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Issue 2 – Monday, December 2, 2013 • An Official Publication of the Canadian Curling Association.
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2013 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings – Morning Roar
A day of upsets at Roar outset
JIM MORRIS
The Morning Roar
If the first day of competition is any indication expect the
unexpected this week as Canada’s top rinks battle for the right
to compete at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.
It didn’t take long for the underdogs to show some teeth and
leave bite marks on the favourites at the 2013 Tim Hortons Roar
of the Rings Canadian Curling Trials, presented my Monsanto.
John Epping of Toronto, who has never won a national title,
defeated 2010 world champion Kevin Koe of Calgary 9-8 while
John Morris, who had to scrap his way through the pre-trials in
Kitchener, Ont., downed favourite Glenn Howard of Tiny, Ont.,
8-6.
“I know we are picked as a long shot,” said Epping. “We
believe we can win this week. That’s why we are here. We
wouldn’t be here if we didn’t think we can win.”
Morris said the tone has been set for the rest of the week.
“That is an exciting first round of action,” he said. “I think
the crowd got what they paid for. It was nice to see some really,
exciting close games.”
In other men’s games, defending Olympic champion Kevin
Martin needed a last-rock draw to score two in a 5-3 win over
Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen while defending Brier champion
Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., scored a 7-4 win over Jeff
Stoughton.
Among the women, Edmonton’s Val Sweeting took Rachel
Homan, the defending Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion, to the woodshed for a 10-3 whipping. In a battle of
Alberta, Renee Sonnenberg of Grande Prairie defeated former
Scotties champion Heather Nedohin of Edmonton 8-6.
Martin said the close calls and clear upsets are a result of a
16-team field overflowing with talent.
“Every shot is makeable,” said the Edmonton skip who also
won silver at the 2002 Olympics.
“The separation is so little that one shot here and one shot
there, it’s a different ball game. That’s the way it’s going to be
here all week. It’s going to be a real dogfight for the whole time.”
McEwen fought back from a 4-1 deficit to make things interesting.
“It’s getting slippery out there,” said McEwen. “How knows
what’s going to happen tomorrow.”
Jacobs jumped into a 4-1 lead over Stoughton and never let
the Winnipeg skip back in the game.
“We were able to go out there and take the crowd out of it,
which was huge,” he said. “The guys played great in front of me.
“This is going to be a long week. It’s probably going to feel like
a slow week. You have to just stay calm and stay in the moment.”
Howard fell behind 3-0 early, but then battled back to make
it close before Morris scored three in the ninth. Howard agreed
there was a lot of casualties on the first day.
“Notably Howard,” he said.
“I struggled a little bit early. We made a great comeback but
they kept making the right shot to make sure we didn’t get a big
end.”
In other women’s games, Jennifer Jones scored six points in
the sixth end in a 10-2 romp over fellow Winnipeg skip Chelsea
Carey while Sherry Middaugh of Victoria Harbour, Ont., beat
Stefanie Lawton of Saskatoon 5-3.
One victory doesn’t punch anyone a ticket to Sochi, but a
Renee Sonnenberg
loss does put a rink in an early hole in the talent-laden field.
Only one first-round loser in trials history ever went on to win
the event. That was Ed Lukowich in 1987, when curling was a
demonstration event at the 1988 Calgary Winter Games.
Sweeting might have flown under the radar in the days leading up to the trials, but she was right on target against Homan,
the world champion bronze medallist. She built an early 2-0
lead with a couple of steals, then stole deuces in the eighth and
nine ends.
“It feels good to get a win off the bat,” said the 26-year-old
mother.
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“We had some breaks from them at the
beginning of the game, some tough shots
that they usually make.
“We were a little fortunate but I thought
we played better in the last half.”
Things went so bad for Homan the young
Ottawa skip could only shake her head and
smile.
“It’s just kind of funny when things are
going so horribly wrong,” she said. “You just
try to laugh it off.
