Prospective curlers of all ages hit the ice this afternoon here at the Cornwall Curling Club. This was an initiative of the Town of Cornwall Parks and Recreation Dept., and the Central Region Sport and Recreation Council, and about 50 new curlers took part.

(Cornwall Parks and Recreation photos)

(Central Region Sport and Recreation Council photos)

Courtesy of Margaret O’Connor, here are photos from the final day of play at the Advantage Communications Junior Mixed in Crapaud.

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Owen Collier and his Montague rink won their final double round robin game last night by a 7-6 score in an extra end over the Alex Gallant foursome from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside to go undefeated with a 4-0 record and win the Under 16 division at the Atlantic Communications Junior Mixed in Crapaud. The rules specify that a final will not be needed in that division if a team goes undefeated. Cornwall and Crapaud’s Mitchell Schut finished second at 2-2, while Gallant went 0-4.

James Dalton, who won the U16 division last year, finished atop the U21 single round robin standings with a 3-1 win-loss record, and earns a ticket to the 6 pm Sunday final. Three teams finished with 2-2 records, necessitating a tiebreaker between Leslie Noye and his combined Crapaud, Western, and Charlottetown team and Danielle Collings from Montague and Crapaud, which was won by Collings, 7-6 in an extra end. Collings now plays Alan MacLean and his Silver Fox/Cornwall rink in the semi-final at 2 pm, with the winner facing Dalton in the final. Kelly-Lynn Younker of Cornwall finished play at 1-3.

Live results at PEICurling.com/juniormixed

PEI’s two reigning Masters champs came out the winners at the Maritime Masters Curling Championships, which wrapped up on Sunday at the Cornwall Curling Club, and featured the provincial masters (age 60 and over) winners and runners up from around the Maritimes. The Ted MacFadyen rink from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside went undefeated with a 5-0 round robin record to win the men’s side. Bill Hope substituted for MacFadyen after the first two draws. Other members of the rink, who won the PEI Masters this year are Lou Nowlan, David Murphy and Alan Montgomery. Murphy was substituting for PEI Masters second Earle Proude in this event. MacFadyen also skipped the PEI Seniors championship team. Men’s runners-up were the Milt Larsen foursome from the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, who lost only to MacFadyen in the event, by an 8-6 score. Playing with Larsen were Jim Russell, Fred Lutes, and Ross Woodward.

Ted MacFadyen rink (L-R): Ted MacFadyen, Lou Nowlan, Earle Proude, Alan Montgomery (photo from PEI Masters ch’ship). David Murphy (not shown) substituted for Proude in this event.

The women’s champions are the Shirley Berry rink from the host Cornwall club, who had a 4-1 record. Their one loss came at the hands of the runner-up team, the Judy Burgess rink of Truro, by a 7-6 score, who finished at 3-2 Other members of the Berry foursome are Sandy Hope, Arleen Harris, and Evelyn Rogerson. Rounding out the Burgess squad are Helen Brightman, Karen Hennigar, and Penny Neily. Defending champion Isabel Yeamans and her rink from Fredericton NB’s Capital Winter Club also finished at 3-2, but lost 8-1 to Burgess in their round robin encounter.

Shirley Berry rink (L-R): Shirley Berry, Sandy Hope, Arleen Harris, Evelyn Rogerson (photo from PEI Masters ch’ship)

New Brunswick was only to send one team in both the men’s and women’s divisions this year, as curlers were volunteering at the World Women’s in Saint John, so a third PEI team was added in each division.

The women’s division was won by Clarke –Stavert when they defeated a team from Yarmouth by stealing a point in the final end of the game. This marks the 4th win by Clarke- Stavert team in the 5 year history of the women’s division. PEI women remain undefeated in the championship games as the remaining year was won by the Shirley Lank and Audrey Callaghan duo. As a rookie team in the event, Hughes –Reid  finished with a respectable 2-3 record missing the playoffs when they lost a tie-breaker.

The Maritime Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, got underway this morning here at the Cornwall Curling Club.

Here are photos from the opening men’s and women’s draws. Click on a thumbnail to display photo, and use arrows to go ahead/back.

