(Updated) Bev Schick and Judy Kachkowski, members of the Fort Rouge Friday 2-person Stick Curling League, have won the Manitoba Stick Curling Association’s 2024 Women’s Championship.
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Schick and Kachkowski won the 24-team event, February 2-4, in Warren with a final game 4-3 victory over Judy Kitching & Isla Hagborg (Stonewall).
Through the weekend, Schick & Kachkowski won 4 of their five round-robin games to qualify for the Sunday playoffs where they ran off three consecutive wins. In the round-robin, that single loss came in their opening game against Kitching & Hagborg, their final game opponents.
According to Judy Kachkowski, the key shot of the final day came in the semi-final against Heather Fontaine & Karen Pineau (St. Vital). They were in a lot of trouble playing the final end. They used a time-out to make a plan – that plan turned out to be a perfect triple raise takeout to stick for shot and solidify the win.
According to Bev Schick, the turning point didn’t come until the fifth end of the final when Kachkowski scored a three to take a two-point lead coming home. Laying two that end, they actually had a rub and roll opportunity to score four but weight was off slightly so only the three went on the scoreboard.
For those unfamiliar, the unique rules of 2-person stick curling include playing a six-end game using six rocks per end with each person playing all six rocks in one direction and their partner playing them back.
As Manitoba’s newest champions, Schick & Kachkowski will be wearing the Manitoba colours at the Canadian Women’s Championship at Toronto’s Leaside Club in mid-April.
The other qualifiers for the playoff round were: Joyce Dawydiuk & Betty Piotrowski, Fort Garry CC Jean Pattyn & Sharon Biehl, St Vital CC Lorna Marr & Val Kolsun, Springfield CC Britta Spiring & Terri Beaudoin, Pembina CC Alison King & Irene Runolfson, Warren CC
Kudos to Jim Rouse and the volunteers of the 3-sheet Warren Curling Club. The 24-team championship bonspiel was the largest 2-person Women’s Stick event yet staged in Manitoba.
(MCHoF&M Release) Three Canadian champion junior teams, a pair of dedicated long-term volunteers, and a curler with six Manitoba, Canadian and World championships on his resume will be honoured by induction into the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame at the 2024 induction dinner, May 5 at CanadInn’s Polo Park in Winnipeg.
Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame & Museum President Peter Nicholls extends his congratulations to the 2024 inductee class and to the friends, family and curling fans who have supported their competitive and volunteer efforts.
The 2024 BUILDER inductees include former CurlManitoba President and Curling Canada Governor Sam Antila who has also been a long-time volunteer at Thompson’s Burntwood Curling Club and Bill Biehl, a pioneer in the implementation of organized coaching instruction and coaching programs in Manitoba and three-times past-President of Winnipeg’s Heather Curling Club.
The 2024 CURLER inductee is Ken Tresoor who won a pair of Manitoba Mixed titles along with a pair of Manitoba Men’s championships, one Canadian, and one World title in an over 25-year competitive career.
The three junior champion TEAM inductees honour the 1989 Canadian champion and world bronze medal team skipped by Cathy Overton, the 1994 Canadian champion team skipped by Jennifer Jones, and the 1995 Canadian champion and world bronze medal team skipped by Chris Galbraith.
“We are pleased to welcome these very worthy inductees into the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame,” says Nicholls. “Builders Sam Antila and Bill Biehl have played an important leadership role in Manitoba curling. Ken Tresoor and the members of the Overton, Jones and Galbraith teams set standards of excellence which junior teams following them have been challenged to meet and surpass.”
The 2024 Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame Induction Dinner will be hosted at CanadInns Destination Centre Polo Park on May 5, 2024. Dinner ticket prices will be held at $100 for 2024. More complete dinner details will be announced by March 1, 2024.
Interested persons are invited to send an email to mca@curlmanitoba.org to purchase tickets or to request more complete information when the details are finalized.
