Ten teams, eight from the Charlottetown Curling Complex, including the defending champion Eddie MacKenzie rink, along with one team from the host Montague club, and one from Cornwall, will be participating in the 2014 PEI Tankard Provincial Men’s Curling Championship, from February 5-9 at the Montague Curling Rink. The teams will play a triple-knockout round, qualifying four teams for a Page championship round, which will determine the winning team to advance to the Tim Hortons Brier, March 1-9 at the Interior Savings Centre in Kamloops, BC.

Admission to the provincial event is $3 per draw, or $25 for a full event pass. There will also be a 50×50 draw, with proceeds to the club Junior program.

Four teams were seeded in the event draw, based on cashspiel winnings this season.

#1 Seed: Jamie Newson
#2 Seed: Robert Campbell
#3 Seed: Rod MacDonald
#4 Seed: Blair Weeks

Non-seeded teams are skipped by Donald Clarey, Tyler Harris, Bill Hope, Blair Jay, Eddie MacKenzie, and Kyle Stevenson. Clarey curls out of the host Montague club, Hope is from the Cornwall Curling Club, and the rest are from the Charlottetown Curling Complex (Jay normally curls out of the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, but is replacing John Likely, who is unable to curl due to an eye injury).

Play begins Wednesday at 2 pm, with Hope vs Harris, MacKenzie vs Stevenson, Clarey vs Newson, and Jay vs Campbell.

The opening ceremonies go Wednesday at 6:15 pm.

#3 seed MacDonald and #4 seed Weeks hit the ice in draw 2, Wednesday at 7 pm, with Weeks taking on the winner of the Hope/Harris game, and MacDonald facing the winner of  the MacKenzie/ Stevenson match.

Draws go at 2 and 7 pm through Sunday, with the first of four qualifying teams for the Page round being determined with the 2 pm Friday draw, the second qualifier at 7 pm, and the remaining two at 2 pm Saturday. The Page round, where the first two qualifers face off in te Page A vs B game and the third and fourth qualifiers square off in the C vs D, goes at 7 pm Saturday, with the winner of the A vs B going directly to the 7 pm Sunday final, and the loser of the A vs B taking on the winner of the C vs D in the semi-final, Sunday at 2 pm, with the winner of that game going to the final.

Full draw, team rosters, and live end-by-end results available at PEICurling.com/tankard

Just wanted to take this moment to thank some people for their help with the Mixed Doubles Bonspiel.

Photo: Myrna Sanderson

I am really bad at public speaking so apologize for not doing it in person.
Firstly Angus Kennedy, Myrna Craswell, Angela Sanderson and Brent Irving for helping organize this event.
Special thanks to Lance and Jeff for the great ice and to Alan for being the helpful, happy bar tender. Thanks to Derek MacEwen for publicizing the event and posting the draw on the internet.
Also to Bernie Field and Lisa MacEachern for their help with lunch and clean up and lastly a special thanks to Mark MacDonald, Grant and Carolyn Crockett for jumping in at the last minute and replacing the people who had to pull out of the spiel and of course to all the curlers who participated in this event.
Lastly to Bev for all your support when I needed you most.

– Myrna Sanderson

The overall winners of the Mixed Doubles on Saturday were Kimball Blanchard and Gloria Clarke.
Winner of Pool A was Barry and Myrna Craswell, Pool B was George Younker and Bernie Field, Pool C was Ray Biage and Cathy Handren and finally the winner of Pool D was Kimball Blanchard and Gloria Clarke.
We truly had a super day. Lots of fun and laughter. Real mental learning experience as you had to be thinking all the time.
Hope we can do another one before the end of the year!

(Report by Myrna Sanderson)

The Alex MacFadyen rink from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside are the first men’s team to qualify for the four (two men’s and two women’s) Canada Games Training Team spots, after going through  round robin play with a perfect 5-0 record at the Curl PEI Canada Games Trials being played at the Charlottetown Curling Complex. Other members of the MacFadyen rink are James Dalton, Matthew MacDonald, and Parker MacFadyen, with coach Dave MacFadyen. The second men’s spot will be determined in the 9 am Sunday draw, with 2011 Canada Games competitor Tyler Smith and his Montague team taking on the Leslie Noye rink from Alberton’s Western Community Curling Club in a tiebreaker. Both teams finished round robin play with identical 3-2 records. Noye beat Smith 8-6 in their round robin encounter this evening. The tiebreaker is required because Curl PEI rules state that teams tied for a playoff position shall only be eliminated from the playoffs by playing a tie-breaker game.

MacFadyen beat Cameron Jenkins of Cornwall 11-8, and Devin Schut, also from Cornwall, 12-4 in action today. Smith beat Schut 8-2 in his other game today. Jenkins and another Cornwall team, skipped by Donald DeWolfe, finished play at 2-3, while Schut went 0-5.

On the women’s side, there is one double round robin draw remaining, at 9 am Sunday, but the two Training Teams have already been determined, with Kaleigh MacKay and her Montague/Crapaud team, and Lauren Moerike and her Charlottetown Curling Complex rink currently sitting at 4-1. Meghan Ching of Cornwall is sitting in third place, at 2-3, but cannot tie either of them. The final round robin draw sees Moerike face MacKay, and Ching take on Karlie Lewis of Western (0-5).

