Congrats to Team Canada, with Alternate Lauren Lenentine from the Cornwall Curling Club, who defeated Team Sweden 7-4 this morning to win World Junior Curling gold in Aberdeen Scotland!

Brian Battensby photo from @TeamKJones Twitter account. Lauren Lenentine is on the left.

Lauren Lenentine (from livestream) following the win

The 2018 PEI Travelers Curling Club Championships, featuring the winning men’s and women’s teams from individual club playdowns, take place March 9-13 at the Montague Curling Club. All seven dedicated PEI curling facilities are represented on the Men’s side, and six out of seven on the Women’s.

The Men and Women will play round robin draws, Friday through Sunday, with the top three teams after any tiebreakers advancing to their respective championship round on Monday and, if needed, Tuesday.

Live results will be available at PEICurling.com/scoreboard.

The provincial winners will advance to the national Travelers Curling Club Championship, normally held in November. Dates and location have not yet been announced.

Last year’s women’s champs were the Julie Mutch team from the Crapaud Community Curling Club, while the Summerside Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Community Complex rink, skipped by Leo Stewart, captured the men’s title.

Schedule 

Green = Men’s, Violet = Women’s

If no tie breakers are required both playoffs will start at 10 am on March 12.
If only one division requires tie breakers the other division will have their playoffs start at 10am on Monday March 12.
This same idea will be followed if one division requires two tiebreakers and the other only requires one.

Ch’ship Round Draw Tree

Teams

Click for player info. M=Men, W=Women

Last year’s event: PEICurling.com/travelers20162017

Charlie Sullivan from New Brunswick will be coming to PEI on Saturday and Sunday March 10 & 11 to help curlers and coaches with detecting and correcting issues.

Charlie Sullivan

Sullivan is an instructor at the Centre for Curling Excellence at Curl Moncton.

• Canadian and World Junior Champion (1987)
• 5 Time NB Men’s Champion
• Brier Silver Medal 1990
• Brier Bronze Medal 1997
• Certified Level 3 Coach

Teams are invited to meet with Charlie to work one-on-one for an hour (with coach if you have one).  The cost for this will be $40 per team. These spots are now full.

For coaches – on Saturday, March 10th from 1-4 pm here at the Cornwall Curling Club coaches are invited to attend a workshop where Charlie will cover topics such as video analysis and live analysis skills; observation and breakdown of skills; drills and mental skills for correction.  Cost is $10 per coach. This session still has spots available. Please contact Amy Duncan at aduncan@sportpei.pe.ca if you are interested.

Teams are busy fundraising for upcoming Canadian championships and for next season.

There are 50/50 square boards up at various clubs for teams, including the Bill Hope and Lauren Ferguson rinks, heading to the nationals. As well, 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 for details and to place your order by April 8.
Please specify if you would like delivery or pick up.

It’s two championships in six days for both Mitchell Schut from the Cornwall Curling Club and Lauren Ferguson from the Charlottetown, Cornwall and Crapaud clubs, capturing the Under 16 championships on Sunday afternoon at the Montague Curling Rink after winning the Under 18 on Monday. It’s also the third year in a row for Schut winning the U16Boy’s, while two members of the Ferguson foursome – Katie Shaw and Lexie Murray, were on last year’s Girl’s winning team.

(Cornwall’s Lauren Lenentine is Alternate on Team Canada Women.)
Team Canada’s women’s and men’s teams kicked off with wins all round today at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships, a huge accomplishment considering the travel ordeal both teams endured on the way to Aberdeen, Scotland.

“We had lots of trouble getting here,” admitted skip Kaitlyn Jones of Halifax, N.S., who is backed by third Kristin Clarke, second Karlee Burgess, lead Lindsey Burgess, alternate Lauren Lenentine and coach Andrew Atherton.

The team travelled for over 50 hours in a storm-delayed marathon thanks to the extreme winter weather that hit the United Kingdom over the past week.

“We went from Halifax to St. John’s, N.L., and had to get off the plane and back on,” Jones explained. “From there to London – that was only five hours. We had an hour layover there. Then from London, we actually came to Aberdeen, but we had to circle because there was too much snow and then we had to go to Manchester and they wouldn’t let us land there. Then we had to go to Liverpool and we sat on the tarmac for three hours and finally went back to London, and sat on the tarmac there for another two hours. So, we were on the same plane for nine hours (without) food. We had to stay the night in London and then travelled to Aberdeen the next day.”