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BUILDER: Sam Antila was originally from Larder Lake in Northern Ontario where he had been a successful downhill skier. He began to curl when he moved to Northern Manitoba and it became his sport of choice in Thompson in 1982 when he recognized it could provide the competitive sport outlet he had been missing. This led him to a 40-year involvement with Thompson’s Burntwood Curling Club as well as to the boardrooms of both CurlManitoba and Curling Canada.
In Thompson, in the 1980’s, his first involvement with the local curling club was as a member of the bonspiel committee and willing volunteer for other roles as needed. After many years, and many roles, on the Burntwood Curling Club Executive and major events in the community, he would eventually serve as President – but not until after he served as CurlManitoba President and Curling Canada Governor.
At CurlManitoba, it was his objective to ensure that the concerns of Manitoba’s northern clubs and curlers were known and considered in provincial decisions. He brought the perspectives of an active competitor and an active club executive member to the Board table and was dedicated to ensuring that competitive and development opportunities existed for clubs across rural and northern Manitoba.
As President of CurlManitoba, where he was a Manitoba delegate at the regular meetings of the members of Curling Canada, he chaired the Provincial Associations Council at the national meetings and was recruited to serve as a Governor of Curling Canada. He served a two-year term (2018-19 & 2019-20) as Governor. His very recent experience at the provincial association level provided representation of provincial concerns in discussions of the same and new issues – but now from the national perspective.
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BUILDER: Bill Biehl was one of the first to become involved in Manitoba when the Curl Canada technical coach-instruction program was implemented in the 1970’s. He became certified as a Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 Course Conductor and from 1978 to 1985, he served as Manitoba’s Provincial Coordinator (known at the time as the Master Course Conductor). In this capacity, he organized instructional programs and helped to train an estimated 400 curlers to serve as course instructors and curling coaches.
During the approximately two decades when the MCA & MLCA offered their junior curling camps program, Bill dedicated much of each summer to an instructor role. In the years 2003-2006, when he was the CurlManitoba Technical Director, he also took the lead role in organizing the junior instructional camps. He retired from CurlManitoba and direct involvement in coach-instructor training in 2006 when he took on a one-year assignment as a national coach-instructor in Italy.
At the club level, beginning as Junior Coordinator, and continuing for thirteen years, he was a member of the executive of the Heather Curling Club. He served as club President in 1983-84. He returned to the Executive and again served as President in 2010-11 and 2011-12. At the same time, he served as a member of the CurlManitoba Board of Directors for a three-year term (2010-11 to 2012-13).
For several years prior to 1993, Bill Biehl was the only certified national official in Manitoba. During the late 1980’s and in the 1990’s he was head official for several Manitoba Men’s, Scotties, Juniors, and Mixed Championships, an on-ice official on many other occasions at provincial, national events., and. His officiating assignment included Brandon’s 1995 Worlds (On-ice Official) and the 1997 Canadian Seniors – Nipawin, SK (Head Official).
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CURLER: Ken Tresoor played in his first Manitoba Junior Championship in 1985 and competed in a total of 22 Manitoba championships (2 Junior, 16 Men’s, 4 Mixed) by the time of his final appearance at the Men’s championship in 2012. He won Manitoba Mixed Championships with Howard Restall (1990) and Jeff Stoughton (1994). He won Manitoba Men’s titles with Jeff Stoughton in 1991 and 1996 and the 1996 team went on to win Canadian and World Championships. The 1996 team compiled a 30W-5L record in winning the Manitoba, Canadian and World titles. His overall championship win-loss record was 128W-61L in 27 championship appearances.
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TEAM OVERTON 1989: The 1989 Canadian Junior Women’s Champion team of Cathy Overton, Tracy Baldwin. Carol Harvey, and Tracy Bush won events in both the Junior Women’s and MLCA bonspiels and posted a 5W-1L record to win the Manitoba Junior Women’s title.