In today’s games, Moerike edged Ching 8-7 in an extra end, and beat Lewis 16-5.MacKay blanked Lewis 14-0 and beat Ching 9-6.

Other members of the MacKay team are Danielle Collings, Alyssa Wright, and Kaleigh Peters, with coach A.J. Campbell, while Ashley Gallant, Annika Kelly, Tati Kelly, and coach Kevin Moerike round out the Moerike squad.

The four Training Teams will compete in men’s and women’s best of three game series in November, with the men’s and women’s winners being named the 2015 PEI Canada Games Curling Teams (Team PEI).

The 2015 Canada Winter Games are being held in Prince George BC from February 13—March 1, 2015. The men’s curling event will take place during Week 1 (Feb. 13-21) and the women’s event will take place Week 2 (Feb. 21-Mar. 1).

The first draw of the PEI Canada Games Curling Trials was held this evening at the Charlottetown Curling Complex. The Trials will qualify two men’s and two women’s teams as the Training Teams for the 2015 Canada Games. A best of three series between the Training Teams will be held in November to determine the teams that will go to the Canada Games, February 13-March 1 2015 in Prince George BC. The six men’s rinks in the trials are playing a round robin format, while the four women’s teams are playing a double round robin. All ten teams play in each draw. All games are ten ends.

The opening women’s draw saw Meghan Ching of Cornwall beat Lauren Moerike of the host Charlottetown Curling Complex 9-5, and Kaleigh MacKay and her Montague/Crapaud combined team down Karlie Lewis and her rink from Alberton’s Western Community club 15-1 in five ends.

The men’s side saw the Alex MacFadyen rink from Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club beat the Leslie Noye foursome from Western 9-2, 2011 Canada Games representative Tyler Smith and his Montague Curling Club rink beat Cornwall’s Donald DeWolfe team 14-5, and Cameron Jenkins of Cornwall beat clubmate Devin Schut 9-1.

Play continues Friday and Saturday with draws at 2 and 7 pm, with the final women’s double round robin games going Sunday morning at 9. If tiebreakers are needed, they will go at 9 am (men’s), 2 pm (women’s), and 7 pm (men’s) on Sunday.

Full draw, team rosters and end-by-end results at peicurling.com/canadagames/

(Sorry for the delay, but our pictures were held up by a storm!)

Here is an album of pictures from our annual Kenmac Energy Mixed Bonspiel, including photos of the winning teams, and some exciting curling action! Krista Affleck provided the pictures

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The P.E.I. masters curling championships, for curlers aged 60 and over, are being held at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside this week. The men’s and women’s championship games are scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 30, at 2 p.m. Journal Pioneer sports editor Jason Simmonds captured a number of images from Tuesday afternoon’s draw.

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Jason Simmonds photo

The host club’s Ted MacFadyen rink, which includes two members of last year’s winning team, Lou Nowlan and Earle Proude, along with Alan Montgomery, have captured the first of four qualifying spots for the men’s Page championship round at the eight team triple-knockout Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. They won this afternoon’s “A” qualifier by an 8-4 score over the Crapaud Community Curling Club rink skipped by Brian Ellis. MacFadyen scored two triples in the game.

Ellis now plays John Holmes from the Silver Fox in the B qualifier, at 9 am on Wednesday. The C and D qualifiers go Wednesday afternoon at 12:30, with Clair Sweet of the Maple Leaf Curling Club in OLeary playing Cornwall’s Paul Arsenault in the C, and Louis Walsh from the host club playing the loser of the B qualifier game between Ellis and Holmes in the D.

The A and B qualifiers then square off in one Page playoff game, while the C and D battle in the other, Wednesday at 4 pm. The winner of the Page A vs B match goes directly to the 2 pm Thursday final, while the loser of that game faces the winner of the C vs D game in the semi-final at 10 am Thursday, with the winner going to the final.

In action this morning, Arsenault scored a triple in the final end in a 6-5 come-from-behind win over Sweet, while Walsh stole the last end to edge Holmes 6-5. The other afternoon contests saw Walsh down Summerside’s Bob Maynard 10-1 in just four ends, Sweet beat Cornwall’s Matt Smith 7-3, and Holmes beat Arsenault 7-1.

In the four-team double round robin women’s event, all teams now have identical 2-2 win-loss records.It was a very different day for Cornwall’s Shirley Berry rink, who were 2-0 after Monday play. They lost their morning game 9-3 to defending champion  and clubmate Diane MacKay. Berry opened with a triple, but MacKay took a deuce in the second, and stole the next five ends for the win. In the afternoon draw, Berry lost 12-2 to Norma Sonier from the Fox, scoring only in the fifth end. Sonier doubled Cornwall’s Gloria Clarke 8-4 in the morning draw, aided by a four point sixth end. Clarke rebounded with a 10-3 win over MacKay in the afternoon.

The women’s double round robin wraps up on Wednesday, with MacKay playing Sonier, and Clarke facing Berry at 9 am, and MacKay playing Berry and Clarke taking on Sonier in the 12:30 pm draw. The four pm draw is reserved for tiebreakers. The second and third place teams after the double round robin and any tiebreakers then square off in the semi-final, Thursday at 10 am, with the winner taking on the first place team in the 2 pm final..

