Cornwall Curling Club

The Royal Canadian Air Force Association’s first Golf Day and barbecue for summer 2018 will be held on Monday 25 June 2018. This day will be the second annual Lew Black Memorial Golf Day in memory of former President of 201 (Confederation) Wing Lew Black, who passed away on June 6, 2016.

Lew was also a very well-liked member of the Cornwall Curling Club, and was a member of its Board of Directors. A special invitation is extended to Club members who would like to take part in this RCAF Assoc. tourney.

You are also urged to purchase a ticket in a lottery to assist the children of Mikinduri, Kenya, Africa.  The Mikinduri Children of Hope Foundation was a charity that was very near and dear to Lew’s heart. See poster for details.

http://mikinduri.com/

Golfing will take place at the Glen Afton Golf Course, located 20 minutes west of Charlottetown at 4608 Route 19 in Nine Mile Creek with the first tee time beginning at 1008 hrs (10:08 am for those of us not in the military) The cost is $30.00 for 18 holes walking or $41.00 with cart (taxes in).

The RCAF Assoc. will be collecting a $2.00 donation at the door and this, along with whatever the revenue created during this event, will be donated to the Mikinduri Children of Hope.

Any Club members who would like to attend the tourney are requested to inform Sports Chair Paul Miller by either calling 902-367-5744 or by email at paulmiller@bellaliant.net

All golfers are requested to check in with  Paul at the Golf Course prior to 1000hrs. If you have any questions, please contact Paul at paulmiller@bellaliant.net The BBQ is held after the golfers have finished. Contact Paul for more info.

Friday evening’s Annual General Meeting highlighted another successful season here at the Cornwall Curling Club. Here’s a summary.

Financial

The Club continues to be in great financial shape, with a small dues increase and an increase of over $7000 in Pro Shop sales giving the Club a net profit of $5,625, offsetting last year’s loss of $4234 despite increases in salaries due to cost of living and to an increase in the provincial minimum wage. 50X50 profits were double last year’s, and our hosting of the Scotties/Tankard brought in $2270 in admission revenues.. The Club will be starting next season with approximately $22,000 in the bank.

Here are some other highlights of the past season. The success of our championship teams has been mentioned previously.

Bonspiels, Volunteers

A number of well-organized and successful bonspiels were held this past season, with help from our many volunteers.

Draws

On the daytime curling side, the Wednesday league had a full complement of 16 teams using four ices in the morning as well as four in the afternoon. The Daytime Curlers, as a result of their fundraising efforts, were able to buy additional cutlery for the Club and pay half on the new wireless microphone system.

Evening draws went well, too, while the Junior program reported 35 members registered.

Sponsors

It was a banner year for sponsorship, with all draws and bonspiels sponsored, and all ice house signs sold. The KFC sign will be coming down by fall (the local franchise has new owners), but another sign has been sold to take its place.

Bylaw Amendment

The Bylaw amendment announced for the meeting was carried successfully after several changes.

Upcoming

Looking forward to next year, we will be hosting  both the Maritime  and the Canadian Stick Championships, the Provincial Under 18, which now leads to a national championship, and the provincial Canada Winter Games Selection Finals.

With help from Curl PEI, will also be piloting a 10 week daytime curlers Learn to Curl program, modelled after the successful evening one. To accommodate increasing demand for the new Olympic sport of Mixed Doubles curling, as demonstrated by the two sold-out bonspiels we held this year, a Mixed Doubles  league is planned for Sunday evening at 6:30.. The Under 16 developmental Junior League, held on selected Saturdays, is slated to return on Oct. 20.

Election of Officers

Alan Mason, Kimberley MacDonald, Chris Creighton and Darlene Howlett have completed their terms of office.
Angela Sanderson, who took the season off due to an injury, will be returning to the Board, along with new Board members Lacey Gallant, Chris MacDougall, and Peter Murdoch. 

Open Discussion 

It was noted that the current lease with our landlords, the Town of Cornwall, is up December 31. A favourable renewal is anticipated.

There was some discussion about curling etiquette. The Board will come up with ideas to better educate curlers on this.

The five rock rule has been approved by the World Curling Federation, and is expected to be included in the Curling Canada rulebook for next season. 

The meeting adjourned at 8:20 pm.