The team had the unique experience of not having to travel outside the province to win the Canadian juniors and advance to the World championship.
Playing at home at the Heather Curling Club, the team won the Canadian Championship and that trip to the world championship with a perfect 11W-0L record.
The Worlds was played in Portage la Prairie. Overton’s Team Canada finished with a 9W-2L record – they finished the round robin at 8W-1L (tied for first with Scotland) but lost a semifinal game 8-7 to Sweden before beating Switzerland 8-1 to win the bronze medal.
Cathy Overton was named All-Star skip at both the Canadian and World Championships. Tracy Baldwin was all star third at the Canadians and Tracy Bush was all star lead at the Worlds.
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TEAM JONES 1994: Since the inception of world championship play, the 1994 Canadian Junior Women’s champion team has the unique (and unfortunate) distinction of being the only Canadian Junior champion team to not compete at a world championship. Jennifer Jones, Trisha Baldwin, Jill Officer and Dana Malanchuk showed a progression of success. In 1992, they lost the Manitoba Junior final. They won Manitoba in 1993 and finished fifth at Canadians. In 1994, they were undefeated (6W-0L) to win Manitoba again and won the Canadian title with an 11W-4L record.
Due to change in qualifying protocol, they did not have an opportunity to play at the Worlds but rather had an assured spot in the next year’s Canadian playoffs round. They also had the chance to compete again to be Team Manitoba but lost the 1995 final. The Canadians in 1995 became a sudden-death affair – dropped into the playoff round as Team Canada, they lost their first game. One and done, they missed their World championship opportunity.
Jennifer Jones was co-All-Star skip at the 1994 Canadian Championship.
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TEAM GALBRAITH 1995: In 1995, brothers Chris (Skip) & Bryan (lead) Galbraith joined forces with Scott Cripps (third) and Brent Barrett (second) to record a 25W-6L record in winning the Manitoba and Canadian Junior Men’s titles and the World bronze medal.
The 1994-95 line-up proved to be a winning combination. The Fort Rouge team recorded 6W-1L and 10W-3L records in winning the Manitoba and Canadian Championships.
As Team Canada at the World Juniors in Perth, Scotland the Galbraith team finished the round robin with an 8W-1L record to tie for first in the standings with Scotland’s Tom Brewster team. Team Galbraith bounced back from a semi-final loss to Germany to beat Sweden in the bronze medal game while Scotland won the gold medal.
Chris Galbraith was the Canadian Championship All-Star skip and received the World Junior Men’s Sportsmanship Award.
(CurlManitoba Release) CurlManitoba has announced the top five seeds and published the draw for the 2024 Viterra Championship in Stonewall.
Stonewall will host the men’s championship for the first time.
The first five seeds are all in the top 40 of the Canadian Team Ranking (CTRS) and four of them are in the top 25.
Rated number one by the competitors in the competition is the Reid Carruthers team with 2014 Olympic Champion Brad Jacobs added to the line-up. Carruthers (2011) and Jacobs (2013) are the only former Brier champions in the field of 32 teams qualified for the Viterra Championship.
THE TOP FIVE SEEDS ARE:
#1 SEED: Reid Carruthers, long-time teammate Derek Samagalski and Connor Njegovan and Coach Rob Meakin lost the Manitoba final a year ago to Matt Dunstone. Brad Jacobs has joined the team and will skip the team for his first Manitoba championship. Team Carruthers, representing the Granite Curling Club, had early season success with a victory in the PointsBet International and are currently the #5 ranked team on the CTRS. In a modestly successful season, they qualified for the final eight playoff on four other occasions before reaching the final in the mid-January bonspiel in Lloydminster.
#2 SEED: The Ryan Wiebe team (Ty Dilello, Sean Flatt, Adam Flatt, Don Harvey, Coach Tom Clasper) lost the Manitoba semi-final two years ago and reached the 8-team championship round last season. The Fort Rouge team has yet to taste victory this season playing a mostly out-of-province schedule. However, their record has them ranked at #15 on the CTRS. They have qualified for the final eight playoff six times with three semi-finals, including the Mother Club Classic at Winnipeg’s Granite CC, and one final appearance, at the DEKALB SuperSpiel in Morris.