Winners and runners-up in both the men’s and the women’s divisions earn the right to compete in the Maritime Masters Championships, March 14-17 at the Cornwall Curling Club.. The winning teams, or the highest-finishing men’s and women’s rinks that choose to attend, are invited to participate in the 2014 ATB Financial Canadian Masters Championships, March 31 to Apr. 6 at the Coaldale Granite Curling Club in Coaldale Alberta.

Day one is over at the Curl PEI Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, being played at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. The six sheet club allows all eight men’s and four women’s rinks to play at the same time, so all teams have played two draws.

The Ted MacFadyen rink from the host club, which includes Lou Nowlan and Earl Proude from last year’s winning team, which was skipped by Mel Bernard, and the Brian Ellis squad from the Crapaud Community Curling Club, are both 2-0 on the triple-knockout men’s side, and have advanced to the first of four qualifying matches for the Page championship round. The “A” qualifier is set for 2 pm Tuesday. MacFadyen beat clubmate John Holmes 6-3, taking a triple in the 3rd end and stealing the final frame, and stole a triple in the 7th end in a 9-2 win over Paul Arsenault and his Cornwall Curling Club team. Ellis was trailing 6-3 after 5 in his game against Clair Sweet of O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club, who stole 4 points in the fifth end. Ellis took a deuce in six, and stole singles in the final two ends to pull out a 7-6 win. He stole a deuce in the opening en and a single in the second to grab an early lead in his afternoon match against another Fox team, skipped by Louis Walsh, and hung on for a 6-3 win. Two teams, skipped by Matt Smith of Cornwall and Bob Maynard of the Fox, have two losses, and have moved down into the C event, while the remaining teams, skipped by Arsenault, Holmes, Sweet, and Walsh, have a win and a loss.

In the four-team double round-robin women’s section, 2012 Masters champ Shirley Berry and her Cornwall team lead the pack with a 2-0 win-loss record, edging Norma Sonier and her Silver Fox team 6-5, aided by a second end triple, and getting by Cornwall clubmate Gloria Clarke 8-7 in an extra end. In that game, Berry led 7-2 after five, but Clarke tied the game with five points in the next three ends.Berry had hammer in the extra and scored a single for the win.

Defending champion Diane MacKay, also from Cornwall, lost her opener 9-4 to Clarke, who again came on strong in the latter part of the game, taking a triple in the 4th, and then stealing a deuce and two singles to build up a five point lead. MacKay scored four points in the 6th end in an 8-6 win over Sonier in the afternoon draw. Clarke is also at 1-1, while Sonier is 0-2. MacKay will face Berry, while Clarke will take on Sonier in the 10 am Tuesday draw, while Berry plays Sonier, and Clarke will take on MacKay in the afternoon.

Women’s double round robin and men’s triple knockout play continue Tuesday and Wednesday with draws and 10 am and 2 pm. The men’s Page round, featuring the four qualifiers out of the knockout goes Wednesday at 4, along with a women’s tiebreaker if needed. The winner of the men’s Page game between the A and B qualifiers goes directly to the 2 pm Thursday final, while the loser of the A vs B game takes on the winner of the C vs D game in the semi-final at 10 am on Thursday, with the winner of the semi going to the final.

The second and third place teams on the women’s side after the round robin and any tiebreakers goes to the semi-final at 10 am Thursday, with the winner of the semi facing the 1st place team in the 2 pm final.

Winners and runners-up in both the men’s and the women’s divisions earn the right to compete in the Maritime Masters Championships, March 14-17 at the Cornwall Curling Club.. The winning teams, or the highest-finishing men’s and women’s rinks that choose to attend, are invited to participate in the 2014 ATB Financial Canadian Masters Championships, March 31 to Apr. 6 at the Coaldale Granite Curling Club in Coaldale Alberta.

End by end results from the PEI Masters are available at PEICurling.com/masters.

(by Al Cameron)

The pairing of Andrea Sinclair (Yukon) and Cameron de Jong (B.C.) won the gold medal on Sunday in the mixed doubles tournament at the 2014 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships.

Mixed doubles gold-medallists, from left, Cameron de Jong, Andrea Sinclair and coach Kevin Patterson. (Photo, CCA/Michael Burns Photography/Mark O’Neill)

Sinclair and de Jong, with Kevin Patterson of the Yukon serving as their coach, defeated Chloé McCloskey (P.E.I.) and Evan Kearley (Newfoundland/Labrador) 5-4 in the gold-medal game. Bill Hope (P.E.I.) coached the McCloskey/Kearley team.

Mixed doubles silver-medallists, from left, Evan Kearley, Chloé McCloskey and coach Bill Hope. (Photo, CCA/Michael Burns Photography/Mark O’Neill)

In the bronze-medal game, Hilary Charlie (Northwest Territories) and Robert Mayhew (Nova Scotia), with Jeff Hartung (Saskatchewan) as their coach, needed an extra end for a 7-6 win over Laura Masters (Northern Ontario) and Tyler Hartung (Saskatchewan), with Kevin Bussey (Nunavut) as their coach.

The mixed doubles tournament featured all of the players who didn’t qualify for the playoffs at the 2014 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, participating in a 44-team single-knockout draw.

