The Guardian is not published on Remembrance Day, so our Ladder League draw won’t appear in it. Here is is. Of course, you can also check all our draws in the Draws section of CornwallCurling.com.

Note that the Club will be open, but there is no Daytime League draw or 10 am Drop-In curling, because of Remembrance Day. Junior practice, evening draws go as scheduled.

Lowther’s Snow Removal Ladder League

Week 3: Nov 11

6:30 pm B Pool

Ice 1: Bob Fowler vs Valerie Acorn

Ice 2: Booked for a team practice

Ice 3: David Younker vs Gord Peters

Ice 4: Greg Groves vs Lew Black

8:30 pm A Pool

Ice 1: Ray Biagé vs Mark MacDonald

Ice 3: Donald DeWolfe vs Kelly Watts

Ice 4: Paul Neima vs Robert Thibodeau

BYE: Jeff Taylor

Remembrance Day in Stratford, 2009

Mixed Doubles, curling’s new and exciting format, is taking off around the world. Besides  provincial and Canadian championships, the World Curling Federation (WCF) has developed a Mixed Doubles World Championship, and Mixed Doubles has been officially added as a sport to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

The Cornwall Curling Club, home of Mixed Doubles provincial champion Katie Fullerton, will once again be holding a Mixed Doubles bonspiel, on Saturday, November 21. The signup sheet will be up soon. Last year we had a full draw of 16 teams, with the following winners:

Meanwhile, Curl PEI’s Provincial Mixed Doubles Curling Championship will be held at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, December 11-13, 2015. Last year’s provincial winners were the Kyle Holland/Katie Fullerton duo, from the Charlottetown Curling Complex and the Cornwall Curling Club, respectively. The winning team will move on to represent PEI at the National Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, March 31-April 3, 2016 in Saskatoon Sask. The World Curling Federation (WCF) has developed a Mixed Doubles World Championship, and Mixed Doubles has been officially added as a sport to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

Photo: Mixed Doubles play. Provincial champion Katie Fullerton is on the right

Entry deadline for the provincial championship is November 20, 2015, and entry fee is $80 per team. Entries must be made online at PEICurling.com

Entries to-date may be viewed at the event website at peicurling.com/mixeddoubles.

Rule revisions

In September 2015 the WCF passed new rules for Doubles play.  Curling Canada plans to adopt these rules at a meeting scheduled for Nov. 16. Here are the new WCF rules, with additions and revisions indicated.

Rules of Doubles Play
1. A team is composed of two players (in Mixed Doubles they are of opposite sex).
2. The scoring shall be the same as in a regular game of curling.
3. The “positioned” stones that are placed before the beginning of each end are
eligible to be counted in the scoring.
4. Each game will be scheduled for eight (8) ends.
5. Each team shall deliver five (5) stones per end. The player delivering the
team’s first stone of the end must also deliver the team’s last stone of that
end. The other team member shall deliver the team’s second, third and
fourth stones for that end.
6. The player delivering the first stone can change from end to end.
7. Modified FGZ – No stone in play, including the “positioned” stones and
those in the house, can be moved to an out-of-play position prior to the delivery
of the fourth stone of an end (the fourth delivered stone is the first stone
that can remove any stone from play). If there is a violation, the delivered
stone shall be removed from play, and any displaced stone(s) shall be replaced
to their original position by the non-offending team.
8 (NEW). While the team is in the process of delivery, the non-delivering player must
be positioned inside the hogline, with at least one foot on the ice surface at
the playing end of the team’s sheet, OR, in a position on the team’s sheet to sweep
the delivered stone. After delivery, either or both players may sweep their delivered
stone and any stones set in motion that belong to their team anywhere in front
of the teeline at the playing end. This applies during all of the team’s delivered
stones, including the Last Stone Draws.
9. If a player delivers a stone out of proper rotation, that stone is returned to the hack
to be delivered by the correct player, after any displaced stones have been replaced
to their original positions by the non-offending team. Should the infraction
not be discovered until after the delivery of a subsequent stone, play continues as
if the infraction had not occurred.
10. Based on the ice conditions, when no event official is available to make the decision,
the teams shall determine the specific placement of the Position A Stone prior
to the start of the pre-game practice (if applicable), and that same placement must
be used for the entire game.
11 (REVISED). Position of stationary stones – Prior to the start of every end, the team with the
choice (or hammer) shall place their team’s stationary stone, and their opponent’s
stationary stone, in either position “A” or “B”:
-The Position “A” stone is placed bisecting the centre line, midway between
the hog line and the front of the house.
– The Position “B” stone is placed so it bisects the centre line and the back
edge of the stone is in alignment with the back edge of the four foot.
If they choose to place their stone ‘out front’, they shall deliver first stones in the
end. Therefore, should they choose to be behind the button, they shall have last
stone in the end. The team not scoring in the previous end, shall have the ‘choice’
in the next end. If the end is blanked, the choice shall change to the team that delivered
first in the blanked end.
12 (NEW). Power Play – Once per game, each team with last stone, has the option to place
the stones in a “power play” position. The in-house stone (A) of the team with last
stone in that end is placed with the back edge of the stone on the teeline, splitting
the 8 foot and the 12 foot rings. The guard is re-positioned from the centre-line to
a direct line between the middle of the in-house stone and the middle of the hack.
The in-house stone will be directly behind the guard. The guard position will be at
the same distance from the rings as the normal position of the centre guard for that
game. The team calling the power play can decide which side of the house they
would like the stone to placed. A power play cannot be called in extra ends.

