 women’s teams will compete for Canadian titles, separated into two seven-team pools per gender for an initial round robin, followed by a Championship Round (top four in each pool) leading to the playoffs. The top team advances to its respective final on Sunday, Jan. 26, while the second- and third-place teams meet in a semifinal on Saturday, Jan. 25, to determine the other finalist.
TSN/RDS2 will carry complete live coverage of the semifinals (women at 11 a.m. [all times PT], men at 4 p.m.) on Jan. 25 and finals (women at 9 a.m., men at 2 p.m.).
The winning teams will then represent Canada at the World Juniors in Russia.
Canada has won a leading 20 world junior men’s titles since 1975 and a leading 12 women’s crowns since 1988.
Additionally, with the dates of the 2021 New Holland Canadian Juniors being shifted into March to allow junior-age players to compete longer into the season, players competing in Langley may be representing Canada at the 2021 World Juniors in February 2021 (location TBA by the World Curling Federation.
Here are the criteria for determining the 2021 Team Canada representatives:
2020 Canadian Juniors runner-up teams (if three of four are age eligible) will represent Canada at the World Junior Championships in 2021. If the runner-up team needs to replace one player because of age eligibility, consultation will take place with Curling Canada before a new team member is selected.
If a runner-up team is not age-eligible to represent Canada at the World Junior Championships in 2021, then Curling Canada will select individual age-eligible athletes from the 2020 playoffs and/or Championship Pool to determine Team Canada for the World Junior Championships in 2021. Individual selected athletes may also be part of the 2020 winning Canadian team.
Curling Canada will announce the athletes selected to represent Canada at the 2021 World Junior Championships towards the end of February.
Lauren Lenentine. Photo credit: Edgy Sport Images
The 2020 New Holland Canadian Juniors also is notable for the number of past recipients of the Curling Canada Foundation For The Love of Curling Scholarships — 10 over the past four years:
2019 — Lauren Lenentine (Manitoba), Paige Papley (Alberta), Desmond Young (Alberta), Emily Zacharias (Manitoba) 2018 — Lindsay Dubue (Northern Ontario), Ryan Jacques (Alberta), Ryan McNeil Lamswood (Newfoundland/Labrador) 2017 — Kira Brunton (Northern Ontario), Mackenzie Zacharias (Manitoba) 2016 — Karlee Burgess (Manitoba)
B.C. teams have won a combined 10 Canadian junior championships — the most recent being Tardi’s team representing the Langley Curling Centre winning in 2017 at Victoria, 2018 at Shawinigan, Que., and last year at Prince Albert. Other previous winners were Corryn Brown in 2013 at Fort McMurray, Alta., Brad Kuhn in 2000 at Moncton, N.B., Dean Joanisse in 1989 at Winnipeg, Mike Wood in 1988 at North Vancouver, Julie Sutton in 1987 at Prince Albert, Jodie Sutton in 1986 at Rouyn-Noranda, Que., Sandra Plut in 1982 at Winnipeg and Jerry Laughlin in 1961 at Prince George.
Teams that don’t qualify for the Championship Pool will compete in a Seeding Pool to determine rankings for the 2021 New Holland Canadian Juniors, March 15-23 in Fort McMurray, Alta. Curlers on all non-playoff teams will participate in a mixed doubles competition on the final weekend.
The Canadian Junior Men?s Championship has been contested annually since its inception in 1950 at Quebec City. The first Canadian Junior Women?s Championship was played in 1971 at Vancouver.
The 2020 PEI Masters Curling Championships, with men’s and women’s divisions for curlers age 60 and over, take place from January 24-28 at the Silver Fox Curling Club in Summerside, with five men’s and three women’s rinks taking part. Defending champs are the Sandy Hope rink from here at the Cornwall Curling Club, and the Lou Nowlan foursome from the Silver Fox, and both are back looking to defend their titles. Other men’s teams include the Paul Arsenault and Bill Hope squads from here in Cornwall, the Blair Jay team from the host club, and the Clair Sweet squad from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. The Sheila Compton rink from the Fox and the Shirley Berry foursome from Cornwall round out the women’s entries.
Teams in both divisions of the PEI Masters will play a modified triple knockout format, with draws daily at 10 am and 2:30 pm from Friday Jan. 24 through Monday morning Jan. 27, with the winners from the three men’s and women’s sections advancing to their respective two-game championship rounds at 2:30 pm Monday and, if needed, 10 am on Tuesday the 28th. Under the modified triple knockout format, a team can win more than one section, If a team wins all three sections, they will be declared champions without playing the championship round. A two-section winner will have a “double life” in the championship round, and win the event if they take either section, while their opponent, the winner of the other section, would have to win both.
The winning and finalist men’s and women’s teams will compete against their peers from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia at the Maritime Masters, here at the Cornwall Curling Club from March 12-14 2020, while the men’s and women’s winning teams, or finalist teams if they are unable to attend, also earn the right to compete in the 2020 Canadian Masters Curling Championships, March 30-April 5, 2020 at the Riverside Country Club in Rothesay, and the Thistle St.-Andrews Curling Club in Saint John New Brunswick.
(will not be updated during the event – refer to the scoring system for draw progression)
Schedule
(Women’s games are in violet)
Date
Time
Draw
Ice 1
Ice 2
Ice 3
Ice 4
Ice 5
Ice 6
Fri.
24-Jan
10 am
1
1
2
2:30 pm
2
A
3
4
Sat.
25-Jan
10 am
3
B
5
6
2:30 pm
4
7
8
C
Sun.
26-Jan
10 am
5
D
9
10
2:30 pm
6
E
11
Mon.
27-Jan**
10 am
7
12
F
2:30 pm
8
WA
MA
Tue.
28-Jan**
10 am
9
MB
WB
Explanation for MA/WA and MB/WB:
1. If one team wins all three qualifiers: Championship Round is not required.
2. If one team wins two qualifiers. They play in both MA or WA and MB or WB (and win the event if they win either game). The other section winner plays in MA or WA and has to win to advance to MB or WB.
3. If there are three separate winners: the team that played in the most qualifying games* advances to MB or WB, and the other winners play off in MA or WA. If there is a tie in the number of qualifying games played, then the team that qualified earliest goes to MB or WB and the other two teams play off in MA or WA.
*Qualifying games have yellow background for game number on the schedule
Team Rosters
(Numbers in brackets are throwing order, S=skip)
M – Team Arsenault
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
Paul Arsenault (4-S), Ron Giggey (3), Allan Acorn (2), Edgar Coffin (1), Garth Cudmore (alternate)
M – Team B.Hope
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
Bill Hope (4-S), Peter Murdoch (3), David Murphy (2), Dario Zannier (1)
M – Team Jay
Silver Fox Curling Club, Summerside, PE
Blair Jay (4-S), Stuart Graves (3), Dale Cannon (2), Paul Matheson (1)
M – Team Nowlan
Silver Fox Curling Club, Summerside, PE
Lou Nowlan (4-S), David MacFadyen (3), Earle Proude (2), Alan Montgomery (1), Rod MacDonald (alternate)
M – Team Sweet
Maple Leaf Curling Club, O’Leary, PE
Clair Sweet (4-S), Bob Matheson (3), Muncey Harris (2), Wayne Arsenault (1)
(from Lori, on behalf of the Club!)
