The 2019 Provincial Under 18 Curling Championships take place March 8-11 at the Cornwall Curling Club, with five girl’s and three boy’s teams taking part, including defending girl’s champs the Lauren Ferguson team, and reigning boy’s champs the Mitchell Schut team, both from the host club, and recently returned from participating in the Canada Games. 

Photo: Defending champs Mitchell Schut (left) and Lauren Ferguson (right), just before the Canada Games

The other two boy’s teams are the recently-crowned PEI Under 16 champions, the Brayden Snow team from the Silver Fox, and the U16 finalist team, skipped by Chase MacMillan out of Charlottetown. All five girl’s teams are from Cornwall, and include the Sydney Howatt, Clara Jack (U16 finalists), Rachel MacLean (U16 champs) and Emily Sanderson rinks, in addition to Ferguson.
Both the boy’s and girl’s sections play modified triple knockout draws, with the girl’s teams starting Friday at 2 pm, and the boys hitting the ice at 6 pm.

The winners from each of the three triple knockout sections will advance to the two-game championship round on Monday at 10 am and 2 pm. With the modified format, section winners drop down to compete in the next section. If a team wins all three sections, they will win the event without a championship round. A double section winner will have a “double life” in the championship round, winning the event if they take either game, while their opponent would have to win both.

This year’s winning teams advance to the third-annual Canadian Under-18  Boys and Girls Curling Championships, to be played April 2-7 at the Glen Allan Recreation Complex in Sherwood Park, Alta.

Live, end by end results from the provincial event will be available at PEICurling.com.

Click for end-by-end scoring

Draw Tree

Schedule

Boys

Girls

Explanation for MA/WA and MB/WB:
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.

*Qualifying games have game number/letter highlighted in yellow on the schedule.

Team Rosters

M=Boy’s teams, W=Girl’s teams
Click team name for players.

Click for previous year’s championship

U18 rules:

1. Competitors will be a maximum of 17 years of age on June 30 of the year prior to the
National competition.
2. Games will be eight (8) ends, if tied at that point will continue for extra end(s) until a winner
is declared.
3. Teams require a coach who is Club Coach Trained; Intro Comp Coach Trained; or old Level 1
Certified on their registration form to participate in the event and on-site for each game.
a. The Head Event Umpire, under special circumstances, may allow a game to begin
without a certified coach present.
4. Time clocks will be used.
5. Winners eligible to curl in the National U18 Championships do so at their own expense.

Click for a photo gallery from Draw 4, with all eight teams

The defending champion Jamie Newson rink from the Silver Fox and Charlottetown curling club is on the right track for a possible repeat win at the PEI Mixed Curling Championships, which are taking place at the Montague Curling Rink, after winning three games on Saturday — the A section qualifier, the B section semi-final, and the B qualifier.

Jamie Newson

Nick Blanchard

The Newson foursome beat the Nick Blanchard team from Crapaud 5-2 and 6-2 in the qualifier games, as well as getting by the Tyler MacKenzie team from Charlottetown by an 8-6 score in the “B” semi-final, and will have a “double life” in the Monday championship round (at 10 am and, if Newson doesn’t win that game, at 2 pm), as they have earned berths in both playoff games, and will win the event if they take either, while their opponent, the winner of the “C” qualifier, which takes place at 2 pm on Sunday, would have to win both.

If Newson also wins the “C” qualifier in the modified triple knockout draw, he would take the championship, and advance directly to the Canadian Mixed, from November 4-9 2019 at Foyer des loisirs et de la culture in Saguenay, Quebec, without having to play the final round.

Newson will be playing Montague’s Larry Richards team in the semi-final at 10 am Sunday, while MacKenzie, who was an event finalist last year, will face double-section finalist Blanchard in the other. Richards advanced after back to back wins on Saturday against the other hometown teams, stealing the extra end for a 7-6 win against “Team Koke” with Shane MacDonald in the skip position, after George Koke was sidelined by an injury, on Saturday afternoon, and picking up an 8-5 evening draw win over Matthew MacDonald. Besides the Koke and MacDonald teams, the Chase MacMillan and Corey Miller rinks were also eliminated on Saturday after three losses, leaving only four teams going into Sunday play, out of the eight who entered the event.