The Canadian men’s team, skipped by Langley, B.C.’s Tyler Tardi with third Sterling Middleton, second Jordan Tardi, lead Zachary Curtis, alternate Jacques Gauthier and coach Paul Tardi faced similar delays, although they were able to deplane in London and wait it out in a hotel.

The Canadians weren’t the only competitors to have difficulty travelling to Aberdeen. Because so many teams were delayed, the usual pre-event practice was cancelled on Friday to keep it fair for all teams. That meant that Draw 1 (women) and Draw 2 (men) was the first time any of these national junior champions had a chance to step on the ice at Curl Aberdeen.

“It was a little bit shaky because we hadn’t practiced or played a game in a while,” said Jones about her team’s first game, an 8-5 win over China’s Zixin Wang. “But by the end we got the ice under control and knew where to (put) the broom. Having that first win and starting off real strong, I’m very happy with that.”

In Draw 3, their second game of the day, the Canadian women had their hands full with an experienced Turkish team skipped by Dilsat Yildiz, who has represented her country at Women’s, Mixed and Mixed Doubles world championships.

The teams were tied after eight, and Jones scored a single in nine to take a 6-5 lead. Facing two Canadian counters, Dilsat tried an in-off but just over-curled, giving up a steal of two in an 8-5 win for Canada.

Tardi and crew had an easier time in their one game of the day, scoring four points in the ninth end to take a 7-3 win over Switzerland’s Jan Hess.

“It’s good to start with a win, especially against a team like that,” said Tardi, who is making his second consecutive trip to the world championships. “They made a ton of shots out there, lots of respect to them. They’re all great shooters and also a super-friendly team.”

Tardi said his team prepared differently this time around, using their 2017 experience as a guide.

“We were a little smarter coming out the event this year,” he said. “Last year, we played a little too much curling, were pretty drained before the event started. So, this year we took it a little easier before we came here and are feeling a little more fresh.”

The Canadian teams will be in a 10-team (of each gender) round-robin draw that leads to the four-team Olympic-style semifinals (first place vs. fourth place; second place vs. third place), on Friday, March 9 (there will be no playoff tiebreakers).

Event information, including news and live scoring, are available at the event website, http://www.worldcurling.org/wjcc2018

Selected games will be streamed live on the World Curling Federation’s Youtube channel, http://www.youtube.com/WorldCurlingTV

Click to read at Curling Canada

It’s no surprise that the Cornwall Curling Club won all the medals in the Stick Curling competition at the Vogue Optical 55+ Games, hosted by the Town of Stratford, with curling at the Charlottetown Curling Complex, considering their past results, and the fact that all the entries but one were from there. The Gold medals winners were the team of Vernon Chowan & Grant Leard in the Open (any combination of men and women) division, and the Ruth Stavert & Karen Fisher duo in the women’s. The Games wrapped up on Friday.

Here are the Friday Stick results and medallists. Congrats to all 12 of our Stick winners! We also have some double medallists, with Elaine Hughes, Etta Reid and Myrna Craswell medalling in both regular and stick curling.

If we can track down any pictures, well post them later.

Stick Curling

Open Division
E Stavert/V Fisher 10 defeated Sutherland/McIntyre 3
B Craswell/Stratton 6 defeated Gill/MacKinnon 5
Keefe/Doiron 4 tied M Craswell/P Field 4
M Craswell/P Field 6 defeated B Craswell/Stratton 4
Chowan/Leard 4 defeated Gill/MacKinnon 2
Keefe/Doiron 6 defeated Sutherland/McIntyre 4
E Stavert/V Fisher 5 defeated Chowan/Leard 2
Gill/MacKinnon 6 defeated Sutherland/McIntyre 3

Gold- Chowan/Leard 6 defeated Gill/MacKinnon 1
Bronze- M Craswell/P Field 6 defeat B Craswell/Stratton 5

GOLD- Vernon Chowan & Grant Leard
SILVER- Joe Gill & Archie MacKinnon
BRONZE- Myrna Craswell & Paul Field

Women’s Divison
Hughes/Reid 7 defeated B Field/Crockett 3
R Stavert/K Fisher 5 defeated Hughes/Reid 4