A great BIG thank you to this lovely lady, Cornwall Curling Club’s own Myrna
Craswell!
Myrna is a tremendous member here at the curling club and always ready to
help out.
We are so grateful for Myrna’s support, as we are for all of our volunteers!
This past weekend, during our First Annual Cornwall Cup Stick Tournament,
there were rave reviews about Myrna’s hearty, homemade chili that our curlers
enjoyed!
Thank you Myrna!
Things are getting exciting here at the Cornwall Curling Club as we begin preparations for the “Annual Kenmac Bonspiel this weekend!
Our draw should be posted tomorrow!
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Our annual daytime curlers exchange with the Charlottetown Curling Club is an “away” tournament for us this year. and gets underway with the first draw at 9 am on Tuesday Feb. 11 in Charlottetown with teams made up that combine curlers from both clubs. The $5 price to play includes both curling and lunch! Entry is limited to 40 people, so sign up at the Club as soon as you can before the deadline of February 5th. Please play Lori in the office.
Today we were very excited to formally congratulate Cornwall’s own Gloria
Clarke, Ruth Stavert, Elaine Hughes, and Janette Fraser for being Gold
Medallists in the Women’s Curling 65+ Division at the 2018 Canada 55+ Games in Saint John NB!
Curlers are reminded of the following Curl PEI provincial championship entry deadlines for the remainder of January. All entries must be made online at PEICurling.com.
Morgan Currie and Ian MacAulay are P.E.I. Tankard champs.
The Island-born Ontario residents were part of the winning Bryan Cochrane rink that ran the table at the modified triple-knockout championship at the Montague Curling Rink.
The Bryan Cochrane rink won the P.E.I. Tankard Saturday at the Montague Curling Rink. From left are Scott Annear, president of the Montague Curling Rink; lead Mark O’Rourke, second Morgan Currie, third Ian MacAulay, skip Bryan Cochrane and Curl P.E.I. president Sandy Matheson. – Curl Prince Edward Island
“It’s a dream come true, not only for me but also my friend Ian MacAulay,” Currie said Sunday.
Curling Canada implemented a new birthright status eligibility rule in the spring for this year’s Tim Hortons Brier and the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. It allows athletes to choose playing in the province they live in or the one they were born in.
“When we heard about this policy (change) we got very excited,” Currie said.
Currie is from Summerside while MacAulay calls Souris home.
Cochrane was able to join the team as its permitted free agent under a rule that has been in place for a few years. The trio, which curl together out of the Russell Curling Club in Russell, Ont., near Ottawa, won the 2019 world senior men’s championship in Norway.
The world champs then looked for a player to complete their P.E.I. squad.
“We felt very fortunate in our team to be joined by Mark O’Rourke,” Currie said of the recent Prince Edward Island Curling Hall of Fame inductee who has attended 10 Briers and other curling nationals during his career.
“We thought of Mark right away,” Currie explained. “As soon as we started to talk about Mark, I said I’ll call him because I couldn’t wait to talk to him.”
We’ve decided that, due to the very poor road conditions (the Cornwall Road itself is quite bad right now) from ice pellets that have fallen so far, and the forecast for ice pellets and/or snow into the evening, that we will have to cancel for this evening. This includes both the Sunday evening Mixed Doubles League and our ice rentals (as well as the afternoon curling mentioned previously).
The Suzanne Birt rink, playing out of the host Montague Curling Rink this season, scored five points in the sixth end and stole a single in the seventh to defeat the Veronica Smith team from the Summerside Silver Fox club 8-1 in seven ends on Sunday morning to repeat as PEI Scotties champions.
This is the eleventh PEI Scotties title for Birt, a former world junior curling champion. Birt, backed up by third Marie Christianson, second stone Meaghan Hughes, and lead Michelle McQuaid, along with coach Mitchell O’Shea, won the “A” and “C” events in the modified triple knockout draw, and would have had a second chance at 2 pm to win the title, but accomplished the task with the morning game.
Finalist team (L-R): Veronica Smith, Sabrina Smith, Emily Gray, Whitney Jenkins, Pat Aylward (coach)
Smith, who won the “B” section, would have had to win both games. Playing with Veronica Smith were third Sabrina Smith, second Emily Gray, and lead Whitney Jenkins, with coach Pat Aylward.
The first half of this morning’s game was close, with two blank ends, and neither team scoring more than a single. Birt stole the third end and had a slim 2-1 lead at the fifth end break, but brought the game to an early conclusion in the sixth and seventh ends. The Birt foursome will now advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
The PEI Tankard men’s championship, held concurrently at the same venue, wrapped up on Saturday, with the Bryan Cochrane team from the Cornwall Curling Club going undefeated to advance to the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario,
Detailed results from the combined PEI Scotties and Tankard event are available at: PEICurling.com/scoreboard
Eleven men’s and 5 women’s rinks took part this year.
Due to freezing rain and ice pellets that are affecting road conditions, plus a snowfall warning, the following curling is CANCELLED this afternoon (January 12th 2020):
1 pm Little Rockers
2 pm Novice
3 pm-6pm Members’ Practice
We will make an announcement about evening curling, including our Sunday Night Mixed Doubles League and any rentals, by 2 pm today. Please watch for notifications!
The Bryan Cochrane rink from the Cornwall Curling Club made it a complete sweep Saturday evening at the Montague Curling Rink, winning the “C” final of the modified triple knockout draw by a 7-4 score over the Philip Gorveatt team from the Charlottetown Curling Club to take the Tankard PEI Men’s title without needing to play the Sunday championship round.
(L-R): Scott Annear (President of the Montague Curling Rink), Mark O’Rourke, Morgan Currie, Ian MacAulay, Bryan Cochrane, Sandy Matheson (President of Curl PEI)
The Eddie MacKenzie rink, who played in two of the three section finals, would be the second place “Finalist” rink in the event, and includes third Tyler MacKenzie, second stone Tyler Smith, and lead Matt Nabuurs.
Meanwhile, Suzanne Birt is just one win away from her eleventh PEI Scotties title, after coming from behind to win the women’s “C” final 9-5 over the Veronica Smith squad from the Silver Fox club in Summerside. Birt is playing out of the host Montague club this year. Because Birt won two of the three modified triple knockout sections (“A” and “C”), she can repeat as Scotties champ with a win in either the 9 am or the 2 pm championship round games on Sunday, while Smith, the “B” section winner, needs to win both games.
In the final Tankard game, Cochrane, whose rink includes PEI natives Ian MacAulay at third and Morgan Currie at second stone, both from his reigning World Senior championship rink, along with ten-time PEI Tankard winner Mark O’Rourke at lead, opened with a deuce, with Gorveatt, whose team includes Kevin Champion, Sean Ledgerwood, and Mike Dillon, coming back with a deuce of their own. The next two ends were blanked, but a Cochrane triple in end five gave him a 5-2 lead at the fifth end break. Each team scored two singles in the second half to give Cochrand the 7-4 victory. In the afternoon “C” semi-final, Cochrane beat the Mitchell Schut Junior team, also from Cornwall 8-1 in eight ends, while Gorveatt edged clubmate Eddie MacKenzie 7-6 in an extra end.