#3 SEED: Braden Calvert’s Fort Rouge team includes long-time teammate Kyle Kurz with Corey Chambers and Brenda Bilawka added to the roster this year. Playing a mostly Manitoba schedule they have still achieved the #23 CTRS ranking, winning the DEKALB SuperSpiel and Atkins Classic and losing the final of two other events. Calvert and Kurz qualified for the Manitoba final four a year ago but lost the semi-final to Carruthers.
#4 SEED: Jordon McDonald, Elias Huminicki and Cam Olafson won the 2022 Manitoba U-18 and 2023 Manitoba Junior titles together. With Dallas Burgess at third and coached by William Lyburn, the Assiniboine Memorial team has achieved the #24 CTRS ranking with an exclusively Manitoba schedule by qualifying for the final eight playoff in all seven events they played. The successes included three semi-final finishes and one finalist finish and they won the MCT Showdown at East St. Paul and the MCT Shootout at Selkirk.
#5 SEED: Brett Walter, JT Ryan, and Graham & Hugh McFarlane qualified early for the Viterra Championships as winners of the November berth bonspiel in Gimli. A successful November also included victory in the MCT Curling Cup. Playing a limited Manitoba schedule, the Assiniboine Memorial team had one semi-final and one final eight finish and lost the MCT Championship final in mid-January. They are the CTRS #39 ranked team.
The Manitoba champion will represent Manitoba at the Montana’s Brier in Regina in early March, joining the reigning Manitoba champion Matt Dunstone team (CTRS #4) who have already pre-qualified.
In all 20 different Manitoba curling clubs and communities will be represented in the Viterra Championship. With four teams, Fort Rouge has the largest number of qualified teams.
(4) Fort Rouge (3) Assiniboine Memorial, Charleswood, Deer Lodge, (2) Brandon, Dauphin, Granite (1) Baldur, Beausejour, Burntwood, Carman, Gladstone, Hamiota, Holland, La Salle, Pembina, St. Vital, Stonewall, Virden, Winnipeg Beach
Kaitlyn Lawes and her Fort Rouge team (Selena Njegovan, Jocelyn Peterman, Kristin McCuish, Coach Connor Njegovan) have won the Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts presented by RME.
Team Lawes jumped out to a 4-1 lead after three ends but Beth Peterson and her Assiniboine Memorial team fought back to tie 7-7 after eight. A Lawes deuce in the ninth end set the stage for a dramatic tenth when Peterson had a chance to draw through a narrow port to the four foot circle for a pair and a tie. She navigated the port but slid a few inches too deep and scored just a single and final 9-8 score in the Lawes victory.
The Lawes deuce on the ninth came on one of the finest shots of the event when Kaitlyn Lawes faced two and played a re-direct hit, just rubbing off a Peterson stone in the front of the eight foot circle and doubling out the second stone on the centre line in the back of the eight foot circle.
The Peterson team matched shots throughout the game with the #1 seed and CTRS #4 ranked Lawes team.
It continued a run which began when they qualified for the championship round with a 3W-2L round-robin record. They were the only team to win all three championship round games and then played a precision control game to win the semi-final over #2 seed Kate Cameron (Granite).
Team Lawes will represent Manitoba as Team Manitoba at the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts in February, joining Team Canada Kerri Einarson and CTRS #2 ranked Jennifer Jones as teams for Manitoba curling fans to cheer for.
Beth Peterson’s Assiniboine Memorial team was the only one to win all three of their championship round games and will advance to the Sunday playoffs of the Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts presented by RME.
Peterson, the fourth seed in the competition, defeated both #2 Kate Cameron (Granite) and #3 Jolene Campbell (AMCC) as well as Zoey Terrick (Heather) in the team’s successful run to the playoffs.