The Junior Developmental league, sponsored by Wendy’s restaurants, for curlers age 11-15, started Saturday morning Oct. 31 at the Cornwall Curling Club. There are seven teams, which means one team has a bye each week, unless another team signs on. Game time is 9:30 am, and teams play one six-end game.

Here’s this week’s draw, and updated rosters and rules.

Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015, 09:30

Ice 2:   Chase MacMillan vs. Mitchell Shut

Ice 3:   Rachel MacLean vs. Alexis Burris

Ice 4:   Katie Shaw vs. Beth Walsh

Bye: Emma Coffin

Team Rosters (Skip to lead)

Chase MacMillan, Liam Barbrick, Jack MacFadyen, TBA
Rachel MacLean, Grace Gaudet, Avery Nicholson, Jordan Dunphy
Mitchell Schut, Colin MacKenzie, Michael MacEwen, Liam Kelly
Alexis Burris, Sydney Howatt, Meghan Sherren, Madelyn Cantwell
Katie Shaw, Amy Spence, Gracie Bulger, Lexie Murray
Emma Coffin, Gillian Barbrick, Katelyn Burgoyne, Baily O’Grady
Beth Walsh, Clara Jack, Rory Ulvstal, Darrah MacLeod
 

RULES:

1. Round Robin format

2. 6 end games

 

(Curling Canada)

The Canadian Mixed Curling Championship gets underway on Sunday at the Weston Golf and Country Club in Toronto.

It’s the 53rd edition of the Mixed, which began in Toronto in 1964 and has been won a leading 10 times by both Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Once again this year, the championship will feature 14 teams (10 provinces plus Northern Ontario, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon) seeded and separated into two pools of seven teams each (based on their won-lost record at last year’s Mixed in North Bay, Ont.), who will first play a round robin within their pool.

Team PEI (L-R): Eddie MacKenzie , Chloé McCloskey, Tyler MacKenzie, Megan Wile.

PEI will be represented by the Eddie MacKenzie rink, which includes Cornwall member Chloé McCloskey at third, second Tyler MacKenzie, and lead Megan Wile.

At the conclusion of the round robin, the top four teams in each pool advance to the Championship Pool, when the teams play the teams from the opposite pool, carrying forward their full won-lost records.

Meanwhile, the bottom three teams in each pool will go to the Seeding Pool, where they will compete against the three teams from the opposite pool. These teams also carry forward their full won-loss records.

At the conclusion of the Championship Pool round on Friday, two semifinals will take place Saturday morning at 11 a.m. AT, pitting 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3. The two winners then advance to the final Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m. Atlantic, while the two losing teams meet in the bronze medal game at the same time.

Final results will determine seeding for next year’s Canadian Mixed in Yarmouth, N.S.

All games throughout the competition are eight ends. Also, no tiebreaker games will be played at the conclusion of either round. Instead, any unsolvable ties for position after head-to-head results will be determined by accumulated Draw Shot results.

