Cornwall Curling Club

The Curl PEI Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, got underway Friday with two men’s draws. Four out of the ten men’s teams are still unbeaten after opening day action – one from the host Cornwall Curling Club, one from the Maple Leaf club in O’Leary, and two from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. Play continues on Saturday with draws at 9 am, and 12:30 and 4 pm. All games are eight ends in this event.

Photo: Ray Biagé

On Friday, Cornwall’s Ray Biagé foursome edged Charlottetown’s Matt Smith rink 7-6 in their opener, while O’Leary’s Clair Sweet got off to a fast start with a triple in his first end and a stolen deuce in the second against Cornwall’s Paul Arsenault.. Ends three through six saw each team pick up two pojnts, and a four point seventh end resulted in a 11-2  win for Sweet.

Photo (L-R): Earle Proude, Alan Montgomery, Mel Bernard

The Mel Bernard rink, recent PEI Legion champs, and three-quarters of last year’s Masters championship team (Bernard is replacing last year’s skip, Ted MacFadyen) joined the undefeated ranks by winning his afternoon opener by stealing a deuce in an extra end, against the Bill Hope rink from Charlottetown and Cornwall. Hope beat Cornwall’s Barry Craswell team, who are the only team in the event to have four curlers who use a delivery stick, by a 6-5 score in the morning draw. Craswell, helped out by a 5 point seventh end. rebounded with an exciting 11-10 extra-end win over clubmate Paul Arsenault in the afternoon draw.

The Dale Cannon rink from the Silver Fox remained in the “A” section of the modified triple-knockout draw by winning both their Friday games, doubling clubmate Louis Walsh 6-3 in the morning draw, and beating another Summerside rink, skipped by Bob Maynard, 7-2 in the afternoon.

Cannon now takes on Biagé, with Bernard facing Sweet, in “A” semi-final action Saturday at 12:30, PM, with the winners advancing to the “A” final at 9 AM on Sunday.

Down in the “B” event, Bill Hope takes on Louis Walsh  and Bob Maynard plays Barry Craswell at 9 am on Saturday.

Matt Smith from Charlottetown and Paul Arsenault of Cornwall, who both lost their two opening day games, are now in the “must win” C event, and play on Saturday at 4 pm against teams to be determined earlier in the day.

The men’s modified Triple Knockout round continues through Monday, qualifying teams for a two game championship round on Tuesday. If one team wins all three of the modified triple knockout sections, the championship round will not be required. If a team wins two of the three sections, they 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. If there are three separate winners, the team who played in the most qualifying teams will receive a bye to the second game. If teams are tied in qualifying games played, the team who qualified first gets the bye.

Play in the two team best of five Masters Women’s Championship gets underway on Saturday, with the Cornwall and Charlottetown rink skipped by last year’s winner Shirley Berry facing last year’s runners-up, skipped by Diane MacKay from the host club, playing their first two games in the 9 am and 12:30 PM draws.

The men’s and women’s winners and runners-up (which will include both women’s teams this year) will earn the right to compete in the Maritime Masters Championships. Dates and venue for this event have not yet been announced. The winning teams, or the highest-finishing men’s and women’s rinks that choose to attend, are invited to participate in the 2015 NVA Hotel Divison Canadian Masters Championships, March 30 to Apr. 5 at the Whitehorse Curling Club in the Yukon.

End by end results from the Provincial Masters are available at curlatlantic.com/scoreboard/

Event website is peicurling.com/masters20142015

A benefit is taking place for former Club member Bev “Nucker” Richards on Friday night from 9 to midnight at the Charlottetown Legion, with music by Phase II.  Nucker is well-known as a tenor sax player with a number of bands in the Charlottetown area for the past 50 years or so.

Photo: ” “Nucker”  Richards (left) on the tenor sax at the Cornwall Curling Club in April 2012

The Curl PEI Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, take place from January 16-20 here at the Cornwall Curling Club. There is no admission charge for this event, and curling fans are invited to come out and watch. Defending champs are the Shirley Berry rink from the host club, and the Ted MacFadyen team from Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club. MacFadyen is not back this year, but his three teammates are, skipped by Mel Bernard. Three  members of the Bernard rink won the Provincial Legion championship this past weekend (the fourth member of the Legion team, Blair Jay, is on the Dale Cannon rink).