Mixed doubles bronze-medallists, from left, Robert Mayhew, Hilary Charlie and coach Jeff Hartung. (Photo, CCA/Michael Burns Photography/Mark O’Neill)

Mixed doubles fourth-place finishers, from left, Tyler Hartung, Laura Masters and coach Kevin Bussey. (Photo, CCA/Michael Burns Photography/Mark O’Neill)

Click to read this story at the CCA website

(by Al Cameron)

LIVERPOOL, N.S. — One Canadian championship is all but over; now Sarah Koltun can turn her focus to another one, beginning next week in Montreal.

Yukon skip Sarah Koltun delivers rock to sweepers Jenna Duncan, left, and Andrea Sinclair. (Photo, CCA)

Koltun’s team from the Yukon (third Patty Wallingham, second Jenna Duncan, lead Andrea Sinclair, coach Lindsay Moldowan) completed its 2014 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships round-robin schedule on Friday at Queens Place with a 10-5 win over Newfoundland/Labrador’s Sarah Hill (2-7, St. John’s).

The Yukon’s 5-4 record wasn’t good enough to make the playoffs, and Koltun and Co. will spend this weekend playing in a mixed doubles tournament with fellow non-playoff teams.

But Monday, another journey begins as Koltun’s team travels to Montreal to begin preparations for its first Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

“I kept having to remind myself that we’re actually going there afterwards,” said a smiling Koltun on Friday. “Now that this is kind of done, I’m realizing that we’re actually going there right away, and we’re just so excited.”

It won’t be the identical team that opens play at Maurice Richard Arena on Feb. 1 against Alberta’s Val Sweeting. Chelsea Duncan (Jenna’s sister), who played at the juniors last year but aged out, will step in at third; Wallingham moves to second, and Moldowan will be the team alternate.

The team arrived in Liverpool with high hopes, but stumbled out of the gate to open the event.

“But we played pretty well toward the end; we just had a bit of a slow start and we weren’t able to overcome that,” said Koltun, 20. “We just did the best we could and tried to learn as much as we could, and we’ll try to use that going forward into the Scotties next week.

“The break will be nice, but we’re definitely excited and we’ll be ready to be back on the ice in Montreal. We’re so excited; I can’t even describe it how exciting it is.”

In other women’s games on Friday afternoon — all in the seeding pool to determine the final rankings and set the seedings for the 2015 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors in Corner Brook, N.L. — Northern Ontario’s Krysta Burns (4-5, Sudbury) beat Nunavut’s Sadie Pinksen (0-9, Iqaluit), and P.E.I.’s Veronica Smith (5-4, Cornwall) knocked off the Northwest Territories’ Carina McKay-Saturnino (2-7, Inuvik).

In men’s seeding play, the Yukon’s Joe Wallingham (5-4, Whitehorse) toppled Nunavut’s Jamie Airut (0-9, Rankin Inlet), and P.E.I.’s Kyle Holland (3-6, Charlottetown) stole points in the final four ends for a 9-8 win over Quebec’s Adam Freilich (3-6, Montreal/Boucherville).

The playoffs get underway on Saturday at Queens Place Emera Centre. In the women’s semifinal at 9:30 a.m. (all times Atlantic), Nova Scotia’s Mary Fay (8-2, Chester) takes on B.C.’s Kalia Van Osch (8-2, Nanaimo/Delta). The winner advances to the gold-medal game at 4 p.m. against Alberta’s Kelsey Rocque (9-1, Edmonton).

On Sunday, the men’s 9:30 a.m. semifinal features Alberta’s Carter Lautner (7-3, Calgary) and New Brunswick’s Rene Comeau (7-3, Fredericton), with the winner taking on Manitoba’s Braden Calvert (9-1, Winnipeg) at 4 p.m. for the gold medal.

Both gold-medal games will be televised by TSN/RDS2.

Round-robin games took place at both Queens Place Emera Centre and the Liverpool Curling Club in the beautiful South Shore region of Nova Scotia.

For the second consecutive year, the competition format involves all 14 Member Associations of the Canadian Curling Association (10 provinces, plus Northern Ontario, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon).

The full scoreboard can be viewed at www.curling.ca/scoreboard

The leaderboard can be viewed at www.curling.ca/2014juniors-en/standings

Click to read this story at the CCA website

Ten teams,  eight from the Charlottetown Curling Complex, including the defending champion Eddie MacKenzie rink, along with one team from the host Montague rink, and one from the Cornwall Curling Club, will be participating in the 2014 PEI Tankard Provincial Men’s Curling Championship, from February 5-9 at the Montague Curling Rink. 

Cornwall is represented by the team of Bill Hope, Craig Mackie, David Murphy, and Doug MacGregor.

The teams will play a triple-knockout draw, qualifying four teams for a Page championship round, which will determine the winning team to advance to the Tim Hortons Brier, March 1-9 at the Interior Savings Centre in Kamloops, BC.

The draw and schedule, along with full team rosters,, are now available at the event website: PEICurling.com/tankard

Four teams were seeded in the draw, based on cashspiel winnings this season.

#1 Seed: Jamie Newson
#2 Seed: Robert Campbell
#3 Seed: Rod MacDonald
#4 Seed: Blair Weeks

Non-seeded teams are skipped by Donald Clarey, Tyler Harris, Bill Hope, Blair Jay, Eddie MacKenzie, and Kyle Stevenson. Clarey curls out of the host Montague club, while Hope is from the Cornwall Curling Club.