Gold- R Stavert/K Fisher 7 defeated B Field/Crockett 3

GOLD- Ruth Stavert & Karen Fisher
SILVER- Bernie Field & Carolyn Crockett
BRONZE- Elaine Hughes & Etta Reid

Stick Curling

Open Division
Craswell/Field 8 defeated E Stavert/V Fisher 1
Chowan/Leard 7 defeated Sutherland McIntyre 2
B Crawell/Stratton 5 defeated Keefe/Doiron 2
Gill/MacKinnon 9 defeated Keefe/Doiron 1
Chowan/Leard 5 defeated M Craswell/P Field 4
Sutherland/McIntyre 4 tied B Craswell/Stratton 4
Gill/MacKinnon 6 defeated E Stavert/V Fisher 3
M Craswell/P Field 5 defeated Sutherland/McIntyre 3
Chowan/Leard 7 defeated B Craswell/Stratton 2
E Stavert/V Fisher 6 defeated Keefe/Doiron 3
Gill/MacKinnon 4 defeated M Craswell/P Field 2
B Craswell/Stratton 5 defeated E Stavert/V Fisher 4
Chowan/Leard 5 defeated Keefe/Doiron 1

Women’s Division
R Stavert/K Fisher 5 tied Hughes/Reid
B Field/Crockett 6 tied R Stavert/K Fisher 6
B Field/Crockett 6 defeated Hughes/Reid 5
B Field/Crockett 6 defeated R Stavert/K Fisher 5

You’ve watched it on TV at the Olympics, the Scotties, the Brier and the Grand Slam. You may even have seen the Pre-Trials live in Summerside. Now’s the time to get off that couch or stadium seat and go curling yourself! Get the family or the gang together and book a sheet of our great curling ice!

We have a few “snowbird” members who are heading south between now and golf season. Consequently, we have some rare evening rental spots available immediately through April 3rd  on Tuesdays at 6:30 and 8:30, Wednesdays at 8:30, and Thursdays at 8:30 pm. We also have limited weekend times available. These book up fast and change often, so give us a call for more info.

It will cost you just 75 bucks and tax for a two-hour one-sheet rental (time enough for a full eight-end game, or a six end game and some instruction and practice) for up to eight persons. That’s only five dollars and change per person per hour, probably less than a small popcorn at the movie theatre! 

Update: Weather is impacting the teams’ travel plans. 

Two teams with significant international experience will open play on Saturday in the 2018 World Junior Curling Championship, staged in Curl Aberdeen at Aberdeen, Scotland.

Two members of Kaitlyn Jones’s Canadian women’s team from Halifax were world junior gold-medallists two years ago in Tårnby, Denmark, while Tyler Tardi’s Canadian men’s team from Langley, B.C., placed fifth at the 2017 World Juniors in Gangneung, South Korea.

Canadian women’s vice-skip Kristin Clarke and second Karlee Burgess played for Mary Fay’s world championship team in 2016; Jones, lead Lindsey Burgess (Karlee’s cousin), alternate Lauren Lenentine [from Cornwall, PEI] and coach Andrew Atherton round out the team.

Team Canada women at the airport (Twitter @TeamKJones)

Tardi, meanwhile, has vice-skip Sterling Middleton, second Jordan Tardi (Tyler’s brother) and coach Paul Tardi (their dad) back from the 2017 squad that lost to Norway in a playoff tiebreaker in Gangneung. Lead Zachary Curtis and alternate Jacques Gauthier (cousin to Tyler and Jordan) also are making the trip.

Tardi, Middleton, Burgess and Fay also won gold in the mixed team competition at the 2016 Youth Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.

The Canadian women will be seeking a fifth straight trip to the medal podium; Kelsey Rocque won back-to-back gold medals in 2014 and 2015, followed by Fay’s triumph in 2016 and a bronze medal from Kristen Streifel last year in Gangeung.

Canada’s men’s team, meanwhile, will be seeking a leading 19th world junior men’s gold medal (Scotland is next with 10), but first since Braden Calvert’s victory in 2015 at Tallinn, Estonia.

The Canadian teams will be in a 10-team (of each gender) round-robin draw that leads to the four-team Olympic-style semifinals (first place vs. fourth place; second place vs. third place), on Friday, March 9 (there will be no playoff tiebreakers).