The  two-team Women’s Division will play a Best of Five series, while the ten-team Men’s section will play a modified triple knockout format, qualifying teams for a two game championship round. If one team wins all three of the triple knockout sections, the championship round will not be required. If a team wins two of the three sections, they 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. If there are three separate winners, the team who played in the most qualifying teams will receive a bye to the second game. If teams are tied in qualifying games played, the team who qualified first gets the bye.

Draws go Friday at 9 AM and 1 PM, Saturday and Sunday at 9 AM, 12:30 PM and 4 PM, Monday at 9 AM and 1 PM and, if needed, Tuesday at 9 AM and 1 PM.

End by end results from the Provincial Masters will be available at curlatlantic.com/scoreboard/

Click for direct link to Masters Curlcast Results

Event website: http://peicurling.com/masters20142015/

Here is the Men’s draw:

Here is the event schedule (Women’s games are prefaced with “W”, Men’s games are prefaced with “M”)Masters Men’s Team Rosters

Masters Women’s Team rosters

Click for previous Masters championships

Opening men’s draws: Friday January 16

9 AM:

Ice 1: Dale Cannon (Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club) vs Louis Walsh (Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club)

Ice 2: Barry Craswell (Cornwall Curling Club) vs Bill Hope (Ch’town, Cornwall)

Ice 3: Ray Biagé (Cornwall Curling Club) vs Matt Smith (Ch’town Curling Complex)

Ice 4: Clair Sweet (Maple Leaf Curling Club) vs Paul Arsenault (Cornwall Curling Club)

1 PM:

Ice 1: Loser Craswell/Hope vs loser Sweet/Arsenault

Ice 2: Loser Cannon/Walsh vs loser Biagé/Smith

Ice 3: Bob Maynard (Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club) vs winner Cannon/Walsh

Ice 4: Mel Bernard (Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club) vs winner Craswell/Hope

Womens’ best of five series between Shirley Berry (Cornwall and Charlottetown) and Diane MacKay (Cornwall Curling Club): games go Saturday at 9 AM and 12:30 pm, Sunday at 9 am and, if necessary, 12:30 pm, and, if needed, Monday at 1 pm.

The men’s two game championship round, if required, goes Tuesday at 9 am and (if needed) 1 pm.

The Cornwall Curling Club will be selling soup and sandwiches at lunch-time Friday through Sunday, and will be conducting a 50X50 draw.

The men’s and women’s winners and runners-up (which will include both women’s teams this year) will earn the right to compete in the Maritime Masters Championships. Dates and venue for this event have not yet been announced. The winning teams, or the highest-finishing men’s and women’s rinks that choose to attend, are invited to participate in the 2015 NVA Hotel Divison Canadian Masters Championships, March 30 to Apr. 5 at the Whitehorse Curling Club in the Yukon.

The signup sheet is up now at the Club for our annual Kenmac Energy Funspiel, which takes place the evening of Friday January 30, and all day Saturday the 31st. Last year’s event had a full complement of 24 teams (we originally planned for 16) with the Paul Neima rink coming out as the winners. Signup now and avoid missing out!

The entry fee is $30 per person with snacks Friday night and lunch and dinner provided on Saturday. There will be music Friday night for anyone who would like to stay around after their game, and trivia and games on Saturday. Sign up is by team or single entry. Teams must be mixed with skip and mate of opposite sex ( a team could have three men or three women as long as skip and mate are different sex). The event is open to both members and non-members, experienced curlers and those new to the game. In this spirit, the Club encourages those assembling teams to invite new curlers to join them. All teams will play three six-end games, with event winners determined by a points system.

The Club would like to thank Kenmac Energy for their continued support of this great event!

Kenmac Energy are your P.E.I. distributor for Petro-Canada products and the only P.E.I. oil and propane company with a P.E.I. office. Get in touch with Kenmac for all your home heating needs. Visit their website at KenmacEnergy.com or call (902) 566-2295.

Here’s an album of photos (by Krista Affleck) from last year’s event.

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The 10th annual George’s Deck and Recovery Under 13 Bonspiel was held today at the Montague Curling Club, with 12 teams taking part. The first and second place teams were from the Cornwall Curling Club, while a team from the host Montague club took third place honours. The event, which is free to participate in, and includes a free lunch, was started a decade ago by George Branton, owner of George’s Deck and Recovery, when his grandson, who had recently taken up the sport at age 11, told him that more events were needed for younger curlers.