Smith had a 5-3 lead after six ends in her game against Birt, but a deuce, a triple, and a single in the next three ends brought the score to 9-5 for Birt, and Smith ran out of rocks in the final end. Playing with Birt are third Marie Christianson, second Meaghan Hughes and lead Michelle McQuaid, with coach Mitch O’Shea, while Sabrina Smith, Emily Gray, and Whitney Jenkins, with coach Pat Aylward, round out the Smith foursome. Smith advanced directly to the “C” final by virtue of winning the “B” section, while Birt stole the final end to edge Summerside’s Melissa Morrow squad 7-6 in the “C” semi-final.
The Bryan Cochrane rink will now compete at the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario, while the winning women’s team will advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
Live end-by-end results from the combined PEI Scotties and Tankard event are available at: PEICurling.com/scoreboard
Eleven men’s and 5 women’s rinks took part this year.
There are three games left in the schedule for the PEI Tankard at the Montague Curling Rink, but a win in any one of them — the 7 pm “C” final, or the 9 am or 2 pm Sunday championship round games, will give the men’s championship title to Bryan Cochrane and his Cornwall Curling Club rink, who remain undefeated after an 8-1 win over their Cornwall clubmates the Mitchell Schut team this afternoon in the “C” semi-final. Cochrane and his team will take on the Phil Gorveatt foursome from Charlottetown, who beat the Eddie MacKenzie team 7-6 in an extra end this afternoon in the other “C” semi, and will have to win all three games to take the provincial title.
Teams Smith and Cochrane, with Suzanne Birt in the background of the Cochrane picture
Team Gorveatt
Meanwhile, ten-time PEI Scotties winner Suzanne Birt from the host Montague club will take on Veronica Smith and her Silver Fox team in the Scotties women’s championship “C” semi, also at 7 pm. Birt, who won the “A” section of the modified triple knockout draw, stole the last end to edge the Melissa Morrow squad from the Fox 7-6 in the “C” semi this afternoon, and will take on “B” section winner Veronica Smith in this evening’s “C” final. The winner of the “C” final as the winner of two sections, will have a “double life” in the Sunday championship round at 9 am and 2 pm, and will take the title if they win either Sunday game, while their opponent will have to win both.
There is no admission charge to watch this combined event, with the women’s championship sponsored by Kruger Products, Canada’s #1 tissue products manufacturer and the longest national corporate sponsor of amateur sport in Canada, along with local event sponsors O’Connor Glass, Tim Hortons, and Bogside Brewing. 50/50 draws will be held, with proceeds going toward the Montague Junior Curling Program.
The kitchen will be open for lunch (soup or chili and sandwiches) and supper (regular menu). Food and beverages are also available at the Bogside brewery, only a three-minute walk from the club, and at Tim Hortons, just a six-minute walk away.
The winning women’s team will advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at
Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, while the men’s championship rink will compete in the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario.
Due to the forecasted inclement weather for Sunday January 12th, we have decided to postpone Sunday’s Pepsi Junior Development League until January 25, directly following the 10 am draw that is already scheduled for that day. As we have teams travelling from various parts of the Island, we wanted to provide adequate notice for tomorrow.
Decisions on Sunday afternoon Little Rockers and Novice instruction, Member Practice, the Mixed Doubles league, and rentals will be made on Sunday.
The team of Gloria Clarke and Ruth Stavert beat the duo of Paul Arsenault and Roddie MacLean to win the 1st annual Cornwall Cup stick tournament today here at the Cornwall Curling
Thanks to all 16 teams who participated, including five from other clubs, to Doug Campbell and Etta Reid for organizing, to Gary O’Sullivan and Carol Sweetapple for volunteering their time, and to Myrna Sanderson for volunteering her cooking talents!
Ruth Stavert (left) and Gloria Clarke
(L-R): Etta Reid, Paul Arsenault, Roddie MacLean, Doug Campbell
Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut junior rink won the first of what is now two “Battles of Cornwall” today at the Tankard Provincial Men’s Curling Championship at the Montague Curling Rink, and will face Cornwall’s Bryan Cochrane team at in the “C” semi-finals at 2 pm, with the winner advancing to the “C” final at 7 pm.
Mitchell Schut
Schut beat clubmate Steve vanOuwerkerk 7-2 this morning, after blanking the first three ends, taking a single in the fourth and stealing a deuce in five and singles in six and seven before vanOuwerkerk got on the scoreboard with a deuce in the 8th. Schut scored a deuce in the ninth for the win.
Chase MacMillan, Liam Kelly, Cruz Pineau
Cochrane, who along with third Ian MacAulay and second Morgan Currie comprise three members of the reigning World Senior Men’s team (ten-time PEI Tankard winner Mark O’Rourke is the other team member), has already won the “A” and “B” sections, so a win in the next two games would give him the PEI Men’s title without playing the championship round, while Schut would have to win four games in a row – two today, and two tomorrow, to win the championship.
The winning women’s team will advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at
Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, while the men’s championship rink will compete in the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario.
The first “First Annual Cornwall Cup Stick Curling Tournament is wrapping up this morning here at the Club, with Team Chowan/Allen taking on Team Arsenault/MacLean, and Team Clarey/Dunsford facing Team Stavert/Clarke in the semi-finals.
The final will start between 11:15 and 11:30 … Come on out and watch!
A big thank you to event organizers Doug Campbell and Etta Reid!
The “B” section finals of the modified triple knockout format Scotties provincial women’s and Tankard provincial men’s championships took place at the Montague Curling Rink on Friday evening, and featured the same teams that squared off in the “A” section.
Veronica Smith delivers a rock while Emily Gray prepares to sweep
Team Birt members Marie Christianson, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle McQuaid, watched by Team Smith member Whitney Jenkins
The Scotties “B” final was again a very close contest, but the Veronica Smith rink from the Silver Fox in Summerside came out the victors this time, edging ten-time PEI women’s champ Suzanne Birt, curling out of the host club, and her team by a 5-4 score. Smith used last rock advantage to score a deuce in the opening end, in a game that saw three blank ends, with neither team scoring more than a single until Birt recorded a tying deuce in the ninth end, leaving Smith with hammer coming home, where she scored a deuce for the win.
Cornwall’s Team Cochrane
On the men’s side, Bryan Cochrane and his Cornwall Curling Club team of Souris native Ian MacAulay and Summerside-born Morgan Currie along with ten-time PEI Tankard veteran Mark O’Rourke, could win the Tankard on Saturday evening, after winning both the “A” and “B” sections with wins over Charlottetown’s Eddie MacKenzie squad. In the “B” final, Cochrane blanked the first two ends, and scored a triple in the third. The teams exchanged singles to put the score to 4-1 at the fifth end break. MacKenzie blanked the 6th and gave up a steal of one in the 7th, but narrowed the gap to a single point with a deuce in eight and a single steak in nine to trail 5-4 coming home without hammer. Cochane recorded the win with a triple for a final score of 8-4.
