What: 2009 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
Where: Iqaluit, NU
When: Nov. 8 - 15, 2008

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Source: Canadian Curling Association

IQALUIT, NUNAVUT, November 3, 2008…For the first time in history, a national sport championship will be staged in Iqaluit, Nunavut, when the Canadian Curling Association’s Canadian Mixed gets underway this Saturday.

The 46th edition of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, which is being presented by First Air, will be held November 8-15 at the Arniatok Arena and brings together 12 teams, representing the 10 provinces plus Northern Ontario and the Territories. The teams compete in a round robin concluding Friday, after which the first place team advances directly to the final on Saturday, November 15, while the second and third place teams meet in a semi-final to determine the other finalist.

Among the skips competing in Iqaluit, which is located approximately 2,000 km north of Ottawa, is Nova Scotia’s Mark Dacey, who won the 2004 Nokia Brier in Saskatoon and subsequently finished third at the 2004 Ford Worlds in Gävle, Sweden. Dacey, along with wife Heather Smith-Dacey, who plays third, teamed to win the 2002 Canadian Mixed when it was held in Halifax. It was the second Mixed win for Smith-Dacey, a former Canadian junior champion (1991) who won her first Mixed title as third for New Brunswick’s Grant Odishaw in 1994 in Leduc, Alberta.

Other skips include Ontario’s Wayne Tuck, who finished third to Dacey at the 2002 Canadian Mixed. Prince Edward Island’s Bill Hope, who skipped Ontario to victory at the 1968 Canadian Juniors, British Columbia’s Greg Monkman, runner-up at the 1982 Brier, along with other provincial men’s and/or junior champions such as New Brunswick’s Scott Jones, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Andrew Mercer, Manitoba’s Sean Grassie and Saskatchewan’s Darrell McKee. The participants also include Manitoba second Ross Derksen, who played third for skip David Hamblin on the 2002 Canadian and world junior men’s championship team.

In addition to a Canadian title, two players from the winning team will then represent Canada at the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Championship, slated for April 17-25, 2009 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

“On behalf of the Host Committee I would like to add that we are looking forward to hosting teams from across Canada,” said Karen Costello, the 2009 Canadian Mixed chair. “In partnership with our community sponsors, we hope to make their Iqaluit visit and the Championship a truly memorable experience for all participants and spectators.”

2009 Canadian Mixed Roster

(Teams listed in order of skip, third, second and lead)

Alberta – Saville Sports Centre, Edmonton
Tom Appelman, Kalynn Park, Brandon Klassen, Rachel Pidherny

British Columbia – Royal City CC, New Westminster
Greg Monkman, Susan Allen, Randie Shen, Anita Cochrane

Manitoba – Deer Lodge CC, Winnipeg
Sean Grassie, Alli Nimik, Ross Derksen, Kendra Green

New Brunswick – Beaver CC, Moncton
Scott Jones, Sandy Comeau, Pierre Fraser, Stephanie Taylor

Newfoundland and Labrador – Re/Max Centre, St. John’s
Andrew Mercer, Jillian Waite, Scott Davidge, Tiffany Cuthbert

Northern Ontario – Soo Curlers Association, Sault Ste. Marie
Ian Fisher, Lindsay Miners, Caleb Flaxey, Chris Fortin

Nova Scotia - Mayflower CC, Halifax
Mark Dacey, Heather Smith-Dacey, Dave Stephenson, Lisa Stephenson

Ontario – Brantford Golf & Country Club, Brantford
Wayne Tuck, Kimberly Tuck, Jake Higgs, Sara Jane Gatchell

Prince Edward Island – Charlottetown CC, Charlottetown
Bill Hope, Sandra Hope, Jeff Gallant, Shelley Ebbett

Quebec – Thetford Mines Golf & Curling Club, Thetford Mines
Simon Hebert, Noémie Audet-Verreault, Nicolas Marceau, Vicky Tremblay

Saskatchewan - Nutana CC, Saskatoon
Darrell McKee, Allison Gerhardt, Jason Jacobson, Amanda Jacobson

Territories - Inuvik CC, Northwest Territories
George Lennie, Donna Maring, Edgar Maring, Diane Baxter

For further information:

Karen Costello
Host Committee Chair
2009 Canadian Mixed
costellok@inac-ainc.gc.ca
(867)-975-1318

Danny Lamoureux
Manager of Curling Club Development & Championship Services
Canadian Curling Association
danny@curling.ca
1-866-761-2875 (toll free cell)

Jeff Timson
Event Media Director
Canadian Curling Association
905-881-8322
jtimson@curling.ca

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Well .. Canada lost 7-5 yesterday to China in the Page #1-2 quarter final game, and is in the semi-final game now.

At 11:30am PST (1:30pm CST) Canada plays Japan ..

The loser of this match plays Switzerland at 6:00pm PST (8:00pm CST) for the “Bronze” Medal.

The winner if this match plays China at 10:30am PST (12:30pm CST) Sunday for the “Gold” Medal.

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2008 Ford Womens’ Curling Championship Website

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Earlier today, Japan beat Switzerland in the Page 3-4 Quarter Finals .. Japan Won 6-4 earlier this afternoon

Right now (on TSN) Canada is playing China in the Page 1-2 Quarter Final game. This is how it works:

Semi-Final - Japan vs the loser of Canada/China game Sat. Mar.29 @ 11:30am (Pacific)

Bronze Medal - Switzerland vs loser of Japan/Canada\China game Sat. Mar.29 @ 6:00pm (Pacific)

Gold Medal - Winner of Page#1-2 Canada/China vs Winner of Semi-Final Switzerland/Japan/Canada/China loser Sun. Mar.30 @ 10:30am (Pacific)

uh .. Got that?