Cornwall Curling Club member Derek MacEwen was selected as a national finalist for Curling Canada’s Volunteer of the Year award for the 2017-2018 season. He was presented with a personalized Curling Canada jacket just prior to Cornwall’s Annual General Meeting on Friday evening. MacEwen was nominated by the Cornwall Curling Club, Curl PEI, and the PEI Curling Hall of Fame and Museum for the work he has done with each organization, beginning with creating the Cornwall Curling Club’s website in 1999, followed by the Curl PEI website and results system in 2001, as well as writing hundreds of curling news items and posting thousands of pictures to both sites to further the sport of curling on PEI. He was also an early leader in connecting these sports websites to new social media platforms. He has also been the media coordinator for the PEI Curling Hall of Fame and Museum since its inception in 2007, setting up their website, coordinating news releases, taking pictures, as well as building a multimedia presentation for their awards ceremony, and at the PEI Sports Hall of Fame during the Road to the Roar event in Summerside. At the Cornwall club he is the drawmaster for one evening, is a former Club President, and helps out at many events.

Photo (L-R) 2017-2018 Curl PEI Vice President Sandy Matheson, Jerry Muzika, President of the PEI Curling Hall of Fame and Museum, Curling Canada Volunteer of the Year finalist Derek MacEwen, and Gary O’Sullivan, president of the Cornwall Curling Club.

On hand for the presentation were 2017-2018 Curl PEI Vice President Sandy Matheson, Curl PEI Executive Director Amy Duncan, Jerry Muzika, President of the PEI Curling Hall of Fame and Museum, and Gary O’Sullivan, president of the Cornwall Curling Club.

The winning national award winner was Roger Smith from La Peche Quebec, who was honoured during an on-ice ceremony at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina. Smith’s accomplishments included spearheading the drive to get a new curling facility built in the municipality of Chelsea.

Curling Canada’s 14 Member Associations submitted applications for the Curling Canada Volunteer of the Year Award, and it was narrowed down to seven finalists, including Smith and MacEwen.

The other National Finalists were as follows:

Guy Beaudry (Manitoba)
Milledge Sheridan (Nova Scotia)
Stephen Goulding (Newfoundland and Labrador)
Rose Tallevi (Ontario)
Randy Brown (Ontario).

(Sport PEI) Thirty-four athletes from across the province, from different sports and different ages, and including an impressive number of curlers, many from the Cornwall Curling Club, attended Sport PEI’s seventh Future Elites event. The athletes all have one goal: get to the next level. 

Future Elites. Curlers are mainly in the left half of the photo.

This is official notice that the Cornwall Curling Club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on Friday May 11th 2018 at 7 pm at the Club, preceded by a half-hour social at 6:30 pm. All Club members are urged to attend the AGM. We will send out more info as it becomes available.

Nova Scotia’s world junior champions, Team Kaitlyn Jones, in their first Grand Slam event with new player Lauren Lenentine, are on Sportsnet at 3 pm Atlantic this afternoon, as they take on Team Sweeting.in the season finale Humpty’s Champions Cup at the WinSport Arena in Calgary. Team Jones lost their opener to Switzerland’s Team Tirinzoni and their second game to Winnipeg’s Kerri Einarson team on Wednesday. Team Einarson is 2-0 after beating Sweeting in their opener.

World Junior Curling Championships, Aberdeen, Scotland (WCF)

The Humpty’s Champions Cup features 15 men’s teams and 15 women’s teams that won events over the course of the season in order to qualify for entry. Teams play four round-robin games during the week with the top eight overall advancing to the weekend playoffs.

Besides Sportsnet, you can also watch the broadcast draws online by subscribing to Sportsnet NOW (Canada; log in free with your cable subscription)

Scores and standings: www.thegrandslamofcurling.com/curling/champions-cup/2018-humptys-champions-cup-womens-scores/

The Mixed Doubles competition, for players who didn’t take part in the playoffs, wrapped up on Saturday at the Canadian Under 18 Boys and Girls Curling Championships in St. Andrews New Brunswick, with coach David Murphy and skip Lauren Ferguson from PEI’s Team Ferguson winning gold and silver medals, respectively, while Lexie Murray of Team Ferguson was in the bronze medal game. Team Ferguson is from the Cornwall, Crapaud, and Charlottetown Curling Clubs.

Photo (L-R): Murphy, Ferguson

In the gold medal-game, featuring a pair of mixed teams, the duo of Jaycee Terrick (Manitoba) and Braden Fleischhacker (Saskatchewan), with coach David Murphy (P.E.I.) was a 4-2 winner over Lauren Ferguson (P.E.I.) and Troy Chong (B.C.) with coach Dave Trickett (Newfoundland/ Labrador).

Photo (L-R): Gold Medallists Fleischhacker, Terrick, Murphy

Photo (L-R): Silver Medallists Chong, Ferguson, Trickett

The all-girl duo of Melodie Forsythe (N.B. Host) and Alexa Smallwood (Yukon), along with coach Verne Anderson (Saskatchewan) won the bronze medal with a 5-3 victory over the mixed duo of Lexie Murray (P.E.I.) and Jayden Bindig (Saskatchewan) with coach Bryan Miki (B.C.)