Team MacKenzie with Bryan Cochrane in the background
MacAulay and Currie are members of Cochrane’s reigning World Senior Men’s championship rink, while MacKenzie is looking for his seventh PEI Tankard, backed up by a team that includes reigning and four-time PEI junior champion skip Tyler Smith, and Tyler MacKenzie, a three-time PEI junior and two-time PEI Tankard winner, along with Matt Nabuurs who has been on one Junior and two Tankard championship teams.
Saturday Tankard play begins with a pair of 9 am games, with Cornwall’s Steve van Ouwerkerk and Mitchell Schut rinks squaring off for the right to play Cochrane in the 2 pm “C” semi-final, while Phil Gorveatt from Charlottetown and Jamie Newson from the Silver Fox square off in the other, with the winner facing MacKenzie in the other “C” semi. The winners of the 2 pm semis meet in the “C” final at 7 pm. If Team Cochrane is in that game and wins it, as a three-section winner, they will become PEI Tankard champ without the 9 am and, if necessary, 2 pm Sunday championship round.
Saturday Scotties action sees Melissa Morrow and her Silver Fox rink, who eliminated the Amanda Power Charlottetown rink on Saturday in a closely-fought 6-5 contest, take on Birt at 2 pm, with the winner playing Smith in the “C” final at 7 pm. The section winners advance to Sunday’s championship round, which goes at 9 am and, if necessary, 2 pm. If either Birt or Smith wins two sections, they will have a “double life” in the championship round and will win the title with a victory in either game, while their opponent would have to win both matches.
There is no admission charge to watch this combined event, with the women’s championship sponsored by Kruger Products, Canada’s #1 tissue products manufacturer and the longest national corporate sponsor of amateur sport in Canada, along with local event sponsors O’Connor Glass, Tim Hortons, and Bogside Brewing. 50/50 draws will be held, with proceeds going toward the Montague Junior Curling Program.
The kitchen will be open for lunch (soup or chili and sandwiches) and supper (regular menu). Food and beverages are also available at the Bogside brewery, only a three-minute walk from the club, and at Tim Hortons, just a six-minute walk away.
The winning women’s team will advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at
Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, while the men’s championship rink will compete in the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario.
The preliminary round is complete for the 1st Annual Cornwall Cup Stick Curling Tournament, with a full draw of 16 teams, with eight duos advancing to the championship round on Saturday, with draws at 9 am (quarter finals), 10:15 am (semi-finals), and 11:30 am (final). Come on our and cheer on our teams!
Here are the championship round draws:
9 am Quarter-Finals (H) = Hammer (choice of)
Sheet 1: Higginbotham and Chaisson (H) vs Chowan and Allen
Sheet 2; Clarey and Dunsford (H) vs Field and Field
Sheet 3: Craswell and Craswell (H) vs Stavert and Clarke
Sheet 4: Reid and Hughes (H) vs MacLean and Arsenault
10: 15 am Semi-Finals
Sheet 2: Winner Sheet 1 vs Winner Sheet 4 from Quarters
Sheet 4: Winner Sheet 2 vs Winner Sheet 3 from Quarters
11:30 am Final
Sheet 3: Winner Sheet 2 vs Winner Sheet 4 from Semis
Note: In Semis and Finals it’s 3 rocks up and 3 down per team. Closest to T-Line with rock 6 for hammer.
Welcome to our new Wednesday Draw Two B Pool sponsor, Belvedere Golf Club! They’ve been around since 1902, so they really need no introduction, but did you know you that, starting Monday, you can golf there in the winter, too?
Their two new state-of-the-art golf simulators have arrived, are being set up, and will be operating by Monday Jan. 13, so you can get a head start on the 2020 golf season!
Call (902) 566-5542 or email bgcgm@bellaliant.com to book your tee time! They will provide bar service along with some light snacks for you to enjoy during your round.
Curling Day in Canada is on February 20. Share your story for the chance to win an all-expenses-paid weekend trip to #Brier2021 & share your curling club’s story for the chance to win a visit from the Brier Tankard!
Curling Club Entries
For curling rink ‘entries’, submit photos of your front entrance with the rink’s name, photos of your warm area (lounge) and the ice area (preferably with people in the images). Then submit interesting in-house stories; for example: multiple generations of the same family curling; unique programming (such as glow in the dark); or any other neat things at your club. That might include outdoor curling, special curling days, funky warm areas, great volunteers, good eats, or any other innovation!
Send in your photos/videos by January 24, 2020. We will be selecting the club with the most interesting submission to host the legendary and iconic Brier Tankard Trophy on February 22 for the day. And, you can bet that trophy will be accompanied by at least one former Brier champion!
This is for all Canadian curlers! Whether you’ve played all your life or you’ve played just once, if you have something neat or cool to share, we want to see it. Submit the images (photos or video) of you and/or your friends relating to curling. It can be outdoor curling on a river/lake/ backyard; or, it could be a fun bonspiel theme you’ve participated in. We’d love to hear about any of your curling adventures or aspirations—use your imagination!
Send in your photos/video and stories by 4 pm AT on February 22, 2020. Each submission will earn the person sharing their story one (1) ballot to win an all-expenses-paid closing weekend trip for four (4) people to the 2021 Tim Hortons Brier! (The prize will include transportation, two double occupancy hotel rooms for four nights, tickets for all games on the final four days and Brier clothing.)
Cornwall’s playdowns for the PEI Curling Club Championships go February 7-8. Sign your team up at the Club by our Tuesday, February 4th deadline!
2018 national Curling Club Championships PEI Women’s Team, skipped by Debbie Rhodenhizer (left) from the Cornwall Curling Club. (Curling Canada/Jordan Pinder photo)
Entry fee for our Club Ch’ships is $100 per team. Format will be determined by the number of entries.
The winning men’s and women’s rinks will advance to the Provincial Curling Club Championships, March 6-8 in Charlottetown, with the provincial winners going to the nationals in November.
Please ensure that team members meet all eligibility criteria (below)
Here are the Curling Club Championship Eligibility Requirements for the 2019-2020 season.
Curl PEI will continue to restrict the number of entries per club to a maximum of one.
Each Curl PEI member club is granted an exemption to Rule 12)(a) as per 12)(b) as Island clubs have mixed or open leagues only. You do not need to request this exemption.
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The defending champion Suzanne Birt rink, playing out of the host Montague Curling Rink, and the Bryan Cochrane team from Cornwall captured the first of three modified triple knockout qualifying games at the Scotties provincial women’s and Tankard provincial men’s championships, respectively Thursday evening.
Bryan Cochrane
The 7 pm draw featured three very close games decided by a single point, and one not-so-close one, with Cochrane and his team of Island natives Ian MacAulay and Morgan Currie, along with ten-time PEI Tankard winner Mark O’Rourke in the lead position, needing only eight ends to beat Charlottetown’s Eddie MacKenzie rink by an 8-1 score, stealing a pair of singles, a triple and another single to lead 6-0 after four ends. MacKenzie’s loan single came just before the 5th end break, but another pair of Cochrane singles in ends 7 and 8 brought the game to handshakes.