“We learned a lot out there. It may not
look like it, but we did. We have to play better than that.”
Like Sweeting, Sonnenberg’s trip to the
MTS Centre began with her battling through
the pre-trials in Kitchener, Ont. She quickly
showed she belonged in Winnipeg by stealing three in the third end to build a 4-2 lead
after five ends.
“We pulled one out and we battled hard,”
said Sonnenberg. “Now we are going to
move forward and take very game for what
it gives us.
John Morris
“If you start 0-1, you don’t want to be 0-2.
If you start 1-0, 1-1 doesn’t seem so bad but
2-0 seems amazing. That first win is big win.”
Nedohin was happy her rink never quit.
“I had a slippery start, there’s no doubt
about that,” said the 2012 Hearts champion.
“I was a little heavy on a couple of draws.
“I was really proud of myself and my teammates. We kept battling and made a really good game
of it. It’s a long week. A loss at the start is not a big deal. We have to keep grinding.”
Jones was leading 3-1 when she used a raise take-out to score a half dozen and crush any hopes
Carey had for a comeback.
“If we could score six in every game I would be pretty excited,” said Jones, who has won just
about everything in curling except the chance to compete at the Olympics.
“It’s a long week but a short week. It’s a pretty short round-robin from what we are used to so you
don’t want to get behind the eight-ball early.”
Carey had to do some lineup juggling when third Kristy McDonald came down with the flu.
Alternate Breanne Meakin stepped in but Carey said that had nothing to do with the outcome.
“Breanne played great,” she said. “We were just on the wrong side of the inch.
“There’s not much you can do about that.”
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2013 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings – Morning Roar
Olympics have added dynamic to game
There once was a time when the summer fitness program for many curlers
was a round of golf. If someone needed
a sports psychologist during the season they turned to Dr. John Labatt.
Today’s curlers have a year-round regimented fitness program. They pay attention to nutrition and sports psychologists
make them mentally tougher. The change
in how the game is played, and how the
sport is perceived by others, can be attributed to curling becoming a medal sport at
the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
“It changed everything,” said Winnipeg’s Jeff Stoughton, one of the 16 skips
battling for a ticket to the Sochi Winter Olympics at this week’s 2013 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian Curling Trials, presented by Monsanto.
“It’s clearly the pinnacle of the sport. It’s
made all the teams want to be elite athletes and take things very seriously and
want to compete at the highest level.”
Jennifer Jones, who like Stoughton is
a former world champion, said adding
curling to the Games has raised the profile of the sport. It also has forced teams
to focus on the Olympic cycle as opposed
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“The Olympics has brought a lot to curling,” said Jones. “It’s really grown the
game in Asia and around the world.
“It’s brought a lot more athleticism to
the game. You are seeing a lot fitter athletes, a lot younger athletes getting better at a younger age, which has been great
for the game. It also really (made teams)
focus on four years so all teams build
for the four-year cycle. It has changed
how you approach the game for sure.”
At age 51, Glenn Howard of Tiny,
Ont., is the oldest skip at the trials. He sees how the game exists today
and remembers how it used to be.
“Back in the day we didn’t do any of
that,” said Howard, who lost to Kevin
Martin in the final of the 2009 trials. “We didn’t even think about it.
“We didn’t even consider physical fitness to a degree. Back in the day I
did nothing in the summer. We played
some golf. Come September I would do
some stretching and a little bit of light
movement. There wasn’t much.”
During the days of corn brooms some
curling arenas had cup holders on the
ice to hold beverages. Many curlers wore
gloves with nicotine stains on the fingers. It all made sense because for years
major curling events were sponsored
by tobacco companies or breweries.
When curling was a demonstration
sport at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, Ed Werenich complained precision and strategy was more important for winning than physical fitness.
Howard understands how some
people had a hard time taking curlers seriously as athletes.
“I look back now and it wasn’t
a proud moment,” he said. “But
that’s just the way it was.”
Gerry Peckham, high-performance direc-
tor for the Canadian Curling Association,
said the Olympics produced a mind shift
in how curlers approached the game.
“The natural by-product of Olympic inclusion has been the fact a higher percentage
of our more elite teams treat themselves
like full-time athletes,” said Peckham. “The
type of training they do, the attention to fitness, nutrition, sports psychology, how they
organize themselves for peak performance.
“All of a sudden that is mainstay of
a good percentage of our top 15 to 20
teams in the country. As result of that,
there has been a natural separation
between our more elite teams and what
you might call the rest of the pack.”
As the athletes changed, so did the perception of the game. Curling drew huge crowds
at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics where Kevin
Martin won the gold medal and Cheryl Bernard took silver. Brad Gushue’s gold medal at
the 2006 Olympics resulted in his rink being
named team of the year by The Canadian
Press. The sport commands huge television
audiences, even outdrawing NHL games.
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“It brings a lot more awareness to those in other sports who
don’t know what curling is,” said Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin.
“That additional awareness of our game, it’s become cool to curl.
“Before it was an older person’s game, or something your parents did. We (now) have some young
girls playing the game. It’s drawn great attention.”
Saskatoon’s Stefanie Lawton remembers when curlers laughed at the idea of sports psychologists. Now
they are accepted like push brooms and sliders.
“Now you need to do that to compete at this level,” she said.
“You can compare curling to golf. It’s such a mental game. In your own mind, if you have negative thoughts, that can affect how you are throwing your shots. You need to be mentally tough.”
Howard said not only have the athletes improved, so has
the ice conditions they play on. Ice making has become a science, allowing curlers to make more high-light reel shots.
“There are way more shots being made collectively on a team than 20 years ago,” he said.
The Olympics have brought a golden glow to the sport
but Stoughton has also witnessed some tarnish.
“The only bad thing the Olympics has done is
it’s separated the teams quite a bit from your average team you put in a bonspiel,” he said.
“Now you have these elite six to 10 teams that seem
to win most of the events. That’s just because they have
put in the extra time and the other teams can’t compete anymore. It’s disappointing for them.”
Howard understands Stoughton’s concern but believes
the Olympics have moved curling in a positive direction.
“It’s a form of evolution in the game,” he said. “I like
the way the game is today. It’s a better product.”
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Winnipeg is perfect setting for trials
“I’m a Winnipeg man, from Winnipeg, Man.”
First, I’ll be docked pay by EIC Larry
Wood who oft admonishes that a column should never contain the word “I”.
“It’s not about you,” he
would say, – don’t use it.
I’ll pay the fine for this one.
Context is important, and that Winnipeg is
the perfect place to host an event of this magnitude and national importance is real: To me.
I was born in Winnipeg, grew up
in Kenora, all of my formative curling years were defined by Winnipeg.
Spending time at the local curling club
with my Dad and his pals, often playing in big cash spiels such as the Lake of
the Woods, some of this country’s most
famous curlers were no strangers to me.
CBC Winnipeg in my day produced a
made-for-TV curling event that I watched
religiously on Saturday afternoons. Don
Wittman and Don Duguid called the play
and more importantly explained the game,
the tactics, and why a shot was chosen.
While the rules have changed, the tactical thinking required to be successful has
not, and in many way, those gents were
ahead of their time in the broadcast side.
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As a kid I remember watching rock
tossers such as Laliberte, Bonar, Darbyshire and Harvey; Burtnyk ,Meleschuk,
Fry, Peters, Neufeld, Turnbull and even a
very young mullet-sporting Stoughton.
Growing up in Kenora was
the perfect curling storm.
It was ‘neutral ice’ in a day – my day –
when some of Canada’s best curlers were
from either Winnipeg or Thunder Bay.
Years later, I look back on the day I helped
out as a junior curler, realizing I watched
Heather Houston play against Connie Laliberte; that I watched Al Hackner play against
Kerry Burtnyk....and any number of other
combinations – Tetleys and Langs and Arnotts
– now, in my role, I realize how significant
that was, even if I did not appreciate it then.
Plus the canteen burgers and fries in Kenora
were amazing: Great curling and the smell
of wonderful food wafting through the lobby
– these are memories etched on my brain.
Winnipeg is the prefect host for the
event that will choose who goes to Russia to wear the Maple Leaf for curling.
Western Canada – per capita – and Manitoba specifically and statistically – have
and continue to represent that toughest
province to win to get to a Brier or Scotties. If you don’t believe me, have a chat
with Chelsea Carey or Mike McEwen.
Lower Fort Garry might suggest a cer-
tain Scottish lilt to the whole place, rightfully so and as such, the province and this
city blend the best of curling’s actual home
country and its adopted home country.
Winnipeg houses some of Canada’s most
decorated curling clubs – Fort Rouge, St. Vital,
Granite, Heather, Kildonan.... and more.
And at the end of the day, Winnipeg personifies the game maybe
more than any other in Canada.
It’s about being polite and sportsmanlike; you’ll be slapped on the back and given
credit for a good shot and be respected
for reciprocated comments. But expect no
pity if you are getting waxed. If your opponent can draw for five he or she WILL draw
for five. Because that’s the way it has to
be. You don’t get any better through coddling, and the very spirit and respect of the
game is in Winnipeg’s every day regimen.
Like the statue atop the province’s legislature, Winnipeg dusts off the notion that it’s
too cold, is always quick to offer and hand
up as opposed to a hand out; it has a work
ethic that’s collar blue and heart gold.
Which is fitting, when you think about it.
Like that boy on the top of the building,
Winnipeg always strives to higher heights.
The perfect place for an event such as this.
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Burgundy rocks the rink, a sure draw
JIM MORRIS
The Morning Roar
Curling, which he dubbed “the game of kings” received a visit
from the court jester Sunday when Ron Burgundy brought his
charm and insight to the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian Curling Trials.
“I really enjoy Winnipeg, the Paris of Canada as it’s known,”
Burgundy told spectators at the MTS Centre.
“The sights and the sounds and the smells are just fantastic. A
lot of smells.”
Behind the bushy moustache and the deadpan act was film
star Will Ferrell who was promoting his movie Anchorman 2:
The Legend Continues. Ferrell has also starred in films such as
Elf, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and Talladega
Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
“I think I can bring some dignity and class” to curling,
explained Burgundy, who was flamboyantly, but tastefully,
dressed in a burgundy sports jacket with a TSN logo.
“I know I smell good. Finally there’s someone to give (TSN
announcer) Vic Rauter some competition in the booth and
straighten him out for once.”
Burgundy drew cheers from the crowd at the MTS Centre when he appeared on the ice before the opening draw. He
learned some fine points of the game from former Brier and
world champion Glenn Howard and then launched a stone that
slid into the 12-foot ring.
“I got it to the blue target area,” said Burgundy.
“Glenn is a wonderful teacher. He’s one of the legends of the
sport. He’s an ugly, ugly man. Unsightly. I am attracted to his
brother.”
During an irreverent media scrum Burgundy was asked why
he decided to accept TSN’s offer of covering curling, as opposed
to last week’s Grey Cup or even an NHL hockey game.
“Don’t forget the knife-throwing competition in Saskatoon,”
he replied.
“I took curling because curling is where my heart is. I’ve
always loved curling. We used to do a curling segment on the
news in San Diego. No one watched it. In fact, viewership plummeted 33 per cent during those times.”
Burgundy also showed his knowledge of curling terms like
‘hurry hard.’
“It’s, of course, one of the classic terms in the sport of curling,
which is the game of kings,” he said. “I use it when someone is in
my way, usually when I’m stuck in traffic. I will yell ‘hurry hard.’”
Burgundy also explained Winnipeg is a word, ‘Latin in its
roots’ that means “small tundra bunny who lives in the hole in
the hill.”
He was asked if he consider accepting a job at the CTV station
in Winnipeg.
“I would,” Burgundy said. “It’s unfortunate they are going off
the air.”
Later, wearing a kilt, Burgundy joined Rauter, Linda Moore
and Russ Howard in the TSN broadcast booth.
“I was stuck at the airport,” he explained when asked about his
appearance at the curling trials. “I had 12 hours to kill. I brought
a city bus here.”
Burgundy appeared doubtful when told curling originated in
Scotland.
“I don’t trust the Scots,” he said. “They are lying about that.”
Burgundy also explained his technique for relaxing.
Ron Burgundy (aka Will Ferrell) shares a Tim Hortons treat with Glenn Howard on the opening day of The Roar of the Rings.
“I do yoga,” he said. “I also have a sip of scotch. Or a whole
bottle.”
Former world champion Jennifer Jones said Burgundy gave
her team a thumbs up prior to their opening-draw game against
Chelsea Carey.
“It’s amazing,” she said. “You are an athlete playing a game.
Then to have this celebrity come in and put Winnipeg and our
trials and curling on the map, (it’s) pretty cool to be part of.”
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STATISTICAL REPORT FOR DRAW 1
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2013 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings – Morning Roar
Draw 1
Standings
GAME SCORES FOR DRAW 1
Val
Sweeting
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 TOTAL
A Sherry Middaugh
Stefanie Lawton
*1
0
0
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0
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
2
1
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5
3
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B Rachel Homan
Val Sweeting
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1
1
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2
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Chelsea Carey
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Heather Nedohin
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Women
Sonnenberg 1-0
Sweeting 1-0
Middaugh1-0
Jones 1-0
Nedohin 0-1
Homan
0-1
Lawton0-1
Carey
0-1
Draw 2
SCORES
FOR DRAW 2
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Mike McEwen
Val Sweeting 0
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1
0
0
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B Kevin Koe
*1 0
Renee Sonnenberg
John Epping
0 1
1
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C Glenn Howard
*0 0
Sherry Middaugh
John Morris
2 1
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Jeff
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WINS
9 10 TOTAL
LOSSES
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Men
Morris
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Jacobs
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Martin
1-0
Epping
1-0
Koe
0-1
Howard0-1
Stoughton0-1
McEwen0-1
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RBC Olympian
TEAM STANDINGS AFTER 2 DRAWS
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ROCKIN’ THE CURLING FUN
Time For Trivia
Manitoba Rocks
(Note: The 1991 Labatt Brier and Scott Tournament of Hearts constituted the 1991 trials for the 1992 Canadian teams bound for the Albertville
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1. Two skips scored game-total highs of 14 points in Olympic Trials history. Name the skips.
2. Who skipped the losers that respectively yielded the 14 points?
3. Final scores, in which Trials, when and where?
4. Two skips have scored six-enders in Canadian Olympic Curling Trials
history. They
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8. How about the final score, the losing skip, when and where?
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Olympic Trial Flashback • 1991
Martin, Sutton represent Canada in France
MORNING ROAR STAFF
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Kevin
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The question of qualification for the 1992
Olympic demonstration curling competiton
was resolved some time prior to commencement of play at the 1991 Scott Tournament of
Hearts and the 1991 Labatt Brier.
T h e C a n a d i a n Cu r l i n g A s s o c i a t i o n
announced that, in each case, the winner
would be Canada’s Olympic representatives at
the Albertville, France, Olympic Games.
If ever there was a Labatt Brier in which parity was paramount, it was the ’91 slugfest at the
Copps Coliseum in Hamilton.
Truly, Alberta’s Kevin Martin emerged the
winner strictly by outlasting a field that, oneby-one, seemed rattled by exhaustion as the
week wore on.
But, at the finish, it was the teams that fared
best over the complete week squaring off and
it was the younger Martin and his Edmonton team of third Kevin Park, second Dan Petryk and lead Don Bartlett who persevered 8-4
when Regina’s Randy Woytowich faltered in the
clutch.
Still, what a see-saw week it was!
Woytowich, who was to wind up with the
playoff bye to the championship final, lost
to Quebec’s Kevin Adams 4-3 in the opening
round. Adams followed up by losing eight in a
row, checking the skid only in time to upend
Alberta, the eventual champ, 5-3 for Quebec’s
only other victory in the tournament. Go figure.
Four defeats wound up giving a team a crack
at the playoffs. B.C. lawyer Gerry Kent of Cranbrook made it by winning his last three, his
longest winning streak of the preliminaries.
And Rick Lang of Northern Ontario, a former
world king, had to knock off Saskatchewan,
then stop New Brunswick 4-3 in an extra end to
survive.
Alberta and Saskatchewan, meanwhile, led
the way at 8-3 with Woytowich getting the playoff advantage on the strength of his 10-4 victory
over Martin at mid-week.
Kent doubled Lang 6-3 in a tiebreaker but
was shaded 4-3 by Martin in a semi-final
Alberta controlled throughout.
In the final showdown, Woytowich lost control of his draw weight after assuming a 3-2 lead
over three ends. Martin blanked the fourth and
fifth, struck for a whopping killer four in the
sixth and stole two more in the seventh to tear
it wide open.
Martin finished 10-3, Woytowich 8-4, Kent
8-5 and Lang 7-5. Missing the playoffs by a
game with 6-5 records were Russ Howard of
Penetanguishene, Jeff Stoughton of Winnipeg
and Robert Campbell of Charlottetown.
Howard was eliminated by the time the final
round began but Stoughton was drummed out
there by Martin, 3-2. Campbell won his last
four, three in extra ends, and he led the league
in killing giants, beating Howard, Woytowich
and Lang.
Danny Bentley of Halifax was 5-6 after winning four of his last five. John Boland of Gander and Gary Mitchell of Moncton tailed off to
4-7, Boland losing his last five and Mitchell his
last three.
Territories veteran Chuck Haines of Whitehorse dropped his last five to finish 3-8 while
Adams surprisingly tail-ended at 2-9.
The Scotties at Saskatoon boiled down to
vindication for Victoria’s Julie Sutton and heartbreak for Saint John’s Heidi Hanlon.
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Curling
Time For Trivia
Manitoba
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An all-Manitoba
affair on Day 1:
Carey v. Jones
1. Heather Houston, Colleen Jones
2. Francine Poisson, Cathy Cunningham
3. Houston 14 Poisson 1 in Round
3, 1991 at Saskatoon; Jones 14,
Cunningham, 2 in Round 12, 1991
at Saskatoon).
4. Connie Laliberte, Russ Howard
5. Anne Merklinger, Kevin Park
6. Laliberte 10-8 over Merklinger
in Round Nine, 1997 at Brandon;
Howard 10-4 over Park in Round
One, 1997 at Brandon).
7. Shawn Adams.
8. Glenn Howard lost 11-10 in
Round Five of the 2005 Trials at
Halifax.
9. John Epping, Mike McEwen.
10. McEwen.
11. Chelsea Carey.
12. Stefanie Lawton (Miller),
Heather Nedohin (Godberson),
Renee Sonnenberg (Handfield),
Sherry Middaugh (Hamel).
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Bronze medals for
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On the strength of the week’s play, Sutton
had the clear-cut edge — she’d whaled Hanlon
10-2 in the first round of preliminary play and
had proceeded to run up an unequalled 10-1
record.
But the final shootout was no repeat wipeout. In fact, Hanlon managed to steal three
points and manufacture a cozy 5-2 lead after
seven ends.
With pressure dripping from the girders,
Sutton set about staging the rally of a champion. She cooked up an eighth-end deuce,
stole another pair in the ninth when Hanlon
miscued, then stole the 7-5 victory in the 10th
when Hanlon’s last-rock draw veered on stray
debris.
With sister Jodie at third, Melissa Soligo at
tsecond and rookie Karri Willms at lead, Sutton
lost only to Saskatchewan’s Sandra (Schmirler)
Peterson during the round robin.
But there was the inevitable logjam behind
and some big names took turns beating on one
another.
Alberta’s Deb Shermack (Santos) of Edmonton gave Sutton the longest run of the week
but lost three of her last four and finished
crammed at 7-4 along with former world
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champion Heather Houston of Thunder Bay
and Peterson, who won her last two.
Houston appeared to be up to the old tricks
of previous tournaments, struggling to a 4-4
start before winning her last three including a
5-4 squeaker over Colleen Jones of Halifax and
a 6-5 extra-ender against Shermack in the last
round.
Hanlon, meanwhile, quietly won seven of
eight after losing at the outset and finished
alone in second place with an 8-3 record and
wins over all her playoff opponents save Sutton.
Peterson stole two in the sixth and doubled
out Shermack 6-3 in the first tiebreaker. Then
Houston cracked a ninth-end three to eliminate Peterson 6-3.
In a wild semi, Ontario got out in front 2-0
and led 5-3 after seven. But Hanlon scored
three in the eighth, stole one in the ninth, gave
up a tying deuce in the 10th before grabbing
both those points back in an extra-end 9-7 win.
Sutton finished 11-1 to Hanlon’s 9-4. Houston and Peterson were 8-5 and Shermack was
7-5.
Defending Scotties champion Alison Goring
of Toronto wound up 6-5, never managing to
advance beyond one win over .500. At 5-6 were
Jones, who lost six of her last eight, and Winnipeg’s Kathie (Ellwood) Allardyce who lost five
of her last seven.
Anna Lidgren of Whitehorse was 4-7, Montreal’s Francine Poisson was 3-8, Angela Roberts of Charlottetown and Cathy Cunningham
of St. John’s each checked in a 2-9.
In the Olympic demo scrap at Pralognan,
France, Sutton won three straight to emerge
from her round-robin section as the lone
unbeaten team. Denmark’s Helena Blach
was 2-1 in the same grouping while Andrea
Schoepp of Germany, Dordi Nordby of Norway
and Jackie Lockhart of Great Britain wound up
snarled at 2-1 in the other section.
Schoepp nudged Lockhart 6-5 and Nordby
administered a 9-2 pummelling of the Scots in
tiebreakers.
Then, in the crossover semis, Nordby clobbered Sutton 9-2 and the Victoria team was
forced to work hard in order to bounce back
and claim bronze with a 9-3 win over Blach.
Nordby wound up succumbing 9-2 to Schoepp
in the gold-medal fixture.
Martin was less fortunate on the men’s side.
He, too, won three straight in his grouping but was bounced 8-4 in the semi-finals by
Switzerland’s Urs Dick. Martin then suffered
an embarrassing 9-2 defeat at the hands of veteran Bud Somerville of the U.S. in the bronzemedal match.
Somerville had finished second to Martin with a 2-1 record but lost 8-3 to Norway’s
unbeaten Tormod Andreassen in the other
semi.
The Norwegians’ unbeaten skein was halted
by the Swiss in the gold-medal final. Dick
avenged an earlier round-robin defeat by
heisting the winning point, and the gold, in an
extra end by a 7-6 count.
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2013 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings – Morning Roar
Switzerland, Sweden come out on top at Euros
MORNING ROAR STAFF
Switzerland and Sweden won gold
medals Saturday at the 2013 Euro urli
ng championships at Stavanger, Norway.
Sven Michel’s Swiss team from
Adelboden defeated Thomas Ulsrud of Norway 8-6 in the men’s final.
Michel had an open draw to the rings
to ensure the victory in the 10th end.
This was the first success for Michel
(skip), Claudio Pätz (third), Benoit
Schwarz (second), Simon Gempler
(lead) and Sandro Trolliet (alternate).
In the women’s final, Margaretha
Sigfridsson’s outfit doubled the score
— 10-5 — against world champion
Eve Muirhead of Scotland.
The Swedish team win was their
country’s 19th European women’s title. Playing with Sigfridsson,
who skipped and threw lead rocks,
were Maria Wennerström as second,
Christina Bertrup as third and Maria
Prytz as fourth.
This team has lost the final of the
World women’s championship the
last two years.
Playing in front of a packed home
crowd, Ulsrud blanked the first end
before scoring two points in the second end of the men’s final. But the
Swiss rebounded to score three
points in the third end.
Ulsrud drew for another two points
fourth end. Switzerland singled in the
fifth end to level the score at 4-4.
Norway blanked the next two ends
but the tactic backfired in the eighth
end when Ulsrud was heavy with his
final draw to give up a whopping steal
of three points.
Norway fought back with a nosehit by Ulsrud in the ninth end to score
two points but Michel was left with
the free draw on last rock at the finish.
“It feels so great,” said Michel. “We
played so well and my team did such
a good job. We took a timeout before
the ninth end to talk about tactics.
Our goal was to reach the playoffs
and everything that came after was a
bonus.”
Meanwhile, Ulsrud was bemoaning earlier mistakes.
“The eighth (end) was a really bad
end for us,” he said: “We played great
all week and it’s been real fun to play
in front of our home crowd. It’s been a
good experience for us.”
Norway
020 200 002 0 — 6
Switzerland 003 010 030 1 — 8
Muirhead had a complete miss in
the first end to yield a stolen single in
the women’s final.
The Scots retaliated with one in the
second end but, in the third, Sweden
made a breakthrough when fourth
player Maria Prytz promoted one of
her own stones and knocked out a
Scottish counter to score three points
for a 4-1 lead.
Scotland blanked the fourth end
and scored score two in the fifth to
narrow the gap, then squared the
account in the sixth with a steal when
Prytz managed only half of a double-takeout attempt.
Sweden took a go-ahead two in
the seventh end, at which point the
Scots started to run out of time on the
match clock.
The teams swapped singles in the
eighth and ninth ends before Muirhead, with her last stone played with
only 12 seconds remaining, miscued
and Sweden stole three points.
“We felt very comfortable and
really brave on the ice today, we just
kept playing our own game and making the right decisions,” said Sigridsson. “We really wanted to get our play
working the way we wanted and to
get everything feeling right this time.”
“That was pretty sore,” Muirhead
admitted. “We just didn’t seem to be
as sharp as we had been earlier and
we ended up running the clock down
a bit. But give them (Swedes) their
dues, they played well. We just weren’t good enough today and that’s the
bottom line.”
Scotland 010 021 010 0 — 5
Sweden 103 000 201 3 — 10
In the women’s bronze medal
game, Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott
dumped Lene Nielsen of Denmark
6-4
Scotland won the men’s bronze.
Skip David Murdoch didn’t require
his last stone to hang up a 10th-end
deuce for a 7-6 win over Rasmus
Stjerne of Denmark.
The final standings:
Men
1. Switzerland (Gold)*
2. Norway (Silver)*
3. Scotland (Bronze)*
4. Denmark*
5. Sweden*
6. Russia*
7. Czech Republic*
8. Latvia (Lost challenge series 2-0
to Germany)
9. France (Relegated to B-Group)
10. Finland (Relegated to B-Group)
*Quallfied for 2014 World men’s
curling championship in Beijing,
China.
Women
1. Sweden (Gold)*
2. Scotland (Silver)*
3. Switzerland (Bronze)*
4. Denmark*
5. Russia*
6. Czech Republic*
7. Latvia*
8. Germany* (Won challenge series
against Finland)
9. Norway (Relegated to B-Group)
10. Italy (Relegated to B-Group)
*Qualified for 2014 Ford World
women’s curling championship at
Saint John, N.B.
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