The winning team will then represent Canada at the 2016 World Mixed Curling Championship, Oct. 15-22 in Kazan, Russia. Last year’s winning team, skipped by Saskatchewan’s Max Kirkpatrick, lost in the quarter-finals of the inaugural World Mixed Curling Championship this past September in Berne, Switzerland.

Every province, plus Northern Ontario, has won at least one Canadian Mixed Curling Championship since 1964. Ontario has three Mixed titles to its credit, the latest by Orillia’s Cory Heggestad, who won the 2013 edition when staged in Mount Royal, Que. Ottawa’s Mike McLean will wear the host province’s colours this year.

The last time the event was held in Toronto was in 1985 at the Bayview Country Club, with British Columbia’s Steve Skillings prevailing.

Among this year’s competitors are a number of players with Tim Hortons Brier or Scotties Tournament of Hearts experience, including skips Dean Joanisse of British Columbia, New Brunswick’s Charlie Sullivan, Northern Ontario’s Colin Koivula, Steve Moss of the Northwest Territories, Prince Edward Island’s Eddie MacKenzie, Quebec’s Maxime Elmaleh (a former Brier champ playing lead for Jean-Michel Ménard in 2006), Saskatchewan’s Bruce Korte and Yukon’s Bob Smallwood.

Sullivan also won the 1987 Canadian Juniors and 1988 World Juniors while Joanisse skipped his province to victory at the 1989 Canadian Juniors.

Over the years, the Mixed has been won by such well-known curlers as Jeff Stoughton, Rick Folk, Rick Lang, Kevin Koe, Mark Nichols, Colleen Jones, Barry Fry, Paul Flemming, Jean-Michel Ménard, Charlottetownès Robert Campbell, and Shannon Kleibrink, who is the only female to win the Mixed as skip, which she did in 2004 at Schumacher, Ont.

Saskatchewan’s Larry McGrath is the only three-time winning skip, having won the Mixed in 1967, 1968 and 1971.

For a downloadable copy of the event draw, click here.

Draw (all times Eastern)

For a downloadable copy of the team rosters, click here.

Teams:

29 Apr 2015

Alberta

29 Apr 2015

British Columbia

29 Apr 2015

Manitoba

29 Apr 2015

New Brunswick

29 Apr 2015

Newfoundland & Labrador

29 Apr 2015

Northern Ontario

29 Apr 2015

Northwest Territories

29 Apr 2015

Nova Scotia

29 Apr 2015

Nunavut

29 Apr 2015

Ontario

29 Apr 2015

Prince Edward Island

29 Apr 2015

Quebec

29 Apr 2015

Saskatchewan

29 Apr 2015

Yukon

Draw scores/standings will be immediately available on Curling Canada’s website, www.curling.ca.

Click to read this story on the Curling Canada website.

Some really close games, and great competition this morning for the first week of the Under 16 Junior Development League, sponsored by Wendy’s and by Curl PEI, with wins by MacLean, Schut, and Coffin. Here’s next week’s schedule. Note that the bye team is encouraged to come out and practice on the remaining sheet.

Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015, 09:30

Ice 2:   Chase MacMillan vs. Mitchell Shut

Ice 3:   Rachel MacLean vs. Alexis Burris

Ice 4:   Katie Shaw vs. Beth Walsh

Bye: Emma Coffin

Thanks to the 20 people, including members, former members, and new curlers, who came out Friday evening for our first Drop-In curling session of the season. Quite a few were in costume, and it looked like everyone had a good time! A special thanks to Board members Carlene Peters, (wearing black and white stripes tonight) and Lisa MacEachern, and to Bob Fowler, who helped do the draw. President Paula Ling and vice-president Alan Mason were there, too.

Our next Drop-In night is scheduled for Nov. 27. Mark the date on your calendar, and stay tuned for details!

Here’s a few photos of tonight’s curling action, and of our bartender for the evening, Yoko Ono!

We’ve got seven teams and 1 extra player for our Saturday morning Under 16 developmental team league, which begins this Saturday, Oct. 31, at 9:30am. We can put the player on a spares list, but seven teams means we have a bye, which we would like to eliminate, so we would like either three more single entries or an entire team (or 3/4 of a team!).  This league is open to players from all PEI clubs.

Details:

For curlers with some curling experience/instruction, age 11-15 years.

Entry fee is $35 +HST per player for seven weeks (A $15 Curl PEI fee will also be collected if not previously paid).

Games are six ends and will commence at 9:30 am. The league will operate for two seven week periods on Saturday mornings. Some Saturdays will not be available because of other Club activities.

To register or for more info, please contact Bev McCormick at (902) 566-4427 or info@cornwallcurling.com

This week’s KFC Tuesday Evening Competitive Draw is now available at the Draw web page: https://cornwallcurling.com/draws/tuesday-evening-competitive/

We are sad to learn that Gordie Hermann passed away around 1 this morning. Without Gordie, there likely would have been no Cornwall Curling Club.  Let’s wind the clock back to 1979, where the Cornwall Village Council became interested in developing community recreation facilities. Gordie Hermann was the council member in charge of special community projects at that time. A survey was conducted with a skating rink, a swimming pool and a curling rink being the most popular items selected as being needed. Discussions were held with the Provincial Government, it was felt there were lots of skating rinks and that the capital and operating expenses of a pool would not make it a viable operation. After the decision was made, Gordie sat on the committee that met weekly to plan and implement the project, and then moved on to sit on the charter Board of Directors for the Club. All Directors made a personal guarantee of $1000.

Gordie was Club president during our 1983-84 and 1988-89 seasons, and spoke at our 20th anniversary celebrations in the 2001-2002 season.

Gordie Hermann at the 20th Anniversary Banquet

Gordie had heart surgery in June 2012, but recovered, and continued to curl at the Club until very recently, winning a medal in 65+ Mixed Curling at the 55+ games in February 2013. It’s a little-known fact that Gordie has also curled at the Brier, when he curled at the Crapaud Curling Club on the Ted MacFadyen rink, back in 1980.

Photo: 65+ Mixed Bronze Medal Skip Gordie Hermann lines up a shot

We’ll let you know about funeral arrangements, once they are made available.

Congratulations to Club member Noah O’Connor on his marriage yesterday to Madison Clement!

Here is the round robin draw (13 teams plus a bye = 13 weeks) for the Wednesday Daytime League, sponsored by Lance “The Iceman” Lowther. Four sheets of ice are used at 12:30 pm, with two extra sheets at 10 am. One team has a bye each week.

The weekly draw will appear in the Wednesday Guardian. The draw is available in the Draws section of CornwallCurling.com.

Drawmasters: Paul and Joanne Durant at joanneldurant@gmail.com.

Wednesday Daytime League

Oct 28, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Barry Craswell vs Busher Stucky

Ice 2: Danny Kneabone vs Carol Sweetapple

12:30pm

Ice 1: Bob MacWilliams vs Paul Arsenault

Ice 2: Tom Dunn vs Vern Chowan

Ice 3: Shirley Berry vs Ray Biagé

Ice 4: Diane MacKay vs Bryan Sutherland

Bye: Paul Durant

Nov 4, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Bryan Sutherland vs Bob MacWilliams

Ice 2: Vern Chowan vs Barry Craswell

12:30pm

Ice 1: Busher Stucky vs Shirley Berry

Ice 2: Paul Durant vs Ray Biagé

Ice 3: Carol Sweetapple vs Tom Dunn

Ice 4: Paul Arsenault vs Danny Kneabone

Bye: Diane MacKay

Nov 11, 2015 – No Team curling

Nov 18, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Tom Dunn vs Paul Arsenault

Ice 2: Busher Stucky vs Paul Durant

12:30pm

Ice 1: Danny Kneabone vs Bryan Sutherland

Ice 2: Barry Craswell vs Carol Sweetapple

Ice 3: Bob MacWilliams vs Diane MacKay

Ice 4: Shirley Berry vs Vern Chowan

Bye: Ray Biagé

Nov 25, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Carol Sweetapple vs Shirley Berry

Ice 2: Bryan Sutherland vs Tom Dunn

12:30pm

Ice 1: Paul Durant vs Vern Chowan

Ice 2: Diane MacKay vs Danny Kneabone

Ice 3: Paul Arsenault vs Barry Craswell

Ice 4: Ray Biagé vs Busher Stucky

Bye: Bob MacWilliams

Dec 2, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Barry Craswell vs Bryan Sutherland

