Cornwall Curling Club

The Advantage Communications / Curl PEI Junior Mixed Curling Championships wrapped up this afternoon at the Charlottetown Curling Complex, with two very close and exciting come-from-behind finals between four very evenly matched teams.

The James Dalton combined team from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, and the Cornwall Curling Club, won the three-team double round robin Under 16 division, edging the Tyler Smith foursome from the Crapaud Community and Montague Curling Clubs by a 6-5 score in today’s final. Smith, aided by a 5th end triple, had a 5-2 lead after five ends, but Dalton came back with a single in six, a stolen deuce in the seventh end, and stole the final end as well, to pull out the victory. Playing with Dalton were third Lauren Lenentine, second stone Matthew MacDonald, and lead Breanne Burgoyne, with coach Pat Quilty. Completing the runner-up Smith foursome are Kaleigh MacKay at third, second Brooks Roche, and lead stone Kaleigh Peters. The team is coached by Kevin Smith. Both teams finished double round robin play with identical 3-1 win-loss records. The other team in the division, the Owen Collier foursome from Montague, did not manage to pick up a win.

The two-team Best of 5 Under 21 division championship was won by the Kyle Holland rink from the Charlottetown Curling Complex and the Cornwall Curling Club, who were trailing the Cody Dixon foursome from Montague 4-2 after six ends in the eight end contest, but came from behind with a triple in the seventh and a stolen single in the eighth end to win by a 6-4 score. The teams had both won two games in the best of 5 to force today’s sudden death fifth game. Other members of the winning Holland team are third Chloe McCloskey, second Taylor McInnis, and lead Sabrina Smith, with coach Paul Smith. Rounding out the runner-up Dixon rink are third Danielle Collings, second Dylan Lowery, lead Chloe Jardine, and coach Tammy Dewar.

Here are photos of the winners and runners-up:

1st place U16 (left to right) Gayle Johnston (Curl PEI Jr. events coordinator), lead Breanne Burgoyne, second Matthew MacDonald, third Lauren Lenentine, skip James Dalton, coach Pat Quilty, sponsor Jeff Willis from Advantage Communications.

2nd place U16 Junior Mixed: (left to right) Gayle Johnston, Curl PEI Jr. events coordinator, coach Kevin Smith, lead Kaleigh Peters, second Brooks Roche, third Kaleigh MacKay, skip Tyler Smith, sponsor Jeff Willis from Advantage CommunicationsU21 junior mixed champs (left to right) Gayle Johnston, Curl PEI Jr. events coordinator, skip Kyle Holland, third Chloe McCloskey, second Taylor McInnis, lead Sabrina Smith, coach Paul Smith, and sponsor Jeff Willis from Advantage Communications.

U21 junior mixed runners-up (left to right) Gayle Johnston, Curl PEI Jr. Events Coordinator, skip Cody Dixon, third Danielle Collings, second Dylan Lowery, lead Chloe Jardine, coach Tammy Dewar, sponsor Jeff Willis from Advantage Communications

Following the exciting finals, the Fair Play sportsmanship awards, as voted on by the teams at the event, and the Coaches award as voted on by their coaching peers, were handed out. The Under 16 Fair Play award went to Brooks Roche of Montague, second stone on the Tyler Smith team, while the Under 21 Fair Play award was presented to Montague skip Cody Dixon. Dixon’s coach, Tammy Dewar, took home the Coaches award.

(L-R): Gayle Johnston (Curl PEI Jr. Events Coordinator, U16 junior mixed Fair Play award winner Brooks Roche, sponsor Jeff Willis from Advantage Communications

(L-R): Gayle Johnston (Curl PEI Jr. Events Coordinator,U 21 junior mixed fair play award winner Cody Dixon, sponsor Jeff Willis from Advantage Communications

(L-R): Gayle Johnston (Curl PEI Jr. Events Coordinator, Coaches  award winner Tammy Dewar, sponsor Jeff Willis from Advantage Communications

The winners of the open and womens divisions were, from left, Paul Doucet and Dave McDougal of Yarmouth, and Ruth Stavert and Gloria Clarke of Cornwall. Also pictured is Stick Curl PEI President Bob Leard. Jonathan Charlton photos.

Click for full story, more pictures, and video, from the Eastern Graphic.

The curling season is rapidly coming to an end, but don’t despair – it’s quickly followed by golf season!  This year’s Cornwall Curling Club 9 hole best ball format golf tournament will be held, as usual, at beautiful Countryview Golf Club, route 19 in Fairview. The date for this year’s tourney is Saturday June 22nd. It’ll only cost you $27, and includes green fee, range balls, prizes (it’s almost impossible not to go home with at least one!), burgers, hot dogs, and dessert! Signup sheets will be available soon! Golfers of ALL experience (or lack thereof) levels are welcome – you will be put on a team evenly balanced by our experienced handicappers, and the best ball format makes it fun for everyone.