Suzanne Birt
Birt’s game against Veronica Smith and her Silver Fox rink was very evenly matched, with Birt leading 2-1 after a low-scoring first five ends. Smith pulled ahead with a sixth-end deuce, but Birt took a pair in the seventh to regain the lead. Smith tied the game with a single in the eighth, but Birt’s ninth end deuce gave her a two-point lead coming home without last rock advantage. Smith was kept to a single in ten, with Birt winning the “A” final by a 6-5 score.
In Tankard “B” section games, Charlottetown’s Philip Gorveatt edged Cornwall’s John Likely 5-4, while Cornwall’s Steve vanOuwerkerk got by the Darren Higgins rink from the Fox by a 6-5 score.
With the modified triple-knockout format, the top teams in a section also drop down to compete in the next section. If ten-time PEI Scotties winner Birt, or Cochrane, who is the reigning World Senior Men’s champion, were to capture all three sections, they would win the event without the Sunday championship round being played, If a team were to win two sections, they would have a “double life” in the championship round and take their respective championship with a win in either game, while their opponent, the winner of the other section, would have to win both,
In the Tankard, Gorveatt now faces Cochrane, and MacKenzie takes on vanOuwerkerk in B section semi-finals at 2 pm Friday, with the winners advancing to the 7 pm “B” final. On the Scotties side, Smith plays Melissa Morrow and her Silver Fox team at 2 pm, with the winner facing Birt in the “B” final at 7 pm Friday. Morrow got by Tammy Dewar and her host club team 7-6 in an extra end on Thursday afternoon to advance to the “B” semi-final.
Friday morning 9 am play features “C” division games. The “C” finals are Saturday at 7 pm.
The championship round games, if needed, go Sunday at 9 am and, if necessary, 2 pm.
There is no admission charge to watch this combined event, with the women’s championship sponsored by Kruger Products, Canada’s #1 tissue products manufacturer and the longest national corporate sponsor of amateur sport in Canada, along with local event sponsors O’Connor Glass, Tim Hortons, and Bogside Brewing. 50/50 draws will be held, with proceeds going toward the Montague Junior Curling Program.
The kitchen will be open for lunch (soup or chili and sandwiches) and supper (regular menu). Food and beverages are also available at the Bogside brewery, only a three-minute walk from the club, and at Tim Hortons, just a six-minute walk away.
The winning women’s team will advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at
Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, while the men’s championship team will compete in the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario.
The Cornwall Cup stick curling tournament takes place Friday and Saturday at our Club. Because of this event, there will be no Friday morning Drop-In curling.
The annual Kenmac Energy Mixed Funspiel takes place the evening of Friday, January 17, with first draw at 4:30 pm, and all day on Saturday the 18th at the Cornwall Curling Club, and is open to Club members, members of other clubs, and to non-members.
There is room for only 4 more teams or 16 single entry players, so sign up now and avoid missing out on the fun!
Sign up on the sheet at the Club, or email the Club at cornwallcurling@eastlink.ca to get your team or name added.
Skip and Mate MUST be of opposite sex.
Each team plays three games of six ends.
First draw Sat. is at 8:30 am.
Entry fee is $35.00 per person or $140/team.
Join us for a great weekend of curling!
Food and entertainment:
Friday Night Snacks, Door Prizes, Reverse Draw, Trivia, and Music!
We will have a special “Trivia Master” in for the trivia portion!
(You must be present to win door prizes and reverse draw)
Lunch on Saturday at 12:30 pm.
Saturday Evening Prepared Meal at 6:30, followed by Prize Presentation.
This annual bonspiel is sponsored by KENMAC ENERGY, proud to be Prince Edward Island’s only locally owned and operated Heating Oil and Propane Delivery Company. They have a full service department and a local office to provide you with the exceptional service Islanders have known and trusted since 1986.
PEI’s women’s and men’s curling championships got underway on schedule Wednesday at the Montague Curling Rink despite the road and weather conditions, with the opening draw underway before the storm hit. Both the five-team Scotties women’s championship and the eleven-team men’s Tankard are playing modified triple knockout formats, with the first of the three qualifying finals for the two-game championship round (if needed) taking place at 7 pm Thursday,
The Scotties “A” qualifier will see the Veronica Smith team from the Silver Fox in Summerside take on the winner of a 9 am game between Summerside’s Melissa Morrow foursome and the defending champion Suzanne Birt, playing out of the host club, and looking for her eleventh Scotties title. In opening day action, Montague’s Tammy Dewar and Charlottetown’s Amanda Power had opening day losses and play at 9 am in the B section.
On the men’s side, the teams for the 7 pm “A” qualifier game will also be determined with the 9 am draw, when defending champ John Likely, playing out of Cornwall, takes on five-time PEI Tankard winner Eddie MacKenzie of Charlottetown, while Cornwall’s Bryan Cochrane team, which includes Island natives Morgan Currie and Ian MacAulay from his World Senior Curling Championship-winning rink, along with Mark O’Rourke, a veteran of ten PEI Tankards, will face the Steve vanOuwerkerk squad, also from Cornwall. Teams with one loss square off at 2 pm in the “B” section, with Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut junior team, who picked up a 12-9 win Wednesday evening over the Jamie Newson rink, battling the Higgins rink from Summerside, and Phil Gorveatt facing Charlottetown clubmate Rod MacDonald. Also at 2 will be must-win “C” event game between host club teams skipped by Keith Nabuurs and Philip MacDonald.
Draws go daily at 9 am and 2 and 7 pm. If a team wins all three sections of the modified triple knockout event, a champion would be declared on Saturday evening, while a team winning two sections could wrap things up with a Sunday morning win, If not, the final game will go at 2 pm on Sunday.
There is no admission charge to watch this combined event, with the women’s championship sponsored by Kruger Products, Canada’s #1 tissue products manufacturer and the longest national corporate sponsor of amateur sport in Canada, along with local event sponsors O’Connor Glass, Tim Hortons, and Bogside Brewing. 50/50 draws will be held, with proceeds going toward the Montague Junior Curling Program.
The kitchen will be open for lunch (soup or chili and sandwiches) and supper (regular menu). Food and beverages are also available at the Bogside brewery, only a three-minute walk from the club, and at Tim Hortons, just a six-minute walk away.
The winning women’s team will advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at
Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, while the men’s championship team will compete in the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario.
After assessing the weather forecast and conditions, curling for our Wednesday Evening Ladder League (both 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm draws) is set to proceed this evening, January 8th.
The forecast calls for the snow to diminish by early evening.
The parking lot will be cleared between 5 pm and 6 pm. Please DO NOT use the sidewalk entrance -use the front building entrance and stairs.
As always, we encourage all curlers to exercise their best judgment and evaluate road and weather conditions in their own area, before deciding whether to curl.