Team PEI wrapped up play with the round robin on Friday at the Canada Games in Red Deer, with six boy’s and six girl’s teams moving on to the playoff round. In the girl’s section, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick won their quarter-final games, against Sask, and Alberta, respectively, with NS facing Ont. in one 10 pm AT semi-final, and NB taking on Manitoba in the other. 

On the boy’s side, only one Maritime team, New Brunswick, made the playoff round, losing to Newfoundland and Labrador in the quarter-final. NL faces Ontario in the 10 pm semis. The other quarter-final saw Manitoba edge Alberta to advance to the other semi against BC.

The winners of the semis square off in the Gold Medal Games at 1 pm Saturday, with the losers going to the Bronze Medal Games at the same time.

Team Schut (Lori Robinson photo)

Lexie Murray (left) and Alexis Burris of Team PEI cheering on Team Sask in the playoff round (Team Sask photo)

Both Cornwall curling teams picked up wins in Thursday’s 1 pm Atlantic time draw against the Northwest Territories at the Canada Games in Red Deer, with the Lauren Ferguson girl’s rink blanking the NWT team by a 10-0 score, and the Mitchell Schut boy’s team picking up their first win of the event, by a 7-1 score. Ferguson cracked open the scoring with a four-point third end, and stole 1, 2, and three points to bring the game to handshakes after six ends.

Team Ferguson, earlier vs. Ontario

Schut’s game also went six ends, with the Island squad picking up a pair of deuces for a 4-0 lead after two ends. NWT grabbed a single in the 4th, but a Schut deuce and stolen single brought the game to an early conclusion, Ferguson has a 3-6 record, while Schut sits at 1-8 win-loss going into their final round robin games, Friday at noon Atlantic against New Brunswick, with these games shown on live stream at https://canadagames.live/curling

Liam Kelly (left) and Nick Johnston from Team Schut

In action Wednesday, the Ferguson team split their games, losing 5-1 to Nova Scotia, but taking a triple in the seventh end and stealing a deuce in the eighth to beat Quebec 8-6, and improve their win-loss record to 2-6.

Team PEI photo: Lexie Murray (left) and Alexis Burris

The Schut team, were tied 1-1 with Nova Scotia’s Ethan Young rink after four ends in the battle between the seafood provinces (with one of the PEI parents suitably dressed for the occasion), but PEI was in hot water in the second half as the Bluenosers kept PEI off the scoreboard, winning 6-1. It was looking good for a PEI win against Quebec, with the teams tied 4-all after six ends, but Quebec blanked the seventh to have hammer coming home, and picked up a 5-4 win with a last-end single.

(Photo by Doug Kelly)

UPSTREET CRAFT BREWING

TUESDAY NIGHT COMPETITIVE LEAGUE PLAYOFFS

 The main round has wrapped up at the Tuesday Night Competitive League, sponsored by Upstreet  Craft Brewing. Not all teams are participating in the next round due to other commitments or warmer climates.

We will attempt to rent the spare sheets of ice, so teams are requested not to change their draw slots.

SECTION   A

            SECTION   B

SCHEDULE

 *  Crossover games

                               ice 1                         ice 2                       ice 3                                ice 4

^{March 5th}       

   6:30 pm                       Club rental      MacDonald vs Howatt              Schut vs Spence           Durant vs Rhodenhizer

   8:30 pm                                                Kennedy vs B. Hope               Berry vs S. Hope *

March 12th      

   6:30 pm             S. Hope vs Rhodenhizer   B Hope vs Spence    *           Club rental                            Kennedy vs Durant             

   8:30 pm                                                    Schut vs Macdonald                                      Berry vs Howatt         

March 19th      

   6:30 pm                  B. Hope vs S Hope     MacDonald vs Durant *            Rhodenhizer vs Berry *   Club rental

   8:30 pm                                                  Spence vs Kennedy *            Howatt vs Schut

March 26th      

    6:30 pm                     Club rental              Berry vs Schut                    Rhodenhizer vs Howatt *    S. Hope vs Kennedy      

    8:30 pm                                                     B. Hope vs Durant MacDonald vs Spence

It is difficult to change times evenly as the sections have cross-over games and the club wants to rent the ice for the early draw.  Please read the times carefully for each draw.  Good Luck! 