Top seed Kaitlyn Lawes (Fort Rouge) lost Saturday morning to Campbell but bounced back to beat Cameron in an afternoon game which gave them a 7W-1L record and first place in the standings. With the win, the Lawes foursome earned the bye to the Sunday afternoon (2:00PM) final.
Cameron finished with a 6W-2L record, tied with Peterson, and the two will meet in the Sunday morning (9:30AM) semi-final.
With Peterson posting the third win Saturday afternoon, the only other team with a playoff hope was the Jolene Campbell team. A last round loss to Kristy Watling (East St. Paul) dashed the Campbell team’s hopes as they both finished with 5W-3L records.
Six teams have advanced to the Championship Round of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts presented by RME in Morden.
Kaitlyn Lawes (Fort Rouge) and Kate Cameron (Granite) solidified a hold on a Sunday playoff position by improving their perfect records to 6W-0L to lead the way.
Trailing by three after giving up a four-ender to Kate Cameron, Kristy Watling fought back to tie with a steal of two on the eight end. Watling made two great draws (red) behind a Cameron stone biting the front four foot circle and Cameron (yellow) slid by to give up the steal. It was not enough as Cameron took two back on the ninth end enroute to victory
Lawes defeated Zoey Terrick’s Heather team while Cameron was a winner over Kristy Watling, scoring a four on the sixth end for a three point lead and then scoring two on the ninth after Watling had tied the score. Terrick and Watling have 3W-3L records.
Beth Peterson (AMCC) pulled even with Jolene Campbell (AMCC) and both are in the playoff chase after Peterson’s evening win over her clubmate gave both a 4W-2L record.
The top three teams in each pool advanced from the preliminary round-robin to play each of the teams from the other pool. They carry their records forward and after the three game round, the top three will advance to a playoff round with the top team earning a bye to the Sunday afternoon final.
Earlier Friday to wrap up the round-robin, Kaitlyn Lawes (Fort Rouge), with a last round win over Beth Peterson (AMCC), and Kate Cameron (Granite), with a last rock draw to win 6-5 over Jolene Campbell (AMCC), topped their pools respectively. Zoey Terrick’s young Heather team had a last round win over Lisa McLeod to earn the third championship round spot behind Cameron and Campbell.
Behind Lawes in her pool, three teams were tied for second place with 3W-2L records. Beth Peterson (AMCC) and Kristy Watling (East St. Paul) advanced while Shaela Hayward’s U-18 Champions from Carman were outside looking in after the tiebreaker last stone draws tally was implemented.
FINAL ROUND ROBIN STANDINGS: ASHAM BLACK POOL 5-0 Kaitlyn Lawes (Fort Rouge) 3-2 Beth Peterson (AMCC) 3-2 Kristy Watling (East St.Paul) 3-2 Shaela Hayward (Carman) …. finish fourth in the pool on draw-to-button ranking 1-4 Emma Jensen (Heather) 0-5 Emily Cherwinski (AMCC)
FINAL ROUND ROBIN STANDINGS: ASHAM EXPRESS RED POOL 5-0 Kate Cameron (Granite) 4-1 Jolene Campbell (AMCC) 3-2 Zoey Terrick (Heather) 2-3 Lisa McLeod (Portage) 1-4 Tiffany Armstrong (Dauphin) 0-5 Rachel Kaatz (AMCC)
Three teams remain undefeated after two days of play at the Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts presented by RME in Morden.
Shaela Hayward’s U-18 Manitoba champions have gained great experience this week at the Scotties. At the same time, the young team is within a win of advancing tot he next round of play at the Scotties – an impressive first appearance at this level.
The top three seeds, Kaitlyn Lawes (Fort Rouge), Kate Cameron (Granite), and Jolene Campbell (Assiniboine Memorial) all won their two games on Thursday to improve their records to 4W-0L. The three are assured of being among the six teams who will advance beyond the preliminary round-robin.
