Cornwall Curling Club

The Lauren Lenentine junior women’s foursome from the Cornwall Curling Club, and the Tyler Smith junior men’s rink from the Charlottetown Curling Complex, have both won the first two of three sections of the Modified Triple Knockout draw, and now have a big advantage at the Pepsi Provincial Junior Curling Championships at the Montague Curling Club. If one or both of these teams should also win the third section final, at 3:30 pm on Thursday, they will win their respective junior men’s or women’s championship without the Friday championship round. If they don’t win the third section final, they will have a “double life” in the two game championship round on Friday, winning the title if they take either game, while their opponent, the winner of the third section, would have to win both.

Photo (L-R): Breanne Burgoyne, Kristie Rogers, Lauren Lenentine

Team Lenentine, with third stone Kristie Rogers, second Breanne Burgoyne, and lead Rachel O’Connor, with coach Pat Quilty, beat the Kaleigh Mackay team from Charlottetown and Montague 9-4 in the “A” final, and 9-5 in the B.

Photo (L-R): Christopher Gallant, Tyler Smith, Noah O’Connor

The Smith rink, which includes third Christopher Gallant, second stone Noah O’Connor (who is a Cornwall Curling Club member), and lead Brooks Roche, with coaches Peter Gallant and Kevin Smith, won their first section final on Wednesday morning, 10-4 over Cornwall’s Devin Schut rink, and their second on Wednesday evening, also against the Schut team, by a 7-3 score. 

The sudden-death “C” event wraps up on Thursday, with the Devin Schut squad taking on Dylan Lowery and his Montague/Silver Fox rink at 11 in the junior men’s section, with the winner facing Smith in the “C” final at 3:30. If Smith wins that game, he takes the championship. Lowery advanced to the “C” semi-final with an 11-4 win over Leslie Noye and his combined Western/Silver Fox/Cornwall team Wednesday evening. Noye doubled the young Mitchell Schut foursome from Cornwall 6-3 on Wednesday afternoon to advance to the game against Lowery.

On the women’s side, it’s the young Lauren Ferguson rink from Cornwall taking on the Kaleigh Mackay foursome from Charlottetown and Montague Thursday at 11, with the winner meeting Lenentine in the “C” final at 3:30. Lenentine will win the championship if she takes that game. Ferguson came up on the winning side of two very close games on Wednesday, eliminating Cornwall clubmate Meghan Ching with a 6-5 score in the afternoon draw, stealing the last end when Ching’s final stone wrecked on a rock at the top of the house, and then went on to edge out another young Cornwall team, skipped by Alexis Burris, by an 8-7 score in the evening draw.

If either Lenentine or Gallant lose the “C” final, there will be a two-game championship round on Friday at 11 am and, if needed, 3 pm, with the “C” final winner playing off against either Lenentine or Gallant, and having to win both games to take the title, while Lenentine or Gallant would take their respective title if they won either game.

This year’s winners advance to the 2017 Canadian Junior (Under 21) Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships,  Jan. 21-29 at the Archie Browning Sports Centre in Esquimalt (a suburb of Victoria) BC, using the facility’s hockey arena and six-sheet curling rink to decide which teams will represent Canada at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Ten teams – 5 junior men’s and 5 junior women’s took part in this year’s PEI championship, for curlers under age 21.

Live end-by-end results from the provincial championship are available at PEICurling.com.

The date for our next Curling Drop-in session has been changed from Friday, January 6th to Sunday, January 22nd. Curling starts at 7:00 pm. Be there by 6:45 for team setup.

The PEI Pepsi Provincial Juniors Curling Championships, with male and female divisions for curlers under age 21, take place at the Montague Curling Rink from Dec. 27-30 2016, with 5 junior men’s and 5 junior women’s teams, with members from five of the Island’s seven dedicated curling facilities, entered. Eight of the ten teams entered have at least one Cornwall member on them.

Opening ceremonies take place at 2:45 pm on the 27th.

There will be new champions this year, as last year’s winning skips, Katie Fullerton and Matthew MacLean, are aged out of the event. This year’s winners advance to the 2017 Canadian Junior (Under 21) Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships,  Jan. 21-29 at the Archie Browning Sports Centre in Esquimalt (a suburb of Victoria) BC, using the facility’s hockey arena and six-sheet curling rink to decide which teams will represent Canada at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The junior men’s and junior women’s divisions will each play a modified triple knockout draw, where teams who win a section also drop down to compete in the next section. Section winners advance to a two-game championship round, unless a team wins all three sections, in which case they will immediately be declared the champion. A team who wins two of the three sections would play in both championship round games and win the event if they win either game, while the other section winner would have to win both games. Games are ten ends.