Ice 2: Danny Kneabone vs Bob MacWilliams

12:30pm

Ice 1: Tom Dunn vs Diane MacKay

Ice 2: Shirley Berry vs Paul Arsenault

Ice 3: Vern Chowan vs Ray Biagé

Ice 4: Carol Sweetapple vs Paul Durant

Bye: Busher Stucky

Dec 9, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Paul Durant vs Paul Arsenault

Ice 2: Ray Biagé vs Carol Sweetapple

12:30pm

Ice 1: Diane MacKay vs Barry Craswell

Ice 2: Busher Stucky vs Vern Chowan

Ice 3: Bryan Sutherland vs Shirley Berry

Ice 4: Bob MacWilliams vs Tom Dunn

Bye: Danny Kneabone

Dec 16, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Shirley Berry vs Diane MacKay

Ice 2: Paul Arsenault vs Ray Biagé

12:30pm

Ice 1: Barry Craswell vs Bob MacWilliams

Ice 2: Bryan Sutherland vs Paul Durant

Ice 3: Tom Dunn vs Danny Kneabone

Ice 4: Carol Sweetapple vs Busher Stucky

Bye: Vern Chowan

Dec 23, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Ray Biagé vs Bryan Sutherland

Ice 2: Vern Chowan vs Carol Sweetapple

12:30pm

Ice 1: Busher Stucky vs Paul Arsenault

Ice 2: Bob MacWilliams vs Shirley Berry

Ice 3: Paul Durant vs Diane MacKay

Ice 4: Danny Kneabone vs Barry Craswell

Bye: Tom Dunn

Jan 6, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Barry Craswell vs Tom Dunn

Ice 2: Bob MacWilliams vs Paul Durant

12:30pm

Ice 1: Shirley Berry vs Danny Kneabone

Ice 2: Diane MacKay vs Ray Biagé

Ice 3: Bryan Sutherland vs Busher Stucky

Ice 4: Paul Arsenault vs Vern Chowan

Bye: Carol Sweetapple

Jan 13, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Paul Durant vs Danny Kneabone

Ice 2: Vern Chowan vs Bryan Sutherland

12:30pm

Ice 1: Busher Stucky vs Diane MacKay

Ice 2: Carol Sweetapple vs Paul Arsenault

Ice 3: Ray Biagé vs Bob MacWilliams

Ice 4: Tom Dunn vs Shirley Berry

Bye: Barry Craswell

Jan 20, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Diane MacKay vs Vern Chowan

Ice 2: Danny Kneabone vs Ray Biagé

12:30pm

Ice 1: Bob MacWilliams vs Busher Stucky

Ice 2: Tom Dunn vs Paul Durant

Ice 3: Shirley Berry vs Barry Craswell

Ice 4: Bryan Sutherland vs Carol Sweetapple

Bye: Paul Arsenault

Jan 27, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Paul Arsenault vs Bryan Sutherland

Ice 2: Paul Durant vs Barry Craswell

12:30pm

Ice 1: Ray Biagé vs Tom Dunn

Ice 2: Busher Stucky vs Danny Kneabone

Ice 3: Carol Sweetapple vs Diane MacKay

Ice 4: Vern Chowan vs Bob MacWilliams

Bye: Shirley Berry

Feb 3, 2015

10:00am

Ice 1: Bob MacWilliams vs Carol Sweetapple

Ice 2: Tom Dunn vs Busher Stucky

12:30pm

Ice 1: Shirley Berry vs Paul Durant

Ice 2: Barry Craswell vs Ray Biagé

Ice 3: Danny Kneabone vs Vern Chowan

Ice 4: Diane MacKay vs Paul Arsenault

Bye: Bryan Sutherland

Cornwall residents are saddened to learn that physiotherapist Ralph Manning passed away earlier today as the result of a heart attack he sustained last Thursday.

Photo: Ralph Manning (left), former Cornwall Curling Club president John DeLuca

The Cornwall Curling Club was the recipient of a $1500 donation from Mr. Manning and his physiotherapy business, Cornwall Physiotherapy & Sports Rehabilitation,.back in 2010, to help buy an automated external defibrillator (AED), shortly after a club member suffered a heart attack while curling at our Club.