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Recognizing that sport can be a life-long endeavor, Sport PEI is pleased to announce the finalists for the Masters award, celebrating the achievements of those aged 35 and over who are still competing at the highest levels.

Finalists for this prestigious award, which will be presented at the annual awards banquet on April 11 in Charlottetown, are Michael Gaudet (distance running), Ruth Stavert (stick curling), and Paul Wright (cross country skiing).

Tickets for the annual banquet will be available from this Friday by contacting Nick Murray at 368-4547.

Michael Gaudet (Distance Running)

PEI has a tradition of producing outstanding endurance athletes, and one of the toughest is Charlottetown’s Michael Gaudet.

Formerly a marathon swimmer who can boast swimming around Manhattan Island, Gaudet concentrates now on distance running, and in 2013 he showed that he is one of the best in Canada for his age group.

At the BMO PEI Marathon Michael ran a personal best of 3:14:30, not just winning the 60-69 age division but finishing 15th overall. His time was 9th fastest in the country for his age group, and the fastest by a runner in Atlantic Canada.

Gaudet – who in 2012 ran 275km, tip-to-tip from Tignish to Elmira in 42 hours and 18 minutes – also had fine results at the Wascally Wabbit 80km Trail Run (completed in 9:47:21), the Age of Sail Marathon in Port Greville, Nova Scotia (1st overall in 3:32:54) and the Maritime Race Week-end at Fisherman’s Cove, NS (10th overall, in 3:32:17).

In 2012 Gaudet received the Ewen Stewart Inspirational Runner Award from the Roadrunners PEI.

Ruth Stavert  (Stick Curling)

Cornwall’s Ruth Stavert is the Jennifer Jones of the stick curling community, and in 2013 she won an unprecedented four titles, from provincial right the way through to a national championship.

A great advocate of this modified form of the game, Ruth has been stick curling since 2007 and has become its most skilled competitor.

Last year, with regular partner Gloria Clarke, Ruth won both the provincial title for a fourth time, and the Maritime championship in Montague, before Gloria had to take time away through ill health.

With new partner Eileen Blanchard, Ruth showed the country that she was one of the best, winning the 10-team women’s division on home ice at the Cornwall Curling Club. To round off the sweep, Ruth and Eileen also claimed the 55-plus Provincial Games title.

For her efforts, Ruth was recognized by Curl PEI by winning the Senior Female Athlete of the Year award.

Paul Wright (Cross Country Skiing)

Bedeque’s Paul Wright just keeps rolling along, and this inspirational athlete for whom age is just a number enjoyed another great season on the trails.

Highlight of Wright’s year was another double gold medal winning performance at the Canadian Championships in Huntsville, Ontario, where he won both the 10km and 20km classic events in the 55-59 age division. It was Paul’s second straight year for double gold, and his third in the last four years, and brought his total medal count as a masters athlete at the nationals  to 20.

In addition, Wright  was first overall at the Wostawea Loppet 20km in Fredericton, while in Gatineau, considered a world loppet event, he was 3rd in his age division in the 55km classic, behind competitors from Finland and Russia.

It’s be the Jones Red Team vs the Jacobs Blue Team at the PEI Brewing Company Club Closing Spiel on April 4 and 5. The signup sheet for this event of Olympian proportion is up now, and filling up fast. It’s single entry, at a cost of only $25 a person, which includes:

Mussels and snacks on Friday night

Coffee and donuts Saturday morning

Lunch on the BBQ (hamburgers, sausages), and Dinner (lasagna, Caesar salad, garlic bread, dessert) on Saturday.

Prizes and awards (gold medal?) for the winning Jones or Jacobs team.

You will be assigned your colour prior to the event (usually the same as you had previous years, and the opposite colour of your spouse!). Curlers on Team Jones are encouraged to dress as women, and, we assume, curlers on Team Jacobs would dress as men!

End the season with a great time, at our closing spiel!

