Over a decade after picking up a World Police & Fire Games silver medal (2009-Vancouver), Steve Moss, Frank McCort, and Chris Haichart have won their gold medal.

In 2009, Moss (NWT) has a chance to improve on a silver medal won in 2009 when he skipped his team of Chris Haichart (now Sask), and McCort (ON) teamed with Ryan Lalonde (Wpg) in Vancouver.

This year at St. Vital, the firefighters team with Gregg Tarasoff (Sask) replacing Lalonde and throwing fourth rocks, while Moss skipped, defeated the reigning Canadian Police champions in the Saturday evening gold medal game.

BC’s Dale Hockley, Glen Brennan, Randy Nelson and Daniel Brennan forced an extra end in the final game, stealing two coming home. The Moss foursome played a near perfect extra end, leaving Hockley facing four clustered in and near the four foot circle. A last stone ‘we have to try something’ attempt failed and the Moss team had their gold medal.

In addition to the 2009 World Games silver medal,  Moss (a 3-time Brier skip from Northwest Territories) and  Haichart had won the 2008 Canadian Firefighters event.  After Haichart moved to Saskatchewan, Tarasoff & Haichart won the Canadian firefighters together in 2013, 2018, and 2019.

The bronze medal game was featured the current Manitoba Police champions playing the current Manitoba Firefighters  champion skip with a cross-country team of firefighters.

The police team, skipped by Mike Dauk with Braden Zawada throwing last stones and supported by David Aitken & Rob Mitchell, prevailed. Tied 3-3 coming home, Zawada didn’t have to throw his last stone for a 5-3 victory over Dan Michalchuk and his team.

Fourteen teams from across Canada competed in the event. The three medalist teams had all finished the round robin with identical 5W-1L records in the same pool while the Michalchuk foursome were also 5-W-1L to top the other pool.  

The Dauk-Zawada team defeated a Hamilton, ON Canadian Border Services team in a cross-over play-in game while Hockley defeated Winnipeg Firefighters Team McDonald.

The Saturday evening medal games turned out to be re-matches of the Page Playoff first round games.

On the top side of the Page Playoff, Dauk-Zawada had beaten Michalchuk (6-5) while Moss defeated Hockley (8-7). The Moss team earned their gold medal game berth with a Saturday morning 6-1 win over the Manitobans.

On the bottom side of the Page Playoff draw, Hockley defeated Michalchuk (6-4) and then Dauk-Zawada  4-3 to earn the gold medal berth. The losses set up the Dauk-Zawada vs Michalchuk bronze medal game.