(Photos courtesy of Lisa Ferguson)

SAINT ANDREWS, N.B. — An already amazing season for Nova Scotia youth curling got even better on Saturday night at the W.C. O’Neill Arena Complex.

Nova Scotia teams claimed both gold medals at the 2018 Canadian Under 18 Boys and Girls Curling Championships — the second straight year one Member Association has swept both the girls and boys titles after Northern Ontario did it last year in Moncton.

Those gold medals will nicely complement the gold medals captured by Kaitlyn Jones’s Halifax women’s team at the 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Championships in Shawinigan, Que., and the 2018 World Junior Championships in Aberdeen Scotland.

Graeme Weagle team, with PEI’s David Murphy, coach of the Gold Medal Mixed Doubles team on the left

Graeme Weagle’s Nova Scotia boys team from Chester won the boys final 10-6 over Alberta’s Ryan Jacques (Edmonton), while Isabelle Ladouceur’s Lower Sackville team prevailed 4-3 over Saskatchewan’s Skylar Ackerman (Moose Jaw) in the girls final.

Nova Scotia (Weagle was backed up by vice-skip/last-rock thrower Owen Purcell, second Jeffrey Meagher, lead Scott Weagle and coach Anthony Purcell) was 3-2 in the round robin before rattling off four straight playoff victories.

“Being our first national championship competition, we struggled a bit at the start to get used to the ice and the atmosphere, but by the playoffs, we kind of adjusted to it and settled in, and we focused,” said Weagle. “The guys brought their ‘A’ game today.”

That was evident in the early ends; Nova Scotia opened the game with a deuce, and held Alberta to a single in the second.

In the third, Nova Scotia simply made eight perfect shots and took advantage of key misses from the Albertans to put five on the scoreboard — capped by Purcell making a delicate outturn tap to remove a partially frozen Alberta stone and hold the shooter.

“It kind of came out of nowhere, to be honest,” said Weagle. “We were thinking that maybe we’d have a shot at two or three if he makes something good. But the five really came out of nowhere.”

Nova Scotia added a steal of three in the fourth and it was just a matter of time before the gold medals were draped around the Bluenosers’ necks.

“It feels amazing, it’s unbelievable — it’s a dream of mine,” said Weagle. “The guys worked so hard, and we’re pretty proud of ourselves.”

Interestingly, the Weagle team plays out of the same Chester Curling Club that produced Mary Fay’s 2016 Canadian and World Junior Women’s championship team.

“When I saw Mary Fay win a national title, I was like, wow,” said Weagle. “From a small town like Chester, to produce a national (and then world) champion, it’s crazy. And to now be a national champion is even crazier.”

Jacques was backed up by vice-skip Dustin Mikush, second Gabriel Dyck, lead Michael Henricks and coach Bernie Panich.

Isabelle Ladouceur rink

In the women’s game, back-to-back deuces from Nova Scotia turned the game around and propelled Ladouceur, vice-skip Emilie Proulx, second Kate Callaghan, lead Makayla Harnish, alternate Elsa Nauss and coach Brian Rafuse to victory.

Saskatchewan blanked the first three ends before cracking a deuce in the fourth. But Nova Scotia came out strong after the fourth-end break, tying the game with a deuce in the fifth end, and then stealing two in the sixth.

“We started to be aggressive, and it obviously worked out,” said Ladouceur. “We definitely made some nice shots; Saskatchewan made some amazing shots, too, but it just worked out in our favour, with a little bit of luck.

“It feels fantastic; my team has been working for this all season, and we’re just really excited right now.”

What’s the secret to Nova Scotia’s recent run of success in youth curling? It’s pretty simple, suggested Ladouceur.

“We know that we want to win, and we’re willing to work hard,” she said. “Everyone here in Nova Scotia is trying to be the best, so we have a lot of hard workers in our province.”

Defending Canadian U-18 boys champ Jacob Horgan of Northern Ontario returned to the podium as his Sudbury team (vice-skip Max Cull, second Nicholas Bissonnette, lead Shane Robinson and coach Gerry Horgan) won the boys bronze medal, 4-1 over Newfoundland/Labrador’s Ryan McNeil Lamswood of St. John’s (vice-skip Coleton Vriesendorp, second James Trickett, lead Alex Phillips and coach Laura Phillips).

In the girls bronze-medal game, Alberta’s Ryleigh Bakker (Calgary) scored three in the eighth end for a 5-3 win over Ontario’s Madelyn Warriner (Listowel).