Here are the winning rinks, with sponsor George Branton:

First place winners from Cornwall CC.
Skip: Emma Coffin
3rd: Karina MacNeill
2nd: Gabby Newman
Lead: Beth Walsh

2nd Place from Cornwall CC
Skip: Hayden Ford
3rd: Chase MacMillan
2nd: Lily Taweel
Lead: Liam Barbrick

3rd Place from Montague CC
Skip: Ben MacKay
3rd: Locke Donovan
2nd: Ryan MacDougall
Lead: Fred Power

The draw is now set for the Provincial Masters Curling Championship, for curlers age 60 and over, taking place from January 16-20 here at the Cornwall Curling Club.

The  two-team Women’s Division will play a Best of Five series, while the ten-team Men’s section will play a modified triple knockout format, qualifying teams for a two game championship round. If one team wins all three of the triple knockout sections, the championship round will not be required. If a team wins two of the three sections, they 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. If there are three separate winners, the team who played in the most qualifying teams will receive a bye to the second game. If teams are tied in qualifying games played, the team who qualified first gets the bye.

Here is the Men’s draw:

Here is the event schedule (Women’s games are in pink and prefaced with “W”, Men’s games are prefaced with “M”)Here are the team rosters:

Masters Men’s Team Rosters

Masters Women’s Team rosters

Click for previous Masters championships

Defending champs are the Shirley Berry rink from the host club and Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club, and the Ted MacFadyen team from the Fox. MacFadyen is not back this year, but his three teammates are, skipped by Mel Bernard.

The men’s and women’s winners and runners-up (which will include both women’s teams this year) will earn the right to compete in the Maritime Masters Championships. Dates and venue for this event have not yet been announced. The winning teams, or the highest-finishing men’s and women’s rinks that choose to attend, are invited to participate in the 2015 NVA Hotel Divison Canadian Masters Championships, March 30 to Apr. 5 at the Whitehorse Curling Club in the Yukon.

End by end results from the Provincial Masters will be available at curlatlantic.com/scoreboard/

Event website: PEICurling.com/masters20142015

Congratulations to December’s SCORE! of the Month award winners the Veronica Smith team!

Photo (L-R), Katie Fullerton, Sabrina Smith, Chloé McCloskey, Veronica Smith

The Cornwall Curling Club rink of Veronica Smith, Chloé McCloskey, Sabrina Smith, and Katie Fullerton, with Coach Bill Hope, became three-time winners of the Pepsi Provincial Junior Women’s Curling Championship in late December.

Going undefeated in this year’s event, the Smith team will now advance to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, January 24 – February 1, 2015 in Cornerbrook NL.

This will be Veronica’s final trip to the Junior Nationals, as she will be out of the age category next year, but her three teammates will still be eligible.

The Score! award is presented monthly by Sport PEI in partnership with Score! Sport Charlottetown.

Get ready for our Club’s annual Kenmac Energy Funspiel, which takes place the evening of Friday January 30, and all day Saturday the 31st. A signup sheet should be up by the weekend. Last year’s event had a full complement of 24 teams (we originally planned for 16) with the Paul Neima rink coming out as the winners. Note that this is a mixed event, with skip and mate having to be of opposite sex (note that you can have three men or three women on a team, as long as there is one member of the opposite sex in the skip or mate position). This event is open to all curlers, including non-members and members of other clubs. Team entry, or single entry and you will be put on a team.

Details (last year’s info – could vary slightly)

This event is sponsored by Kenmac Energy, your P.E.I. distributor for Petro-Canada products and  the only P.E.I. oil and propane company with a P.E.I. office. Get in touch with Kenmac for all your home heating needs. Visit their website at KenmacEnergy.com or call 566-2295.

Here’s an album of photos (by Krista Affleck) from last year’s event.

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The holiday season is over, and we’re back to our normal schedule. Here’s tonight’s draw.