If your team cannot make it, please let the opposing skip know (contact the Club to track down their phone number if you don’t have it).
Due to the impending weather conditions and to keep the draw intact, it has been decided to cancel both timeslots of Daytime Competitive League curling today. The games will be rescheduled to March 4th. A decision will be made later regarding the evening draw.
The annual Kenmac Energy Mixed Funspiel takes place the evening of Friday, January 17, with first draw at 4:30 pm, and all day on Saturday the 18th at the Cornwall Curling Club, and is open to Club members, members of other clubs, and to non-members.
Team and single entry. Entry deadline is January 13.
Sign up on the sheet at the Club, or email the Club at cornwallcurling@eastlink.ca to get your team or name added.
Skip and Mate MUST be of opposite sex.
Each team plays three games of six ends.
First draw Sat. is at 8:30 am.
Entry fee is $35.00 per person or $140/team.
Join us for a great weekend of curling!
Food and entertainment:
Friday Night Snacks, Door Prizes, Reverse Draw, Trivia, and Music!
We will have a special “Trivia Master” in for the trivia portion!
(You must be present to win door prizes and reverse draw)
Lunch on Saturday at 12:30 pm.
Saturday Evening Prepared Meal at 6:30, followed by Prize Presentation.
This annual bonspiel is sponsored by KENMAC ENERGY, proud to be Prince Edward Island’s only locally owned and operated Heating Oil and Propane Delivery Company. They have a full service department and a local office to provide you with the exceptional service Islanders have known and trusted since 1986.
The 2020 PEI Scotties Tournament of Hearts Provincial Women’s Curling Championship, along with the Tankard Provincial Men’s Championship will take place concurrently at the Montague Curling Rink, beginning with a men’s draw at 9 am Wednesday, and wrapping up by the Sunday afternoon draw, with five teams competing in the Scotties, and eleven in the Tankard. If a team wins all three sections of the modified triple knockout event, a champion would be declared on Saturday evening, while a team winning two sections could wrap things up with a Sunday morning win.
There is no admission charge to watch this combined event, with the women’s championship sponsored by Kruger Products, Canada’s #1 tissue products manufacturer and the longest national corporate sponsor of amateur sport in Canada, along with local event sponsors O’Connor Glass, Tim Hortons, and Bogside Brewing. 50/50 draws will be held, with proceeds going toward the Montague Junior Curling Program.
The kitchen will be open for lunch (soup or chili and sandwiches) and supper (regular menu). Food and beverages are also available at the Bogside brewery, only a three-minute walk from the club, and at Tim Hortons, just a six-minute walk away.
Defending champions the Suzanne Birt women’s rink, curling out of the host Montague club this year, and the John Likely men’s team from Cornwall are back looking to defend their titles. Birt, a ten-time PEI Scotties champ, will be competing against the Veronica Smith and Melissa Morrow foursomes from the Silver Fox, the Amanda Power team from Charlottetown, with PEI junior champion skip Lauren Ferguson as an alternate, and the Tammy Dewar rink from the host club.
Likely, whose team this year includes Steve Burgess from last year’s edition, along with two members of Tyler Smith’s championship Junior team, Ryan Abraham and Jake Flemming, will be facing ten other teams, including another Cornwall rink which includes three members of the reigning World Senior Men’s Championship team — Ontario’s Bryan Cochrane and PEI natives Ian MacAulay and Morgan Currie, along with Mark O’Rourke. MacAulay and Currie are eligible under Curling Canada’s new “Birthright Status” eligibility rule for the Brier and the Tournament of Hearts, while Cochrane would be the team’s permitted “free agent”.
Other teams include the Mitchell Schut junior rink from Cornwall, who were finalists in the recent Pepsi Juniors, the Steve vanOuwerkerk foursome, also from Cornwall, the Darren Higgins and Jamie Newson rinks from the Silver Fox, Charlottetown’s Philip Gorveatt, Rod MacDonald and Eddie MacKenzie teams, and the Philip MacDonald and Keith Nabuurs foursomes from the host Montague club.
Teams have been seeded in their respective modified triple knockout draws based on cashspiel winnings, with Cochrane seeded 1st in the Tankard, followed by Newson, Higgins, vanOuwerkerk and Gorveatt, while Birt is top Scotties seed, followed by Power. Draws go daily at 9 am and 2 and 7 pm from the 8th through the 11th, with the Championship Round (not needed if a team wins all three draw sections) going Sunday the 12th at 9 am and, if needed, 2 pm. Opening ceremonies are at 6:15 on the 8th.
The winning women’s team will advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at
Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, while the men’s championship team will compete in the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario.
Scotties Draw Tree
Tankard Draw Tree
Schedule
Tankard Games are in light blue
Scotties Games are in pink Qualifying games have game number highlighted in yellow
Date
Time
Draw
Ice 1
Ice 2
Ice 3
Ice 4
Wed
08-Jan
9 am
1
1
2
3
4
2 pm
2
A
7
6
5
6:15 pm
Opening Ceremonies
7 pm
3
9
B
8
10
Thu
09-Jan
9 am
4
12
C
D
13
2 pm
5
F
11
15
14
7 pm
6
19
18
E
20
Fri
10-Jan
9 am
7
17
16
H
G
2 pm
8
22
21
23
24
7 pm
9
J
I
25
Sat
11-Jan
9 am
10
27
26
2 pm
11
29
28
K
7 pm
12
L
30
Sun
12-Jan
9 am*
13
MA
WA
2 pm*
14
WB
MB
*If required
Explanation for MA/WA and MB/WB Championship Round games:
1. One team wins all three qualifiers: Championship Round is not required.
2. One team wins two qualifiers. They play in both X and Z (and win the event if they win either game), the other winner plays in Y (and has to win both games).
3. Three separate winners: the team that played in the most qualifying games plays in Z and the other winners play off in X and Y. If there is a tie in number of qualifying games played, then the team that qualified earliest goes to Z and the other two teams play off in X and Y.
Team Rosters – Tankard
(Number = throwing order, S=skip)
M – Team Cochrane
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
Bryan Cochrane (4-S), Ian MacAulay (3), Morgan Currie (2), Mark O’Rourke (1)
M – Team Gorveatt
Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown, PE
Philip Gorveatt (4-S), Kevin Champion (3), Sean Ledgerwood (2), Mike Dillon (1)
M – Team Higgins
Silver Fox Curling Club, Summerside, PE
Darren Higgins (3-S), Terry Arsenault (4), Mike Spencer (2), Jonathan Greenan (1), Rod MacDonald (Coach)
M – Team Likely
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
John Likely (4-S), Ryan Abraham (3), Steve Burgess (2), Jake Flemming (1)
M – Team MacKenzie
Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown, PE
Eddie MacKenzie (4-S), Tyler MacKenzie (3), Tyler Smith (2), Matt Nabuurs (1)
M – Team Nabuurs
Montague Curling Club, Montague, PE
Keith Nabuurs (4-S), Bennett Crane (3), Robert Donahoe (2), Adam Nabuurs (1)
M – Team Newson
Silver Fox Curling Club, Summerside, PE
Jamie Newson (4-S), Dennis Watts (3), Erik Brodersen (2), Andrew MacDougall (1), Doug MacGregor (Alternate)
M – Team P.MacDonald
Montague Curling Club, Montague, PE
Philip MacDonald (4-S), Shane MacDonald (3), Ernie Mutch (2), Alan Munro (1)
M – Team R.MacDonald
Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown, PE
Rod MacDonald (4-S), Tyler Harris (3), Sean Clarey (2), Paul Brown (1)
M – Team Schut
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
Mitchell Schut (4-S), Chase MacMillan (3), Liam Kelly (2), Cruz Pineau (1), Brenda MacMillan (Coach)
M -Team vanOuwerkerk
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
Steve vanOuwerkerk (4-S), Sam Ramsay (3), Nick VanOuwerkerk (2), Patrick Ramsay (1)
Congrats to the Mackenzie Zacharias rink, which includes Cornwall Curling Club member Lauren Lenentine, for going 9-0 to win the Telus Manitoba Junior Provincial playdowns, which wrapped up Sunday in Dauphin MB!