If you need some practice beforehand, don’t worry – you’ll have lots of time, as estimated 2013 course opening date at Countryview is April 19 (with help from the rain that is coming later today!), just over a month from now!

The signup sheet went up Monday night, and it’s filling up fast, with over 40 names already, so hurry hard and get your name on it, before you miss the curling event of the year!

It’s Back – the closing spiel and the battle of the
Reds vs Blues – April 5 & 6, 2013.
Sign-up sheets are now up at the Club!

Countryview Golf Club and the PEI Brewing Company are pleased to announce the Cornwall Curling Club Annual Closing Spiel April 5th-6th, 2013.

The Island Reds will be “brewing up trouble”
on the ice while the Country Blues
will be “taking a swing” at their
worthy opponents !

Here’s more details, in poem form:

There’ll be curling and eating, and dancing all night

Then we’ll start all over as soon as it’s bright

We’ll be selling some tickets on a membership for next year

And drawing for door prizes (you win if you’re here)

Someone goes home with a great big TV

We talk, and we laugh, (so hard you might pee),

Its good-bye till next  year, to your curling friends

Your old and new buddies, made during 8 ends,

It’s all out war between the Red and the Blue

But only one color can win, and we hope it’s you

The pride of the triumph, the sorrow of loss

Will be felt for a while, but don’t give a toss

Just come back next year, and try over again

It’s the Cornwall Curling Club, and we’re all just friends!!

Cornwall Curling Club

KFC Tuesday Night Teams

Mar 12, 2013

6:30 pm

Ice 1: Arsenault vs MacKinnon

Ice 2: Fowler vs Birtwhistle

Ice 3: Sweetapple vs Kr Currie

Ice 4: Berry vs Farquharson

8:30 pm

Ice 1: Hope vs O’Rourke

Ice 2: V. Smith vs Spence

Ice 3: Kennedy vs Ka Currie

Ice 4: T Smith vs Neima

Byes: Rhodenizer and MacLean

The Cornwall Curling Club rink of Mitchell Schut, Parker MacFadyen, Nick Johnston, and Draven Kowalski, with coaches Mike Schut and Butch McGee went undefeated, with a 4-0 win-loss record in double round robin play to capture the three team boy’s section of the

KFC Provincial Under 13 Curling Championships, which wrapped up today at the Crapaud Community Curling Club. The rules specify that, in the event that a team goes through the double round without a loss, they will be declared the winner, without having to play an additional championship game. Connor Lilly and his rink from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside finished in second place with a 2-2 record, while the Carson Savidant team from the Charlottetown Curling Complex finished at 0-4. Other members of the second place Lilly team are AJ Cahill, Colin MacLeod, and Aden Moore, with coach Shelley MacFadyem while Tyler Aiken, Liam Kelly, and Alec Huestis complete the Savidant squad.

In the five team girl’s divison, the Tegan Corkum rink from the Silver Fox Curling & Club in Summerside beat the Kristie Rogers foursome from the Cornwall Curling Club 6-2 in the final to take the girl’s championship. Corkum and her rink of Elly Whitney-Coulter, Maddison Moore, and Gabrielle Gallant, with coach Robert Corkum went undefeated with a 4-0 record in the round robin to advance directly to the final. Rogers, and her team of Beth Kirby, Olivia MacPhail, and Rachel MacLean, along with coaches Michele Rogers and Chris Kirby, and the Cornwall Curling Club team skipped alternately by Katie Worth and Katelyn Burgoyne, both had 2-2 win-loss records, and advanced to the semi-final, which Rogers won by a 6-3 score. Meaghan Perry and Haley Matheson, with coach Ann Doucette complete the Cornwall team. Rounding out the girl’s round robin were the Breanna Raynor rink from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in Alberton, and the Bridget Patterson foursome from the Silver Fox, both with 1-3 records.

The defending champion Alan Inman foursome from the Crapaud Community Curling Club, and the Sharon Horne rink from the host Western Community Curling Club have advanced to their respective 5:30 pm Sunday finals at the provincial The Dominion Curling Club Championships. Inman finished round robin play with a spotless 5-0 record to take first place in the men’s divison, while Horne and former champion Lorianne Davies from the Cornwall Curling Club both had 4-1 win-loss records after round robin play. Since Horne beat Davies, by a 10-4 score in their round robin encounter, she is awarded first place and a berth in the final. The semi-finals, between the second and third place teams, go at 1:30 pm Sunday, with the winners of the semis advancing to the men’s and women’s finals.

The men’s semis see Montague’s Paul Morrison team take on the Blair Jay rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. Both teams finished at 3-2, with Jay taking second place honours by virtue of his 8-3 round robin win over Morrison. The other rinks in the Men’s division are the Alan Brown team from Charlottetown and the Mike Trudeau foursome from Western, who both finished at 2-3, and the Paul Neima team from Cornwall, who did not pick up a win in five starts.

