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Provincial curling championship opens up with first draw
andrew brethauer january 5th, 2011


The Junior Men's and Women's Ontario Curling Championship opened Wednesday afternoon with the first round draw.

On sheet 1, both women's rinks played cautious at first, taking out each rock thrown and waiting for a miss hit. Jamie Sinclair's St. Thomas rink opened the scoring with by taking one, but Clancy Grandy's rink from Kitchener-Waterloo took two in the 5th end to take the lead. The ladies from St. Thomas would tie it up in the 6th end, taking another single point, but Grandy's rink would again take another two points to go ahead by two. Sinclair's team would come back with two of their own in the 9th, but without the hammer in the final end, the Kitchener-Waterloo team were able to get one for the 5-4 victory.

On sheet 2, the Stephanie Van Huyse rink from Oakville Curling Club stole 5 in the first end for an early lead. Nicol McNiven would take one back in the next end, raising her own stone to become shot rock, but Huyse team would again go big, as they added three more points on their next end. McNiven's rink from Carleton Heights Curling Club would take another single in the 4th end, but once again give up three points in the next end. Huyse team would steal one in end 6 for a 12-2 lead. McNiven's team would get three more back between the next two ends, but ultimately called the rest of the match which ended 12-5.

In the highest scoring match of the day, sheet three saw Shannon Harrington's rink from the Ottawa Curling Club take three in the final end to go onto a 12-10 win over Ginger Coyle's Highland Country Club rink. Harrington's team stole two to open the match, while taking another two with the hammer in the third end. But Coyle's rink would take four to take the lead 5-4. After Harrington took a single in the 5th end, Coyle would respond with two more of her own for a 7-5 lead. But The Ottawa club would get three in the 7th to take a 8-7 lead, and steal one in the 8th for a 9-7 lead. But Coyle would retake the lead taking three of her own in the 9th end for a 10-9 lead. Harrington's rink would take the final three in the 10th end for the victory.

Finally on sheet 4, Jasmin Thurston's Kitchener-Waterloo Granite Club rink defeated Stacey Hogan's Tam Heather Curling & Tennis Club rink 5-3. Each tean would exchange points early on, and agin in the 5th and 6th end. In the 8th end, Thurston's rink would take three points for a 3 point lead. Hogan's club could only get one back in the 9th end, and without the hammer, called the match for the 5-3 loss.

In Junior Men's action, Richard Krell's rink from the St. Thomas Curling Club ended their match after 7 ends by taking a 8-2 victory over Robert Collins rink from the Coldwater & District Curling Club. After exchanging one point each for the first four ends, Krell's team would steal two points in the 5th end, three points in the 6th end, and one point in the 7th end before Collins rink called the match.

On sheet 6, another quick match saw the Matthew Camm rink from the Ottawa Curling Club win 7-2 over the Kurtis Byrd rink from the Rideau Curling Club. Byrd`s rink had the early lead, scoring one point and stealing naother. But Camm`s rink would do the same in the following two ends, and continue that momentum as they stole two points in the 6th end and three points in the third end for a 7-2 victory, as the Byrd rink called the match.

On sheet 7, a close match between Michael Bryson`s Annandale Country Club rink and Matt Dickson`s Palmerston Curling Club rink came down to the final end. Both teams blanked the first three ends before they each took one with the gammer. Bryson would steal one in the 6th, while Dickson would take two for the lead in the 7th. The Bryson club would answer back with two of their own, as the teams exchanged two points in the 9th and 10th ends, as Bryson`s rink squeaks out a 6-5 victory.

In the final match of the first draw, Jack Lindsay`s St. George's Golf & Country Club rink defeated Derreck Veitch`s Stroud Curling Club rink 9-6. Lindsay`s rink stole three in the second for an opening lead, while Veitch would cut into the lead by taking two of his own. In the 5th and 6th ends he would take two in each to give his rink a 6-4 lead. But Lindsay`s club would go on to take 5 points in the final three ends including three stolen points before Veitch`s rink called the match and took the 9-6 loss.

All rinks will be in action again for draw two, as the competition continues through Thursday, with finals being held on Sunday. No Sarnia club is at this tournament this year.
 




 

 

 

 

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