Live end-by-end results will be available at: peicurling.com/scoreboard/#!/competitions/2185 and on the main page of PEICurling.com.

Admission to watch the games: $3.00 per draw, or buy a Full Event Pass for $20.

Here are the opening day draws:

Draw 1: Tuesday December 27 at 11 am

Ice 1: Mitchell Schut (Cornwall) vs Leslie Noye (Western, Silver Fox, Cornwall)
Ice 2: Dylan Lowery (Montague, Silver Fox) vs Devin Schut (Cornwall, Montague)
Ice 3: Lauren Ferguson (Cornwall) vs Alexis Burris (Cornwall)
Ice 4: Meghan Ching (Cornwall) vs Lauren Lenentine (Cornwall)

Opening ceremonies at 2:45 pm

Draw 2: Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 3:30 pm

Ice 1: Kaleigh Mackay (Ch’town, Montague) vs winner Ferguson/Burris from Draw 1
Ice 2: Loser Ferguson/Burris and loser Ching/Lenentine from Draw 1
Ice 3: Tyler Smith (Charlottetown) vs winner M. Schut/Noye from Draw 1
Ice 4: Loser M. Schut/Noye vs loser Lowery/D. Schut from Draw 1

Modified Triple Knockout draws continue on Wed. Dec. 28 with three draws – at 9:30 am, 2 and 6:30 pm, and on Thursday the 29th at 11 am and 3:30 pm.

The two game championship round, if required, goes at 11 am on Friday the 30th and, if needed, at 3:30 the same day.

Modified Triple Knockout Draw and Schedule

Explanation for WA/WB & MA/MB:

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 are in yellow on the schedule

Draw Trees

Draw trees will NOT be updated during event. Refer to live scoring for updated results.

Junior Men’s Team Rosters

Junior Women’s Team Rosters

Click for previous winners and websites 

The PEI Pepsi Provincial Juniors Curling Championships, with male and female divisions for curlers under age 21, takes place at the Montague Curling Rink from Dec. 27-30 2016, with 5 junior men’s and 5 junior women’s teams, with members from five of the Island’s seven dedicated curling facilities entered. There will be new champions this year, as last year’s winning skips, Katie Fullerton and Matthew MacLean, are aged out of the event. This year’s winners advance to the 2017 Canadian Junior (Under 21) Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships,  Jan. 21-29 at the Archie Browning Sports Centre in Esquimalt (a suburb of Victoria) BC, using the facility’s hockey arena and six-sheet curling rink to decide which teams will represent Canada at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The junior men’s and junior women’s divisions will each play a modified triple knockout draw, where teams who win a section also drop down to compete in the next section. Section winners advance to a two-game championship round, unless a team wins all three sections, in which case they will immediately be declared the champion. A team who wins two of the three sections would play in both championship round games and win the event if they win either game, while the other section winner would have to win both games. Games are ten ends.

Live end-by-end results will be available at: peicurling.com/scoreboard/#!/competitions/2185 and on the main page of PEICurling.com.

Event website: PEICurling.com/juniors20162017.

Here are the opening day draws:

Draw 1: Tuesday December 27 at 11 am

Ice 1: Mitchell Schut (Cornwall) vs Leslie Noye (Western, Silver Fox, Cornwall)
Ice 2: Dylan Lowery (Montague, Silver Fox) vs Devin Schut (Cornwall, Montague)
Ice 3: Lauren Ferguson (Cornwall) vs Alexis Burris (Cornwall)
Ice 4: Meghan Ching (Cornwall) vs Lauren Lenentine (Cornwall_

Draw 2: Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 3:30 pm

Ice 1: Kaleigh Mackay (Ch’town, Montague) vs winner Ferguson/Burris from Draw 1
Ice 2: Loser Ferguson/Burris and loser Ching/Lenentine from Draw 1
Ice 3: Tyler Smith (Charlottetown) vs winner M. Schut/Noye from Draw 1
Ice 4: Loser M. Schut/Noye vs loser Lowery/D. Schut from Draw 1

Modified Triple Knockout draws continue on Wed. Dec. 28 with three draws – at 9:30 am, 2 and 6:30 pm, and on Thursday the 29th at 11 am and 3:30 pm.