End-by-end results will be available at the event website.

(by Al Cameron)

LIVERPOOL, N.S. — It was only Wednesday night, but Manitoba’s Braden Calvert was already in the position every team at the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Men’s and Women’s Championship wants to be in: one well-timed victory away from a national title.

Manitoba skip Braden Calvert and his team from Winnipeg are headed to the men’s final at the 2014 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors in Liverpool, N.S. (Photo, CCA)

Calvert’s team from Winnipeg — third Kyle Kurz, second Lucas Van Den Bosch, lead Brendan Wilson and coach Tom Clasper — clinched first place in the round-robin and a bye to Sunday’s 4 p.m. (all times Atlantic) men’s gold-medal game with a 5-4 win over Alberta’s Carter Lautner (5-3, Calgary) on a wintry night at the Liverpool Curling Club.

With the victory, Manitoba improved to 8-0 and holding the necessary tiebreaker advantages to clinch first place and the bye to the final.

“That’s a pretty neat feeling,” said Calvert, whose team defeated reigning Canadian junior men’s champ Matt Dunstone in the Manitoba final. “The boys have played so well in front of me; they just made my job so easy all week.”

Now, the issue becomes how to deal with nearly four full days of thinking about the final, with two round-robin games to play and a day off on Saturday.

“I think our team is great at staying loose and trying to have fun all the time,” said Calvert with a smile. “I think we’ll be OK that way. We brought a PS3 and NHL14, so we’ll be pretty busy at that. We’ll hopefully be able to take our minds off it a little bit.”

Dunstone, by the way, has been supporting the team from Winnipeg.

“We were sitting in our living room cheering him on last year,” said Calvert of Dunstone’s dramatic win in Fort McMurray, Alta. “It’s pretty neat to see what Matt did, and he’s just a great guy. We’ve been talking to him this week and he’s been very supportive. and we’re taking a lot from what he went through last year.”

In other men’s championship pool games, New Brunswick’s Rene Comeau (6-2, Fredericton) turned back Saskatchewan’s Tyler Hartung (5-3, Kronau); B.C.’s Cameron de Jong (4-4, Victoria) shaded Ontario’s Ryan McCrady (5-3, Ottawa) 4-3; and Nova Scotia’s Robert Mayhew (5-3, Windsor) doubled Northern Ontario’s Tanner Horgan (5-3, Sudbury) 10-5.

In women’s championship pool play, Alberta’s Kelsey Rocque, of Edmonton, suffered her first loss after seven straight wins, bowing 6-3 to home-province hopeful Mary Fay (6-2, Chester); B.C.’s Kalia Van Osch (6-2, Nanaimo/Delta) doubled Ontario’s Molly Greenwood (5-3, Kitchener-Waterloo) 4-2; and Manitoba’s Meaghan Brezden (5-3, Winnipeg) beat Saskatchewan’s Kristen Streifel (4-4, Saskatoon) 7-6.

In seeding pool play, to determine the final rankings and the seedings for the 2015 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors in Corner Brook, N.L., P.E.I.’s Veronica Smith (4-4, Cornwall) was a 16-1 winner over Nunavut’s Sadie Pinksen (0-8, Iqaluit).

Action at the 2014 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors continues on Thursday with draws 9:30 a.m., 2 p.m. at 6:30 p.m. (all times Atlantic).

Round-robin games are taking place at both Queens Place Emera Centre and the Liverpool Curling Club in the beautiful South Shore region of Nova Scotia.

Once the top three teams for each gender have been determined, all playoff games will be played at Queens Place Emera Centre. The women’s final is Saturday while the men’s final is Sunday Both finals will be televised live on TSN/RDS2 at 4 p.m. AST/3 p.m. EST.

For the second consecutive year, the competition format involves all 14 Member Associations of the Canadian Curling Association (10 provinces, plus Northern Ontario, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon).

The full scoreboard can be viewed at www.curling.ca/scoreboard

The leaderboard can be viewed at www.curling.ca/2014juniors-en/standings

Click to read this story at the CCA website

Stick Curling is a fun game for those who find the physical demands of regular curling challenging.

Give it a try at our free Stick Curling demonstration, January 30 from 1-3 pm.

No previous curling experience is required
No equipment needed – just a clean pair of shoes
For more information call Curl PEI @ 368-4208

(by Danny Lamoureux) The Northern Ontario women did it last night and now the Northern Ontario men did it this morning. That is winning their traditional rivalry game against Ontario at this year’s 2014 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Liverpool, NS.

Fifteen-year-old Tanner Horgan of the Idylwylde Golf & Country Club in Sudbury stole four points in the second end against previously unbeaten Ontario’s Ryan McCrady in Draw 7 action. From there the young skip allowed little in the way of offence for McCrady. Despite a steal of one in the ninth end to make it a two-point game, Horgan made a nice double takeout to seal the win in the 10th end.  Ontario is now 4-1 and Horgan improves to 3-1, each chasing Manitoba’s Braden Calvert, who had the morning bye, sitting at 4-0.