Behind Lawes in the Asham Black pool are Beth Peterson (AMCC) with a 3W-1L record and Kristy Watling (East St. Paul) and Shaela Hayward (Carman), both with 2W-2L records.
Behind Cameron and Campbell in the Asham Express Red pool are Zoey Terrick (Heather) and Lisa McLeod (Portage), also both with 2W-2L records.
Based on the results in the final round of play Friday morning, two of Peterson, Watling and Hayward will advance to the next round and either Terrick or McLeod will advance.
The top three teams from each pool carry their round-robin records forward and play three more games, against the three teams from the other pool. If needed, a single tiebreaker game will be played Saturday evening. The Sunday playoff round will feature the second and third place teams facing off with the winner advancing to play the first place team.
ASHAM BLACK POOL STANDINGS: 4-0 Kaitlyn Lawes (Fort Rouge)
Only three teams survived the opening day with two wins at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts presented by RME in Morden’s Access Event Centre.
First seed Kaitlyn Lawes and her Fort Rouge team is the only unbeaten team in the six-team Asham Black Group. In the Asham Express Red Group, #2 seed Kate Cameron (Granite) and #3 Jolene Campbell (Assiniboine Memorial) both won their opening day pair of games.
It was a bold first end attempt by Kate Cameron – playing an outside-in attempt to bump her own rock and roll on for a pair. The shot over-curled and stopped in the rings for a single point but it set the tone. A deuce on the 3rd end and two more on the 7th gave the Cameron foursome a 7-4 win and their second win of the day.
Fourth seeded Beth Peterson (Assiniboine Memorial) and fifth seeded Kristy Watling (East St. Paul opened with wins but lost their second games of the day. Watling lost to Lawes while Peterson lost to Manitoba’s U-18 champions, the Shaela Hayward team from Carman.
With Lawes in the Black pool are four teams with a win and a loss and one team with a pair of opening day losses.
Dean Dunstone looks on as Andrew Irving calls the sweeping in his 4-1 Asham Event final game victory
Andrew Irving and his Fort Rouge team have won their second consecutive Manitoba Open bonspiel championship. The Fort Rouge team defeated Dean Dunstone (Granite) 4-1 Monday evening at St. Vital. It makes the Irving foursome the first back-to-back bonspiel champions in the years since the Manitoba Open format was implemented.
Irving’s ASHAM Event winning team this year includes Brad Van Walleghem, Ronan Gueret, Roy Janz, and Alex Forrest. In addition to the bonspiel championship, the Fort Rouge team also earns an invitation to compete in the Viterra championship in Stonewall, February 6-11.
The Dunstone team, which includes Greg Melnichuk, Al Purdy, Bruce Wyche, and Scott Kidd will be invited to compete in Stonewall as the winner of a Manitoba Open berth.
The third Manitoba Open Viterra invitation belongs to Brad Micholson – Deer Lodge (Ian Campbell, Rayan Lagace, Paul Nielands, Norm Gautron) after a NOTT AUTOCORP Event final game 7-6 win over Paul Scinocca – St. Vital (Ed Barr, Joel Marcon, Joel Newberry, Logan Schirmeister)
The Dunstone berth became available because the finalists in the ORIGINAL 16 Event, Corey Chambers (Portage) and Steen Sigurdson (Deer Lodge) could not use the bonspiel berth. Sigurdson’s team is already qualified for Stonewall and Chambers’ Mixed team would not be eligible for the Viterra Men’s championship.
For the record, the Original 16 final game was won Team Sigurdson (Josh Claeys, Scott Bruce, Scott Peterson) with a 6-4 win over Chambers ( Lisa McLeod, Julien Leduc, Jolene Callum).