Bakker was backed up by vice-skip Hannah Phillips, second Rhiley Quinn, lead Hannah Airey, alternate Elysa Crough and coach Allison Earl. The Ontario team was rounded out by vice-skip Sarah Bailey, second Brianne Donegan, lead Shannon Warriner and coach Bruce Cox.

Meanwhile, the doubles competition wrapped up on Saturday for players who didn’t take part in the playoffs.

In the gold medal-game, featuring a pair of mixed teams, the duo of Jaycee Terrick (Manitoba) and Braden Fleischhacker (Saskatchewan), with coach David Murphy (P.E.I.) was a 4-2 winner over Lauren Ferguson (P.E.I.) and Troy Chong (B.C.) with coach Dave Trickett (Newfoundland/Labrador).

Ferguson (left), Chong (Mark Finley photo)

Chong (left), Ferguson (Mark Finley photo)

The all-girl duo of Melodie Forsythe (N.B. Host) and Alexa Smallwood (Yukon), along with coach Verne Anderson (Saskatchewan) won the bronze medal with a 5-3 victory over the mixed duo of Lexie Murray (P.E.I.) and Jayden Bindig (Saskatchewan) with coach Bryan Miki (B.C.)

Also on Saturday, the Fair Play Awards (as voted on by the umpires) were handed out:

Girls:
Skip – Annkatrin Perron, Quebec
Third – Carly Smith, New Brunswick Host
Second – Chantel Hoag, Saskatchewan
Lead – Piper Croisier, Northern Ontario
Coach – Bruce Cox, Ontario

Boys:
Skip – Ryan McNeil Lamswood, Newfoundland/Labrador
Third – Adam Tracy, New Brunswick
Second – Gabriel Dyck, Alberta
Lead – Colin MacKenzie, P.E.I.
Coach – Bryan Miki, B.C.

The round robin wrapped up on Thursday night, and sixteen teams – eight boys’, eight girls’ – will now move on to the Championship double-knockout round of the 2018 Canadian Under-18 Curling Championships in St. Andrews, N.B.

Team Ferguson vs. NWT (Livestream) 

[The PEI girl’s team, skipped by Lauren Ferguson, finished round robin play with a 3 -3 record after wins over Team NWT and previously-undefeated Ontario on Thursday. They had the same record as BC, who got the last playoff berth in their pool, as they beat PEI 5-3 in their round robin encounter. 

The Mitchell Schut-skipped PEI boy’s team had some very close games, but didn’t manage to pull out a win in the round robin.]

Teams that didn’t make the playoff round will be paired up for a mixed doubles competition.

Leading the way on the boys’ side is Northern Ontario’s Jacob Horgan, the 2017 Under-18 champion, who finished at the top of Pool B with a perfect 5-0 record.

Horgan is joined by three teams from Pool B, Newfoundland and Labrador (4-1), Quebec (3-2) and New Brunswick (2-3), as well as the top four teams from Pool A, including Manitoba (4-1), and Nova Scotia, Ontario and Alberta, who all finished with 3-2 records.

On the women’s side, the top four Pool A teams – Ontario and New Brunswick (5-1), Saskatchewan (4-2) and B.C. (3-3) – will join the top four from Pool B – Alberta (5-1), Northern Ontario and Quebec (4-2) and Nova Scotia (3-3) – in the Championship double-knockout round to determine who will move on to the semifinals on Saturday.

The playoff match-ups look like this:

Boys

Manitoba vs New Brunswick
Nova Scotia vs Quebec
Newfoundland and Labrador vs Ontario
Northern Ontario vs Alberta

Girls

Ontario vs Nova Scotia
New Brunswick vs Quebec
Northern Ontario vs Saskatchewan
Alberta vs British Columbia

The championship round will take place on Friday in the W.C. O’Neill Arena, with the boys’ gaes taking place at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. (ADT), and girls’ matches at 12:30 p.m and 7:30 p.m. (ADT). Mixed doubles will be played in both the arena as well as the Heather Curling Club with draws at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., all times ADT.

Selected games from the 2018 Canadian Under-18 Championships will be streamed live for viewing online. Go to the event website, www.curling.ca/2018under18/, for links and more information about scoring, live streaming, teams and results.

Click to read at Curling Canada

All teams were in action on Tuesday at the 2018 Canadian Under-18 Boys and Girls Curling Championships in St. Andrews, N.B., with pool play underway to determine who will move on to the championship round later this week.

On the women’s side, Ontario and Saskatchewan continue undefeated, while B.C.’s Jaelyn Cotter notched her first win of the round robin, a 5-3 victory over PEI’s Lauren Ferguson. [Ferguson has only one game today, at 6 pm against Saskatchewan, but has three matches on Thurdsay].