Practice goes Thursday from 2:30-4 pm, and play gets underway Friday morning at 8:30 at the Maritime Masters Curling Championships, hosted this year here at the  Cornwall Curling Club, who last hosted this event in 2005. The top age 60 and over winner and runner-up teams from the provincial Masters championships of the three Maritime Provinces are invited to compete in this annual championship, which rotates between the three provinces. All games are eight ends. New Brunswick, where many Masters curlers are volunteering at the World Women’s in Saint John, is only sending one team in both the men’s and the women’s events, so there is an additional host province team competing in each.

File Photo: Masters curlers in action at Cornwall

The 2013 event was held at the Capital Winter Club.in Fredericton, NB. The Women’s  winner was the New Brunswick runner-up team from the host club, Isabel Yeamans, third Helen MacDonald, second Joan Whitehead and lead Toni O’Brien, who are back this year with their team intact.

The runner-up women’s team last year was from this year’s host club, and was skipped by Carol Sweetapple, with Danielle Girard at 3rd, second Carlene Peters and lead Bernie Field.  Girard and Field are curling on PEI’s third women’s team at this year’s event, skipped by Myrna Sanderson. The PEI women’s contingent is led this year by current Masters champs, the Shirley Berry rink from the host club, and is rounded out by the Diane MacKay rink from Cornwall and the Charlottetown Curling Complex. Judy Burgess from Truro, and Louanne Labelle from the Dartmouth Curling Club are the Nova Scotia women’s entries.

The men’s winner last year was the New Brunswick runner-up rink, also from the host Capital Winter Club, skipped by Dave Sullivan, who is not back this year. Rod Aubé is skipping this year’s entry, also from the CWC. The 2013 PEI Masters champions, the Mel Bernard rink from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside were last year’s men’s runners-up. Other members of the team were third Ted MacFadyen (substituting for Blair Jay), second Lou Nowlan, and lead Earle Proude. MacFadyen, this year’s PEI champ, is back with Nowlan and Proude, along with Alan Montgomery. MacFadyen also skipped this year’s PEI Senior Men’s championship team, backed up by Nowlan. PEI’s second team is also from the Silver Fox, and is skipped by John Holmes, while the Brian Ellis foursome from the Crapaud Community Curling Club are PEI’s third team. Nova Scotia is sending the Milt Larsen foursome from the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, and the Haylett Clarke team from the Bluenose Curling Club in New Glasgow.

The teams in the men’s and women’s Maritime Masters play a round robin draw, with draws to the button used to determine the winners in the event of ties.

Men’s draws go Friday at 8:30 am and 2 pm, Saturday at 11 am and 4:30 pm, and Sunday at 8:30 am. The draw to the button, if necessary, and the men’s closing ceremonies are scheduled for 10:30 am, following the final men’s draw. The women’s event kicks off Friday at 11 am and 4:30 pm, continues Saturday at 8:30 am and 2 pm, and wraps up Sunday at 11, with the draw to the button, if needed, and closing ceremonies following the final draw, at 1 pm.

Full round robin draw, and live results from this event available at curlingresults.com/maritimemasters

Women’s Team Rosters

Men’s Team Rosters

Come Try Curling event at the Cornwall Curling Club! FREE! All ages!! Hot chocolate and snacks provided. Saturday March 29, 2-4 pm.

You’ve seen it on TV at the Brier, Scotties, and the Olympics – now’s your chance to try it yourself!

Sponsored by the Town of Cornwall,. Go! PEI, and the Central Region Sports and Recreation Council.

PEI’s youngest curling champions will be determined at the conclusion of the KFC Provincial Under 13 Curling Championship, which gets underway at 4 pm Friday, with the final and bronze medal games going at 1:30 pm Sunday, at the Cornwall Curling Club. This year’s event is open entry, with any combination of boys and/or girls on a team. In last year’s event, which had separate boys and girls divisions, the rink of Mitchell Schut, Parker MacFadyen, Nick Johnston, and Draven Kowalski, with coaches Mike Schut and Butch McGee from the Cornwall club went undefeated to win the boys’ title, while the team of Tegan Corkum, Elly Whitney-Coulter, Maddison Moore, and Gabrielle Gallant, with coach Robert Corkum, from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, also went undefeated to capture the girls’ division. Schut is back this year, with a different team.