We’ve got 13 teams signed up for our Wednesday evening Ladder League. Our opening night this week is “Qualifier Night”, where we schedule teams at random to play other teams in order to determine which pool to put them in for Round One. We have an odd number of teams, so, to avoid having one team play twice on Wednesday evening, we have decided to give a bye to the A pool to the team that was in the League last year, and had the most A pool finishes. The Paul Durant rink won two out of the three rounds, but they are not back, so that honour goes to the Mark MacDonald squad, who won the first round last year.

We will normally use three sheets of ice each draw time, with the A and B pools alternating timeslots each week. For qualifier night, though, we will go with four sheets at 6:30, and 2 at 8:30.

Here are the Round One Qualifier Night matchups for Wednesday Oct. 21, as selected at random (using Random.org). The Round One draw is sponsored by Lowther’s Snow Removal.

6:30 pm draw

Ice 1: Kelly Watts vs Gord Peters
Ice 2: Bob Fowler vs   Ray Biagé
Ice 3: Jeff Taylor vs Valerie Acorn
Ice 4: Robert Thibodeau vs  Lew Black

8:30 pm draw

Ice 2: Paul Neima vs Dave Younker
Ice 3: Donald DeWolfe vs Greg Groves

Bye: Mark MacDonald

The winning teams, plus the Mark MacDonald rink, will go to the A pool for Round One, which starts next week, while the runners-up will go to the B pool. The A pool had the early draw the last week of last year, so the B pool will start off with the early draw next week. One team in the A pool will have a bye in the first round. The three teams from the A pool with the lowest points will drop to the B pool after round one, while the top two teams from the B pool will move up, moving the extra team (and the bye) to the B pool for the second round. The A pool will then have the bye in the final round, with three teams moving from B to A, and two from A to B.

Each round will be 7 weeks (each team in the 7 team pool will play all six other teams plus have a bye, while the six teams in the other pool will each play the five other teams, plus play two of the teams a second time). There is one week left over at season end. We’ll  find a use for it later e.g. fill in for a last draw storm day (normally, missed weeks aren’t played)

There are prizes for the winners of both the A and B pools each round.

Team Rosters (please let me know of any roster changes):

Lew Black, Hans Wicki, Hans Anderegg, TBA
Paul Neima, Joe Callaghan, Alan Mason, Jeff Hannah
Bob Fowler, Carl Currie, Thane Thompson, Danny Young
Jeff Taylor, Dylan Sanderson, Cody Dawson, TBA
Kelly Watts, Cathy Handren, Paula Ling, Pam Sweetapple
Greg Groves, Donald Weeks, Marjorie Matthews, TBA
Valerie Acorn, Alan Acorn, Mark Perry, Len Gotell
Gord Peters, Hank Kamphuis, Gerald Dykerman, Pat MacInnis
Robert Thibodeau, Angus Kennedy, Wade Deaken, Ken Monaghan
Ray Biagé, Derek Gallant, Rebecca Rolfe, Derek MacEwen
Dave Younker, Bob MacWilliams, Joe MacMillan, TBA
Donald DeWolfe, Avery Wells, Cameron Jenkins, Nick Johnston
Mark MacDonald, Brad Gardiner, Wayne Dalziel, Wayne Goodwin

Weeks per round (unless number of teams changes)

Round 1: Oct 28,
Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25
Dec. 2, 9

Round 2: Dec. 16, 23
Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27
Feb. 3

Round 3: Feb. 10, 17, 24
Mar. 2, 9, 16, 23

Extra week: Mar 30

Rules (credit: some come from the Ottawa Curling Club’s Ladder League)

• Open semi-competitive league. Any player can play any position, and you can change from game to game.
• 3 game points for a win, 1 game point for a loss, 0 game points for a loss by default. Mark this and your team’s points scored (“score points”) on the scoresheet. In the case of a default, award one score point per end to the winning team. In the case of a tie, award an additional score point for the draw to the button winner. If your score is not marked and you win, you will get one score point more than the losing team. If you lose, you will receive zero score points.
• In the event of a default, the non-defaulting team will receive one score point for each scheduled end.
• To break ties at the end of the round between teams with the same record, the tied teams are ranked by applying the following rules in order until one tie is broken. If a one or more ties remain, the rules are applied to each tie starting from rule 1. The process continues until all ties are broken and all teams are ranked.
  1. The teams are ranked using their head-to-head record against the other teams in the tie.
  2. The teams are ranked using the point differential for their games in the round against the other teams in the tie.
  3. The teams are ranked using the point differential for all the games in the round against all teams.
  4. The teams are ranked using their initial ranking in the round.
• Ties: Decided by skip’s rocks with sweeping (by your team only).
• Avoiding defaults/using spares: At least one regular team member (and three players in total) must be present for the game to count, or else a default is posted.  Spares should not play a higher position than the player replaced.
• Storms: Any games cancelled due to storms, etc. will NOT be played, unless advised otherwise. All subsequent weeks will remain where they were.  Any changes to this will be posted on CornwallCurling.com.
• Teams may reschedule games to a different date and /or time by mutual consent. but ice time is normally hard to find.
• The buzzer will be used to ensure the teams are off the ice within the 2-hour time period.  If the buzzer sounds, teams will complete the current end in play to finish  the game. If tied, the standard draw to the button will then take place.

– Derek MacEwen

Wednesday Night Drawmaster

derek@derekmacewen.com, 569-4437 (H)

Here’s the opening draw for the Cornwall Curling Club’s Tuesday Evening Competitive League, sponsored by KFC PEI. This draw will normally appear in the Tuesday Guardian and the Draws section of Cornwallcurling.com

Tuesday, Oct 20, 2015

6:30PM Draw

Ice 1: Sandy Hope vs Bill Hope

Ice 2: Robert Thibodeau vs Carlene  Peters

Ice 3: Kaleigh Mackay vs Jaylene Holmes-Tang

Ice 4: Katie Fullerton  vs Debbie Rhodenhizer

8:30PM Draw

Ice 1: Angus Kennedy vs Karen Currie

Ice 2: Lauren Moerike vs Mark O’Rourke

Ice 3: Paul Durant vs Brock Spence

If you have ever wanted to learn how to dance with a partner to rock’n’roll music, then now is your chance. For 6 weeks we will instruct you starting with the very first basic dance move in The Jive. We are volunteering to teach this dance to help raise funds to enable a team of 7 women from First Baptist Church to complete a mission trip to Cuba in the spring of 2016. The cost for the 6 weeks of dance instruction is $60 per couple.

So….if you come out and try it the first night and decide it’s not for you then you can pay $10, you will have had a fun evening, and no hard feelings. If you decide that you want to continue, then you would pay $60, go home tired from dancing and laughing, and return next week knowing that every night you will get better and better.

We have taught people of all ages this dance at the Bluefield Community School over the past number of years and it still is one of the top classes for enrollment.
Please contact Gordon or Marjorie Matthews at 566-3716 or gordonmatthews@hotmail.com
if you have any questions or to sign up.

The 16th annual Maritime Junior Bonspiel, the largest junior bonspiel in Atlantic Canada, with sixteen teams in the Junior Men’s Division and fourteen in the Junior Women’s Division, wraps up today at Curl Moncton. It features twelve teams from NB, eleven from NS, six from PEI, and one from Quebec. Here’s Cornwall’s Sabrina Smith (right), Katie Fullerton (centre, delivering) and Aleya Quilty (left) in action at the event.

Lots more pictures at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.407016039467329.1073741856.124518104383792&type=3

There doesn’t appear to be any results website for this event.

The first curlers of the season took to the ice Wednesday evening at our Free Adult Curling School. There was a pretty good turnout, even with the warm weather and the Blue Jays game, and a number of the attendees signed on as members. Welcome! Thanks to everyone who attended, and those who helped out on and off the ice.  By the way, the instructors commented that the newly refurbished rocks had great curl.

If you missed the first night, don’t worry, we’re doing it again tonight (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday) from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. If you attended Wednesday, you are invited to come back – we have continuing classes each night. If you are new, we have starter classes each night too! It’s FREE, and you are under no obligation to join the Club. The evening curling school is designed for adults only, as younger curlers receive training as part of their regular instructional program. Please bring clean sneakers and wear loose fitting or stretchy pants and a light jacket.

Registration for new members (or returning members who haven’t yet signed up), and an Open House, for those who just want to have a look around, happen at the same time. Everyone welcome – the bar and Pro Shop (check out our sale on icePad brushes) are open, too!

We also have daytime curling on from 10 to noon Thursday and Friday. $10 drop-in fee for non-members.