Canada’s women open their round-robin schedule on Saturday at 9 a.m. local time (5 a.m. AT) against China’s Zixin Wang. The Canadian men get onto the ice for the first time at 2 p.m. local time (10 a.m. AT) against Switzerland’s Jan Hess, who finished out of the playoffs at the 2017 World Juniors.

The women’s field is headed by reigning world champion Isabella Wranå of Sweden, and also includes South Korea’s Min Ji Kim, who lost to Canada in the bronze-medal game last year, but won bronze in 2016 in Denmark.

On the men’s side, only one of the 2017 men’s medallists is back, as silver-medallist Andrew Stopera of the United States returns with his 2017 lineup fully intact.

The women’s field will be rounded out by teams from Norway, Russia, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States.

There will be other men’s teams from China, Germany, South Korea (gold medallists last year but with a different team), Norway, Russia, Scotland and Sweden.

Event information, including news and live scoring, are available at the event website, www.worldcurling.org/wjcc2018

As well, selected games will be streamed live on the World Curling Federation’s Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/WorldCurlingTV

Here’s a look at Canada’s round-robin schedule, along with information (subject to change) on Canadian games that will be streamed live (all times ET):

Saturday, March 3

4 a.m. — Canada women vs. China
9 a.m. — Canada men vs. Switzerland
2 p.m. — Canada women vs. Turkey

Sunday, March 4

4 a.m. — Canada men vs. Sweden
9 a.m. — Canada women vs. Scotland (streamed live)
2 p.m. — Canada men vs. Scotland (streamed live)

Monday March 5

4 a.m. — Canada women vs. United States (streamed live)
9 a.m. — Canada men vs. United States (streamed live)
2 p.m. — Canada women vs. South Korea

Tuesday, March 6

4 a.m. — Canada men vs. China
9 a.m. — Canada women vs. Russia
2 p.m. — Canada men vs. Norway

Wednesday, March 7

4 a.m. — Canada women vs. Switzerland
9 a.m. — Canada men vs. South Korea
2 p.m. — Canada women vs. Norway

Thursday, March 8

4 a.m. — Canada men vs. Russia
9 a.m. — Canada women vs. Sweden (streamed live)
2 p.m. — Canada men vs. Germany

Friday, March 9

9 a.m. — Women’s semifinals (streamed live)
2 p.m. — Men’s semifinals (streamed live)

Saturday, March 10

4 a.m. — Women’s gold- and bronze-medal games (streamed live)
9 a.m. — Men’s gold- and bronze-medal games (streamed live)

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ParaSport and Recreation PEI,  in partnership with Spinal Cord Injury PEI, are hosting their FREE Wheelchair and Blind Curling Fun Spiel again this year, on Sunday, March 11^th here at the Cornwall Curling Club, starting with a demonstration at 12:30 pm. At 1:30 they’ll have food and refreshments, and from 2:00-3:30 a fun spiel and skills competition will take place.

This is FREE and open for family and friends to attend as well. No experience is necessary at all. 

Please register by March 7^th, so they can prepare the food order. Email info@parasportpei.ca or call (902) 368-4540.

Here is the Stick Curling Draw for the Vogue Optical 55+ Games at the Charlottetown Curling Complex.

There are two divisions: M (Men/Mixed) and W (Women)

Men’s / Mixed Teams

1 Ernie Stavert / Vince Fisher
2 Myrna Craswell / Paul Field
3 Vern Chowan / Grant Laird
4 Bryan Sutherland / John McIntyre
5 Barry Craswell / Sterling Stratton
6 Bernard Keefe / Joan Doiron
7 Joe Gill / Archie MacKinnon

Women’s Teams

1 Ruth Stavert / Karen Fisher
2 Elaine Hughes / Etta Reid
3 Bernie Field / Carolyn Crockett

DRAW / SCHEDULE

Thursday 01-Mar

8:30am

Ice 2 E. Stavert / V. Fisher vs M. Craswell / P. Field
Ice 3 Chowan / Leard vs Sutherland / McIntyre
Ice 4 B. Craswell / Stratton vs Keefe / Doiron
Ice 5 R. Stavert / K. Fisher vs Hughes / Reid