Tiebreakers are needed to decide third place on the women’s side, as the Carol Kennedy rink from Charlottetown, the Tracy Yorston-Campbell team from Montague, and the Karen MacDonald foursome from the Silver Fox all ended round robin play with 2-3 records. Kennedy and Yorston-Campbell are playing in this evening’s first tiebreaker, with the winner taking on MacDonald for the third and final playoff spot, to advance to the semi against Davies. Crapaud’s Vanessa Hamming, who finished at 1-4, rounds out the women’s field.

The winning men’s and women’s rinks from this year’s championships will advance to the national The Dominion Curling Club Championship, November 18-23, 2013 at the Fort William Curling Club in Thunder Bay Ontario.

[Note: Both the winner and runner-up teams will advance to both the Maritime Stick Curling Championship, March 12-14 in Montague, and the Canadian Open Stick Curling Championship here in Cornwall from April 1-4]

(by Eric McCarthy)

ALBERTON — A power outage, a storm and vacation schedules delayed the men’s final of the Ferguson’s Funeral Homes/Curl PEI Provincial Stick Curling Championship by a full two weeks.

When the game finally got underway on Thursday, teams didn’t seem to want to quit.

It took two extra ends for John Vincent and Walter Callaghan from the host Western Community Curling Club to emerge as champions.

Paul Field and Roddie MacLean from the Cornwall Curling Club scored a single in the sixth end to tie the score at 3-3 and send the game into an extra end.

The seventh end ended with no rocks in the house. Callaghan was looking at two Cornwall rocks when he stepped out of the hack with his final delivery in eight and he cleared both of them and stayed for the win.

Click for full story in the Journal-Pioneer.

Click for linescores from the event website.

Photo (L-R): Walter Callaghan, John Vincent (2011 photo)

The PEI curling championship season has two events taking place this weekend – The Dominion Curling Club Championship, for curlers who have won their respective men’s or women’s club championships, and, for our youngest curlers, the KFC Provincial Under 13, with boy’s and girl’s divisions.

The Dominion Curling Club Championship

The Dominion gets underway Thursday afternoon at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, with the club champions from six of the seven Island curling clubs taking part. The  Charlottetown Curling Complex men’s entry will not be decided until Wednesday evening.

Here are the men’s team rosters (club: skip to lead):

Charlottetown Curling Complex: Team will be chosen Wednesday night
Cornwall Curling Club: Paul Neima, Kevin Arsenault, Mike Lafontaine, Dwayne McNeill
Crapaud Community Curling Club: Alan Inman, Steven Thomson, Gordon Fall, Tony Quigley
Montague Curling Club: Paul Morrison (throws 3rd), David Rice (throws 4th), Darryl Campbell, Neil Morrison
Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club: Blair Jay, Sandy Rundle, Chuck Jay, Gerald Caissy
Western Community Curling Club: Mike Trudeau, Daryl MacDonald, Eric McCarthy, Glen Betts

Here are the women’s team rosters (club: skip to lead):

Charlottetown Curling Complex: Carol Kennedy, Donna Marie, Becky Newson, Nicole Phillips
Cornwall Curling Club: Lorianne Davies, Morgan Kirkham, Tracy MacDonald, Lynda Turnbull
Crapaud Community Curling Club: Vanessa Hamming, Nancy MacFadyen, Lisa Paynter-Craig, Miranda Peters, Coach: Lori Robinson
Montague Curling Club: Tracy Yorston-Campbell, Shelley Rice, Linda Cain, Carole MacDonald
Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club: Karen MacDonald (throws 3rd), Kim Aylward (throws 4th),     Michelle Weaver, Debbie Caissy
Western Community Curling Club: Sharon Horne, Kim Ellsworth, Wendy Fraser, Alison Griffin

The men’s and women’s round robins will go at alternate times, with women’s draws at 5:30 pm Thursday (Cornwall vs Ch’town, S-Fox vs Western, Montague vs Crapaud), 9:30 am (Western vs Crapaud, Ch’town vs Montague, Cornwall vs S-Fox) and 2:30 pm Friday (S-Fox vs Montague, Cornwall vs Western, Ch’town vs Crapaud), and noon (Cornwall vs Crapaud, Western vs Montague, Ch’town vs S-Fox) and 5:30 pm (Ch’town vs Western, S-Fox vs Crapaud, Cornwall vs Montage) Saturday.

The men play at 8 pm Thursday (Cornwall vs Ch’town, Crapaud vs Montague, Western vs S-Fox), noon (Montague vs S-Fox, Ch’town vs Western, Cornwall vs Crapaud) and 5:30 pm (Crapaud vs Western, Cornwall vs Montague, Ch’town vs S-Fox) on Friday, and 9:30 am (Ch’town vs Montague, Crapaud vs S-Fox, Cornwall vs Western) and 2:30 pm (Cornwall vs S-Fox, Montague vs Western, Ch’town vs Crapaud) on Saturday.

Following any tiebreakers (8 pm Saturday and/or 9:30 am Sunday), the second and third place teams will square off in their respective semi-finals, Sunday at 1:30 pm, with the winners taking on the 1st place teams in the men’s and women’s finals at 5:30 pm. All games are eight ends. The men’s and women’s champions will advance to the national The Dominion Curling Club Championship, November 18-23, 2013 at the Fort William Curling Club in Thunder Bay Ontario.

End-by-end results will be available at PEICurling.com/thedominion

Here is a photo gallery from the finals and closing ceremonies at the O’Connor Glass / Curl PEI Provincial Under 16 Curling Championships, which wrapped up this evening at the Crapaud Community Curling Club. Photos courtesy of Rachel O’Connor.

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The Rod MacDonald foursome from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club and the Charlottetown Curling Complex beat the Cornwall Curling Club’s Bill Hope rink by a 9-2 score this afternoon to win the Curl PEI Provincial Mixed Curling Championship at the Montague Curling Club.

File photo: Rod MacDonald

The MacDonald rink, which includes third Kathy O’Rourke, second Mark O’Rourke, and lead Karen MacDonald, stole deuces in the seventh and eighth ends on the way to the win. MacDonald also skipped this year’s runner-up rink in the PEI Men’s championship, and the winning team in the PEI Seniors.  Hope went undefeated in the triple knockout draw, qualifying first for the Page round,  while MacDonald, who lost his opener 10-5 to Jamie Jackson, after giving up a five-ender in an otherwise close game, qualified second, and then edged Hope 8-7 in an extra end in the Page 1 vs 2 game on Sunday afternoon to advance to today’s final.

Rounding out the runner-up Hope rink, who defeated the Jamie Newson team by a 10-4 score  in the semi-final this morning, also stealing deuces in the seventh and eighth ends, are third Sandy Hope, second Craig Mackie, and  lead stone Shelley Ebbett.
The MacDonald team will advance to the Canadian Mixed, November 14-23 at the Rideau Curling Club in Ottawa.

The Rod MacDonald rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside and the Charlottetown Curling Complex edged the Cornwall Curling Club’s Bill Hope foursome by an 8-7 extra-end score to win this afternoon’s Page 1 vs 2 game, and advance to the 3 pm Monday final at the Curl PEI Provincial Mixed Curling Championship at the Montague Curling Club. Other members of the MacDonald team are third Kathy O’Rourke, second Mark O’Rourke, and lead Karen MacDonald.

Hope will now play in the semi-final, Monday at 10 am, against Charlottetown’s Jamie Newson. Newson stole a triple in the sixth end of an abbreviated game against the host club’s Donald Clarey, winning 9-3 in the Page 3 vs 4 game to advance to the semi.

Newson won qualifier #3 for the Page round this morning with an 8-7 win over clubmate Jamie Jackson, while Clarey got by Charlottetown’s Kevin Champion in an extra end, also by an 8-7 score, battling back from a 7-3 deficit after five ends with a deuce in six, and three consecutive steals to grab the final qualifying spot.

Hope took qualifier #1 on Saturday morning with a 9-7 win over Newson, stealing a final end deuce for the victory, while MacDonald won qualifier #2, also against Newson, by a 7-1 score Saturday afternoon.

The Monday morning semi-final winner will face MacDonald in the final. The winner of the final will advance to the Canadian Mixed, November 14-23 at the Rideau Curling Club in Ottawa.

The first two of the four qualifiers for the Page championship round at the 10-team triple-knockout Curl PEI Provincial Mixed Curling Championship at the Montague Curling Club have now been decided, with Bill Hope and his Cornwall Curling Club rink winning the “A” qualifier, and PEI Senior champ and Tankard runner-up skip Rod Macdonald and his Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club/Charlottetown Curling Complex team winning the “B”.

Hope stole a deuce in the final end of his game against Charlottetown’s Jamie Newson rink to win 9-7, while MacDonald beat Newson 7-1 in six ends in his qualifier game. Hope and MacDonald will now advance to the Page 1 vs 2 game, Sunday at 3 pm. The winner of that game will advance to the 3 pm Monday final, while the loser will play the winner of the Page 3 vs 4 game in the semi-final, with the winner of that game going to the final as well.

The last two qualifers will be decided in the 10 am Sunday draw, with Newson taking on clubmate Jamie Jackson for Qualifier #3, and Kevin Champion of Charlottetown taking on Montague’s Donald Clarey. The winners of these games will advance to the Page 3 vs 4 game, at 3 pm Sunday.

The winner of Monday’s final will advance to the Canadian Mixed, November 14-23 at the Rideau Curling Club in Ottawa.

End by end results are available at peicurling.com/mixed

55+ Games Society Photo: 55+ Games Stick Curling Medallists and organizers

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Here are the medallists  from the Vogue Optical 55-Plus Games Stick Curling event, which wrapped up today here at the Cornwall Curling Club. All the medallists curl out of the host club, with the exception of the three-member Audrey Callaghan team, with two members from the Western club, and Marg Stewart from the Cornwall club.

55+ Open
GOLD- Vern Chowan & Grant Laird
SILVER- Gordie Hermann & Ernie Stavert
BRONZE- Stirling Stratton & Barry Craswell

55+ Women
GOLD- Ruth Stavert & Eileen Blanchard
SILVER- Mary Plamondon & Shirley Lank
BRONZE- Audrey Callaghan, Marg Stewart, & Francis Ellsworth

Here’s a photo of Club members Lynda Turnbull and Lorianne Davies at the Scotties final in Kingston ON last night

There’ll be a delay in deciding the winner in the 16 team Open (men’s and mixed teams) Divison at the Ferguson Funeral Homes/Curl PEI Provincial Stick Curling Championship, as the host Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, along with the rest of the West Prince region from the St. Eleanors part of Summerside all the way to North Cape, was plunged into darkness just before the final game because of a power blackout expected to last at least four hours. As both the winner and the runner-up will advance to both the Maritime Stick Curling Championship in Montague, and the Canadian Open Stick Championship in Cornwall,  there’s no urgency to choose a definitive winner, and it may take some time to reschedule, as one of the skips will be out of the country for the next 10 days.

The two finalists are the Walter Callaghan/John Vincent duo from the host Western club, who have previously won the event three times, and the Roddie MacLean/Paul Field team from the Cornwall Curling Club. Both teams had 5-2 round robin records.  MacLean/Field won their semi-final 5-3 over Cornwall clubmates Bryan Sutherland and Elaine Hughes, while Callaghan/Vincent won theirs 3-1 over their Western clubmates Bill Glydon and Eldon Hardy.

The Glydon and Sutherland rinks finished round robin play in first place in their pools, with 5-2 and  6-1 records, respectively. In quarter-final action earlier this afternoon, the Callaghan team beat Cornwall’s Sterling Stratton and Ernie Stavert twosome 7-3, while the MacLean rink stole a single and a triple in the final two ends to defeat the Eddie Bernard/Roger Gavin duo from the host club. Stratton, Bernard, MacLean, and Callaghan all had 5-2 round robin records.

The consolation game to determine third and fourth place, between the Sutherland and Glydon rinks, was also a victim of the blackout, but third place was awarded to the Sutherland/Hughes team by mutual agreement.

The three-team Women’s Divison wrapped up on Thurday. with the Ruth Stavert/Gloria Clarke duo from the Cornwall Curling Club  winning their fourth consecutive women’s stick title. They finished round robin play with a 3-1 win-loss record, ahead of Cornwall’s Shirley Lank and Mary Plamondon twosome at 2-2, and the Ann Barwise/Audrey Callaghan team from the host club (1-3). The rules dictate that, since a definitive winner came out of the round robin, no championship game was necessary.

The top four open division teams, skipped by  Callaghan, MacLean, Glydon, and Sutherland, and the top two women’s rinks from this year’s event, skipped by Stavert and Lank, all earn the right to compete in the Maritime Stick Curling Championships, March 12-14 here in PEI at the Montague Curling Club. The Ruth Stavert/Gloria Clarke duo are the defending women’s champs, and also won in 2010. The Floyd Stewart/Gordon MacDonald rink were runners-up in the open division last year.

The top two open division teams, skipped by Callaghan and MacLean, also earn the right to compete in the 2013 Canadian Open Stick Curling Championship, April 1-4, also here in PEI, at the Cornwall Curling Club. The defending champs from last year’s event in Regina are the Earl Stephenson and Warren Johnson team from Winnipeg MB. The Montague Curling Club rink of Basil and Sterling Higginbotham won the B consolation prize last year. This is an “open” event, but reserves entries for the top two teams from each of BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan. Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI. There are 32 spots available for other teams, for a total of 48 teams.

In stick curling there are two curlers per team, who deliver their rocks with delivery sticks, with each team member delivering from opposite ends. Sweeping is allowed only from the hog line to the back of the house at the playing end. Two curlers, one from each team, alternately deliver 6 stones each per end, while their teammate skips that end. The roles are then reversed, and the partners deliver the stones back. No stone may be removed from play until the fourth stone of each end. Games are six ends and take about an hour to play. For more information on stick curling, including complete rules of play, visit www.stickcurling.ca.

Monday, Feb. 25

8:30am

Ice 1  Vern Chowan  vs Bryan Sutherland

Ice 2  Paul Durant vs Lorne McGuigan

Ice 3  Paul Field vs Bob MacWilliams

Ice 4  Fred Fall vs Vince Fisher

10:50am

Ice 1  Lester Callbeck vs Tom Dunn

Ice 2  Matt Smith vs Paul Matheson

Ice 3  John Deluca vs Nooker Richards

Ice 4  Gordie Hermann vs Walter Callaghan

1pm

Ice 1  Paul Durant vs Paul Field

Ice 2  Fred Fall vs Ernie Stavert

Ice 3  Bryan Sutherland vs Lorne McGuigan

Ice 4  Vern Chowan vs Bob MacWilliams

2:45pm

Ice1  John DeLuca vs Matt Smith

Ice2  Vince Fisher vs Walter Callaghan

Ice 3 Tom Dunn vs Paul Matheson

Ice 4  Lester Callbeck vs Nooker Richards

Tuesday, Feb. 26

8:30am

Ice 1  Nooker Richards vs Paul Matheson

Ice 2  Lester Callbeck vs John DeLuca

Ice 3  Ernie Stavert vs Gordie Hermann

Ice 4  Tom Dunn vs Matt Smith

10:15am

Ice 1  Bob MacWilliams vs Lorne McGuigan

Ice2  Vern Chowan vs Paul Field

Ice 3  Fred Fall vs Walter Callaghan

Ice 4  Bryan Sutherland vs Paul Durant

12:45pm

Ice 1  Ernie Stavert vs Walter Callaghan

Ice 2  Nooker Richards vs Tom Dunn

Ice 3  Lester Callbeck vs Matt Smith

Ice 4  John DeLuca vs Paul Matheson

2:30pm

Ice 1  Vince Fisher vs Gordie Hermann

Ice 2  Bob Mac Williams vs Bryan Sutherland

Ice 3  Paul Durant vs Vern Chowan

Ice 4  Paul Field vs Lorne McGuigan

Wednesday, Feb. 27

8:30am

Ice 1  Bryan Sutherland vs Paul Field

Ice 2  Vern Chowan vs Lorne McGuigan

Ice 3  Fred Fall vs Gordie Hermann

Ice 4  Nooker Richards vs Matt Smith

10:15am

Ice 1  Tom Dunn vs John DeLuca

Ice 2  Lester Callbeck vs Paul Matheson

Ice 3  Vince Fisher vs Ernie Stavert

Ice 4  Bob MacWilliams vs Paul Durant

12:45pm

Ice 2  Bronze medal       Men’s open

Ice 3  Bronze medal       55 plus mixed

Ice 4  Bronze medal       65 plus mixed

2:30pm

Ice 1  Gold medal     Men’s open

Ice 2  Gold medal     65 plus mixed

Ice 3  Gold Medal     55 plus mixed

The Town of Cornwall has received $16,643 from the Government of Canada and $12,800 from the Government of Prince Edward Island for new air conditioner units for the main floor rooms in the Cornwall Civic Centre. The Civic Centre is upstairs from the Curling Club. The new building didn’t originally come with air conditioning.

Here is the official announcement from the PEI government:

Federal and provincial governments invest in infrastructure improvements for Central PEI

Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development

The Benevolent Irish Society, the Winsloe Lions Club, the Cornwall Civic Centre, and the Emerald Community Centre and Train Station will all benefit from facility upgrades that will bestow benefits Island-wide.

Photo credit: Brian Simpson, Provincial Photographer

A federal-provincial investment in infrastructure will improve facilities in four Island communities. From left, George O’Connor, president of the Benevolent Irish Society; Minister of National Revenue Gail Shea; Cornwall Deputy Mayor Corey Frizzell; Winsloe Lions Club member Doug Cook; Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development Minister Ron MacKinley; and Emerald Community Centre volunteer Kent Croken.

The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of National Revenue, on behalf of the Honourable Bernard Valcourt, Associate Minister of National Defence and Minister of State (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency) (La Francophonie), and the Honourable Ron MacKinley, Prince Edward Island’s Minister of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development, along with community representatives today announced funding for upgrades to four community facilities in central Prince Edward Island.

“Our Government, through the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund, is supporting communities all across Canada in gaining long-term prosperity,” said Minister Shea. “The four infrastructure projects announced today will generate economic activity and jobs while also having positive social and cultural benefits for Islanders and visitors alike.”

In total, the Government of Canada will invest $184,598 from the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund. The Government of Prince Edward Island will invest $129,200 under the Island Community Fund. Total project costs for the four projects announced today total $380,720. Community proponents have each made contributions to their respective projects.

“The provincial government is pleased to support improvements to these community facilities so they meet the needs of residents for years to come,” said Minister MacKinley. “We are committed to working with Islanders to improve the quality of life and create a climate for economic development across the province.”

• The Benevolent Irish Society will receive $71,594 from the Government of Canada and $39,200 from the Government of Prince Edward Island to carry out upgrades to the interior and exterior of their facility. Improvements will include new siding and the replacement of 11 windows, new flooring, new light fixtures, air conditioning and an addition to the main floor stage, additional storage space, improvements to the library/genealogy centre and paving.

• The Winsloe Lions Club will receive $43,861 from the Government of Canada and $40,000 from the Government of Prince Edward Island to add a new front entrance to its facility, replace the basement ceiling, remove and relocate decking, add storage and meeting rooms and expand the kitchen.

• The Town of Cornwall has received $16,643 from the Government of Canada and $12,800 from the Government of Prince Edward Island for new air conditioner units for the main floor rooms in the Cornwall Civic Centre.

• The Emerald Recreation Club will receive $52,500 from the Government of Canada and $37,200 from the Government of Prince Edward Island to carry out upgrades to the Community Centre and Train Station in Emerald. Improvement work to the Community Centre will include insulation of floor and exterior walls, new windows and doors, upgrades to electrical, painting, an air exchange, a portable stage, and tables and chairs. Work at the Emerald Train Station will include a new roof and flue, upgrades to wiring, exterior painting and new signage.

“The Benevolent Irish Society is one of the oldest organizations in Prince Edward Island. The Executive, our members and our guests, want to see our facility remain vibrant for many, many years to come,” said Mr. George O’Connor, President, Benevolent Irish Society. “We are very pleased to have the financial support from the federal and provincial governments to move forward with our extensive renovation plans for the Honourable Edward Whalen Irish Cultural Centre.”

In Economic Action Plan 2012, the Harper Government announced plans to further modernize Canada’s infrastructure by committing $150 million over two years for the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is delivering the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund in Atlantic Canada with an allocation of $16.6 million, of which $2.5 million is being allotted to projects in Prince Edward Island.

The Prince Edward Island Government is delivering funds to eligible projects through the Island Community Fund, a multi-year funding commitment to address infrastructure needs in communities across the province.

The finals go at 6 this evening at the Credit Unions of PEI/Curl PEI Provincial Seniors Curling Championships at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside. The men’s championship game will see Summerside native Rod MacDonald and his combined Charlottetown Curling Complex/Silver Fox team take on the Bill Hope foursome from the Cornwall Curling Club and the Fox, while the host club’s Nola Murphy rink will take on the defending champion Shirley Berry squad from the Cornwall and Silver Fox clubs.

MacDonald, whose team, which includes John Likely, Mark O’Rourke, and Rod’s brother Peter MacDonald, has won a combined total of 23 PEI men’s titles over the years,  went through round robin play with a perfect 5-0 win-loss record to earn a bye to the final, while Hope, who won the Seniors in 2011, and is playing with Ted MacFadyen, Craig Mackie and David Murphy,  beat Summerside’s Blair Jay foursome 9-4 in this afternoon’s semi-final to advance to tonight’s game. Hope took a triple in the first ends, and stole the fourth and 7th ends in a 9-4 win. MacDonald beat Hope 9-6 in their round robin encounter.

In the triple-knockout women’s division, five-time Seniors champ Berry, whose team includes Sandy Hope, Shelley Ebbett, and Arleen Harris, beat the Jennifer Scott rink from Montague 8-1 in the semi-final this afternoon, stealing two singles and a triple en route to the win. Berry won the Page C-D game on Sunday, 9-3 over Montague’s Kathy Clarey.

Scott, whose current team won the PEI women’s championship back in 1988, went 3-0 in the triple knockout, advancing to the Page A-B game, where they lost 10-2 to Murphy to drop down to this afternoon’s semi-final, while Murphy advanced directly to the final.

Murphy’s rink from the Silver Fox includes Donna Arsenault, Elspeth Carmody, and Laurie McCabe.

The winners of this evening’s finals between MacDonald and Hope, and between Murphy and Berry. will advance to the Canadian Seniors, March 16-24, also at Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club.

Congratulations to the Eddie MacKenzie team, which includes Cornwall member Sean Ledgerwood,  for winning the PEI Tankard Tuesday evening in Crapaud. The team will be competing in the Tim Hortons Brier, March 2-10 in Edmonton.

Here’s some pictures of Sean in action last night:

(by Tim Gall)

Smiths meet in the final of mixed doubles tournament following play at national junior championships

One had to win. One had to lose.

That was the situation on Sunday when the Smith sisters from the Cornwall Club Club competed for the bronze medal in the inaugural mixed doubles tournament at the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Fort McMurray, Alta.

CCA photo: Veronica Smith in Mixed Doubles action

Sabrina Smith was teamed with Quebec’s Marc-Alexandre Charest-Dion against Veronica Smith and Ontario’s David Easter. Sabrina’s team won the medal with a 7-4 decision.

Following the bronze- medal game in the mixed doubles, Veronica Smith, looked back on the mini weekend tournament.

“It was a fun event that enabled us to meet new people in a fun environment.”

Regarding the entire week — and originally in the hunt for the national championship — Veronica was thrilled.

“I don’t really think there are words to describe the week I just had,” said the skip, whose team also included Katie Fullerton and Chloe McCloskey as well as sister Sabrina. “I have met so many great people, played against the best junior curlers in the country, had the opportunity to play on arena ice for the first time, and represent the province of Prince Edward Island.”

CCA photo: Alex Jenkins in Mixed Doubles play

On the junior men’s side, the foursome of Tyler Smith, Alex Sutherland, Alex Jenkins, and Jonathan Schut — also from the Cornwall Curling Club — finished with the same 3-6 record as the junior women during the main part of the competition. The boys did not advance to the medal games in the mixed doubles event.

“Mixed doubles was really fun actually, a little confusing but still fun,” said Sutherland.

“I loved representing P.E.I.,” he added. “It’s such an honour to wear the crest. It was an awesome learning experience, both socially and curling wise. I hope next year’s representatives have as much fun as we did.”

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FORT McMURRAY, Alta. — The playoff pairings are set at the 2013 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships.

Jamie Sinclair and her Ontario team won a tiebreaker on Friday afternoon to qualify for Sunday’s semifinal at the 2013 Canadian Juniors. (Photo, CCA/Mark O’Neill)

Manitoba’s Matt Dunstone (Winnipeg) on the men’s side and Ontario’s Jamie Sinclair (Manotick) on the women’s side both won third-place tiebreakers on Friday afternoon at the Suncor Community Leisure Centre to clinch berths in the weekend semifinals.

The Ontario women (third Holly Donaldson, second Katelyn Wasylkiw, lead Erin Jenkins, coach Graham Sinclair) ended a run of frustrating losses with a 6-5 win over the Yukon’s Sarah Koltun (Whitehorse), ending the Yukon’s bid to make the junior women’s playoffs for the first time since the Yukon and Northwest Territories started sending separate teams.

Earlier in the day, the Yukon blew out Ontario 10-3, and on Thursday night, Ontario gave up three in the 10th end to lose 11-10 to B.C.’s Corryn Brown.

“I think I’ve gone through every single emotion possible,” said Sinclair after her team’s win. “I’m happy that it’s done with and we’re moving on to the semis.”

Ontario will play Manitoba’s Shannon Birchard (Winnipeg) in the semifinal Sunday at 10:30 a.m. (1:30 pm AT), with the winner moving on to play B.C. in the gold-medal game Sunday at 5 p.m (8 p.m. AT).

“Our team went through a lot this morning; it was a terrible game,” said Sinclair. “It was not for us. We kind of broke down after that, but our ability to regroup, come out here and control the whole game, I think that says a lot about the personalities on our team. We’re really excited. We’re definitely happy with the way things are going, and after this game, we’re feeling a little more confident.”

Manitoba skip Matt Dunstone hollers instructions to his sweepers during Friday’s tiebreaker at the Canadian Juniors. (Photo, CCA/Mark O’Neill)

The Manitoba men, meanwhile, endured a draining day that saw them pull out a pair of unexpected victories. In their final round-robin game on Friday morning, Saskatchewan skip Brady Scharback (Saskatoon) just had to touch paint in the 10th end to score three for a victory, but was heavy; Dunstone scored in the extra end for the win.

Then, against Ontario’s Aaron Squires, Manitoba could only watch as Ontario last-rock thrower Jason Camm had an open hit for the win but was narrow and wrecked, giving Manitoba the stolen victory.

“Let’s hope that doesn’t happen again,” said Dunstone, who’s backed up by third  Colton Lott, second Daniel Grant, lead Brendan MacCuish and coach Scott Grant. “That’s a lot for all of us to take in one sitting. We’re just glad to still be going.”

Manitoba will take on Nova Scotia’s Stuart Thompson (Halifax) in the semifinal on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. AT) The winner moves into the championship game against Alberta’s Thomas Scoffin (Edmonton) at 5 p.m (8 p.m. AT)

“It’s not over yet, right? We’re not done with this thing until we lose and we’re out,” said Dunstone. “There’s still lots of work to be done, and we’re looking forward to it. They’re (Nova Scotia) a great team. We’re going to have to be on top of our game if we hope to make that final.”

The six teams in each gender that didn’t qualify for the championship round played a seeding round robin to determine final rankings for next year’s Canadian Juniors in Liverpool, N.S.

In the final round of men’s seeding games, Daniel Murray of the Northwest Territories (1-8, Yellowknife) defeated Nunavut’s David Kakuktinniq (0-9, Rankin Inlet); and Newfoundland/Labrador’s Adam Boland (4-5, Gander) was an 8-6 victor over P.E.I.’s Tyler Smith (3-6, Cornwall).

In women’s games, Newfoundland/Labrador’s Carolyn Suley (6-3, St. John’s) beat Carina McKay-Saturnino of the Northwest Territories (Inuvik, 3-6) 8-4; Alberta’s Karynn Flory (5-4, Edmonton) was a 7-5 winner over Northern Ontario’s Tirzah Keffer (3-6, Thunder Bay); and P.E.I.’s Veronica Smith (3-6, Cornwall) turned back Nunavut’s Sadie Pinksen (0-9, Iqaluit) 11-3.

Live scoring and updated standings are available at www.curling.ca/championships/juniors/scores-and-standings/standings-2013-juniors/.

(by Allen Cameron)

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