The winners of the minor events in the bonspiel were: ATKINS: Lucas Pedersen (Arden) defeated Tom Cameron (Pembina) 12-7 MANITOBA HYDRO: Michael Zacharias (Roland) defeated Tom Scott (Hibbing, MN) 9-4 DYNASTY: Kristy Mackie (St. Vital) defeated Andrew Wickman (Fort Rouge) 5-4 BITUMINEX PAVING: Craig Nicholl (Stonewall) defeated Alex Stanley (Pembina) 9-2 MANITOBA PORK COUNCIL: Rob Keough (Deer Lodge) defeated Evan Gillis (Morden) 9-4 CURLMANITOBA: Ken Ringaert (Fort Rouge) defeated Greg Bartley (Pembina) 7-3 MCMUNN & YATES: Mike Mahon (Granite) defeated Jeremy Sundell (Holland) 7-6 SPORT MANITOBA: Harvey Levitt (Pembina) defeated Justin Reischeck (Carberry) 9-8
Andrew Irving (Fort Rouge) is two wins away from winning a second consecutive Asham main event championship in the Manitoba Open. Corey Chambers (Portage) is two wins away from skipping the first mixed team to the bonspiel championship. And a dozen teams (if they are eligible) are closing on on a Viterra championship berth.
As play begins this morning, there are 4 teams still alive in the chase for the Manitoba Open Championship AND a total of 20 still playing in the main (Asham) and the next two (Nott Autocorp & Original 16) events which lead to a Viterra Championship berth. Many of the names are well known or at least recognizable.
That does not mean 20 eligible teams for three berths. Some already have berths, at least one is a mixed team, at least one is an out of province team, and a casual observer won’t know who is ineligible OR who is planning a sunny vacation at the time of the Viterra.
So that will all play out over today’s draws but as play begins, here are the survivors.
ASHAM 9AM: Winners play Monday at St Vital for the Championship Andrew Irving (Ft Rouge) vs Paul Scinocca (St Vital) AT Heather Corey Chambers (Portage) vs Dean Dunstone (Granite) AT St. Vital
ORIGINAL 16 9AM: Winners play at 3PM at St Vital Ryan Hlatkey (St Vital) vs Steen Sigurdson (Deer Lodge) AT Elmwood Merv Satterthwaite (St Vital) vs Dennis Bohn (AMCC) AT Elmwood Allan Godfrey (St Vital) vs Evan Martin (East St Paul) AT Fort Rouge Derrick Anderson (Gimli) vs Timothy Friesen (East St Paul) AT Fort Rouge
NOTT AUTOCORP NOON: Winners play at 6PM at St Vital or Assiniboine Memorial Dan Birchard (Pembina) vs Justin Reynolds (Wpg Beach) AT Fort Rouge Jeff Stewart (Gladstone) vs Brett Walter (AMCC) AT St. Vital Howard Doerksen (Pembina) vs Sean Grassie (Deer Lodge) AT Assiniboine Memorial Darren Perche (Charleswood) vs Soctt Moncur (Canmore AB) AT West St. Paul
At first glance only 12 of those teams MIGHT be eligible to win a Viterra berth – by this stage, eligibility has been confirmed, but it would take a reporter with more energy to track down the exact details.
And besides, my team and 31 others are still playing this morning in the Half ‘Spiel
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SEVEN TEAMS ALREADY HAVE VITERRA BERTHS Steen Sigurdson (Deer Lodge) Dan Birchard (Pembina) Juston Reynolds (Winnipeg Beach) Jeff Stewart (Gladstone) Brett Walter (AMCC) Sean Grassie (Deer Lodge) Darren Perche (Charleswood) Corey Chambers (Portage) – already has a berth with Braden Calvert – but the ‘spiel team is a mixed one with Lisa McLeod & Jolene Callum, so would be ineligible anyway.
AND WHO ELSE CAN’T WIN ONE? Scott Moncur – Canmore, AB
As noted above, there may be other ineligible teams as well – determining that as they advance makers for an interesting day!
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