Eight rinks are entered in this year’s event, and will play a triple knockout, qualifying four teams for a Page championship round, with the winner of the Page game between the first two qualifiers being declared the winner, with the loser being the runner-up. Third place will go to the winner of the bronze medal game between the third and fourth qualifiers. Games in the U13 championships are 6 ends.

Opening ceremonies go at 7 pm Friday, in advance of draw two at 7:30. Saturday play is at 10 am, and 1:30 and 5 pm, with the last two qualifiers for the 1:30 pm Sunday Page championship round being determined at 10 am Sunday.

Live results will be available at PEICurling.com/under13

Opening draw at 4 pm Friday March 7:

Ice 1: Lauren Ferguson (Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club) vs Damien Collings (Montague)

Ice 2: Hayden Ford (Cornwall) vs Emily Sanderson (Montague)

Ice 3: Connor Lilly (Silver Fox) vs Mitchell Schut (Cornwall, Charlottetown)

Ice 4: Katie Shaw (Charlottetown) vs Cailey Wood (Silver Fox)

Team Rosters:

(by Eric McCarthy)

ALBERTON — It was a long time in the making, but Donald DeWolfe, skip of the Cornwall boys team said their first win over the Alex MacFadyen rink in two or three years couldn’t have come at a better time.
It came in the championship final of the O’Connor Glass Curl P.E.I. Under 16 Boys competition Sunday night at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton.

Eric McCarthy photo: DeWolfe rink in action

DeWolfe trailed the defending champion MacFadyen from the Silver Fox until a timely deuce tied things up 3-all in the fifth end and he took the lead 7-4 in the seventh when his team scored a four-ender.

Eric McCarthy photo: Girl’s final

The Kaleigh MacKay rink from Crapaud and Montague also picked up an important four-ender in the seventh Sunday night to take a 7-2 lead on the defending champions Lauren Lenentine rink from Cornwall, resulting in early handshakes.

Click for full story and more photos in the Journal Pioneer.

It was a double win for the Quilty family for the U16 Coaching awards, as voted on by their coaching peers, presented this evening following the finals at the O’Connor Glass Provincial Under 16 Curling Championships at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. David O’Connor presented the girl’s team coaching award to Pat Quilty, coach of the runner-up Lauren Lenentine rink from the Cornwall Curling Club, and the boy’s team coaching award to Pat’s daughter, Aleya, coach of the winning Donald DeWolfe rink, also from Cornwall.

(L-R): Aleya Quilty, David O’Connor from sponsor O’Connor Glass, Pat Quilty (Margaret O’Connor photo)

Photo (L-R): Curl PEI representative Kevin Smith, Kaleigh Peters-Ellis, Danielle Collings, Kaleigh MacKay, Alyssa Wright, coach A.J. Campbell, sponsor David O’Connor

Photo (L-R): Curl PEI representative Kevin Smith, Lauren Lenentine, Rachel O’Connor, Breanne Burgoyne, Elly Whitney-Coulter, coach Pat Quilty, sponsor David O’Connor

MacKay, whose rink includes third Danielle Collings, second Alyssa Wright, and lead Kaleigh Peters-Ellis, with coach A.J. Campbell was leading 3-2 going into the seventh end, scoring four points in a 7-2 win over the defending champion Lauren Lenentine rink from the Cornwall Curling Club. MacKay beat Other members of the runner-up Lenentine team include third Rachel O’Connor, second, Elly Whitney-Coulter, and lead Breanne Burgoyne, with coach Pat Quilty. MacKay went undefeated in the event, winning the A Qualifier out of the triple knockout 8-5 over Lenentine to advance to the Page A/B game, where she again faced Lenentine, winning 7-5, and earning a bye to the final. Lenentine beat Lisa Moerike and her Charlottetown Curling Complex rink 7-2 in the B qualifier, going on to defeat clubmate Kristie Rogers 13-5 in the Page B/C game, and coming from behind with a triple in the eighth and a single in the extra end to edge Moerike 9-8 in the semi-final to set up the final against MacKay.