The PEI curling teams had two very close games against Saskatchewan at the Canada Games in Red Deer this evening, with the Lauren Ferguson girls’ team picking up their 1st win of the event, by a 4-3 score to improve to 1-3 win-loss.

Lauren Ferguson

The Mitchell Schut boys’ team was looking good to steal their way to victory in the final end, but a Saskatchewan runback cleared the way for a draw with their final stone, to win 5-4 over PEI (0-4).

Liam Kelly (left) and Nick Johnston from Team Schut

The PEI  teams play BC at 5 pm and Alberta at 10 pm on Tuesday. BC and Alberta are both 2-1 on the boys’ side, while BC is 0-3 and Alberta is 3-0 on the girls’.

(Team PEI photos)

The Cornwall Curling Club’s representatives at the Canada Games in Red Deer Alberta are still looking for their first wins after three draws, following losses to Manitoba today. The Island rinks face Saskatchewan at 8 pm Atlantic, with both games scheduled to be available on live stream at https://canadagames.live/curling

Photo: Lexie Murray (left) and Alexis Burris from Team Ferguson

In action this afternoon, Team Ferguson kept the Manitoba rink to a first-end single, and took one of their own in the second, but Manitoba won the next four ends, with a single in the third, and steals of two, one, and two in the next three ends. PEI picked up a deuce in seven with a final score of 7-3 for Manitoba.

Photo: Colin MacKenzie (left), Mitchell Schut, and Liam Kelly from Team Schut

Team Schut got off to a great start in their game, stealing a first end single, but Manitoba responded with a triple and a stolen deuce to quickly build up a 5-1 lead. PEI took a single in the fourth, but Manitoba came back with singles in the next three ends for an 8-2 win.

(photos from Team PEI)

The Brayden Snow rink from the host Silver Fox Curling Club, and the Rachel MacLean team from the Cornwall Curling Club both went undefeated with 5-0 win-loss records this weekend to win the provincial Under 16 Curling Championships. Snow, backed up by third Cruz Pineau, second stone Brock Rochford, and lead Anderson MacDougall, with coach Shelley MacFadyen, was trailing 5-3 after four ends of play in the Sunday afternoon boy’s final, after the Chase MacMillan team from the Charlottetown Curling Complex stole three points in the fourth end. The teams traded deuces in the next two ends, with Snow tying the game with another pair in the seventh end, and pulling out an 8-7 win with a stolen single in the final end. The Chase MacMillan finalist team, who finished with a 2-2 win-loss record, also includes third Jack MacFadyen, second Liam Barbrick, and lead Davis Nicholson, and is coached by David MacFadyen. The third team in the boy’s event, the Samuel Shaw foursome from the Montague Curling rink finished without a win, but came within two points of the winning team in one of their matches.

Following the completion of Round Robin play on Sunday, the Championship Round gets underway at 10 am on Monday, weather permitting, at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. In the men’s section, the Charlottetown Curling Club team, skipped by Dennis Watts, went undefeated with a 6-0 win-loss record, and will have a “double life” in the Championship Round. They will play the winner of the 10 am game between second place Montague (Matthew MacDonald, 4-2) and third place Silver Fox (Tim Hockin, also 4-2) at 2 pm. If Charlottetown wins that game they will take the title. If the other team wins, there will be a deciding game at 6 pm. Cornwall’s Mark MacDonald foursome finished play with a 2-4 win-loss record.

Bobbi-Jean Boylan rink from the Maple Leaf finish in 1st place in the Women’s Round Robin, and advance to the final

On the Women’s side, the Bobbi-Jean Boylan team from the host Maple Leaf Curling Club finished in first place in the round robin with a 4-1 win-loss record, and will advance to the 2 pm Monday final, where they will play the winner of the 10 am semi-final between second place Silver Fox (Melissa Morrow, also 4-1) and third place Montague (Tammy Dewar, 3-2). The Kim Nicholson rink from the Cornwall Curling Club finished at 2-3 win-loss.

The winning teams will advance to the national Curling Club Championship. Dates and venue have yet to be announced, but it has traditionally been held in November.

The Provincial Under 16 Curling Championships, with three boy’s rinks and five girl’s teams taking part, got underway Friday at the Silver Fox Curling Club in Summerside, with two draws completed.