We’ve been taking roll-call on our team curling, and it looks like we’ve got a few openings. We’ve had some teams move up to competitive from semi-competitive, some junior teams not returning, etc.

Right now, it looks like we need 1 more team for Monday night Commercial League, one more team for Tuesday competitive and at least 1 more for Wednesday semi-competitive ladder league. Get your team together, and signup as soon as possible! League play starts Monday!

The 2016 Maritime Masters Curling Championships, with men’s and women’s divisions for curlers age 60 and over, will be held at Thistle-St. Andrews Curling Club in Saint John NB, from March 11 to 13, 2016.

Meanwhile, the Wolfville Curling Center and Glooscap Curling Club have been chosen to be the co-hosts of the 2016 men’s and women’s Canadian Masters Curling Championships, which take place April 4 to 10, 2016. The Canadian Masters Curling Committee expects that all provinces and territories will be in attendance, with the exception of Nunavut.

The men’s and women’s winners and runners-up from the PEI Masters championships will earn the right to compete in the Maritime Masters Championships. The winning teams, or the highest-finishing men’s and women’s rinks that choose to attend, are also invited to participate in the Canadian Masters.

The PEI Masters champs will be determined January 22-26 at the Crapaud Curling Club. Defending provincial champs are the Mel Bernard rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, and the Shirley Berry foursome from the Cornwall and Charlottetown clubs.

The ice will be ready tomorrow, and the Cornwall Curling Club will be starting regular league play on Monday. If you’re looking for more info about curling at our Club, drop by anytime this week, especially during our Open House, Wednesday through Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, and have a look around.

If you are comparing curling clubs, remember that we  have the largest membership of any PEI curling facility. Our rocks were reconditioned over the summer, we have Jet Ice, and heaters in the ice house. We are also wheel-chair accessible down to the ice surface, and our clubhouse area was completely replaced in 2011-2012. We emphasize the social and recreational aspects of curling, but have provincial champions, too!

Our economical one-draw memberships let you curl in any provincial championship (extra cost), and practice during our regular practiee times (pre-booking needed) at no extra charge (some clubs charge extra for this). You can pay half your adult membership upon signup, and the other half on Dec. 1. Youth memberships are due at registration. Memberships may be paid with Debit, Visa, Mastercard, cheque, or cash.. Check out the Club Info section of our website for our low rates.

If you are new to the sport, check out our free Adult curling lessons, at the same time as registration. Juniors receive training as part of their regular program. Curling is great exercise, and a very social sport too!

If you have any questions, send us an email (info@cornwallcurling.com) or a Facebook message, or give us a call at (902) 566-4427.

Please sign up your teams on the bulletin board at the Club for the Wednesday Daytime League. The draw will go Wednesday afternoons at 12:30pm with overflow teams playing Wednesday morning at 10am.

First game is Wednesday, Oct 28^th

Please sign up by Thur, Oct 22^nd as our drawmasters, Joanne and Paul Durant,  will be out of province the week of Oct 25^th.

We can take up to 16 teams, including some single entry players as there are a number of teams looking for another player.

Inquiries can be directed to Joanne and Paul at 902-566-4639 or email pauldurant@pei.sympatico.ca.

The circles have been cut and painted, and Cornwall Curling Club’s ice will be ready in lots of time for our 6:30 pm Wednesday curling instruction (postponed from Tuesday due to a faulty ice plant part), thanks to the dedicated ice crew of Lance Lowther, Al MacCormac, Jeff Taylor & Roy Coffin, who worked until 2 this morning, as well as Montague’s Larry Richards, who cut the circles and, along with his wife Barbie, stayed to help with the painting, and Phyllis Lowther, who did the necessary coffee runs. Left to do: install the back lines, T-lines, advertising decals, etc., flood the ice a bunch of times, scrape, pebble, add the hacks, and try out the newly reconditioned rocks.

Photo: head icemaker Lance Lowther admiring the perfect circles!

We’ll let you know when the ice is ready to use!

We are happy to report that our ice plant is working well, after the faulty part was replaced, and the white paint went on this morning. Thanks to Lance Lowther, Al MacCormac, Ray Biagé. Bryan Sutherland, Roy Coffin, Paul Field, Vern Chowan, and Jeff Taylor for helping out!