The two game championship round, if required, goes at 11 am on Friday the 30th and, if needed, at 3:30 the same day.

Modified Triple Knockout Draw and Schedule

Explanation for WA/WB & MA/MB:

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 are in yellow on the schedule

Draw Trees

Junior Men’s Team Rosters

Junior Women’s Team Rosters

Click for previous winners and websites 

Looking for something fun to do over the holidays with your friends or your family, or maybe some exercise to work off the turkey and eggnog? Why not rent our ice for a fun curling game or a friendly family bonspiel? With eight curlers on one sheet for two hours, it’ll cost around $10 a person taxes in — less than the movies and about the same as or a little less than adult bowling (and you get to wear your own shoes!). Fun and exercise for just $5 an hour! You just need to wear loose or stretchy pants, a light jacket, and bring clean sneakers. We provide the sliders and brooms, and the bar is available for a drink after, if you want.

Our ice is available for evening rentals over the holidays from Dec. 27th through Dec. 30th.

Here are our ice rental prices (HST will be added). Call for different numbers of sheets, etc. We accept credit cards, debit cards, and even cash.  Interested? Get in touch at (902) 566-4427 (leave a message if we’re not there) or cornwallcurling@eastlink.ca

1 sheet for 2 hours: $70

4 sheets for 2 hours: $170

4 sheets for 4 hours: $275

4 sheets for 8 hours: $485

Adults interested in participating in the Olympic sport of curling are invited to take part in the new “Getting Started” league, on Thursdays from 8:30-10 pm, running from January 12 through March 16, 2017, and alternating between the Cornwall Curling Club and the Charlottetown Curling Complex (if numbers warrant, a separate league could be run at each facility). All interested beginner adult curlers are welcome.

Bring a friend, bring a spouse, come as a team or an individual.

$115/person (all included). 100% money-back guarantee within the 1st two weeks.

This instructional league will have on-ice instructors who will create a safe and fun environment for participants to learn how to curl. The league will alternate weeks between the Cornwall Curling Club and the Charlottetown Curling Complex, unless the number of participants is enough to run a standalone league at each facility. 

No experience is needed. Equipment and lessons are provided. Social time in the lounge will follow the curling each evening.  

Friends + Exercise + Prizes = FUN!

For more information, contact Amy Duncan at aduncan@sportpei.pe.ca or 902-368-4208

Here is the opening draw for the Desjardins Financial Security Independent Network Stick Curling Tournament, here at Cornwall on Saturday,  December 10th
8:30am

Ernie Stavert – Bryan Sutherland – Paul Field – Grant Crockett – Everett White – Janette Fraser
                     Myrna Craswell – Glen Marsh – Elaine Hughes – Don Graham

9:30am

Sterling Stratton – Janet Hackett – Gloria Clarke – Phyllis Stretch – Barry Craswell
                        Mary Plamondon – Joe Gill – Ruth Stavert – Sherril Minns – Alvin Hackett
                        Ensor Waite – Carolyn Crockett – Harvey Collicutt – Vern Chowan
                        Caroline Belliveau – Mike Minns

The draw and rosters for Round 2 of the 6:30 pm Thursday evening single entry mixed draw, sponsored by Sam’s Family Restaurant, is now available on the Thursday evening draw page of CornwallCurling.com.

Go to: cornwallcurling.com/draws/thursday-evening-draws/

Found this in the back page “Down Memory Lane” section of today’s Journal. A women’s bonspiel hosted here 25 years ago, with Shirley Berry the runner-up to an Alberton team for the trophy, Anyone remember this?

Our next Curling Drop-in session is coming up on Friday, Dec 9th at 7:00 pm. Be there by 6:45 for team setup.

It’s PIZZA night so stop in for a night of fun! 

Club Members: this is a great time to introduce curling to some family members or friends. All are welcome – just drop in with a team or we will set you up with one!

$10.00 drop-in fee for non-members, FREE for Club members.       

No pre-registration needed – just DROP-IN!

No experience needed – we will show you the basics. You will play one 6-end game (about 90 minutes).

We have brooms and sliders if needed. Pizza after your game!

Please come a little early (6:45) to get teams ready for the ice!

Hope you’ll join us!

Murphy’s Ice Queens Funspiel was held November 25th & 26, with 12 teams participating. We had one guest team from Souris and the rest of the teams were from our own club.

Matos Winery donated a beautiful basket with a bottle of chardonnay, balsamic vinegar, and some other goodies. Tickets were sold for this and we did the same as last year with a flip on “Chase the Ace” we chased the “Queen of Diamonds”’, with the lucky winner being Carol Sweetapple!!

 A round-robin style schedule was used with each team playing 3 six-end games over the weekend. This lead up to an exciting finish with a tie in points between the Sweetapple and the Rhodenhizer teams. The tie was broken with a count of overall game points scored in all three games, leading to the 1st place victory for the Rhodenhizer team consisting of Debbie Rhodenhizer, Cindy Nicholson, Christine Richardson and Diana MacKay. These ladies were presented with our new Murphy’s Ice Queens Trophy and gift cards from our sponsor Murphy’s Pharmacies. Second place gift cards were awarded to the Sweetapple team consisting of Carol Sweetapple, Carolyn Crockett, Pam Sweetapple and Rebecca Rolfe. The funspiel showed its true colors by awarding the last place team with the lowest points gift cards too. Recipients of this award went to Carlene Peters, Marg Stewart, Janice Murdoch and Helen Smith. This was a fun twist that was graciously accepted by all, showing that its not always about winning!

 The ladies were treated to a closing banquet catered by Alan Carmichael who prepared a lovely roast beef dinner with all the fixings. This was served to the ladies by club members Alan Mason, Angus Davies, Brent Irving, Dean MacEachern and Wade Deaken,  who all did a super job!

 This event could not have been so successful without the generosity of our new sponsor Murphy’s Pharmacies, and a special thank you to Heather MacLean who let the ladies experience the Body Composition Analyzer — a great addition to the weekend. A big thank you to all those who helped out  by providing food, volunteering in the kitchen, setting up, cleaning up, and doing many other jobs. As usual, a job well-done by all!!! 

Events at our club would not be so successful without the continued support of Bev our Club Manager, Lance the Iceman, Ray our Custodian , and our bartenders who for this spiel were Kelly and Debby.

Curl PEI, Curling Canada, and the World Curling Federation have recently come out with rulings and interpretations in response to the so-called “BroomGate”. Basically, it boils down to this:

Unless you are competing in a designated event, you can use any curling brush or pad that you wish. On PEI, those designated events are:

1.       PEI U18 Championships
2.       PEI Pepsi Juniors Championships
3.       PEI Scotties Tournament of Hearts Women’s Championship
4.       PEI Tankard Men’s Championship
5.       PEI Seniors Championships
6.       PEI Mixed Championship
7.       PEI Travelers Curling Club Championship
8.       PEI Mixed Doubles Championship (starting in 2017)

For normal club play and for other PEI events not specified above (or otherwise noted), you can, and may want to, use a conventional brush pad or pad cover.  The material is less expensive, will last longer, and may work better for sweeping too. If you are competing in off-Island events, be sure to check for any restrictions.

The new designated sweeping material (“Mustard Yellow Oxford 420D”) comes in yellow only, is more expensive, wears out faster, and comes with an imprinted registration number that identifies it to curling officials at the designated events.

Our Pro Shop has a wide variety of brush pads, and Hardline brush pad covers for regular and for designated event play. Of course, if you are sweeping with an older brush, you may not be able to find a compatible brush pad compliant with the designated events. You may also have to replace the  brush head or even buy a new brush. Our “Performance” brush pads are compliant with most recent heads from other companies such as Goldline and Balance Plus, but may not fit older models. We also have brush heads that will fit on almost any handle. The Hardline brush heads come with an adapter sleeve to fit “fatter” handles.

Best thing to do is bring your brush to the Club to find the best solution to your needs. 

By the way, to save on wear and tear, our Club brushes are designated for rental use only, and we charge a small fee for their use in the 2nd half of the season. Our Club members are expected to have their own brushes. If you have been using a Club brush, be sure to ask Santa for a brush of your own for Christmas. We feature quality, Canadian-made products from great companies such as Hardline, Performance Brush, and Balance Plus. If we don’t have it in stock, we can bring it in for you.

The Greg Robertson rink has moved to Wednesday night, and been replaced by the Ken Stewart team on the KFC Tuesday evening Competitive League Draw.