Ontario’s Madelyn Warriner, of Listowel, Ont., held off a late charge by New Brunswick’s Erica Cluff on Tuesday afternoon to score a 5-4 win. Cluff bounced back for a 9-2 win over Bayly Scoffin of Yukon to finish off the day.

In her only game of the day, Saskatchewan’s Skylar Ackerman stole five points on the way to a 10-2 win over Northwest Territories’ Zoey Walsh.

In Pool B, Northern Ontario’s Bella Croisier ran Newfoundland and Labrador’s Glynn Mackenzie out of rocks in a 5-3 win on Tuesday evening to remain undefeated with a 3-0 record.

In Men’s pool play, Northern Ontario’s Jacob Horgan is one of four teams that remain undefeated. Horgan stole two ends on the way to a 7-4 win over PEI’s Mitchell Schut in Draw 4. [PEI plays New Brunswick at 2 pm today, and Newfoundland and Labrador at 6 pm.]

Joining Horgan with 2-0 records are Jérôme Adam (Quebec), Joshua Leung (Ontario) and Ryan Jacques (Alberta).

Ontario’s Leung and his Whitby Curling Club team stole four points in the second end and another single in the third to finish with an 8-1 win over Manitoba’s Brett Walter on Tuesday afternoon.

The round robin continues on Wednesday with draws at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. (all times ADT).

Selected games from the 2018 Canadian Under-18 Championships will be streamed live for viewing on-line. Go to the event website, www.curling.ca/2018under18/, for links and more information about scoring, live streaming, teams and results.

Follow the PEI Teams on Twitter at @TeamMSchutPE and @TeamFergusonPEI

Use the event’s Twitter hashtag #U18CC2018 for other information.

Click to read at Curling Canada.

The Canadian Under 18 Boys and Girls Curling Championships are underway in St. Andrews New Brunswick. The first draw took place Monday evening, while the opening ceremonies were at 9 this morning, before Draw 2 at 10 am.

Team PEI at the opening ceremonies (Doug Kelly photo)

Both PEI teams played their first games this morning, with the PEI Girl’s team, skipped by Lauren Ferguson out of the Cornwall, Charlottetown and Crapaud curling clubs, beating the Yukon 8-4, while the Boy’s squad, skipped by Mitchell Schut out of the  Cornwall Curling Club, lost 6-2 to a tough Quebec rink, 

Quebec vs PEI – final shot
(Capture from Bell Aliant Livestream)

The Ferguson rink stole a deuce in the 4th end, and took four points in the sixth, while Team Schut was kept to singles while the Quebec team took deuces in the first half of their game. Quebec stole the fifth, with Schut blanking the sixth. Quebec stole the seventh, and, up four in the last end, but facing three Schut counters, the Quebec skip made a hit to run the PEI team out of rocks in the eighth end.

Both PEI teams play again at 6 pm, with Schut taking on defending champ Jacob Horgan and his Sudbury team. Horgan won his opener 5-4 over Newfoundland and Labrador last evening. Ferguson plays Vernon BC’s Jaelyn Cotter (her father Jim, a 7-time Brier participant, is coaching), who is 0-2 following losses to Saskatchewan and Ontario.

Selected games from the 2018 Canadian Under-18 Championships will be streamed live for viewing on-line. Go to the event website, www.curling.ca/2018under18/, for links and more information.

The teams are split into two pools in each gender — two pools of six in the 12-team boys competition, and two pools of seven in the girls event (with 13 Member Associations competing in the girls competition, a host team from New Brunswick also is competing in order to create two even pools).

The top four teams in each pool will move into an eight-team championship double-knockout playoff round beginning on Friday, April 13. That will determine four teams in each gender for the Olympic-style semifinals on Saturday, April 14, at 1:30 p.m. AT. The semifinal winners will play for gold while the losers will play for bronze at 6 p.m. AT the same day.

Additionally, the teams that don’t make the playoffs will take part in a mixed doubles competition.

For information on team lineups, schedules and tickets, go to the event website: www.curling.ca/2018under18/.

(with info from Curling Canada)

Team PEI Girls opening game against New Brunswick, originally scheduled for 6 this evening, at the Canadian Under-18 Boys and Girls Curling Championships in St. Andrews NB has now been moved to later in the round robin draw. The other games this evening are going ahead as scheduled. Team Ferguson’s opener will now be at 10 am on Tuesday against the Yukon.