Nova Scotia’s favourite son this week, Robert Mayhew of Windsor, continues to roll after an opening round defeat, posting his fourth consecutive win. Mayhew edged Joe Wallingham of the Yukon 5-3, who drop to 1-3.

New Brunwick’s Rene Comeau continues to lead the pack in Men’s Pool B, scoring six points in the first end against NWT’s Matthew Miller. The game ended after eight ends 11-5 for New Brunswick. Their record is 4-0 while Miller is at 1-4.

Quebec’s Adam Freilich squared off with Newfoundland & Labrador’s Stephen Trickett. In a see-saw battle, Trickett chased the entire game trying to even the score. A couple of nice deuces later in the game set him up for a game-tying two points in the last end, but Trickett rolled out and Quebec won their first match of the tournament. Both teams are now 1-3.

Saskatchewan’s Tyler Hartung evened his record at 2-2 in defeating Jamie Airut of Nunavut 13-2. Airut remains winless at 0-5.

In the final men’s game of the morning draw, B.C. switched positions at the back end, with Cameron de Jong relinquishing the skip position and moving to vice after three straight losses as skip. Brook Calibaba stepped in and guided the B.C. foursome to a 9-4 win over Kyle Holland of P.E.I. Both teams are 1-3.

All men’s teams with four wins are assured of moving to the championship round, while teams with three losses will make at least a tie-breaker game if required.

In the only two games in the women’s section this morning, Jessica Daigle and her Fredericton, N.B., rink defeated Veronica Smith 6-5 in the tournament’s first extra end. After two straight defeats to open the championship, the New Brunswick skip has now won two straight. P.E.I. drops to 2-3.

Finally, Ontario’s Molly Greenwood survived a scare, trailing 4-3 against winless Sarah Hill of Newfoundland & Labrador with two ends to go. Ontario squeaked ahead with a deuce in the ninth and then stole another pair in the 10th to win 7-4. Ontario is on top of Women’s Pool B at 4-1 while Hill is winless.

Round-robin games are taking place at both Queens Place Emera Centre and the Liverpool Curling Club in the beautiful South Shore region of Nova Scotia.

The teams have been seeded (based on last year’s results) into two seven-team pools for each gender and will first play a six-game round robin within each pool from Saturday through Tuesday. The top three teams in each pool, plus two teams with the next best won-lost records, then advance to the Championship Round for a further four-game partial round robin from Wednesday through Friday, with their earlier records carried forward.

Once the top three teams for each gender have been determined, all playoff games will be played at Queens Place Emera Centre. The women’s final is Saturday, Jan. 25, while the men’s final is Sunday, Jan. 26. Both finals will be televised live on TSN/RDS2 at 4 p.m. AST/3 p.m. EST.

For the second consecutive year, the competition format involves all 14 Member Associations of the Canadian Curling Association (10 provinces, plus Northern Ontario, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon).

The full scoreboard can be viewed at http://www.curling.ca/scoreboard
The leaderboard can be viewed at http://www.curling.ca/2014juniors-en/standings/

Click to read this post on the CCA website

The Veronica Smith rink from the Cornwall Curling Club improved their win-loss record to  2-2 with a 10-3 win over Newfoundland and Labrador’s Sarah Hill team this evening at the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniiors in Liverpool NS.

Cornwall CC, Cornwall, PE
skip: Veronica SMITH, third: Chloe McCLOSKEY, second: Sabrina SMITH
lead: Katie FULLERTON, coach: Bill HOPE

Twenty-four teams took part in the annual Kenmac Energy Bonspiel this past weekend. The team skipped by our Club President, Paul Neima, earned the most points and went home with the trophies. The 50/50 draw was won by Lance Lowther. The Hank Kamphuis team were the trivia winners. Thank you to all participants for making this a successful event. A huge thank you to Kenmac Energy for their continued sponsorship of this event.

Photo (L-R): Gordon Matthews from event sponsor Kenmac Energy, Paul Neima, Steve DeWolfe, Brad Gardiner, Stephanie O’Keefe

Here are the top 8 teams, who won prizes at the Kenmac Energy Bonspiel, along with the trivia winners:

LIVERPOOL, N.S. — After three draws on opening day of the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, six men’s and six women’s teams are undefeated.

In men’s play, Manitoba (Braden Calvert of Winnipeg) and Ontario (Ryan McCrady of Ottawa) boast 2-0 marks in Pool A.   Manitoba beat Nunavut (Jamie Airut of Rankin Inlet), 18-4 in the first draw before decisioning Quebec (Adam Freilich of Montreal), 6-3 in the afternoon session.

Ontario opened with a 10-5 win over Saskatchewan (Tyler Hartung of Kronau), then took out Nunavut, 11-1 in the nightcap.  Northern Ontario (Tanner Horgan of Sudbury) is at 1-0 after stealing two in the 10^th end to defeat Quebec, 7-5 in its only game of the day.

In Pool B, Alberta (Carter Lautner of Calgary) and New Brunswick (Rene Comeau of Fredericton) also stand at 2-0.   Alberta won its opener, 8-2 over Northwest Territories (Matthew Miller of Inuvik), then posted a 5-1 decision over British Columbia (Cameron de Jong of Victoria).   New Brunswick took two in the 10^th end in its first game to nip host Nova Scotia (Robert Mayhew of Windsor), 8-7, before defeating Prince Edward Island (Kyle Holland of Charlottetown), 12-7 in Draw 2.