Photo (L-R): Curl PEI representative Kevin Smith, Nick Johnston, Cameron Jenkins, Avery Wells, Donald DeWolfe, coach Aleya Quilty, sponsor David O’Connor

Photo (L-R): Curl PEI representative Kevin Smith, coach Kelly MacDonald, Tyler Smith, Ben Gardiner, Matthew MacDonald, Alex MacFadyen  sponsor David O’Connor

DeWolfe, and his team of third Avery Wells, second Cameron Jenkins, and lead Nick Johnston, with coach Aleya Quilty, was trailing 4-3 in the boy’s final against MacFadyen, pulling ahead with the four point seventh end, running the Summerside team out of rocks in the final end for a 7-4 final score. Other members of the runner-up MacFadyen rink are third Tyler Smith, second stone Matthew MacDonald, and lead Ben Gardiner, with coaches Kelly MacDonald and Kevin Smith. MacFadyen went undefeated at 4-0 in round robin play, with DeWolfe going 3-1, losing 12-5 to MacFadyen in their encounter. DeWolfe beat 3rd place (2-2) Alex Gallant and his Silver Fox team team 11-1 in the semi-final, following a steal of five in the fourth end with stolen deuces in five and six to end the game early, and advance the Cornwall team to the final against the defending champ.

Eight girls’ rinks and five boy’s teams took part in this year’s U16 event.

(Photos courtesy of Margaret O’Connor)

The boy’s and girl’s championship rounds are set for the O’Connor Glass Provincial Under 16 curling championships, which wrap up with the finals this evening at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton.Three Cornwall teams, skipped by Donald DeWolfe, Lauren Lenentine, and Kristie Rogers, have advanced to today’s championship round action.

The defending champion Alex MacFadyen rink from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside completed round robin play with a perfect 4-0 record, earning a bye to the boy’s final, at 6 this evening. Cornwall’s Donald DeWolfe rink, who are in second place, losing only to MacFadyen (12-5 Saturday morning), and the Alex Gallant rink from the Fox, who finished third, with a 2-2 win-loss record, will play in the 2 pm semi-final, with the winner facing MacFadyen in the championship game. Devin Schut of Cornwall ended play at 1-3, with Owen Collier of Montague going 0-4.

On the girl’s side, the Kaleigh MacKay rink from Crapaud and Montague had three straight wins in triple knockout play to qualify first for the Page round, at 10 this morning. Cornwall’s Lauren Lenentine team, the defending champions, lost the “A” qualifier, 8-5 to MacKay, but won the “B”, stealing ends 5 through 7 against Lauren Moerike of Charlottetown. MacKay and Lenentine now square off in the 10 am Page A vs B game, with the winner going directly to the 6 pm final, and the loser taking on the winner of the Page C vs D game in the 2 pm semi-final. The winner of the semi then advances to the final.

The Page C vs D game at 10 sees Kristie Rogers of Cornwall, who won the “C” qualifier with a come-from-behind win over clubmate Katie Worth, taking on Moerike, who also came from behind to capture  the final qualifying spot, with a 12-5 win over Karlie Lewis of the host Western Community club. Rogers was trailing 2-1 after 2, and took a single in three, stole a triple in end four, and then stole the next four ends for the win. Moerike was down 6-0 after the second end, but took four points in the third, and stole a triple in the 4th to lead 7-6 at the half. Lewis tied it with a single in five, but a four point sixth end, and a steal of one in the seventh gave Moerike the win. The winner of the 10 am Page C vs D game advances to the 2 pm semi-final.

Eight girls and five boys teams took part in the event.

Live results are available at PEICurling.com/under16

Hopefully this is the last change to Draw 3! When we eliminated the byes, I ended up with duplicate games, so, I redid it with a new eight team draw,  matched it up the already played week, and lined up the other weeks as closely as possible to what was previously scheduled. The new A pool draw is now on the Ladder League page at https://cornwallcurling.com/draws/wednesday-evening-ladder-league/ 

I have checked for duplicates, and I hope it’s good to go!

Congrats to club member Danielle Girard who celebrated a milestone birthday at the Club on the weekend!