Revised Team Ferguson round-robin schedule:

*Game postponed from Draw 1

Photo (L-R): Lauren Ferguson, Katie Shaw, Alexis Burris, Lexie Murray, David Murphy (Coach)

Team Mitchell Schut’s first game is against Quebec at 10 am Tuesday. Live stream should be up to watch that Sheet C game online at player.communitylive.ca/Player/Player/183

Canada’s top up-and-coming curlers are playing for national championships for a second straight year in the province of New Brunswick, following a successful debut last April in Moncton. The 2018 Canadian Under-18 Boys and Girls Curling Championships are being staged in Saint Andrews, N.B., starting this evening and running through Saturday.

PEI is represented by our U18 provincial champs, the Mitchell Schut boy’s rink from the Cornwall Curling Club and the Lauren Ferguson girl’s team from the Cornwall, Crapaud, and Charlottetown curling clubs, 

Photo (L-R): Mitchell Schut, Nick Johnston, Liam Kelly, Colin MacKenzie, coach Lori Robinson

Photo (L-R): Lauren Ferguson, Katie Shaw, Alexis Burris, Lexie Murray, David Murphy (Coach)

Follow the PEI Teams on Twitter at @TeamMSchutPE and @TeamFergusonPEI

Use the event’s Twitter hashtag #U18CC2018 for  other information.

Team Schut round-robin schedule:

Team Ferguson round-robin schedule:

The event, for players ages 17 and under as of June 30, 2017, is being staged at the W.C. O’Neill Arena Complex, using both a hockey arena and the three-sheet Heather Curling Club, which is part of the complex, and will feature teams from 13 Member Associations in each gender (Nunavut did not enter teams, while the Yukon did not enter a boys team).

At the inaugural Canadian Under-18 Championships last year in Moncton, Northern Ontario teams swept both gold medals.

On the boy’s side, Jacob Horgan’s team (vice-skip Max Cull, second Nicholas Bissonnette, lead Shane Robinson, coach Gerry Horgan) from Sudbury is back intact to defend its title, while there will be a new girls team from Northern Ontario, skipped by Sudbury’s Bella Croisier. Sudbury’s Kira Brunton claimed gold last year.

And while many of the players will be unfamiliar to curling fans across Canada, some last names will be very familiar.

On the girl’s side, Team B.C. from Vernon is skipped by Jaelyn Cotter, the daughter of seven-time Tim Hortons Brier participant Jim Cotter, who is coaching the team.

B.C.’s boy’s team, skipped by Dawson Ballard and hailing from New Westminster and Coquitlam, also has some championship bloodlines. Second Joshua  Miki is the son of Bryan Miki (who coaches the team); Bryan played second on Greg McAulay’s team that won the 2000 Brier and world men’s championships.

Round-robin competition at both facilities will begin Monday at 6 p.m. (all times Atlantic).

Selected games from the 2018 Canadian Under-18 Championships will be streamed live for viewing on-line. Go to the event website, www.curling.ca/2018under18/, for links and more information.

The teams will be split into two pools in each gender — two pools of six in the 12-team boys competition, and two pools of seven in the girls event (with 13 Member Associations competing in the girls competition, a host team from New Brunswick also is competing in order to create two even pools).

The top four teams in each pool will move into an eight-team championship double-knockout playoff round beginning on Friday, April 13. That will determine four teams in each gender for the Olympic-style semifinals on Saturday, April 14, at 1:30 p.m. AT. The semifinal winners will play for gold while the losers will play for bronze at 6 p.m. AT the same day.

Additionally, the teams that don’t make the playoffs will take part in a mixed doubles competition.

For information on team lineups, schedules and tickets, go to the event website:www.curling.ca/2018under18/.

Event draw (subject to change)

Event website: www.curling.ca/2018under18/

Results: Curling.ca

Click to read at Curling Canada

Here is a photo gallery from this weekend’s Your Independent Grocer Closing Spiel. Photos taken by Laurie Kelly and Derek MacEwen. We’ll have the story later. Click on an image to enlarge.

Sign up now for our annual nine-hole, Best Ball Golf Tournament on Saturday, June 16 at beautiful Countryview Golf Club, Route 19 in Fairview. You can sign up by contacting Gary O’Sullivan at bantamgary@gmail.com or 902-388-0592. Teams will be balanced as much as possible to accommodate all experience levels (including none at all!). The best ball/scramble format makes it fun for everyone! Please include your phone number, and golf handicap (if you know what that is). The tournament is followed by lunch and prizes (very few go home empty-handed).
Cost is $40 a player, or $20 for Countryview members. Arrive by 8:30 am for the shotgun start at 9.

The Your Independent Grocery Closing Spiel got underway on Friday evening, with all 20 teams seeing action, When the dust (or is it ice crystals?) settled, the Red team had a very slim lead in Skins and trivia dollars earned over the BLUE team – $58,000 to $42,000 – a lead that Blue should be able to easily erase in the Saturday morning draw.