(L-R) Mackenzie Zacharias, Karlee Burgess, Emily Zacharias, and Lauren Lenentine
The Mackenzie Zacharias rink, which includes Cornwall Curling Club member Lauren Lenentine, is 6-0 going into their final round-robin game of the Telus Manitoba Junior Provincial playdowns, which wrap up Sunday in Dauphin MB, and will be advancing to the playoff round.
Congratulations to the Alan Aitken rink, winners of the first round, sponsored by Cornwall Pizza Delight, of the Thursday evening single entry league! Team Aitken edged out Garth Cudmore’s team by ONE point (106-105), with Brent Irving’s team coming in third at 103.
The second round, sponsored by Mary’s Cornwall Bakery, got underway last evening.
(L-R): Alan Aitken, Doug Kelly, Marjorie Matthews, Shelley Cole
CRAPAUD, P.E.I. — It was mission accomplished on Sunday for the two winning skips at the Pepsi provincial junior curling championships.
Lauren Ferguson skipped her Cornwall Curling Club rink to the P.E.I. junior women’s curling championship at the Crapaud Community Club recently. Team members are, from left, Ferguson, third stone Sydney Howatt, second stone Kristie Rogers, lead Rachel O’Connor and coach Pat Quilty. – Contributed
Tyler Smith of Hunter River and Lauren Ferguson of Spring Valley entered the P.E.I.’s under-21 championship at the Crapaud Community Curling Club aiming to repeat.
They did just that as Smith went a perfect 4-0 (won-lost) en route to sweeping all three sections of the modified triple-knockout format.
“Any time you can win any event it always means a lot,” said Smith. “The junior championships is a big one with the whole national experience and everything that goes with it.”
Ferguson posted a 5-1 record, won two of the three sections and won the title in the first championship-round game.
“We were pretty confident going into it and confident in our preparation,” Ferguson told the Journal Pioneer in an interview. “It felt good to be able to go out and execute for the most part.
“I thought we played well and the tournament went pretty well for us.”
The 2020 PEI Scotties Tournament of Hearts Provincial Women’s Curling Championship, along with the Tankard Provincial Men’s Championship will take place concurrently at the Montague Curling Rink from January 8-12, with five teams competing in the Scotties, and eleven in the Tankard.
Defending champions the Suzanne Birt women’s rink, curling out of the host Montague club this year, and the John Likely men’s team from Cornwall are back looking to defend their titles. Birt, a ten-time PEI Scotties champ, will be competing against the Veronica Smith and Melissa Morrow foursomes from the Silver Fox, the Amanda Power team from Charlottetown, with PEI junior champion skip Lauren Ferguson as an alternate, and the Tammy Dewar rink from the host club.
Likely, whose team this year includes Steve Burgess from last year’s edition, along with two members of Tyler Smith’s championship Junior team, Ryan Abraham and Jake Flemming, will be facing ten other teams, including another Cornwall rink which includes three members of the reigning World Senior Men’s Championship team — Ontario’s Bryan Cochrane and PEI natives Ian MacAulay and Morgan Currie, along with Mark O’Rourke. MacAulay and Currie are eligible under Curling Canada’s new “Birthright Status” eligibility rule for the Brier and the Tournament of Hearts, while Cochrane would be the team’s permitted “free agent”.
Other teams include the Mitchell Schut junior rink from Cornwall, who were finalists in the recent Pepsi Juniors, the Steve vanOuwerkerk foursome, also from Cornwall, the Darren Higgins and Jamie Newson rinks from the Silver Fox, Charlottetown’s Philip Gorveatt, Rod MacDonald and Eddie MacKenzie teams, and the Philip MacDonald and Keith Nabuurs foursomes from the host Montague club.
Teams have been seeded in their respective modified triple knockout draws based on cashspiel winnings, with Cochrane seeded 1st in the Tankard, followed by Newson, Higgins, vanOuwerkerk and Gorveatt, while Birt is top Scotties seed, followed by Power. Draws go daily at 9 am and 2 and 7 pm from the 8th through the 11th, with the Championship Round (not needed if a team wins all three draw sections) going Sunday the 12th at 9 am and, if needed, 2 pm. Opening ceremonies are at 6:15 on the 8th.
The winning women’s team will advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 15-23, 2020 at
Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, while the men’s championship team will compete in the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Feb. 29 to March 8, 2020 at Leon’s Centre in Kingston Ontario.
Scotties Draw Tree
Tankard Draw Tree
Schedule
Tankard Games are in light blue
Scotties Games are in pink Qualifying games have game number highlighted in yellow
Date
Time
Draw
Ice 1
Ice 2
Ice 3
Ice 4
Wed
08-Jan
9 am
1
1
2
3
4
2 pm
2
A
7
6
5
6:15 pm
Opening Ceremonies
7 pm
3
9
B
8
10
Thu
09-Jan
9 am
4
12
C
D
13
2 pm
5
F
11
15
14
7 pm
6
19
18
E
20
Fri
10-Jan
9 am
7
17
16
H
G
2 pm
8
22
21
23
24
7 pm
9
J
I
25
Sat
11-Jan
9 am
10
27
26
2 pm
11
29
28
K
7 pm
12
L
30
Sun
12-Jan
9 am*
13
MA
WA
2 pm*
14
WB
MB
*If required
Explanation for MA/WA and MB/WB Championship Round games:
1. One team wins all three qualifiers: Championship Round is not required.
2. One team wins two qualifiers. They play in both X and Z (and win the event if they win either game), the other winner plays in Y (and has to win both games).
3. Three separate winners: the team that played in the most qualifying games plays in Z and the other winners play off in X and Y. If there is a tie in number of qualifying games played, then the team that qualified earliest goes to Z and the other two teams play off in X and Y.