Although both teams lost their final game, the Josh McInnis and Ray Biagé teams won the Wendy’s “A” pool and Lowther’s Snow Removal “B” pool, respectively, as round two wrapped up this week in the Wednesday evening Ladder League. Both teams had only two losses in the round.

(L-R): Bob Deziel, Jesse Kennedy, Mitch Dunphy, Josh McInnis

Last round’s “A” winner, the Shelley Ebbett team, had the same win-loss record as the McInnis rink, but lost to them in their round robin encounter, so they missed out on the Wendy’s gift certificates from sponsor D.P. Murphy Inc.

The Biagé team won the “B” pool thanks to Mark MacDonald, who picked up a win over Rachel MacLean in a final-night battle of second-place teams. Had MacLean won, she would have taken the first place prize from sponsor Lowther’s Snow Removal (gift certificates for the Cornwall Curling Club), as she and Biagé would have had the same record (two losses), and she had beaten Biagé in their round robin match. Since the Biagé foursome had beaten the MacDonald team in their game, they won the round via the head-to-head results.

(L-R): Ray Biagé, Rick Doiron, Rebecca Rolfe, Derek MacEwen

On the final night, Biagé, who was guaranteed first place with a win, was in a see-saw battle with Kelly Watts, and needed a deuce in the final end for the win, but had to settle for a single, and a tie game. In the draw to the button to determine the winner, both teams came short of the rings on their first attempt, but found the house on their second, with Watts coming closer to the button.

Looking at the teams for the next round, which will be only six weeks, Biagé, MacDonald, and MacLean will all be going up the ladder to the A pool, while Emily Sanderson, with two wins, (including a win over the first place team on the last night) will be going down the ladder to the “B”. There was a log jam of four teams with three wins in the “A” pool – Kim Nicholson, Paul Neima, Rob Gallant, and Greg Robertson. Amazingly (or good planning?), Neima’s three wins came at the hands of all three of the other teams, so he’s “safe” in A.
Gallant beat the two remaining teams – Nicholson and Robertson, so he’s safe, too.
That leaves the Kim Nicholson and Greg Robertson teams to join the Emily Sanderson foursome in the trip down the ladder to the “B” pool.

We’ll do the Round 3 draw in the next day or two. It looks like either surf or turf is on the menu for the last round winners, as the “A” pool will be sponsored by Robert I. Clow Ltd. (aka Clow’s Red and White in Hampshire, famous for their meat), while the “B” is sponsored by New Glasgow Lobster Suppers.

Best of luck to our Cornwall teams at the Canada Games!

The Lauren Ferguson and Mitchell Schut teams from here at the Cornwall Curling Club will be heading to the Canada Games in Red Deer Alberta on Saturday morning. Both teams got together at the Club recently for a game together, and were treated to a celebratory cake.

Back row (L-R): Mitchell Schut, Nick Johnston, Liam Kelly, Colin MacKenzie, coach Lori Robinson from Team Schut.
Front Row (L-R): Lauren Ferguson, coach David Murphy, Alexis Burris, Lexie Murray from Team Ferguson. Missing from photo is Katie Shaw.

(Photos courtesy of Lori Robinson)

Follow the teams on Twitter @TeamFergusonPEI and @TeamMSchutPEI

Both teams will play against the same province or territory at the same time in the Games Preliminary Round, starting Sunday morning at 10 local time (1 pm Atlantic) against Ontario. Here is the PEI Preliminary Round Schedule for both Team Ferguson and Team Schut (Atlantic time):

This is a reminder to Wednesday evening curlers that we are running the last week of Round Two
this evening, as it was cancelled last week and we want a proper finish to the draw, so it’s the same draw as last week, with the A pool at 6:30 and the B pool at 8:30.

Feb. 20 (Week 7) Postponed from Feb. 13 due to storm.
6:30 pm Wendy’s “A” Pool
Ice 1: A5-Josh McInnis vs A6-Emily Sanderson
Ice 2: A1-Shelley Ebbett vs A2-Kim Nicholson
Ice 3: A3-Paul Neima vs A4-Lauren Ferguson
Ice 4: A7-Rob Gallant vs A8-Greg Robertson

8:30 pm Lowther’s Snow Removal “B” Pool
Ice 1: B5-Kelly Watts vs B6-Ray Biagé
Ice 2: B1-Mark MacDonald vs B2-Rachel MacLean
Ice 3: B3-Greg Groves vs B4-David Younker
Ice 4: B7-Hank Kamphuis vs B8-Peter Joostema

Curlers are reminded of the following Curl PEI Provincial Championship and event entry deadlines coming up in February and early March.