Yukon (Joe Wallingham of Whitehorse) won its only game on Saturday, 6-4 over British Columbia in Pool B as well.

On the women’s side, Ontario (Molly Greenwood of Waterloo) and host Nova Scotia, skipped by 15-year-old Mary Fay of Chester, sit atop Pool B with 2-0 marks.   Ontario eked out a 12-11 shootout victory over New Brunswick (Jessica Daigle of Fredericton) Saturday afternoon before handily winning its evening game, 8-1 over Prince Edward Island (Veronica Smith of Cornwall).

Nova Scotia pounded Newfoundland/Labrador (Sarah Hill of St. John’s), 10-2 in its opener before besting Manitoba (Meaghan Brezden of Winnipeg), 5-3 in the evening draw.   Also in Pool B, Northern Ontario (Krysta Burns of Sudbury) won its only contest, 10-6 over New Brunswick.

In Pool A, British Columbia (Kalia Van Osch of Nanaimo) is alone with a 2-0 mark after victories over Nunavut (Sadie Pinksen of Iqaluit), 19-0 and Quebec (Camille Boisvert of St-Romuald) 6-3.

Alberta (Kelsey Rocque of Edmonton) and Northwest Territories (Carina McKay-Saturnino of Inuvik) are both 1-0.   Alberta defeated Quebec, 6-4, while Northwest Territories scored a 9-7 decision over Saskatchewan (Kristen Streifel of Saskatoon).

Fourteen men’s and 14 women’s teams, representing all Member Associations of the Canadian Curling Association (10 provinces, plus Northern Ontario, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon) are competing for Canadian titles, with the winning teams earning the right to represent Canada at the World Juniors, February 26-March 5 in Flims, Switzerland.

Round-robin games are taking place at both Queens Place Emera Centre and the Liverpool Curling Club.  The teams have been seeded (based on last year’s results) into two seven-team pools for each gender and will play a six-game round robin within each pool from Saturday through Tuesday.

The top three teams in each pool, plus two teams with the next best won-lost records, then advance to the Championship Round for a further four-game partial round robin from Wednesday through Friday, with their earlier records carried forward.

The first place teams will then advance to their respective finals, while the second and third place teams meet in semi-finals to determine the other finalists.   The women’s final is Saturday, January 25 while the men’s final is Sunday, January 26.   Both finals will be televised live on TSN/RDS2 at 4 p.m. AST/3 p.m. EST.

The leaderboard can be viewed at http://www.curling.ca/2014juniors-en/standings/.  For complete event information, visit http://www.curling.ca/2014juniors-en.

Play continues on Sunday with draws at 9:30 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Atlantic time.

The signup sheet will be going up this evening for our Club’s playdowns for the provincial The Dominion Curling Club Championship. There are men’s and women’s divisions, and it is open to paid-up Club members who have curled together in one of our leagues for a period of at least six weeks. Our Club championships take place the weekend of February 7-9, and entry fee is $100 per team,, with 50% of the entry fee paid out in prize money. The winning men’s and women’s teams will advance to the provincial The Dominion, March 27-31 at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. The provincial winners will move on to the national event, at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, November 24-29, 2014.

Defending provincial champs are the Alan Inman team from Crapaud, and the Sharon Horne rink from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. Our Club’s representatives at The Dominion last year were the rink of Paul Neima, Kevin Arsenault, Mike Lafontaine, and Dwayne McNeill on the men’s side, and Lorianne Davies, Morgan Kirkham, Tracy MacDonald, and Lynda Turnbull on the women’s.

Here are the rules:

1. The curling club, represented by the team, must be affiliated with its Provincial/Territorial curling association and all dues must be paid in full. The players of any club champion team must be members in good standing of the affiliated curling club. Any player can be a member of more than one affiliated curling club, but shall declare one “home club” for this competition.
2. Each club will declare a men’s team and women’s team of 4 players that have played together regularly in a sanctioned club league.  Alternatively, club members who curl regularly may participate in a designated The Dominion Curling Club Championship competition within their club. Players who play exclusively in a major/super league without playing in another sanctioned club league are ineligible to compete.
3. Each team will be allowed only 1 player who has played in a Juniors’, Men’s (Brier), Women’s (Scotties) or Seniors’ provincial/territory event in the current or previous 4 curling seasons, or participated in a Grand Slam event in the current or previous 4 curling seasons.* (2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14)
*Exception – Provinces/Territories with an open provincial/territory event will be permitted 1 player who has placed top 25% in a Juniors’, Men’s (Brier), Women’s (Scotties) or Seniors’ provincial/territory event in the current or previous 4 curling seasons, or participated in a Grand Slam event in the current or previous 4 curling seasons.
4. All games will be 8 ends with ties being decided by a full extra end.
5. Once a four person team has been declared a club champion, a maximum of 1 replacement/substitute player from the club can play lead. It is at the discretion of each curling club to determine their replacement/substitute rules throughout their process to declare their club champions.
6. Each team will be allowed a maximum of 2 players under the age of 20, as of December 31^st of the year prior to the championship (minimum age of 15 as of December 31^st). Provincial/Territorial curling associations may adopt a more restrictive age criteria if they choose.
7. The Dominion has the sole authority to grant exceptions to these rules in extraordinary circumstances. Before exercising this discretion, The Dominion will consult with the relevant Provincial/Territorial curling association, and will notify the Provincial/Territorial association in writing of any decisions regarding exceptions that are granted.
8. Cornwall teams must have played together as a team in a league in order to qualify for Dominion Club Championship.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• Are stick curlers eligible? Yes, stick curlers are eligible
• Are wheelchair curlers eligible? Yes, wheelchair curlers are eligible
• Can The Dominion Curling Club Provincial/Territorial Champions from previous years repeat their titles? Yes, repeat champions are eligible
• Which charity does The Dominion Curling Club Championship support? The official charity partner is Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) . Each year the SCI chapter in the Province/Territory that is host the national event benefits from the funds raised during the week of the event