Photo: Angus Davies (left), and Undertow

Following the curling and snacking, the curlers were entertained by the Undertow duo, with some help from Angus Davies from the multi-talented BLUE team, showing off his Community School guitar playing skills!

See you back on the ice in a few hours for Day Two!

Due to players dropping out yesterday, we have had to revise the draw and schedule for this weekend’s BLUE vs RED Closing Spiel, reducing the number of teams from 22 to 20. PLEASE check both the schedule and team rosters below,  because some teams have different members and different team numbers, and some are playing at different times.

This single-entry Members’ funspiel is sponsored by Leary’s Your Independent Grocer in Cornwall.

Spiel Dates:  Friday April 6^th (evening) & Saturday the 7^th all day.

Registration Fee:  $30.00 per person

Skins Format

Registration includes:

• 3 games of curling
• Snacks & Dance on Friday Night. Music by Undertow. Those who are not playing in the spiel are  also welcome to attend the dance, from 8:30 to 11:30 for a $5 cover fee (pay at the bar).
• Lunch Saturday
• Banquet Saturday Evening
• Prizes for the winning colour

Don’t forget to wear your team COLOURS!

Best dressed curler will win a prize!

Let the Battle Begin Blue vs Red!

Here are the revised team rosters (skip to lead):

Here is the revised draw/schedule. Games are six ends on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, and four ends on Saturday morning. Swipe left/right to view entire table on smartphone screens.

As part of our You Independent Grocer Closing Spiel this weekend, we’re having a DANCE, with the group “Undertow” on Friday evening, from 8:30pm to 11:30pm!

Undertow

 We would like to invite others who not involved in the spiel to attend, too. We realize that participants in the spiel may have significant others that may like to come also, and other members and friends may also like to attend.

There will be a $5 cover charge for those attending the dance who not involved in the Independent Grocer Closing Spiel.

Cover may be paid at the Bar Friday evening.

ALL ARE WELCOME

Hope to See You There!

Cornwall’s Team Veronica Smith is in preparation for next season with a homemade ham Cold Plate, take out dinner, happening April 21, 2018. $12.00 per plate

Contact them at 658-2143 to place your order by April 8.
Please specify if you would like delivery or pick up.

Here is the draw for the Daytime Curlers Closing Spiel on Wednesday, April 4th:

TEAM 1 RAY BIAGE, JANETTE FRASER, CLIFF SENTNER, YVONNE BARBOUR
TEAM 2 LESTER CALLBECK, BERNIE FIELD, DAVE O’HANLEY, ANN GREYBORN
TEAM 3 STERLING STRATTON, KIMBALL BLANCHARD, ALLAN CRASWELL, HANNY MACLEOD
TEAM 4 TOM DUNN, FRANK WEILER, CARLENE PETERS, PAUL ARSENAULT
TEAM 5 PAUL FIELD, ROGER DESROCHES, KAREN FISHER, CHUCK SAWATSKY
TEAM 6 BARB DUNCAN-BIAGE, VERN CHOWAN, ELAINE HUGHES, GERALD MACLEOD
TEAM 7 GRANT LAIRD, MARG STEWART, ARCHIE MACKINNON, HOWARD MACPHAIL
TEAM 8 CAROL SWEETAPPLE, RODDY MACLEAN, GEORGE YOUNKER, SHELLY WOODS
TEAM 9 GLORIA CLARKE, JOE GILL, DAVID ARSENAULT, ADRIAN CLARKE
TEAM 10 DANNY KNEABONE, ETTA REID, DONNIE WEEKS, ITALO MARZARI

ALVA CLAREY, MABEL ENGLAND VS CATHY CLAREY, JOHN MACINTYRE

9:30 TEAM 1 VS TEAM 3 ICE 1
9:30 TEAM 2 VS TEAM 4 ICE 2
9:30 TEAM 6 VS TEAM 8 ICE 3
10:00 ALVA /MABEL VS CATHY/JOHN MACINTYRE ICE 4
10:45 TEAM 5 VS TEAM 10
10.45 TEAM 7 VS TEAM 9

We’re into the last week of curling for this season, and are making plans for next!

The Cornwall Curling Club will be the host for the 2019 Maritime Stick Curling Championships from March 15-17 2019. Cornwall last hosted the championships in 2016.

The Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship wraps up today in Leduc Alberta. CBC TV is broadcasting the final. PEI’s representatives, Lauren Ferguson and Calvin Smith from the Crapaud Community Curling Club (Lauren is also a Cornwall member) picked up a round-robin win against Dana Ferguson/John Epping and gained lots of experience in a tough round-robin pool. They have sent along this game-by-game report:

Lauren Ferguson (left) and Calvin Smith at the provincials

Game 1 -We played Jennifer Jones/Brent Laing in the first game. Lauren and Calvin played well for their first game ever on arena ice. We had a couple chances for 2 but had to settle to one as our draws were a bit heavy. Jennifer and Brent made the playoffs but lost in the QF. I hope Jennifer’s knee is going to be ok.

Game 2- We played Dana Ferguson/John Epping. We won this game in the extra end. It was one of our best-played games of the week.

Game 3 -We played Jocelyn Peterman/Derek Samagalski. They were not missing anything at all and we had a few misses. They made the playoffs but lost in the QF.

Game 4- We played Chaelynn Kitz/Brayden Stewart. We did not have a great first four ends but we got much better in the last four ends. This junior team out of Saskatchewan were an amazing team and they finished first in our pool. We meet them our first day when we were waiting to start practices on the ices. I was cheering for them all week as well as our team. They lost in the QF game but played an amazing game.

Game 5- We played Val Sweeting/Tim March. Lauren made a hit and roll to score 3 in the 2nd end to tie the game. Calvin had a draw for 2 in the 4th end but his rock was a bit heavy and slid to far. They made it to the playoffs and lost in the round of 12.

Game 6 -We played Marilese Kasner/Dustin Kalthoff who made the QF at the World’s in mixed doubles — which Canada needed in order to have a chance to qualify for the Olympics. We finally got hammer for the first end but it did not work out so well. They were a great team and they never missed anything. \

Game 7-We played Selena Sturmay/Karsten Sturmay who both had just won the men’s and women’s University Championships for AB. The University Championships just finished on Wednesday afternoon in the same arenas. This team did not miss too many shots and they wanted to play the 8th which we were able to get 1 point.

Our pool was a tough pool but if you are going to get better you need to be playing these top teams. Playing these top teams has been an amazing experience and I have learned a lot watching. I want to thank the volunteers. They had a long 2 weeks with the 4 national events being held. Thank you to Curling Canada for making all these events possible.

The championship curling season’s not over yet for Ferguson. She’ll be skipping her regular 4 person team in the Canadian Under-18 Boy’s and  Girl’s Curling Championships, April 9-14 in Saint Andrews New Brunswick.

Congratulations to the winners of the Thursday Night Griffin’s Towing & Service Centre Draw:
Skip – Larry Cudmore
Mate – Marjorie Matthews
Second – Morgan Wells

Congratulations to all the players from the Thursday night draws. You are a great bunch of curlers. Hopefully, you all enjoyed the season and we will see you again in the fall.
Have a wonderful summer!

• Myrna Sanderson -Thursday evening drawmaster

The third and final round of the Wednesday evening Ladder League wrapped up last evening, with the Paul Neima team winning the “A” pool, sponsored by Wally’s Pharmasave, and the Ray Biagé rink going undefeated to win the “B”, sponsored by New Glasgow Lobster Suppers. As it turned out, both teams were involved in exciting finals, with the winning team taking the draw prizes, and the runner-up finishing in second spot.

(L-R): A pool winner Paul Neima, Alan Mason, Joe Callaghan. Missing: Jeff Hannam

The Neima rink and the Greg Groves team both had four wins going into their game against each other in the “A” pool, with the Neima squad coming out the winner in a close contest. The Rachel MacLean and Emily Sanderson teams also had four wins.

(L-R) B Pool winners Rick Doiron, Ray Biagé, Derek Gallant, Derek MacEwen

The “B” pool game was also a close battle to the finish for the prizes, with the Rob Gallant rink having one loss and the Biagé team having none (although 3 of their games were decided by tie-breaking draws to the button!) going into their final match against each other. If Biagé had lost, Gallant would have taken the round, as they would have been tied, but Gallant would have beaten Biagé in the “head to head” results. 

Thanks to all the curlers, Danny Kneabone for doing the ice, Club staff, and our great draw sponsors, listed below, from all three rounds for another great season!

• Derek MacEwen, Wednesday Evening Drawmaster

Draw 1: Pool A – Lowther’s Snow Removal
Draw 1: Pool B – Sam’s Cornwall Restaurant

Draw 2: Pool A – Water & Prince Corner Shop & Lobster Pound
Draw 2: Pool B- Lowther’s Snow Removal

Draw 3: Pool A- Wally’s Pharmasave
Draw 3: Pool B– New Glasgow Lobster Suppers

Longtime curler, curling fan, and curling sponsor Willie Nicholson is celebrating his 90th birthday this weekend! Please feel free to drop by The Glasgow Mill Saturday between 2 & 4 pm for his open house!