Well .. twitter.com/PetLvr FOLLOW PETLVR on Twitter and I’ll give you End by End updates!

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Round Robin Play is over .. and it’s the playoffs! Here is the results:

Friday, March 28, 2008
Source: Canadian Curling Association

VERNON, B.C. — Canada’s Jennifer Jones will play China’s Bingyu Wang in the Page Playoff 1 vs 2 game here at the Ford World Womens Curling Championship Friday evening.

Canada advanced to the big game with a 7-3 victory over Sweden’s Stina Viktorsson on the final draw of the round-robin here Thursday evening.

China kept pace with a narrow 6-5 victory over Germany’s Andrea Schoepp, while Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott was also a winner, dropping Russia’s Liudmila Privivkova 9-4.

Put it altogether and the round-robin ended with Canada, China and Switzerland all tied for first place with 9-2 records.

Because the three teams all had identical 1-1 records against each other during the round-robin, officials resorted to a second tiebreaker — a team draw to the button competition that was staged just prior to this event.

China won that competition, Canada finished second and Switzerland finished third. So that put China and Canada in the 1-2 game (with China getting the first place advantage of hammer or choice of rocks) while Switzerland was relegated to Friday afternoon’s page-playoff 3 vs 4 game.

Switzerland will play the winner of a tiebreaker game Friday morning between Denmark’s Angelina Jensen and Japan’s Moe Meguro.

The winner of the 3-4 game advances to Saturday’s semi-final to face the loser of the 1-2 game.

Canada played what was probably their strongest game of this event against Sweden. “We got out of the gate quite well and had consistent play from start to finish,” said second Jill Officer. “We felt a lot better about things.”

“It’s playoffs,” said third Cathy Overton-Clapham, “and we’re right where we wanted to be.

“We had fun out there and there and that’s when we play our best.”

Friday’s 3-4 page playoff game will be played at 4 p.m. ET and air live on TSN. The 1-2 game will also air live on TSN, beginning at 9 p.m. ET.

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VERNON, B.C. — Canada’s Jennifer Jones has clinched at least a playoff tiebreaker game here at the Ford World Womens Curling Championship.

With an 8-6 win over Scotland’s Gail Munro Wednesday afternoon, Canada’s Jones improved to 8-1 and would play in at least a playoff tiebreaker game even if she were to lose her final two round-robin games on Thursday.

Canada plays Denmark Thursday morning and then wraps up their round-robin against Sweden Thursday night.

“We’re in the driver’s seat and we control our own destiny and that’s what we want,” Jones said after the win over Scotland.

Canada cracked a four against the Scots in the third end to take a 4-2 lead but Scotland battled back and took the game to the tenth end before finally yielding. Munro struggled mightily with her draw weight in the game, shooting just 60 percent.

In other games Thursday afternoon, China’s Bingyu Wang — the last undefeated team in the field — finally suffered a loss, falling 9-7 to Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott. Ott broke open a tight game with a five-ender in the eighth.

The loss dropped China to 7-1. They play again Wednesday evening against Italy’s Diana Gaspari.

Ott improved to 7-2 with the victory.

In other games, Sweden beat Czech Republic 7-3 and Russia edged Germany 7-6.

In other games Wednesday evening, Russia plays Denmark, Scotland plays Japan and Sweden plays USA.

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WHEN: March 22-30, 2008
WHERE: Vernon, British Columbia
DRAW SCHEDULE
SCORES AND STATISTICS

TEAM CANADA

Team Canada is from my home town and St. Vital Curling Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Skip: Jennifer Jones
Third: Cathy Overton-Clapham
Second: Jill Officer
Lead: Dawn Askin
Fifth: Jennifer Clark-Rouire
Coach: Janet Arnott

2008 Canadian Senior Men and Women’s Curling Championship

WHEN: March 22-300, 2008
WHERE: Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
DRAW SCHEDULE
SCORES AND RESULTS

See the MEN TEAMS and WOMEN TEAMS

Naturally, I will be cheering for the MANITOBA teams ..

Team Manitoba - Women
Skip: Jean Garbolinsky
Vice: Heather Lewis
Second: Cheryl Orr
Lead: Diane Sadler

Team Manitoba - Men
Skip: Vic Peters
Vice: Doug Harrison
Second: Chris Neufeld
Lead: Doug Holmes

But, I will also have a curiosity and hope New Brunswick does well

Team New Brunswick
Skip: Russ Howard < -- remember him?
Vice: Wayne Tallon
Second: Mike Flannery
Lead: Martin Mockler

2008 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship

WHEN: March 25-29, 2008
WHERE: Winnipeg, Manitoba!

SEE THE WEBSITE

We have two teams for Manitoba

* Team Manitoba
Chris Sobkowicz, Dennis Thiessen, Michael Alberg, Arlene Ursel - Coach: Elaine Owen

* Team Manitoba (Host)
Richard Dudek, George Horning, Don Kalinski, Effie Loubardias - Coach: Gary Banner

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ALBERTA WINS

AFTER … 10 ends

ALBERTA - 5
ONTARIO - 4

See scoring

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Semi-Live Blogging Scores

UPDATE!

SASK 7
ONT 8

Ontario advances to the Final

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Here are the final standings of the Round Robin, and the schedule of TieBreakers and Playoffs that start later today, Friday March 14, 2008

Source: Curlcast

NEWS:

* Mar. 13, 2008 - Saskatchewan reaches Page one-two game
* Mar. 13, 2008 - Tiebreakers looming at the Brier
* Mar. 13, 2008 - Alberta clinches first place

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