Here is the revised draw:

Curling Canada just put up this photo of something there’s only one of – a Cornwall Curling Club team on a Curling Canada Canadian Championship trophy! 

Be sure to get your team together for this year’s Travelers – we need a second one of these!

The Curl PEI Provincial Mixed Doubles Curling Championship takes place December 3rd and 4th 2016 at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. This 2 person per team version of curling is now an Olympic sport, beginning with the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. There are no age restrictions on this event. Two teams: the defending provincial championship duo of Kyle Holland and Sabrina Smith from the Charlottetown Curling Complex and the Cornwall Curling Club, plus the Charlottetown rink of Eric Pidgeon and Jaylene Holmes-Tang, are entered.

Sabrina Smith (left) and Kyle Holland at last year’s Canadian Mixed Doubles in Saskatoon. (Curling Canada/Darlene Danyliw photo)

The two teams will play a best 3 out of 5 competition, with games on Saturday Dec. 3 at 10 am, and 1 and 4 pm. Games on Sunday, Dec. 4, if necessary, go at 10 am and, if needed, 1 pm. Games are eight ends. 

Draw, Schedule and Live Results will be available at PEICurling.com/Scoreboard.

Winners advance to the Canadian Mixed Doubles Championship, which will once again be held at the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon SK, from April 5-9, 2017.

The Mixed Doubles game format is played over eight ends (instead of the usual 10). Each team has only six stones and one of those stones from each team is prepositioned on the centre line before every end of play. One player delivers the first and last stones of the end while the other player throws the second, third and fourth stones. If they choose to, the two players may swap positions from one end to the next. Both team members are also allowed to sweep.

Team Rosters

Click for the 2015-2016 event.

Round one of the Wednesday Evening Ladder League wraps up tonight. Also joining us on sheet 4 in the early draw will be two more teams, who will be qualifying for round 2, with the winning team going to the A pool and the runner-up to the B. Dave Younker is back to the League, as we have found more players for  him, and the Greg Robertson team is joining us from the Tuesday night league. With 12 teams, we’ll be able to replace the Crossover game in round 2 with regular games in each pool.

Judy Burgess and her team from the Truro Curling Club were the winners of the annual Masters Plus Bonspiel, which wrapped up on Friday here at the Cornwall Curling Club, with a full slate of 16 teams, from eight Maritime curling clubs, participating. The Masters Plus format includes three curlers age 60 or over, and one curler age 55 or over. Judy is no stranger to the winners circle at our Club, having finished as runner-up (to our own Shirley Berry) at the Maritime Masters Ch’ship held here in 2014. Two of the same team members – third Helen Brightman, and lead Penny Neily, were back with her this time, along with second stone Carolyn Kavanagh.

File photo, L-R:  Judy Burgess, Helen Brightman, Carolyn Kavanagh, Penny Neily

Women’s rinks captured three of the top four spots, determined via a points system, at this year’s event, with the Des Arsenault team from Summerside being the only men’s team in the winner’s circle. Here are the top four (skip to lead):

Judy Burgess, Helen Brightman, Carolyn Kavanagh, Penny Neily (Truro Curling Club in NS)
Helen Dickie, Sheila Reyno, Sharon McIntyre, Judi McLellan (Sackville Curling Club in NB)
Des Arsenault, Blair Jay, Cliff Poirier, Earl MacLeod (Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Community Complex, Summerside PE)
Shirley Berry, Arleen Harris, Linda Fairhurst, Hanny MacLeod (Cornwall Curling Club)

The prize table included a HUGE array of door prizes, courtesy of the many event sponsors, which included Holland College, Sherwood BMR, Fair Isle Ford, Super 8 Motel, Cornwall Quick Stop, Mr. Plumber, Honibe – Island Abbey Foods, Kenmac Energy, Cornwall Tire and Auto, Garden Isle Computer, Kent Building Supplies, Beaton’s Wholesale Dry Goods Ltd., Capital Honda, Experience  Hyundai, Rhonda’s Country Cuts, Hillside Motors, Reliable Motors, Peter McNeill Automotive, All Star Cresting, Wine Kitz, Centennial Nissan, Mary’s Cornwall Bakery, Ch’town Toyota, Markan Hardwood Plus Inc., Eagles Glenn Golf, Cows Ice Cream, Murphy’s Cornwall Pharmacy, Pharmasave Cornwall, Matos Winery, Water N Wine, Wine Experts, Ideal Tiles & Bathroom, DP Murphy Tim Hortons/Wendy’s, Leary’s  Independent Grocers, Browns Volkswagen, Biovectra Inc., Phytocultures Ltd., and Kays Wholesale. 