9:45am

Ice 2 Gill / MacKinnon vs Keefe / Doiron
Ice 3 B. Field / Crockett vs R. Stavert / K. Fisher
Ice 4 Chowan / Leard vs M. Craswell / P. Field
Ice 5 Sutherland / McIntyre vs B. Craswell / Stratton

11:00am

Ice 2
Ice 3
Ice 4 Gill / MacKinnon vs E. Stavert / V. Fisher
Ice 5 

12:30pm

Ice 2 M. Craswell / P. Field vs Sutherland / McIntyre
Ice 3 Chowan / Leard vs B. Craswell / Stratton
Ice 4 Hughes / Reid vs B. Field / Crockett
Ice 5 Keefe / Doiron vs E. Stavert / V. Fisher

2:00pm

Ice 2 B. Field / Crockett vs R. Stavert / K. Fisher
Ice 3 M. Craswell / P. Field vs Gill / MacKinnon
Ice 4 E. Stavert / V. Fisher vs B. Craswell / Stratton
Ice 5 Keefe / Doiron vs Chowan / Leard

Friday 02-Mar

8:30am

Ice 2 E. Stavert / V. Fisher vs Sutherland / McIntyre
Ice 3 Hughes / Reid vs B. Field / Crockett
Ice 4 B. Craswell / Stratton vs Gill / MacKinnon
Ice 5 Keefe / Doiron vs M. Craswell / P. Field

9:45am

Ice 2 M. Craswell / P. Field vs B. Craswell / Stratton
Ice 3 Chowan / Leard vs Gill / MacKinnon
Ice 4 Sutherland / McIntyre vs Keefe / Doiron
Ice 5

11:45am

Ice 2 Chowan / Leard vs E. Stavert / V. Fisher
Ice 3 Gill / MacKinnon vs Sutherland / McIntyre
Ice 4 R. Stavert / K. Fisher vs Hughes / Reid

Gold – W 1:30pm Ice 2 Womens 1 vs Womens 2
Gold – M Ice 3 Mixed 1 vs Mixed 2
Bronze- M Ice 4 Mixed 3 vs Mixed 4

Rules:

All games will be 6 ends with a win. loss or tie recorded opposite team name. Coin toss will determine last rock or rock color.
Teams with the top 2 records will advance to the GOLD Medal game. Positions 3 and 4 will advance to the BRONZE MEDAL game.
Tie positioning will be decided by record against each other.
If still tied , a draw to the button after game 1 will decide positioning.
In MEDAL games, the higher position team will have last rock or rock color. Ties decided by a full extra end.
Women’s Division – Positions 1 and 2 will play on GOLD MEDAL game, position 3 awarded BRONZE.

It took two tries today, but the Mitchell Schut team came out winners over their Cornwall clubmates, skipped by Mitchell’s brother Devin, in the Provincial Under 18 Boy’s Curling Championship, sponsored by PEI Credit Unions, taking place at the Silver Fox in Summerside. Mitchell, who had won two of the three modified triple knockout sections, could have taken the title with a win this morning, but lost after leading 6-1 after 5 ends when his brother came back with a deuce in the sixth, a stolen single in the seventh, and a deuce in the 8th to tie the game 6-all, and then went on to steal three points in the extra for a 9-6 win, forcing the afternoon deciding match.

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

This afternoon’s game was tied at three at the fourth end break, but Mitchell scored a pair of triples in ends 5 and 7 and kept Devin to a single in six to bring the game to handshakes with a 9-4 final score. The Mitchell Schut team, which includes third Nick Johnston, second Liam Kelly, and lead Colin MacKenzie, with coaches Bill Hope and Lori Robinson, along with this morning’s winning Girl’s team from the Cornwall, Charlottetown and Crapaud clubs, skipped by Lauren Ferguson, now advance to the 2018 Canadian Under-18  Boys and Girls Curling Championship, April 9-14 in St. Andrews NB.

Photo (L-R): Coach Roger Gavin, Dylan Moase, Tyler Garnhum, Alex Huestis, Devin Schut

The Devin Schut finalist team also included third Alec Huestis, second Tyler Garnhum, and lead Dylan Moase, with coach Roger Gavin.

The two Monday championship round finalists in both the Boy’s and the Girl’s divisions have now been determined in the Provincial Under 18 Curling Championships, sponsored by PEI Credit Unions, and taking place at the Silver Fox in Summerside.

On the Boy’s side, the Mitchell Schut team will be playing the rink skipped by Mitchell’s older brother Devin, who won the “C” final of the modified triple knockout draw on Sunday afternoon.  Both teams are from the Cornwall Curling Club. Devin Schut came back from a 3-1 deficit after five ends of play, scoring a deuce, a single, and a triple to beat Charlottetown’s Chase MacMillan team 7-3 in the C final. Mitchell Schut, who won both the A and B sections, against MacMillan and the host club’s Cruz Pineau, respectively, lost to MacMillan 7-6 in an extra end in the C semi-finals, while Devin Schut eliminated Pineau from the four-team draw with an 8-1 win.

(L-R): Devin and Mitchell Schut, with Alec Huestis and Dylan Moase from the Devin Schut team

The Schut siblings now face off in the Championship Round on Monday at 10 am. If Mitchell, who won two sections, wins that game, he’ll take the title. If not, the Schuts will play again, in a sudden-death match at 2 pm.

It’s a similar situation in the Girl’s section, with Lauren Ferguson and her Cornwall, Charlottetown, and Crapaud rink having won sections B and C, with Cornwall’s Emily Sanderson winning the “A”. These two teams played off in all three section finals, with Ferguson winning the C on Sunday afternoon in an exciting finish, with Sanderson stealing the final end to tie the game, and Ferguson taking a deuce in the extra end to win 7-5.

(L-R): Lexie Murray, Alexis Burris, Lauren Ferguson from Team Ferguson

If Ferguson wins the 10 am game on Monday, she’ll win the championship. If Sanderson wins, they play off again in a winner-take-all game at 2 pm. Five teams took part in the Girl’s section.

Live results are available at PEICurling.com.

The winning teams advance to the 2018 Canadian Under-18  Boys and Girls Curling Championship, April 9-14 in St. Andrews NB.

The Mitchell Schut rink from the Cornwall Curling Club has a big advantage going into Sunday boy’s play at the PEI Credit Unions Provincial Under 18 Curling Championships being played at the Silver Fox in Summerside. Four boy’s and five girl’s teams are entered.

Here is the draw for the 55+ Games Men’s Open and Mixed, and Women’s curling competition at the Charlottetown Curling Complex, with a number of Cornwall teams participating.

2018 Mens Open and Mixed/Womens Curling Draw
Charlottetown Curling Complex

Monday 26-Feb
8:30am
Ice 1
Ice 2 Peter MacDonald vs Bill Hope
Ice 3 Julien Gaudin vs Ensor McNeil
Ice 4 John Dunsford vs John Davis
Ice 5 Gloria Clarke vs Vince Fisher

10:15am
Ice 1
Ice 2 Vern Chowan vs Bill Bishop
Ice 3 Barry Craswell vs Shelley Ebbett
Ice 4 Paul Durant vs Gloria Clarke
Ice 5

12:00pm
Ice 1
Ice 2 Ensor McNeil vs John Dunsford
Ice 3 Bill Bishop vs Paul Durant
Ice 4 Paul Matheson vs Peter MacDonald
Ice 5 Bill Hope vs Julien Gaudin

1:45pm
Ice 1
Ice 2 Gloria Clarke vs Barry Craswell
Ice 3
Ice 4 Shelley Ebbett vs Vern Chowan
Ice 5

3:30pm
Ice 1 Paul Durant vs Shelley Ebbett
Ice 2 Bill Hope vs John Davis
Ice 3 Vince Fisher vs Bill Bishop
Ice 4 Julien Gaudin vs Paul Matheson
Ice 5 Peter MacDonald vs John Dunsford

Tuesday 27-Feb
8:30am
Ice 1
Ice 2 Barry Craswell vs Vince Fisher
Ice 3 Paul Durant vs Vern Chowan
Ice 4 Gloria Clarke vs Bill Bishop
Ice 5

10:15am
Ice 1
Ice 2 Peter MacDonald vs Julien Gaudin
Ice 3 Bill Bishop vs Barry Craswell
Ice 4 Bill Hope vs Ensor McNeil
Ice 5 John Dunsford vs Paul Matheson

12:00pm
Ice 1
Ice 2 John Davis vs Ensor McNeil
Ice 3 Shelley Ebbett vs Gloria Clarke
Ice 4 Paul Durant vs Vince Fisher
Ice 5

1:45pm
Ice 1 John Dunsford vs Julien Gaudin
Ice 2 Paul Matheson vs Bill Hope
Ice 3 Vern Chowan vs Barry Craswell
Ice 4 Peter MacDonald vs John Davis
Ice 5 Vince Fisher vs Shelley Ebbett

Wednesday 28-Feb

8:30am
Ice 1 Ensor MacNeil vs Peter MacDonald
Ice 2 John Davis vs Paul Matheson
Ice 3 Bill Hope vs John Dunsford
Ice 4 Shelley Ebbett vs Bill Bishop
Ice 5 Gloria Clarke vs Vern Chowan

10:15am
Ice 1
Ice 2 Ensor McNeil vs Paul Matheson
Ice 3 Paul Durant vs Barry Craswell
Ice 4 Vince Fisher vs Vern Chowan
Ice 5 Julien Gaudin vs John Davis

1:00pm
Ice 1
Bronze Ice 2 Mixed Position 3 vs Mixed Position 4
Gold Ice 3 Mixed Position 1 vs Mixed Position 2
Gold Ice 4 Mens Position 1 vs Mens Position 2
Bronze Ice 5 Mens Position 3 vs Mens Position 4

Men’s Open Division

1 Peter MacDonald
2 Bill Hope
3 Julien Gaudin
4 Ensor MacNeill
5 John Dunsford
6 John Davis
7 Paul Matheson

Mixed/Women’s Division

1 Shelley Ebbett
2 Paul Durant
3 Gloria Clarke
4 Vince Fisher
5 Vern Chowan
6 Bill Bishop
7 Barry Craswell

All games will be 6 ends with a win. loss or tie recorded opposite team name. Coin toss will determine last rock or rock color.
Teams with the top 2 records will advance to the GOLD Medal game. Positions 3 and 4 will advance to the BRONZE MEDAL game.
Tie positioning will be decided by record against each other.
If still tied, a draw to the button after game 1 will decide positioning.
In MEDAL games, the higher position team will have last rock or rock color. Ties decided by a full extra end.

The 10 am Saturday “A” section finals of the boy’s and girl’s modified triple knockout draws are set at the PEI Credit Unions Provincial Under 18 Curling Championships, which got underway on Friday at the Silver Fox in Summerside, with four boy’s and five girl’s teams participating.

The Emily Sanderson rink from the Cornwall Curling Club will face the Lauren Ferguson squad from the Cornwall, Crapaud, and Charlottetown clubs in the girl’s “A” final, while Chase MacMillan and his Charlottetown team will take on Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut foursome in the boy’s.

Sanderson beat clubmate Sydney Howatt 7-3 in her opener, aided by a three-point fourth end and a stolen deuce in the fifth. She then downed another Cornwall team, the Clara Jack rink, by a 10-1 score, taking four points in the second end, stealing singles in the next two, and deuces in five and six to bring the game to an early conclusion. Ferguson had only one game, beating Cornwall’s Rachel MacLean team 4-1. 

MacLean suffered her second loss in the evening draw, losing 8-2 to Howatt, and needs a win at 2 pm on Saturday to remain in the competition. Howatt and Jack faceoff at 10 am Saturday in the “B” section.

There was only one draw in the boy’s division, and both games were extremely close, with Chase MacMillan edging Devin Schut of Cornwall 4-3, with Schut getting all his points in the last two ends, and Devin’s brother Mitchell coming back from a 4-3 deficit against the host club’s Cruz Pineau rink, who scored a triple in the fifth end, recording a tying single in the seventh, and stealing the final end for a 5-4 win.

Besides the 10 am “A” final, the Schut brothers square off in one game, with the Pineau facing MacMillan in the other, in 2 pm Saturday “B” section matches. 

With the “modified” knockout format, teams competing in section finals drop down to the next section, and can win more than one section. The “B” finals go at 6 pm on Saturday, with the “C” on Sunday at 2. The boy’s and girl’s championship rounds go on Monday at 10 am and 2 pm. If a team wins all three sections their championship round won’t be needed.

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 2018 Canadian Under-18  Boys and Girls Curling Championship, April 9-14 in St. Andrews NB.