Team Rosters – Tankard
(Number = throwing order, S=skip)
M – Team Cochrane
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
Bryan Cochrane (4-S), Ian MacAulay (3), Morgan Currie (2), Mark O’Rourke (1)
M – Team Gorveatt
Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown, PE
Philip Gorveatt (4-S), Kevin Champion (3), Sean Ledgerwood (2), Mike Dillon (1)
M – Team Higgins
Silver Fox Curling Club, Summerside, PE
Darren Higgins (3-S), Terry Arsenault (4), Mike Spencer (2), Jonathan Greenan (1), Rod MacDonald (Coach)
M – Team Likely
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
John Likely (4-S), Ryan Abraham (3), Steve Burgess (2), Jake Flemming (1)
M – Team MacKenzie
Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown, PE
Eddie MacKenzie (4-S), Tyler MacKenzie (3), Tyler Smith (2), Matt Nabuurs (1)
M – Team Nabuurs
Montague Curling Club, Montague, PE
Keith Nabuurs (4-S), Bennett Crane (3), Robert Donahoe (2), Adam Nabuurs (1)
M – Team Newson
Silver Fox Curling Club, Summerside, PE
Jamie Newson (4-S), Dennis Watts (3), Erik Brodersen (2), Andrew MacDougall (1), Doug MacGregor (Alternate)
M – Team P.MacDonald
Montague Curling Club, Montague, PE
Philip MacDonald (4-S), Shane MacDonald (3), Ernie Mutch (2), Alan Munro (1)
M – Team R.MacDonald
Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown, PE
Rod MacDonald (4-S), Tyler Harris (3), Sean Clarey (2), Paul Brown (1)
M – Team Schut
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
Mitchell Schut (4-S), Chase MacMillan (3), Liam Kelly (2), Cruz Pineau (1), Brenda MacMillan (Coach)
M -Team vanOuwerkerk
Cornwall Curling Club, Cornwall, PE
Steve vanOuwerkerk (4-S), Sam Ramsay (3), Nick VanOuwerkerk (2), Patrick Ramsay (1)
Entries for the following provincial championships are due in the first half of January. Entries must be made online at PEICurling.com
PEI MASTERS CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
The PEI Masters Curling Championships, with men’s and women’s divisions for curlers age 60 and over, take place at the Silver Fox curling club in Summerside from January 24-28, 2020. Entry Deadline: January 3, 2020
The PEI Stick Curling Championships, sponsored by the Ferguson-Logan Funeral Home in Montague, take place at the Maple Leaf Curling Club on O’Leary from February 4-6, 2020.
Stick Curling is a two-person per team event for those who curl with delivery sticks, and has both Open (any combination of male and/or female) and Women’s divisions.Entry Deadline: January 14, 2020Entry Fee $75 per two person team2018-19 web site: peicurling.com/stick20182019
This is a reminder that the Club is now open for rental availability & modified members’ play, but not regular league play, which resumes on January 2nd. There is Drop-In AND Stick curling today (Monday, Dec 30th), and Drop-in curling ONLY on Tuesday Dec. 31.
Junior Practice
Junior practice schedule will resume Thursday Jan. 2nd
At the closing ceremonies for the Pepsi Provincial Junior Curling Championships in Crapaud on Sunday, the Asham Coaching awards, as voted on by coaches and officials, were handed out, with Kevin Smith, coach of the winning junior men’s team from Montague skipped by his son Tyler, receiving the award for Junior men’s rinks, and Shelley MacFadyen, coach of Cornwall’s Clara Jack team from Cornwall receiving the junior women’s teams award.
(L-R) Curl PEI Vice President Craig Mackie, Crapaud Community Curling Club President Vivian Sherren, Asham Coaching Award winner for junior men’s teams Kevin Smith. Missing from photo is Shelley MacFadyen, Asham Coaching Award winner for junior women’s
Also handed out were the sportsmanship awards, voted on by the curlers in the event. Rachel MacLean, skip of the junior women’s finalist rink from Cornwall, and Jack MacFadyen, third on the Brayden Snow rink from Charlottetown and the Silver Fox were the recipients.
Left to right: Curl PEI Vice President Craig Mackie, Crapaud Community Curling Club President Vivian Sherren, Cornwall’s Rachel MacLean, Jack MacFadyen
As well, in honour of Tyler Smith’s final junior event in PEI, three generations of the Smith family, father Kevin, grandfather Grant, and Tyler took time for a photo with the F.R. Seaman Memorial Trophy. Kevin informed the crowd that was Tyler’s 57th game in a U21 Provincial Championship event. He has now won five PEI Junior titles, his first at age 14, as well as a New Brunswick Junior title.
(L-R): Kevin, Grant, and Tyler Smith
There was also a presentation on the junior women’s side, with curling parent and team sponsor David O’Connor making a presentation to Pat Quilty, coach of the winning Lauren Ferguson Junior Women’s team, thanking him for 10 years of coaching of the team, which had a number of players over the years, with the last remaining original member being his daughter Rachel, who is now in her last year of Junior Curling.
The Lauren Ferguson team from here at the Cornwall Curling Club are the Pepsi Provincial Junior Women’s Curling Champions, after an 8-3 win over their clubmates the Rachel MacLean foursome (all four teams entered were from Cornwall) Sunday afternoon in the first of two possible championship round games.
Winning Team photo (L-R): Craig Mackie (Vice President Curl PEI), Lauren Ferguson, Sydney Howatt, Kristie Rogers, Rachel O’Connor, coach Pat Quilty, Vivian Sherren (Crapaud Community Curling Club President)
This is a repeat provincial title for Ferguson, who has a new team this year, with third Sydney Howatt, second Kristie Rogers, and lead Rachel O’Connor, along with coach Pat Quilty. The Ferguson foursome will join the Junior Men’s winners, the Tyler Smith squad from the Montague Curling Rink at the 2020 New Holland Canadian junior championships in Langley, BC from January 18-26. Other members of the Rachel MacLean finalist team are third Amy Spence, second Avery Nicholson, and lead Izzy Tatlock, with coach Carl Nicholson.
Finalist team photo (L-R): Craig Mackie (Curl PEI VP), Rachel MacLean, Amy Spence, Avery Nicholson, Izzy Tatlock, Carl Nicholson (coach), Vivian Sherren (Crapaud Community Curling Club President)
Ferguson won two of the event’s three sections and would have won the championship with a win in either of the two championship round games, but only needed the first. In this afternoon’s match, Ferguson, who won six of her seven games in the event, losing only to MacLean, opened with a single, and stole a deuce and two singles before letting MacLean on the board with a deuce, leading 5-2 heading into the fifth end break. MacLean stole a single in the sixth, but singles in the next three ends gave Ferguson an 8-3 lead and the game. On Sunday morning, Ferguson took the “C” final of the modified triple-knockout draw with a close 5-4 win over the Katie Shaw team.
Also on Sunday morning, the Tyler Smith team maintained their unbeaten record into the “C” final, where they defeated the Mitchell Schut rink from Cornwall by a 10-6 score. Because Smith won all three sections of the draw, the championship round was not needed.
It has been decided by the organizing committee and drawmaster of the 2020 Kenmac Bonspiel, along with the management team of the Cornwall Curling Club, that the current weather conditions will impede our ability to move forward with the three evening draws scheduled for this evening, Friday January 17th.