The host committee of Edgar Coffin, Ron Giggey, Ken Praught and Paul Arsenault would like to extend a special  thank you to Club manager Bev McCormick, ice maker Lance Lowther, bartender Al MacCormac, cleaner Ray Biagé and scorekeeper Bill Giggey for the work they did to help make this bonspiel successful, and would also like to thank the daytime, stick, and junior curlers who gave up their curling time and lockers, as well as the kitchen volunteers and anyone else who helped in any way. A big thanks also to the teams from across the Maritimes who attended. See you next year for the 5th annual!

The 10th annual Fall Fling Junior Cashspiel wrapped up this afternoon at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Community Complex in Summerside, with rinks from Halifax and Fredericton taking the finals.

Team Abraham (L-R) Ryan Abraham, Mitchell Cortello, Jake Flemming, Thomas Mosher

The Ryan Abraham team from the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax won the 10 team Junior Men’s division, beating the Evan McDonah squad from the Truro Curling Club in the 1 pm final. Abraham had a one-point lead after eight ends but stole a single in the 9th and a deuce in the 10th end for a 7-3 final score. Other members of the winning Ryan Abraham rink are third Mitchell Cortello, second stone Jake Flemming, and lead Thomas Mosher. Paul Flemming is team coach. Other members of the McDonah team include Adam McEachern. Alex McDonah and David McCurdy, with coach Dave Williams. Abraham edged Liam Marin and his squad from the Thistle St. Andrews club in Saint John New Brunswick 6-5 in an extra end in the Sunday morning semi-final, while McDonah edged Leslie Noye and his foursome from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, also by a 6-5 score.

Team Comeau (L-R):  Justine Comeau, Emma LeBlanc, Brigitte Comeau, Keira McLaughlin

Meanwhile, the Justine Comeau rink from the Capital Winter Club in Fredericton NB took the 12 team Junior Women’s division, beating the Shaelyn Park squad from Curl Moncton 9-2 in the final, which went only six ends. Comeau’s team includes third Emma LeBlanc, second Brigitte Comeau, and lead stone Keira McLaughlin, with coach Tim Comeau. Completing the runner-up Park foursome are third Julia Goodin, second Molli Ward, and lead Lauren Whiteway, with coach Mark Whiteway. Comeau beat Cornwall’s Meghan Ching rink 8-3, while Park tripled Taylor Stevens of Chester 9-3 in the morning semi-final round.

Junior Women’s Round-robin play 
Stevens finished with a spotless 5-0 record in the B pool, The Ching team, with a hit and roll to the button, got by another Cornwall rink, skipped by Alexis Burris, 6-5 in a closely-fought battle Saturday evening to finish round robin play with a 4-1 record, with Burris, clubmate Lauren Ferguson, and Charlottetown’s Katie Shaw finishing at 2-3. Lillian Sanderson of the Northumberland Curling Club in Pugwash NS went 0-5.

The junior women’s A pool saw Comeau and Park both finish round-robin play at 4-1, with Cornwall’s Lauren Lenentine, and Isabelle Ladouceur of the Lakeshore Curling Club in Sackville NS going 3-2. Jenna Bishara of Bridgewater NS went 1-4, while Gabrielle Lirette of Curl Moncton didn’t manage to come out on the winning side in their games.

Junior Men’s Round Robin

Liam Marin of the Thistle St. Andrews club in Saint John NB was the only undefeated rink in the 10 team, two pool, junior men’s section, with a 5-0 record, and advanced to the semi final against  Ryan Abraham of the Halifax Mayflower Club, who finished in second spot in the same pool with a 4-1 win-loss record, while  Leslie Noye of the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, who finished at 4-1, and Evan McDonah of Truro, who finished the round robin at 3-2, advanced to the other semi. James Dalton of the Halifax Mayflower club and Mitchell Schut of Cornwall, both with 2-3 win-loss records, along with Devin Schut of Cornwall, and Seth Doucette of the Northumberland club in Pugwash, both at 1-4, and the young Cruz Pineau rink from the host club, who didn’t quite manage to pull out a win.