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

Update: Team Nicholson on the Women’s side has withdrawn leaving Team Rhodenhizer as our Travelers Curling Club Championship Women’s representative. The Men’s best 2 out of 3 competition between Teams Callaghan and Spence will take place as scheduled on Friday 23 Feb at 7:00 pm, Saturday 24 Feb at 10:00 am, and if required, Saturday 24 Feb at 2:00 pm.

Team Rhodenhizer and the Men’s representatives will now advance to the 2018 PEI Travelers Curling Club Championships, March 9-13 at the Montague Curling Club.

The provincial winners will advance to the national event, normally held in November. Dates and location have not yet been announced.

Participating teams in our Club playdowns are:

Women: Team Rhodenhizer 

Men: Team  Callaghan and Team Spence

Here are the team rosters:

The Provincial Under 18 Curling Championships, sponsored by PEI Credit Unions, with male and female divisions for curlers a maximum of 17 years of age on June 30, 2017, take place February 23-26, 2018 at the Silver Fox curling club in Summerside. Six of the nine teams competing are from the Cornwall Curling Club, and another is from the Cornwall, Crapaud, and Charlottetown clubs.

Last year’s winners were the Donald DeWolfe rink from the Cornwall, Silver Fox, and Western Community clubs, and the Lauren Lenentine team from Cornwall. These skips are not back this year, so there will be two new championship rinks. Last year’s runner-up rinks, skipped by Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut and Rachel MacLean, are among this year’s entrants of four boy’s and five girl’s teams.

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 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 2018 Canadian Under-18  Boys and Girls Curling Championship, April 9-14 in St. Andrews NB.

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

Draw Tree

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.

Schedule

Boys

Girls

Team Rosters

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

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.

Our Club playdowns for the provincial Travelers Curling Club Championships take place this Friday and Saturday, February 23 and 24, with two women’s and two men’s teams playing best 2 out of 3 formats, with games on Friday at 7 pm, Saturday at 10:00 am, and if required, 2 pm.

The winners will advance to the 2018 PEI Travelers Curling Club Championships, March 9-13 at the Montague Curling Club. The provincial winners will advance to the national event, normally held in November. Dates and location have not yet been announced.

Participating teams in our Club playdowns are:

Women: Team Rhodenhizer and Team Nicholson

Men: Team  Callaghan and Team Spence

Here are the team rosters:

Team Nicholson:
Skip, Kim Nicholson; Third, Jean Sinclair; Second, Colleen MacDonald, Lead, Dena Farrell.

The Mitchell Schut team from here at the Cornwall Curling Club, which includes second Nick Johnston from Schut’s Canada Games Training Team, along with clubmates Sydney Howatt at lead and Sierra Clyke at third from the Canada Games Training Team skipped by Howatt, have captured the “B” section final and a spot in the Monday championship round at the PEI Mixed Curling Championship being played at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton.

Photo (from Canada Games trials) L-R: Schut, Johnston, Clyke, Howatt

After handing “A” section winner and last year’s runner-up Tyler MacKenzie his first loss of the event, by a 5-3 score, on Saturday afternoon, Schut beat the Jamie Newson team from the Silver Fox and Charlottetown clubs by a 6-4 score in the “B” final on Sunday morning. Schut started off the game by stealing a triple over Newson, who was kept to singles in the next two ends. Schut followed a 4th end single with a stolen 5th end deuce to lead 6-2. Newson took the next two ends, but ran out of rocks in the eighth.

Newson now plays MacKenzie, with Schut taking on Summerside’s Corey Miller, who downed the host club’s Daryl MacDonald rink 9-1 Sunday morning, in the 2 pm “C” semi-finals. The winners advance to the 6 pm “C” final.

The two game championship round against the section winners goes at 10 am and, if needed, 2 pm on Monday. If either MacKenzie or Schut advances to and wins the “C” final, they, as double section winners, would have to be beaten twice on Monday, so the second game in the championship round would be required if the other team won the first. If there are three separate section winners, the team that played in the most section finals would get a bye to the 2 pm game.

Nine teams, with representatives from all seven dedicated PEI curling clubs took part in this year’s event. The winning team advances to the Canadian Mixed Curling Championships, November 5-10 2018 at the Fort Rouge Curling Club in Winnipeg.

Click for Live End-by-End Results