The Veronica Smith rink from the Cornwall Curling Club will be making a return trip to the Canadian Juniors, this time in Liverpool NS, while the Kyle Holland team from the Charlottetown Curling Complex will be heading to the Juniors for the first time, with the exception of second Alex Sutherland, who was also on last year’s winning team, skipped by Tyler Smith.

L-R): Veronica Smith, Chloe McCloskey, Sabrina Smith, Katie Fullerton, coach Bill Hope

L-R): Kyle Holland, Tony Nabuurs, Alex Sutherland, Taylor McInnis, coach Angela Hodgson

The 14 men’s and 14 women’s teams begin play Saturday at both the Queens Place Emera Centre and the Liverpool Curling Club, while the playoff round will be played at the Emera Centre. The PEI contingent’s opening games are at 2 pm, with the Smith team playing Manitoba (Meaghan Brezden) at the Emera Centre, and the Holland foursome facing New Brunswick (Rene Comeau) at the curling club. The PEI women play Ontario (Molly Greenwood) at 7 pm.

The pooled teams play a round robin Saturday through Thursday, with the top three teams in each pool, plus two teams with the next best won-lost records, advancing to the Championship Round for a further four-game partial round robin from Wednesday through Friday,

The top team of each gender then advances to its respective final, while the second- and third-place finishers meet in a semifinal to determine the other finalist. The women’s semifinal is Saturday morning, while the men’s semifinal is Sunday morning. The women’s finals go Saturday afternoon, while the men’s take place Sunday afternoon, both at 4 pm. There is also a Mixed Doubles competition for the non-finalists on Saturday and Sunday. As well, the six teams of each gender that don’t qualify for the Championship Round meet in a Seeding Round to determine ranking for the 2015 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, to be staged in Corner Brook, N.L.

Here is the full draw:

(with info from the CCA)

The Kenmac Energy Mixed bonspiel is set for this Friday and Saturday at the Cornwall Curling Club, with a full complement of 24 teams.

Thank you to  Kenmac Energy for their continued sponsorship.

Here are the teams signed up:

Kenmac Energy Bonspiel Team Rosters
Team    Skip    Mate    Second    Lead
1    Gloria Clarke    Bryan Sutherland    Alva Clarey    Elaine Hughes
2    Jamie Ballem    Myrna Sanderson    Brent Irving    Angela Sanderson
3    Paul Durant    Dawn MacFadyen    Ted MacFadyen    Joanne Durant
4    Vern Chowan    Marg Stewart    Pat McCardle    Jean Anderson
5    Kimball Blanchard    Eileen Blanchard    Vince Fisher    Karen Fisher
6    Larry Cudmore    Kim Nickerson    Lee Nickerson    Maureen Cudmore
7    Ray Biage    Barb Duncan-Biage    Paul Field    Helene LaPalme
8    Matt Praught    Laura Robertson    Linda Matthews    Jon Dykerman
9    Gordon Matthews    Cathy Handren    Allison Stewart    Marjorie Matthews
10    Roger DesRoches    Kim MacDonald    Alan Mason    Peg DesRoches
11    Rupert Sweetapple    Carol Sweetapple    Bob MacWilliams    Pam Sweetapple
12    Barry Craswell    Jessie MacPhail    Merrill Cronin    Jim Orr
13    Mark MacDonald    Lorianne Davies    Angus Davies    Lynda Turnbull
14    Hank Kamphuis    Debby Sigsworth    Gerald Dykerman    Bernie Dykerman
15    Chick Morrison    Ann Greyborn    George Younker    Louise Morrison
16    Ernie Stavert    Cathy MacDougall    Cindy Nicholson    Hanny MacLeod
17    Danny Kneabone    Brenda Campbell    Aaron Campbell    Darlene Kneabone
18    Craig Mackie    Susan Dowling Shaw    David Murphy    Leigh Gustafson
19    Karen Currie    Alan Acorn    Valerie Acorn    Carl Currie
20    Greg Groves    Rebecca Rolfe    Donald Weeks    Dave Hunt
21    Bob Fowler    Kim Glydon    Ankur Deshpande    Brian Trainor
22    Paul Neima    Stephanie O’Keefe    Brad Gardiner    Steve DeWolfe
23    Val MacLean    Joe Callaghan    Lynn Thiele    Bob Murphy
24    Jeff Taylor    Shelley Murphy    Des Nantes    Marlene Proud

Here is the draw: