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Issue 5 – Sunday, December 5, 2010 • An Official Publication of the Canadian Curling Association.
Here’s the deal: Cheryl Bernard, Carolyn Darbyshire and Cori Morris have qualified for their first Canada Cup women’s final.
Clean sweep?
■ Kevin Martin seeks his fourth
Canada Cup title in a classic
confrontation with Glenn Howard
■ Cheryl Bernard, Stefanie Lawton
are on a collision course . . .
with a $25,000 payday at stake
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Hello,
stranger:
Martin,
Howard
to meet
in final
Larry Wood
and Todd Kimberley
Morning Cup Editors
T
eamwork is proving to be the key
for Kevin Martin’s
defending Olympic champion quartet as they head
into today’s 12:30 p.m.
championship final in the
Canada Cup of Curling at
the Medicine Hat Arena.
The Edmonton-based
Martin outfit won its
sixth straight game at the
Canadian Curling Association’s first major event of
the season, defeating Glenn
Howard of Coldwater, Ont.,
7-4 in the Page One playoff
game at The Arena on Saturday morning.
“We feel good. It’s the
truth,” said Martin, whose
Saville Sports Centre outfit
includes third John Morris,
second Marc Kennedy, and
lead Ben Hebert.
“I didn’t play very well,
but then John did. And John
didn’t play very well last
night (in their pool-play finale against Randy Ferbey),
so then Marc did. So it’s all
up to somebody else.”
Which is to say, it’s a
team game.
Howard, whose record
against Martin is far from
scintillating — 0-for-6 in
the Tim Hortons Brier,
1-for-3 in the Canadian
Olympic trials and the
Canada Cup and 1-for-2
in the Players’ championship — earned another shot
at the gold-medal team
Saturday night by ousting
defending Brier champion
Kevin Koe of Edmonton
9-7 in the semifinal.
“We’re all mentally
ready,” said Howard afterward. “It’s just all four of
us have to be playing well.
My front end struggled
this morning and put a lot
of pressure on us. We had
a couple of bad rocks we
Men’s
Final
Today
12:30 p.m. —
Kevin Martin
(6-0, A1-B1
winner) vs. Glenn
Howard (6-1,
semifinal winner)
didn’t pick up on. But for
this game we get to pick a
whole net. I think we’ll be
fine.”
The Ontario skip admitted his record against the
Martin outfit has been “horrible lately.
“The last few years he’s
got us just about every
time. We throw the odd
one in there for his three or
four,” said Howard.
“We didn’t play well at
all this morning. I felt gthe
first four or five ends he
should have blown us out.
We just have to come out
better this time.”
The semi-final progressed
in yo-yo fashion for openers. Howard opened with
a deuce, Koe replied with
one and then stole two in
the third when Howard
admitted pulled the string
on a last-rock draw.
But Koe couldn’t abide
with that prosperity.
Howard rebounded with
a four-ender in the fourth
end when two gambling
big-weight shots from Koe
failed to come off.
“He threw two bad ones,”
said Howard.
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Above, top: Kevin Koe and Carter Rycroft discuss strategy during Saturday
night’s 9-7 semifinal loss to Glenn Howard. Above: Mike McEwen lets it all
hang out during his Page Two-Two playoff defeat to Koe earlier in the day. Left:
Wayne Middaugh and Brent Laing bring a Howard rock into the house.
2010 Canada Cup
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Bernard, Lawton take turns
bursting Kleibrink’s balloon
Larry Wood
and Todd Kimberley
Morning Cup Editors
C
algary’s Cheryl Bernard
is back in OlympicGames form and she’ll
face Saskatoon’s Stefanie Lawton to provide conclusive proof
when the women’s scrapping at
Canada Cup of Curling winds
up in a battle for $25,000 today
at 11 a.m. MT at The Arena.
Bernard and Lawton took
turns making short work of
an 18-game winning streak
amassed by Calgary’s Shannon
Kleibrink heading into Saturday’s Page playoffs.
Winning her eighth straight
over her Cowtown rival,
Bernard and her team of Susan
O’Connor, Carolyn Darbyshire
and Cori Morris stole vital
Women’s
Final
Today
11 a.m. — Cheryl
Bernard (5-1, A1-B1
winner) vs. Stefanie
Lawton (6-1,
semifinal winner)
fifth- and sixth-end singles
lead when Anderson became
in the honeymoon stage but it
en route to a 6-4 duke in the
available. “And she brings a
has been enjoyable.
Page One morning match and
calming manner.”
“I think, from
advanced directly to
experience playing
the championship
with your famfinal.
ily, playing with
Kleibrink apsisters, it’s different
peared frustrated by
and you do things
a relentless Lawton
differently with
onslaught in the
somebody who’s
afternoon semi-final
not your sister.
and surrendered 8-4.
“It’s probably
Lawton, with
working well in
Sherry Anderson,
the house with
Sherri Singler and
Stefanie because
Marliese Kasner opwe’re more of
erating efficiently in
a team and not
front, clobbered Krista
two sisters back
McCarville of Thunthere, if you get
der Bay 9-2 to emerge
what I mean.
from the sudden-death
And Marliese is
Page Two scuffle.
playing so well
“We came to play
at lead, she
today and it rehasn’t missed
ally showed,” said the
a double this
30-year-old Lawton.
year, I don’t
“We made all kinds of
think.”
shots.
Lawton said
“They (Kleibrink)
her team will
just struggled with draw
need “the
weight and having an
A-game”
early lead we were able
if it hopes
to hit away.”
to compete
urday.
Much was being made
with Bernard’s
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Stefanie Law
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ton’s lineup.
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“She brings a ton of expeout the Saturday semi with a
rience,” says Lawton, who
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Sun Media Columnist
T
hey’re still the ones.
They’re still having
fun and they’re still
the ones.
Olympic curling heroes
Kevin Martin and Cheryl
Bernard, who both played
before almost seven million
Canadians on TV in their
gold-medal games at the
Vancouver 2010 Olympic
Winter Games, completed
TSN’s daily double Saturday.
They both won to put
themselves through to
today’s televised finals of
the Canada Cup, curling’s
Season of Champions leadoff event.
But mostly these two delivered messages.
They’re back! And they
mean business!
When you’re on top, it’s
not a bad idea to come to
the first big event after the
Olympics and remind people
you haven’t gone away, that
you haven’t lost your desire
and your fire.
Both Olympic gold-medal
winner Martin of Edmonton
and silver-medal winner
Bernard of Calgary did that
Saturday morning.
Morning
In sending Glenn Howard
and Shannon Kleibrink to
the semi-finals, they actually
delivered stronger messages
than that.
More like: “We still own
you!”
Both claimed they had no
idea the extent they’ve maintained dominance. But curling has reached the point of
growing public appeal where
people are starting to keep
track of this sort of stuff.
That was the eighth straight
time Bernard has defeated
fellow Calgarian and 2002
Olympic bronze-medal winner Kleibrink. It also stopped
an 18-game winning streak
Kleibrink had put together
this season.
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Editor:
Larry Wood
Associate Editor:
Todd Kimberley
Photography:
Michael Burns, Jr.
2010 Canada Cup
Great
Not so, say players and fans,
who object to the idea
that eight-end games
are inevitable in curling
8
I
f everything continues to transpire the way the Asham World
Curling Tour and iSportsMedia
people have been operating, this
Canada Cup championship you’ve
watched this week at the Hat Arena
is something of a dinosaur among
cash bonspiels.
Why? Because there are no definite
plans yet unveiled by the Canadian
Curling Association to officially
proclaim the game a debate spanning
less than the long-accepted 10 ends
in duration.
Oh, there have been fading rumbles
in certain quarters that those CCA types
dealing with grouchy TV executives
assigned to produce programming suitable to viewers with varying degrees of
Attention Deficit Disorder are tiring of
the fight and are prepared to capitulate
some year soon.
The rumbles — and that’s all they
are — suggest the CCA is considering a compromise position similar to
those taken by any politician primarily concerned with survival in the
public arena. Which is to say, hello
to the nine-end curling game, maybe
along about 2015 or beyond.
Mind you, don’t bet the mortgage
on it. Not right now.
The Canada Cup, of course, is a
CCA concoction. Everything else in
the realm of cashspiels of account
these days is hooked up, for better or
worse, with the AWCT. The signature events overseen by this group
— otherwise known as the Grand
Slams — officially adopted eightend matches a couple of seasons
ago. The iSportsMedia group, which
runs the AWCT, announced back
then with some trumpets blasting
and drums rolling that all tour events
would move to the eight-end format.
Still, some insider say the tour
moguls, some of the sponsors and
some of the participants will get their
way sooner or, hopefully, much later,
across the board. Which may be
great for some, disastrous for others.
Let’s see now. Kevin Martin loves
the eight-end idea. Glenn Howard
likes it, too. Brad Gushue hates it.
Kelly Scott has leaned more and more
to playing eight ends after originally
announcing she favoured 10. At last
query, Jennifer Jones preferred 10.
2007 Brier champion Glenn Howard of Coldwater, Ont., likes
the idea of eight-end games, but the majority of Brier and Hearts
sweepers — and the vast majority of fans — prefer to keep games
at 10 ends in provincial, national, and world championships.
Cheryl Bernard likes eight.
The participants and spectators at
the Scotties, Brier and world men’s
championships three years ago were
asked what they thought of eightend games in terms of provincial,
national and world championship
competition. The results indicated
the fans were far more adamant
about their rejection of eight ends
than the players.
For the record, 67 per cent of
Hearts participants favoured 10-end
games for championships while only
48 per cent of Brier participants
liked the status quo and 46 per cent
of the national champs at the Ford
Worlds preferred 10 ends.
The other side of the coin? Twentyfive per cent of Scotties shooters
definitely liked eight ends while
eight per cent were uncertain. It was
44 per cent in favour of eight and
eight per cent undecided for Brier
types and 40 per cent and 14 per cent
in the dark for the internationals.
By contrast, there was no grey area
for the fans. At the Scotties, it was
88-12 in favour of retaining 10 ends.
At the Brier, it was 97-3. And at the
Worlds, 97-3.
At last year’s World Curling Federation conclave, a move to eight ends
was shot down in flames. Raging
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LARRY WOOD
Morning Roar Editor
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flames. So, too, were the abolition of
extra ends and tiebreakers at world
championships.
All of which leaves you to wonder
what iSportsMedia and World Tour
execs were smoking and who they
were canvassing when they suggested their move to eight ends was the
result of unanimous thinking.
Said iSportsMedia poobah Kevin
Albrecht: “The eight-end format
is an example of our dedication to
providing forward-thinking solutions
that resonate with everyone involved
with the sport . . .”
Said then-World Tour commish
Paul Boutilier: “Curling needs positive change to ensure we maintain
our leadership position as one of
Canada’s top sports, while continuing our growth internationally. The
support I’ve heard for this progressive shift (to eight ends) in thinking
has been overwhelming.”
What they really said, in fact, is
that TV wants shorter games and
more sponsorships and what The
Idiot Box wants The Idiot Box
should get. It is, after all, the world’s
No. 1 mechanism for spreading a
particular gospel.
All right, so maybe the idea of
cashspiels and the like moving to
eight ends is fine for the players. Statistics show a very limited number of
fans care about these events, anyway.
But let’s leave the major championships at 10 ends. Sort of along the
lines of 10-round box-fights and
15-round championship box-fights,
three-set tennis matches and five-set
tennis matches.
Most people will agree there’ll
always be a distinction between
player’s events and longstanding
national and international championships. So maybe eight ends is fine
for tournaments offering cash prizes
and nothing else, even if stats show a
lot of the games get out of hand early
and most arenas are as empty as your
last glass of maroon.
But, it says here, the status quo of
the championship events should be
preserved. They represent, to most
aficionados of the game, far more
than just another money-grab of
which there are far too many in the
world of sports these days.
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Campbell’s crew
from the Island
claims mixed crown
Morning Cup staff
Prince Edward Island,
skipped by Robert Campbell
of Charlottetown, won the
Canadian Mixed curling
championship last month
in Morris, Man., defeating
Manitoba in a squeaker, 4-3.
For Campbell, it was his
second mixed title, after
winning the 1989 renewal
in Brandon, coincidentally
the last time Manitoba had
hosted the championship.
Campbell became the seventh skip to win the Mixed
twice, behind only three-time
winner, Larry McGrath of
Saskatchewan. But Campbell was the first skip to win
Mixed titles so many years
apart — 21.
It was the first Canadian
Mixed title for third Rebecca
Jean MacPhee, second Robbie Doherty and lead Jackie
Reid. It also was Prince
Edward Island’s third crown
since the Mixed began in
1964 in Toronto. Skip Peter
Gallant won his province’s
first title in 1987.
As the top-ranked team in
the round robin with a 10-1
mark, Prince Edward Island
had earned a bye to the final.
Its only loss had come at the
hands of Manitoba, an 8-5
decision in Draw 5.
Meanwhile, Manitoba had
clawed its way out of a threeway tie for third to reach the
final, first beating Ontario
in the second tiebreaker for
third place, then dusting
former champion Paul Flemming of Nova Scotia, 8-3 in
the semi-final.
The championship final
proved a battle, as the ‘Islanders’ opened with a single
in the second and a steal of
one in the third for a 2-0 lead.
But Manitoba cut the deficit
to 2-1 with a single in the
fifth end.
Then, after a blanked sixth,
Campbell counted one in the
seventh for a 3-1 advantage.
However, the host province
wouldn’t quit. The Terrry
McNamee skipped unit
responded with one in the
eighth, then a steal of one in
the ninth, to square the match
at three coming home.
But McNamee was unable
to remove a buried Island
counter with his final rock,
and Campbell didn’t have to
throw his last stone.
“Rebecca Jean made a
raise-back,” said the 44-yearold Campbell. “We had one
buried in the top four. He
(McNamee) tried a double
runback and just missed.
“They (Manitoba) played
really well all week long.
They were one of the top
teams, definitely. The first
time we met them, the game
could have gone either way.
I didn’t trust my in-turn all
week. But the chance for redemption (today) was great.
“I forgot all about it (World
Mixed Doubles),” laughed
Campbell, when reminded
about the fact that two players from the winning team
will now represent Canada
at the 2011 World Mixed
Doubles curling championship, April 15-24 in St. Paul,
Minn.
Campbell, who had been
out-curled percentage-wise
by McNamee for most of the
contest, eventually emerged
with a slight edge, 75-to-74
although Manitoba held a
78-75 team margin.
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On the subject of Agames, Bernard and her
mates appeared to be
rounding into peak form in
the morning.
“Club curling and club
ice are pretty tricky, and
have never been our forte,”
said Bernard, who won a
silver medal at Vancouver.
“This is really nice to get
out on this ice. Everybody’s
playing great and having
fun and doing what we
need to do out there.
“My stomach is going
again, just like the Olympics and the Trials. It’s
amazing how quickly it
comes back. And that was
a concern at the beginning
of the year. We wondered
if we would still have that
(magic). But it’s right back
there.”
Bernard’s win was her
eighth straight against
Cheryl Bernard: In fine
form this week.
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From Page 3
WOMEN:
Bernard crew’s
in peak form
arch-rival Kleibrink. The
latter skip’s last decision
in this personal battle was
at Calgary’s Autumn Gold
Classic in the fall of 2008.
The pivotal point Bernard
needed proved to be the
sixth-end steal for a 5-3
lead.
“That was not a good
effort on either team’s
part,” said Kleibrink, who
later said that based on the
day’s play the Lawton team
appeared the stronger side,
“but you never know, every
day is a new day.
“That (Page One) was a
horrendous game . . . on
both sides. It was not well
played. I don’t know why.”
In the afternoon, Lawton
picked up a first-end single
and stole a critical pair and
a 3-0 lead in the second
when Kleibrink’s last rock
ticked a guard.
The Calgarian, with third
Nixon, second Bronwen
Webster, lead Chelsey
Bell, drew for a pair in the
third but missed a difficult
double in the fourth leaving
Lawton a routine draw for
another deuce.
Lawton executed a
double-kill in the fifth and
Krista McCarville lost
a one-sided Page TwoTwo playoff game to
Stefanie Lawton.
Kleibrink was forced to
settle for one. Then Lawton
sparkled again in the sixth
with a first-rock doubleangle runback on a buried
enemy stone and wound
up drawing the four-foot
for yet another deuce
when Kleibrink’s sweep-
ers allowed her last freeze
attempt over-curl in the
middle ring.
The jig was quickly up
in the seventh after Nixon,
coming off 24 hours of sick
leave, executed a crossthe-rings double to set up
a seemingly certain deuce.
After Lawton killed one
enemy brick, a frustrated
Kleibrink was short on
a draw to the rings, then
rubbed her own stone with
her last and left Lawton
with the theft of a singleton.
“We’ve played some
lights-out games here so we
felt at the top of our game
and I think we’ll go into
the provincials with that in
mind,” said Kleibrink.
“I had difficulty with
draw weight (against
Lawton). It was challenging ice and we didn’t get
it and they obviously did.
With ice like that, when
you’re not quite sure and
they’re hitting well, you’re
in trouble.”
Lawton started her game
against McCarville with
a single point in the first,
then stole one more in
each of the second, third,
and fourth ends. She went
up 6-1 with a deuce in the
sixth, and scored three
more in the eighth to end
the proceedings early.
“In the third end, they
looked like they were going
to have a pretty good end,
but we ended up freezing
on them to get out it,” said
Lawton.
“We were definitely
throwing well and making
some great shots. Krista’s
team was going harder for
the steals (in the later stages). They were throwing up
the two guards . . . and left
our rocks around in play,
trying to freeze to them.
Their freezes didn’t quite
work out, and we were able
to get some points out of
those ends.”
Sharon Kleibrink, foreground, says she had trouble
with draw weight in Saturday’s semifinal.
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After four days of action in Keith’s Patch, it all came down to Saturday’s four-team
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Winners of the daily competitions received a $100 prize:
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
Day 4:
June Gizen and Evelyn Shirclif from Leader, Saskatchewan.
Gerry Gizen and Ken Kapplin from Leader, Saskatchewan.
Dwaine and Carol Wilford from Medicine Hat.
Larry Dodd and Terry Riggs from Medicine Hat.
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who took part in the “Match in the Patch”!
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Martin is 6-0 here and
registered his fourth
straight win over Howard and his Coldwater,
Ont., team which is
also 0-6 lifetime against
Martin at the Brier.
“You hate to give
another team an edge,”
said third John Morris.
“You get to an event
like this and you want to
show people you haven’t
gone soft with success.
“You want to come
right back and beat
them this year. We’re
competitive. We have a
burning desire to win.
We hate to lose. It’s
programmed into us to
refuse to lose.
“We want to show
people starting right now
that we had a taste of the
Olympics and we want
to get back to the next
ones in 2014 in Russia
just as bad.”
Both Martin and
Bernard have played
reduced schedules on the
front end of this season
before getting to this
one.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
From Page 4
JONES
Martin and his team
missed the last cash
competition to take a
tour of Northern Alberta,
making appearances
and raising more than
$50,000 for junior curling.
“It’s important to us to
come out and play like
we have in the past,”
Martin said.
“We hadn’t worked
hard and weren’t playing that well in the
events we did play.
I wasn’t firing on all
cylinders. But we went
back to practising hard
last week,” said the
skip, after the 7-4 win
Saturday morning.
For Bernard, who had
only played three events
and was 14th in points, it
has just been good to get
back to a more significant stage.
“It’s good to come
back to play in an arena
on consistent ice. This
validates us a bit. I
think we knew it but we
needed this kind of an
event.
“It was hard to get up
for the other events after
all the stuff. And we can
make some money here
for Christmas presents,”
she said of the $25,000
(first) and $15,000 (second) with $800 per win
in the round robin.
To Martin, this event
seem to be his own personal ATM machine.
But for a guy who has
done so much winning,
he doesn’t know much
about what he’s winning
sometimes.
“I didn’t know that,”
he said. “Are you sure
about that?”
Positive.
Every year they hold
itthis event an Edmonton
men’s team has won it.
Randy Ferbey: 2003.
2004. 2007; Kevin Martin:2005. 2006. 2009;
Kevin Koe: 2008.
“That’s hard to believe,” said Martin.
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“He doesn’t usually miss
those. Even the second one was
set up for the triple.”
Said Koe, who had earlier deflated Winnipeg’s Mike
McEwen 10-7 in a wild Page
Two playoff match:
“We had a couple of bad ends
and I had a shot, right in my
wheelhouse, to bail us out and
I missed it and gave up the big
four points and that was the big
turning point.
“I threw them hard, maybe I
went too hard, but I had to kill
at least one of them. I thought
I could have got them all, I’m
usually pretty good at those, and
that would have been deflating
for them, but not this time.”
The teams swapped singles
over the next three ends but
Koe, trailing 7-5 couldn’t get
his rock on the button covered
by a last-rock guard in the
eighth and Howard chipped out
the counter to score a deuce for
a four-point lead.
Martin has won the last four
confrontations with Howard
dating back to Howard’s win at
the Cactus Pheasant Classic at
Brooks in October. 2009.
The Edmontonians jumped
out to an early 3-0 lead, Howard struck back to tie the score
4-4, and Martin scored singles
in each of the eighth, ninth, and
10th ends for the win.
“I was a little heavy on all my
shots,” said Martin. “I didn’t get
the rolls. I ended up being close
to the nose all the time. Glenn
was getting the rolls. It was one
of those days when John had to
step up to the plate. And that’s
a good team when one guy will
cover for the other.”
The Howard team, including
third Wayne Middaugh, second
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Brent Laing, and lead Craig
Savill, didn’t get on the board
until the fifth end with a deuce.
“We hung on and made a real
good game of it,” said Howard.
“If I throw a little better shot in
nine, we get our deuce, and it
would have been a whole different ball game. At that point,
I didn’t think we deserved to be
in it. But I threw a little heavier
than I wanted, and it ran, and
he stole one. That was totally
deflating.”
Koe took the long route to
the semi after losing a firstplace qualifying-pool battle
to Howard by an 8-6 tally by
sifting his last rock through the
four-foot.
That sent him back on the
ice in a late tiebreaker but he
responded with a superlative
performance, hammering Jeff
Stoughton of Winnipeg 11-4 in
six ends.
Playing with third Blake
MacDonald, second Carter Rycroft, and lead Nolan Thiessen,
Koe kept up that momentum
against McEwen — counting
three in each of the fourth and
sixth ends en route to victory.
“For us to come back and
beat Stoughton and McEwen,
who’s been having a great year,
shows we’re mentally tough
enough to shake that loss off,”
said Koe.
McEwen, who’d fashioned a
4-1 record in his pool, coming
off three straight bonspiel victories, also gave up deuces in
the second and eighth ends, and
wasn’t thrilled afterward with
his team’s performance.
“We were awful. You can’t
win games missing that many
shots,” said McEwen, whose
Assiniboine Memorial Curling
Club squad includes third B.J.
Neufeld, second Matt Wozniak,
and lead Denni Neufeld. “I had
nothing to work with. Yeah, we
were bad. Simple as that.
“First three ends, we turned
the game around. We were
leading (4-2). But every time
they had the hammer, we
couldn’t do anything defensively to hold them. It wasn’t
pretty out there when it came to
my rocks, what I was looking
at. We were having to make too
many tough shots, and missing
too many easy ones.”
Koe assessed his team’s
tournament this way:
“We were pretty good this
week but we definitely didn’t
play out best. We had some
trouble with draw weight all
week so to make the semis was
pretty good, but we still have a
way to go this season in terms
of the way we were playing at
the end of last season.
“We’re sneaking out a few
wins and making enough shots
to get by but we’re not all firing
as a team yet. We’re not putting
in a totally strong effort.
“I’m closer to the guys now
(residing in Calgary rather than
Grande Prairie) but we haven’t
had one team practice all year.
There’s other stuff going on
and no time just to go to Edmonton to practice.
“It’d be nice to get a chance
to practice before the provincial playdowns. We’ll try to
get together for a weekend and
work on some things we need
to work on.”
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Still At Home With You!
1. Kelly Scott.
2. Chelsea Bell, Carolyn Darbyshire, Sherri
Singler.
3. (Bell) Stefanie Lawton, Shannon Kleibrink,
(Darbyshire) Renelle
Bryden, Cheryl Bernard,
(Singler) Patti (Rocheleau) Herzikorn, Stefanie
Lawton.
4. Ryan Fry, Brent Laing,
Marc Kennedy, Blake
MacDonald, Jonathan
Mead, Carter Rycroft,
Craig Savill.
5. (Fry) Jeff Stoughton,
Brad Gushue, (Laing)
John Morris, Glenn
Howard, (Kennedy)
Kevin Koe, Kevin Martin, (MacDonald) Pat
Simmons, Kevin Koe,
(Mead) Jeff Stoughton,
Wayne Middaugh, (Rycroft) Kevin Martin, Kevin
Koe, (Savill) John Morris,
Glenn Howard.
6. Jolene (McIvor)
Campbell, Deanna Doig,
Sara Gatchell, Kim (Armbruster) Hodson, Georgina Wheatcroft.
7. (Campbell) Jan Betker,
Michelle Englot, (Doig)
Heather Rankin, Michelle
Englot, (Gatchell) Penny
Shantz, Jo-Ann Rizzo,
(Hodson) Sherry Anderson, Heather Smith-Dacey, (Wheatcroft) Kelley
Law, Jennifer Jones,
8, Joe Frans, Dean
Hicke, Joel Jordison,
Kevin Park, Don Walchuk, Mike Westlund.
9. (Frans) John Morris, Wayne Middaugh,
(Hicke) Glen Despin,
Joel Jordison, (Jordison) Brad Heidt, Pat
Simmons, (Park) Kevin
Martin, Jeff Stoughton,
(Walchuk) Kevin Martin,
Kerry Burtnyk, (Westlund) Kevin Koe, Jamie
Koe.
10. Randy Ferbey.
11. 33 wins, 11 losses for
a .750 percentage. (Jan
Betker led women with
the same percentage
for a 9-3 record but, of
course, played far fewer
games.
12. Cranbrook, B.C.
Answers
1. Kevin MacKenzie, the
answer to the last question in Saturday’s quiz,
has a sister who is a
former world champion.
Her name?
2. Three women’s players and seven men’s
players currently embroiled in the action
at the Hat Arena have
played in the Canada
Cup for two different
skips. Can you name the
three women?
3. How about their skips?
4. And the seven men?
5. How about their skips?
6. Now it gets tough.
Five other female curlers, not involved this
week, have played for
two skips in the Canada
Cup. They are?
7. And their skips?
8. Six other male curlers,
not involved this week,
have played for two
skips. They are?
9. And their skips?
10. Heading into this
week’s event, the
Canada Cup skip (male
or female) with the best
won-lost percentage
was?
11. The won-lost percentage?
12. The next edition of
the Canada Cup (No. 9)
will be played in which
Canadian city?
Canada Cup
trivia time
2010 Canada Cup
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
So long, farewell . . .
we’re outta here!
Morning Cup staff
T
here’s something you
should know about
this estimable news
sheet to which you’ve subscribed the past five days.
What’s that? Well, simply,
it never gets the final story.
Hardly ever. And certainly
not this year, either. Sorry
about that.
The Morning Cup, you
see, does not publish on the
post-Canada Cup Monday.
The way the Medicine Hat
organizing committee figures it, if we’re over budget
after five days, we won’t be
going for six.
Oh yes, and there’s something else you should know.
This publication would not
exist without the efforts of
the Medicine Hat organizMorning Cup staff
Sites for the next three
renewals of the Scotties
Tournament Of Hearts have
been announced by the Canadian Curling Association.
The 2011 event is slated
for Charlottetown, P.E.I.,
Feb. 19 to 27 at the Civic
Centre.
ing committee, the Canadian Curling Association
and its sponsors. Between
them, they fund the whole
shebang. So, save a cheer,
also a tiger, for them.
Now, what we’re asking
from you today is this. We
set up today’s championship final matches in this
last edition. Hereafter,
you’re on your own.
The names of the winners
of the 2010 Canada Cup
will not be recorded for
posterity in the Morning
Cup. At least, not before
the initial issue of the 2011
competition in Cranbrook.
Meantime, it has been a
chunk of heaven, folks. We
at the Cup would like to
thank you for your interest.
We’d like to thank all the
competitors for their time
and courtesy. We’d like to
thank our supporters for
theirs. And we’d especially,
also specifically, like to
thank Tom Peterson and Jo
Schafer at the Medicine Hat
News for the jobs they’ve
performed on our behalf.
Then there are all those
fine organizers — Terry
Morris, Dixie Lorentz, Marv
Woefle, Des Grant, Gail
Frandsen and Vicki Sjolie,
among many other classy
operators, not to mention all
those wonderful (?) people
who kept us company in one
of the noisiest media office
in captivity.
Yeah, wonderful!
What else is there to say?
Have a good final day and
don’t forget to reserve early
for the 2011 Canada Cup
in the east Kootenays. This
one promises to be a blast!
Cheers.
Kingston
gets ready
a Canadian curling championship since 1957, when
Alberta’s Matt Baldwin
won the Macdonald Brier.
Red Deer, on the other
hands, hosted the 2004
Scotties and the 1994 Labatt Brier.
Veteran curling administrator Ken Thompson will
be the committee chair
from the Kingston event.
Red Deer’s Centrium will
be the site of the 2012 Scotties (Feb. 18 to 26) while
Kingston, Ont., will host
the 2013 competition, Feb.
16-24.
Kingston has not hosted
2010 Canada Cup
Get
your
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game
face
on
Photographer Michael Burns Jr.
captures the people and
personalities of the Canada Cup
Kevin Koe, top, bellows for the
brushes at The Arena. Jennifer
Jones, left, calls out instructions.
Kevin Martin, above, dispenses
a few secrets.
Why so glum, chum? Above, top: Derek Samagalski, left, and Richard
Daneault of Rob Fowler’s crew have a reflective moment.
Above, middle: Marc Kennedy, left, and Ben Hebert of Kevin Martin’s
team take a moment to regroup.
Above: Bronwen Webster, left, and Amy Nixon
of Shannon Kleibrink’s squad follow the action.
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Aberle, Kevin
Adie, Chris
Allison, Sharon
Aman, Darlene
Aman, Ray
Anderson, Corrine
Arnott, Val
Bailey, Gloria
Baker, Katherine
Balaricia, Marissa
Barbier, Patricia
Barnard, Ron
Bartlett, Shelley
Becker, Millie
Bell, Carol
Bell, Murray
Bell, Sandy
Bellamy, Shawn
Bender, Marvin
Bender, Ron
Benson, Stella
Berger, Sarah
Bernard, Jean
Bernard, Ray
Berreth, Cliff
Bertsch, Lara
Blaquiere, June
Bockman, Andrew
Bockman, Barb
Bockman, Marlene
Bockman, Ray
Bodin, Jeff
Bohnet, Dennis
Bohnet, Dixie
Bonneau, Monique
Borrowman, Don
Bos, Clay
Bos, Sheila
Bouchard, Roger
Bower, Brenda
Brandt, Naomi
Brilz, Linda
Brilz, Todd
Brilz, Tom
Brost, Janet
Brown, Chris
Brown, Larry
Bruins-Jacober, Julia
Burghardt, Caroline
Burniston, Richard
Bymoen, Heather
Bymoen, Manfred
Bymoen, Shirley
Champagne, Lynn
Champagne, Michel
Chapman, William
Chartrand, Donald
Chartrand, Sheila
Christie, Alison
Christie, Grace
Ciona, Sylvia
Clements, Mary
Close, Ramona
Congram, Glenn
Cormier, Sherry
Cowan, Dee
Cranston, Julia
Crozier, Catherine
Crozier, William
Cuts, Elaine
Darr, Gizelle
Davis, Rolande
DeKelver, Avice
dela Cruz, Lory
Delaurier, Barb
Delaurier, Gil
Derbyshire, Marg
Derzaph, Melvin
Donahue, Loretta
Drefs, Dale
Drefs, Shirley
Dulle, Diane
Durda, Dianne
Durda, Herb
Dutchak, Gwen
Dyck, Bonnie
Dyer, Ralph
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Ealey, Reg
Eisenbarth, Carol
Eisenbarth, Robert
Elder, Rita
Elder, Vance
Elke, Marie
Englot, Debbie
Enslen, Roy
Errington, George
Errington, Irene
Felesky, Fay
Fieldberg, Harold
Fieldberg, Patricia
(Tish)
Flaig, Lynne
Flaig, Nat
Foley, Maureen
Foran, Laverne
Forsyth, Jill
Forsyth, Rod
Foster, Blake
Frame, Alvera
Frandsen, Gail
Friedt, Kent
Funk, Travis
Funk, Trevor
Henderson, Larry
Hennes, Arthur (Art)
Hepfner, Linda
Herring, John
Hertz, Wayne
Hesjedal, Howard
Hill, Fred
Hill, Judy
Hittel, Gerard
Hittel, Tammy
Hodges, Joanne
Hof, Henk
Hoffman, Harold
Hoffman, Nancy
Hoger, Ray
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Hopkins, Doris
Horner, Patty
Howard, Peggy
Huffman, Gary
Jacober, Elmer
Jago, Shirley
Jensen, Fran
Jobb, Sheldon
Johnson, Larry
Laczkowski, Tim
Lamb, Bonnie
Lamirade, Linda
Landseidel, Cliff
Landsiedel, Milt
Landsiedel, Victoria
LaRochelle, Cindy
Lazzer, Heather
Lecuyer, Belinda
Lefever, Sharon
Lehenbauer, Katrina
Lintott, Dale
Lintott, Marg
Lovig, Delle
Ludwar, Donna
Lutz, Debbie
Maier, Louise
Malley, Denis
Marshall, Esther
Martin, Mavis
Massini, Chris
Matulin, Maria
Matuska, William
(Bill)
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McCarten, Pamela
Munro, Gerry
Neigum, Darlene
Neigum, Tony
Neil, Betty Anne
Nelson, Tracy
Nemeth, Leslie
Neubauer, Janet
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Paccagnan, Carlo
Page, Wayne
Palahniuk, Michail
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Parahoniak, Suzette
Patience, Shelley
Paulson, Russell
Phaff, Debra
Plante, Michelle
Poberznick, Janice
Preston, Jon
Quartermain, May
A hearty ’Hat thanks
to all our volunteers!
The 2010 Canada Cup committee would like
to thank everyone who worked so hard
to make the first event on the Canadian
Curling Association’s 2010-11 Season
of Champions tour such a success!
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Ganden, Wallie
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Glass, Rita
Good, Cindy
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Keck, Arlene
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Knodel, Carol
Knodel, Myles
Knutson, Don
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Koberinski, Sharon
Kobley, Brenda
Kohls, Danette
Koots, Shawna
Kozdial, Lorne
Krasilowez, Jill
Krassman, Tim
Kristinson, Bruce
Kuntz, Frank
Kuntz, Wendy
Kunz, Bernice
Kurtz, June
Laczkowski, Sherry
McCarter, Ruth
McKinney, Sandra
McKinstry, David
McLennan, Archie
McLennan, Sheila
McMorran, Marj
Medwid, Doreen
Medwid, Nick
Meidinger, Terry
Merkl, Frank
Milroy, Marilyn
Miskolczi, Roger
Moat, Brian
Moch, Delvin
Moch, Harvey
Moch, Leon
Moch, Millie
Moch, Verna
Moch, Vivian
Moldon, Lenora
Morrice, Annie
Morrice, George
(Sandy)
Moss, Maureen
Moyes, Edie
Mulder, Tammy
Mullin, Blair
Rayner, Janice
Renner, Debby
Repp, Gordon
Repp, Vivian
Reynolds, Ken
Richmond, Glenys
Riggins, Jean
Robinson, Lloyd
Rodych, Ted
Roflik, Linda
Rooney, Trish
Roth, Emanuel
Rothwell, Brian
Rothwell, Gwen
Rumberg, Sheila
Sanderson, Grace
Sannachan, Devonna
Santer, Jasmin
Sauer, Jennifer
Sauer, Ken
Sauer, Valerie
Savage, Larry
Scarrow, Don
Schafer, Karen
Schafer, Warren
Scharf, Donna
Schaufert, Pam
Schlaht, Laurel
Schlenker, Janet
Schnee, Maria
Schuler, Shirley
Schuler, Stan
Schultz, Delphine
Schultz, Melvin
Seifert, Sandy
Seitz, Arlene
Seitz, Renee
Sellin, Ali
Senecal, Aza
Sept, Gerald
Sept, Kristen
Shields, Shari
Sivasankar, Catherine
Sjolie, Vicki
Smeby, Glen
Smith, Gary
Smith, Judy
Smith, Michelle
Smith, Ted
Smith, Tracey
Smith-Gould, Angela
Soltis, Sandy
St Peter, Kim
Stabbler, Barbara
Stabbler, David
Starzynski, Ron
Steele, Donna
Stephens, Alvin
Stephens, Cathy
Stephenson, Eric
Stewart, Darla
Stodalka, Dolores
Stoker, Dale
Stoker, Loretta
Stroh, Cheryl
Stroh, Elaine
Stroh, Holly
Stroh, Nicole
Stuber, Donna
Sutherland, Phoebe
Tarnasky, Sid
Taylor, William
Thomas, Stewart
Thomson, Joy
Thomson, Valarie
Vine, Dolores
Voeller, Martin
Wagner, Eve
Wagner, Garry E.
Wagner, Kyle
Wagner, Rita
Wagner, Terry
Waldron, Angie
Wallace, Verna
Watson, Bill
Watson, Christine
Weinheimer, Carla
Weinheimer, Fred
Wells, Marianne
Wendling, Ron
Wentland, Larry
White, Jamie
White, Rita
Whittmire, Vangy
Widmer, Al
Wikjord, Wil
Willford, Carol
Willford, Dwaine
Wilson, Andrea
Wilson, Trevor
Wilson, Willis
Windjack, Allayne
Winger, June
Wirch, Alvin
Woelfle, Marv
Wood, Dale
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Susan
Yee, Ken
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Ziegler, Bev
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Zilkie, Quinn
Zollner, Ken
Zollner, Sharon
2010 Canada Cup
Page 15
2010 CANADA CUP RESULTS
Women
Saturday’s Semifinal
1
0
1
Kleibrink*
Lawton
%age
Kleibrink
Lawton
2
0
2
Lead
80
86
3
2
0
4
0
2
Second
89
86
5
1
0
6
0
2
Third
88
84
7
0
1
8
9
1
0
0
0
Skip
57
88
10
T
x
4
x
8
Team
79
86
Saturday’s Page One-One Crossover Game
1
1
0
Bernard
Kleibrink*
%age
Bernard
Kleibrink
2
0
3
Lead
91
78
3
2
0
4
0
0
Second
73
70
5
1
0
6
1
0
Third
79
71
7
0
0
8
9
0
0
1
0
Skip
89
53
10
T
1
6
0
4
Team
83
68
Saturday’s Page Two-Two Crossover Game
1
0
1
McCarville
Lawton*
%age
McCarville
Lawton
2
0
1
Lead
81
78
3
0
1
4
0
1
Second
78
89
5
1
0
6
0
2
Third
70
73
7
1
0
8
9
0
x
3
x
Skip
67
81
10
T
x
2
x
9
Team
74
80
7
1
0
8
9
0
0
2
0
Skip
76
93
10
T
2
7
0
9
Team
85
85
Men
Saturday’s Semifinal
1
0
2
Koe
Howard*
%age
Koe
Howard
2
1
0
Lead
95
82
3
2
0
4
0
4
Second
91
73
5
1
0
6
0
1
Third
76
94
Saturday’s Page One-One Crossover Game
1
0
2
Howard
Martin*
%age
Howard
Martin
2
0
1
Lead
76
98
3
0
0
4
0
0
Second
53
88
5
2
0
6
0
1
Third
75
90
7
2
0
8
9
0
0
1
1
Skip
72
88
10
T
0
4
1
7
Team
69
91
Saturday’s Page Two-Two Crossover Game
McEwen*
Koe
%age
McEwen
Koe
1
1
0
2
0
2
Lead
92
81
3
3
0
4
0
3
Second
83
90
5
1
0
6
0
3
Third
68
85
7
1
0
8
9
0
1
2
0
Skip
82
92
10
T
x
7
x 10
Team
81
87
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CANADA CUP RECORDS
Men
Champions
2003 — Randy Ferbey, Dave Nedohin,
Scott Pfeifer, Marcel Rocque, Edmonton.
2004 — Randy Ferbey, Dave Nedohin,
Scott Pfeifer, Marcel Rocque, Edmonton.
2005 — Kevin Martin, Don Walchuk,
Carter Rycroft, Don Bartlett, Edmonton.
2006 — Kevin Martin, Don Walchuk,
Carter Rycroft, Don Bartlett, Edmonton.
2007 — Randy Ferbey, Dave Nedohin,
Scott Pfeifer, Marcel Rocque, Edmonton
2008 — Kevin Koe, Blake MacDonald
(fourth), Carter Rycroft, Nolan Thiessen, Edmonton
2009 — Kevin Martin, John Morris,
Marc Kennedy, Ben Hebert, Edmonton.
Records
Longest game — Seventeen at 11
ends.
High game score (one team) — 11.
Brian Humble (2003), Pat Ryan (2003),
Randy Ferbey (2004), Kerry Burtnyk
(2004), Mark Johnson (2006), John
Morris (2006), Brad Gushue (2009).
Low game score (one team) — 0.
Jean-Michel Menard (2007).
High game score (combined) — 19.
Kevin Martin over Jean-Michel Menard
10-9 (2007), John Base over Kerry
Burtnyk 10-9 (2007), Brad Gushue 11-8
over Russ Howard (2009).
Low game score (combined) — 5.
Kevin Martin over Jeff Stoughton 4-1
(2007).
High single end — 5. Glen Despins
vs. Brad Heidt (2006), John Morris vs.
Wayne Tuck (2005), John Morris vs.
Mike Harris (2005), Randy Ferbey vs.
Wayne Middaugh (2004), Jeff Stoughton vs. Jean-Michel Menard (2007),
Mark Johnson vs. John Base (2007),
Kevin Martin vs. Mike McEwen (2008),
Kevin Martin vs. Pat Simmons (2008),
Bred Gushe vs. Kerry Burtnyk (2009)
Blake MacDonald and Kevin Koe won the 2008 Canada Cup title.
Most extra-end games — 5 (2005).
Undefeated record — 6-0. Randy
Ferbey. (2003).
Most wins by a skip — 33. Randy
Ferbey, 31. Kevin Martin, 18, John
Morris, 17. Jeff Stoughton, 15. Kevin
Koe, 13. Brad Gushue, 10. Kerry Burtnyk, 8. Glenn Howard.
Most losses by a skip — 19. Kerry
Burtnyk, 16. Brad Gushue, 13. Jeff
Stoughton, 11. Randy Ferbey, Kevin
Martin, 10. John Morris, Kevin Koe,
Pat Simmons, 9. Russ Howard, 8. Pat
Ryan.
Back-to-back winner — 2003-04.
Randy Ferbey (Dave Nedohin, Scott
Pfeifer, Marcel Rocque); 2005-06.
Kevin Martin (Don Walchuk, Carter
Rycroft, Don Bartlett).
Win-loss percentage (minimum six
games) — .750 Randy Ferbey (33-11);
.738 Kevin Martin (31-11); .715 Joel
Jordison (5-2); .692 Glenn Howard
(9-4); .666 Kevin Koe (12-6), Shawn
Adams (4-2), Bob Ursel (4-2); .643
John Morris (18-10); .600 Kevin Koe
(15-10); .567 Jeff Stoughton (17-13);
.500 Wayne Middaugh (6-6); .448 Brad
Gushue (13-16); .345 Kerry Burtnyk
(10-19).
Most individual appearances — 7.
Randy Ferbey, Kevin Koe, Dave Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer, Marcel Rocque.
Team Appearances — Randy Ferbey
7, Jeff Stoughton Brad Gushue, Kerry
Burtnyk, Kevin Martin 5, John Morris,
Kevin Koe 4, Pat Simmons, Russ Howard 3, Pat Ryan, Mark Dacey, Glenn
Howard, Mike McEwen, Wayne Middaugh, Mark Johnson, Mark Dacey 2.
Women
Champions
2003 — Sherry Middaugh, Kirsten
Wall, Andrea Lawes, Sheri Cordina,
Coldwater, Ont.
2004 — Colleen Jones, Kim Kelly,
Mary-Anne Arsenault, Nancy Delahunt,
Halifax.
2005 — Shannon Kleibrink, Amy Nixon,
Glenys Bakker, Christine Keshen,
Calgary.
2006 — Cathy King, Lori Armitstead,
Raylene Rocque, Tracy Bush, Edmonton.
2007 — Jennifer Jones, Cathy
Overton-Clapham, Jill Officer, Dawn
Askin, Winnipeg.
2008 — Stefanie Lawton, Marliese
Kasner, Sherri Singler, Lana Vey,
Saskatoon.
2009 — Shannon Kleibrink, Amy
Nixon, Bronwen Webster, Chelsea Bell,
Calgary.
Longest game — 32 at 11 ends.
High game score (one team) — 13.
Jan Betker (2006).
Low game score (one team) — 1.
Barb Spencer (2003), Colleen Jones
(2005), Kristie Moore (2008).
High game score (combined) — 21.
Marie-France Larouche over Cheryl
Bernard 12-9 (2009).
Low game score (combined) — 7. JoAnn Rizzo over Kelly Scott 4-3 (2005);
Kelly Scott over Heather Strong 5-2
(2006).
High single end — 6. Kelly Scott vs.
Sherry Middaugh (2009).
Most extra-end games — 8 (2009).
Most wins by a skip — 23 Shannon
Kleibrink.
Most losses by a skip — 18 Kelly
Scott.
Win-loss percentage (minimum seven
games) —.750 Jan Betker (9-3); .714
Kelley Law (5-2); .647 Stefanie Lawton
(11-6); .630 Jennifer Jones (17-10);
.622 Shannon Kleibrink (23-14); .588
Colleen Jones (10-7); .583 Cathy King
(14-10); .571 Anne Merklinger (4-3);
.565 Sherry Anderson (13-10); .514
Kelly Scott (19-18); .500 Michelle Englot (6-6); .462 Marie-France Larouche
(6-7); .455 Renee Sonnenberg (5-6);
.417 Cheryl Bernard (10-14); .409
Sherry Middaugh (9-13).
Most individual appearances — 6.
Sasha (Bergner) Carter, Shannon
Kleibrink, Amy Nixon, Jeanna (Richard)
Schraeder, Kelly Scott.
Team appearances — Shannon
Kleibrink, Kelly Scott 6; Sherry Anderson, Jennifer Jones, Sherry Middaugh,
Cheryl Bernard, Cathy King 4; Colleen Jones, Marie-France Larouche,
Michelle Englot, Stefanie Lawton 3;
Heather Rankin, Janet Harvey, Renee
Sonnenberg, Jan Betker 2.
PREVIOUS
FINALS
2003 — Randy Ferbey,
Edmonton, defeated John
Morris, Calgary, 7-5; Sherry
Middaugh, Coldwater defeated Kelley Law, New
Westminster, 8-7.
2004 — Randy Ferbey,
Edmonton defeated John
Morris, Calgary, 10-3; Colleen
Jones, Halifax, defeated
Sherry Anderson, Delisle,
Sask., 8-7.
2005 — Kevin Martin, Edmonton defeated Randy Ferbey, Edmonton, 6-5; Shannon
Kleibrink, Calgary defeated
Jan Betker, Regina, 7-6.
2006 — Kevin Martin,
Edmonton defeated Glenn
Howard, Coldwater, Ont.,
5-4; Cathy King, Edmonton
defeated Jennifer Jones,
Winnipeg, 10-9.
2007 — Randy Ferbey,
Edmonton, defeated Kevin
Martin, Edmonton, 9-8 (extraend); Jennifer Jones, Winnipeg defeated Cathy King,
Edmonton, 10-7.
2008 — Kevin Koe, Edmonton defeated Kevin Martin,
Edmonton, 6-5; Stefanie
Lawton, Saskatoon, defeated
Kelly Scott, Kelowna, B.C.,
7-4.
2009 — Kevin Martin, Edmonton, defeated Randy Ferbey, Edmonton 8-5; Shannon
Kleibrink, Calgary, defeated
Marie-France Larouche, StRomuald, Que., 6-4.