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Monday Mixed League

Jan 5, 2015 at 6:30pm

Ice 1: L. Black, B. Gardiner, L. Turnbull, B. Farrell vs D. Kneabone, M. Beck, D. Godfrey, D. Farrell

Ice 2: F. Martin, D. Weeks, S. Murphy, M. Matthews vs P. Neima, F. Weiler, P. Ling, D. MacSwain

Ice 3: E LeBlanc, A. Davies, K. MacDonald, C. MacDonald vs L. Davies, B. Murphy, J. Chisholm, D. Musto

Ice 4: G. Groves, D. Sigsworth, Y. Barbour, L. McDearmid vs A. Kennedy, C. MacDougall, S. O’Keefe, B. Lindsay.

Bye: R. Biage, C. Solterman, E. MacDonald, J. Sinclair

Monday Night Commercial League

Jan 5, 2015 at 8:30pm

Ice 1: PEI Inflatables vs The Dutch

Ice 2: KLJ Meats vs Rustico Resort

Ice 3: Dykstra Farms vs Fair Isle Ford

The Tyler Smith rink from the Montague and Crapaud curling clubs beat the Matthew MacLean foursome from the Cornwall and Maple Leaf curling clubs by an 11-3 score this morning to capture the Pepsi Provincial Men’s Curling Championship at the Charlottetown Curling Complex. Along with the women’s winners, the Veronica Smith (no relation) rink, they now advance to the  M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, January 24 – February 1, 2015 in Cornerbrook NL. It’s the second provincial juniors title for Tyler Smith, who, playing with a different team, also won the event in January 2013. This year’s rink are also competing in the Canada Games in Prince George BC in February.

Photo (L-R) Junior Men’s champs: Tyler Smith, Brooks Roche, Dylan Lowery, Ryan Lowery, coach Kevin Smith

Smith, who won two sections of the modified triple knockout round, had two chances to win the championship today against the MacLean foursome, who would have had to win both games, but the rink only needed the first game, getting on the scoreboard with a deuce in the first end, MacLean was kept to a single in the second, with Smith taking singles in the next two ends, and stealing a triple to take a commanding 7-1 lead after five ends. MacLean picked up a single in end six, and stole another in the seventh to make it 7-3, but a four-pointer from Smith in eight brought the game to handshakes.

Other members of the Smith foursome are third Brooks Roche, second Dylan Lowery, and lead Ryan Lowery. They are coached by Tyler’s father, Kevin Smith. Rounding out the runner-up MacLean team are Alan and Jordan MacLean at third and second, respectively, and lead Noah O’Connor, with coach Glen MacLean.

Photo (L-R) Junior Men Runners-up: Coach Glen MacLean, Matthew MacLean, Alan MacLean, Noah O’Connor, Jordan MacLean

The winners of the Fair Play (sportsmanship) award as voted on by the players, and the Asham Coaching Award as voted on by the coaches, were announced at the closing ceremonies, with the men’s Fair Play award going to skip Leslie Noye from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, and the Coaching award going to Roger Gavin, who coached the Noye rink (photos not available).

Six junior men’s rinks and an equal number of junior women’s teams took part in the Pepsi Juniors.

Linescores at: http://curlcast.ca/stats/organizations/1252C_dzWjU/competitions/1339-pepsi-junior-curling-championships-pei/scoreboard

Starting January 8, and running every Thursday from 8-10 pm at the Cornwall Curling Club, ParaSport and Recreation PEI will be offering Wheelchair Curling and Visually Impaired Curling. The signup cost is $25 per participant. For more info or to register please contact ParaSport and Recreation PEI at info@parasportpei.ca or call (902) 368-4540.

STICKS & STONES (Indoor Curling)

This program is designed to introduce the Olympic sport of curling to children by bringing the rink to the gym — reaching out to children who would otherwise not have access to the “roaring game”. Unique indoor floor curling equipment is used to provide a true curling experience without requiring ice.

Sport PEI Photo: Students trying out indoor floor curling at a sports fair

Program Dates: Jan 12 – Mar 9

Location: Civic Centre (upstairs from the Cornwall Curling Club)

Cost: $ 30.00 / Entire Jan-Mar. season

Day: Mondays

5:30 – 6:15pm for ages 4-6,

6:30 – 7:30pm for ages 7-12

You can register over the phone by calling 902-628-6260. Methods of payments over the phone include VISA & MC. You may also register in person by stopping in at the town hall between 8:00 am – 4:30pm. Methods of payments in person include VISA, MC, Cheque or Cash.