The Sunday semi-finals and finals were 10 end games. The round robin matches were 8 ends. 

Full linescores at peicurling.com/Scoreboard.

The Junior Women’s and Junior Men’s semi-finals go at 9 this morning, with the winners advancing to their respective finals at 1pm, as the 10th annual Fall Fling Junior Cashspiel wraps up at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Community Complex in Summerside. 

In the 12 team junior women’s section, Justine Comeau of Fredericton NB’s Capital Winter Club takes on Cornwall’s Meghan Ching, while Taylor Stevens from the Chester NS Curling Club faces Shaelyn Park of Curl Moncton in the semis. Taylor finished with a spotless 5-0 record in the B pool, The Ching team, with a hit and roll to the button, got by another Cornwall rink, skipped by Alexis Burris, 6-5 in a closely-fought battle Saturday evening to finish round robin play with a 4-1 record, with Burris, clubmate Lauren Ferguson, and Charlottetown’s Katie Shaw finishing at 2-3. Lillian Sanderson of the Northumberland Curling Club in Pugwash NS went 0-5.

The junior women’s A pool saw Comeau and Park both finish round-robin play at 4-1, with Cornwall’s Lauren Lenentine, and Isabelle Ladouceur of the Lakeshore Curling Club in Sackville NS going 3-2. Jenna Bishara of Bridgewater NS went 1-4, while Gabrielle Lirette of Curl Moncton didn’t manage to come out on the winning side in their games.

Liam Marin of the Thistle St. Andrews club in Saint John NB was the only undefeated rink in the 10 team, two pool, junior men’s section, with a 5-0 record, and will face Ryan Abraham of the Halifax Mayflower Club, who finished in second spot in the same pool with a 4-1 win-loss record in one junior men’s 9 am semi-final, while  Leslie Noye of the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, who finished at 4-1, and Evan McDonah of Truro, who finished the round robin at 3-2, square off in the other semi-final. 

Finishing out of the playoffs were Chris Gallant of the Charlottetown Curling Complex (4-1), James Dalton of the Halifax Mayflower club and Mitchell Schut of Cornwall, both with 2-3 win-loss records, along with Devin Schut of Cornwall, and Seth Doucette of the Northumberland club in Pugwash, both at 1-4, and the young Cruz Pineau rink from the host club, who didn’t quite manage to pull out a win.

The 9 am semi-finals and the 1 pm finals are 10 end games. The round robin matches were 8 ends.

Last call for entries in “The Ice Queens” Women’s funspiel is Monday Nov 21 at 5pm. All team entries must be in by then!

The Cornwall Curling Club hosts “The Ice Queens” Women’s Funspiel, Friday evening November 25  and all day Saturday, November 26. The event is pleased to welcome new sponsor Murphy’s Pharmacies.

This spiel is open to female curlers from all clubs. Team or single entry welcome. No competitive teams, please. Call (902) 566-4427 to signup, or sign the sheet at the Club.

Entry fee is just $30 per person. Entry is limited to 16 teams. The event will include great food, fun, curling, and prizes!

Snacks will be provided Friday evening, with a Saturday breakfast of muffins, sweetbread and coffee. Lunch will be soup, with a closing awards supper at 6 pm. There will be Door Prizes and a 50/50 draw.

Stick curling — a variation of curling that has players use a stick that attaches to the handle of the curling rock — continues to gain traction in P.E.I.

“We are doing pretty good for the little old Island, we do damn good,” said stick curler Bob Leard from Montague. “It’s great exercise for us older guys who like to curl.”

“To stick curl is just as hard as to regular curl, because as … you have to think all the way through the game. It’s a two-man team and that’s it. I feel that it’s more of a challenge,” he said.

‘The competitive part is a bonus’

This week, stick curling teams from Alberton, O’Leary, Cornwall and Montague all met in Montague for a one hour game.

“We have some teams that are quite competitive and we’ve won Maritimes championships and actually won a national championship,” said Ernie Stavert, president of Stick Curling P.E.I.

“The purpose is to keep people in the game as a recreation, but the competitive part is a bonus.”

More players wanted

The number of people playing the sport on P.E.I. has been increasing slowly over the years, but the numbers fluctuate year over year at the different curling clubs.

Cornwall always seems to come out on top, with the number of stick curlers increasing steadily. 

“Hopefully it will increase as people age, and try to stay active. Hopefully there’s a positive future for stick curling.”

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