February 22 is the entry deadline for the PEI Under 13 Open (teams can be any combination of male and/or female) Curling Championship. which will be held at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton March 15-17. Entry fee is $105 per team.

March 2 is the entry deadline for the PEI Youth Jamboree on March 23 in Charlottetown, with $40 entry fee.

For more info on these events, contact Amy Duncan at (902) 368-4208 or aduncan@sportpei.pe.ca

Here are the 2019 Vogue Optical 55+ Games curling and stick curling draws for the Charlottetown Curling Complex. Stop by and cheer our teams on to victory!:

Source: https://pei55plusgamessociety.ca/2019-winter-games-charlottetown/2019-55-game-curling-and-stick-curling-draws/

It not only came down to the last rock, but they had to measure to determine the winner, as the Kim Aylward rink from the host Silver Fox Curling Club in Summerside, trailing 5-2 after six ends this afternoon, scored a triple in end seven and stole a single in the final end to edge the Shelley Ebbett team from the Cornwall Curling Club by a 6-5 score to win the PEI Senior Women’s title, and a trip to the 2019 Everest Canadian Senior Curling Championships, Mar. 23-28 at the new Chilliwack Curling Centre in Chilliwack BC.

 

Winning team (L-R): Donna Whelan, Debbie Caissy, Shelley MacFadyen, Kim Aylward, Curl PEI Past President Andrew Robinson

Aylward, who had a 6-2 win-loss record in the modified triple knockout event, advanced to the final against Ebbett by eliminating defending champion Shirley Berry and her Cornwall rink with a 9-5 victory in the morning semi-final. Each of the three teams involved in the championship round had  won one triple knockout section, but Ebbett had received a bye to the final game by virtue of playing in all three qualifier games.

Finalist team (L-R): Colleen Soltermann, Kim Pippy, Paulette Richard, Shelley Ebbett

Other members of the Pat Aylward-coached winning team are third Debbie Caissy, second stone Shelley MacFadyen, and lead Donna Whelan. Rounding out the Ebbett finalist team are third stone Kim Pippy, second Paulette Richard, and lead Colleen Soltermann.

On Monday morning, the Philip Gorveatt rink from the Charlottetown Curling Complex and the Montague Curling Rink won the Senior Men’s title, after edging the Dale Cannon team from the host Silver Fox Curling Club in Summerside by a 4-3 score in a closely-fought game, with neither team taking more than a single point in an end. The Gorveatt rink, which includes third Kevin Champion, second stone Larry Richards, and lead Mike Dillon, had won two of the three sections of the modified triple knockout draw, giving them two chances to win the championship, but the second game was not needed.

Six men’s and six women’s teams took part in this provincial championship, with men’s and women’s divisions for curlers age 50 and over.

Monday Night Mixed

Pizza Delight (Cornwall)

(From Dec 17, 2018)

Feb 11, 2019 at 6:30pm

Ice 1: P. Neima, G. Turner, D. MacSwain, D. Campbell vs F. Martin, D. Weeks, C. MacDougall, I. Marzari

Ice 2: K. Currie, K. Pippy, J. Hannam, D. Musto vs D. Kneabone, F. Weiler, C.MacDonald, C. Peters

Ice 3: A. Davies, M. MacDonald, C. Soltermann, S. MacLean vs B. Sutherland, B. Gardner, H. Pierce, A. MacIntosh

Ice 4: R. Biagé, C. Hodgson, R. Neumeyer, B. Lindsay vs G. Groves, S. O’Keefe, M. Davies, S. Campbell

Bye: L. Davies, D. Sigsworth, E. MacDonald, L. Gallant

Monday Night Commercial League

Feb 11, 2019 at 8:30pm

Ice 1: Glasgow Glen vs Airport Authority

Ice 2: Fair Isle Ford vs The Grove

Ice 3: Hunter’s Ale House vs Dykstra Farm

Ice 4: Cannon Consulting vs KJL Meats