For info on all the Town of Cornwall’s winter programs, download

http://cornwallpe.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Winter-Program.pdf (PDF)

The Cornwall Curling Club will be hosting a women’s bonspiel on Mar 6th & 7th, 2015!  The first 16 teams will be accepted, and it promises to be a fun-filled weekend! There will be an event poster with a signup sheet available in the New Year. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact Kimberley MacDonald @ Kimberleym@eastlink.ca

The winner of our Christmas Cheer draw at the bar was Jeroen Vos, from the Monday evening Commercial League. Congratulations!

Sympathies are extended on the passing of daytime curler Allison McCormick, at the age of 68.

Funeral announcement: http://www.belvederefh.com/obituaries/93822

Rob Swan comes from a small community in rural New Brunswick called Harvey Station, where they have been lucky for the past 53 year to have a small curling club. As of late the club is starting to show her age. so for the 2014/2015 curling season it is Rob’s mission to raise  money  to start renovations to update the club so that it can weather the future in a better position. Planned renos include redoing the washrooms, reinsulating the ice house, putting a brand new base under the ice, and installing a new steel roof.

Today, he’ll be here at the Cornwall Curling Club for a game with the daytime curlers, from 10 am to noon, then he heads to the Charlottetown Curling Club in the afternoon, and concludes his PEI tour at the Montague Curling Rink the evening.

The Charlottetown Curling Complex and Cornwall Curling Club duo of Kyle Holland and Katie Fullerton scored five points in the fourth end on the way to a 7-3 win in six ends over the Tyler Smith and Chloé McCloskey team from the host Crapaud Community Curling Club and the Cornwall club this afternoon to win PEI’s first-ever Mixed Doubles trials. Both teams are junior (under 21) age, with Holland skipping the PEI Pepsi Junior men’s champs last year, and Smith winning the previous year. Smith also represented PEI in the Canada Games in 2011, and will be going again this winter. Both Fullerton and McCloskey are members of the two-time reigning provincial junior women’s championship rink, skipped by Veronica Smith.

All four have some experience at the national level, playing in Mixed Doubles mini-tournaments at the Canadian Juniors. The Holland and Fullerton duo will now be the first Island rink to advance to the Canadian Junior Mixed Trials, which take place in Ottawa in March, with the winner of that event advancing to the World Mixed Doubles in Sochi Russia in April. PEI has already had representation at the World’s, with  Robert Campbell and Rebecca Jean MacDonald earning a berth in 2011 as part of their Canadian Mixed championship win.

In this afternoon’s championship game, the Holland/Fullerton team scored a single in the first end, with Smith and McCloskey taking singles in the next two for a 3-1 lead. Holland’s five point fourth end, followed by singles by each team in the next two ends brought the game to an early conclusion.

Holland and Fullerton beat the Smith/McCloskey twosome by an 8-1 score in five ends this morning to capture the C qualifier of the four team Modified Triple Knockout draw. As Holland/Fullerton also captured the A section, while Smith/McCloskey won only the B, they had the advantage going into the two game Championship Round at 1 and 4 pm and would win  the championship if they won either game, while Smith and McCloskey would have had to win both. As it turned out, only the first Championship round game was needed.

Holland and Fullerton captured the A section on Friday, with an 11-3 win over the Dario Zannier/Vivian Holm pair from the host Crapaud club in the qualifier game, On Saturday morning, Smith and McCloskey beat Crapaud’s Daniel and Nancy MacFadyen team 9-4 to advance to the Saturday afternoon B qualifier match against Holland/Fullerton, who got off to a great start in their game, stealing singles in the first 3 ends. Smith and McCloskey then jumped into the lead with a four point fourth end. The teams then traded deuces and singles to give Smith and McCloskey the B qualifier ,by a 7-6 score.

Down in the must-win C flight, the MacFadyens took on clubmates Zannier and Holm in a Saturday afternoon game, with a six-point 3rd end propelling the MacFadyen rink to an 11-5 victory. Holland /Fullerton then eliminated the MacFadyens with a 6-2 win in the 4 pm draw.

The Mixed Doubles game format, relatively new to curling, is played over eight ends. 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.