JUNIOR CURLERS IN MAJOR TCA ANNUAL BONSPIEL
by Jim Easson
The Dominion TCA Junior/Bantam Bonspiel ran December 29 and 30 in three Toronto Curling Clubs. This event annually awards
the first prize of an all expenses paid trip to Switzerland for the Junior winners. The Annandale Junior Ladies team of Lesley Pyne,
Suzanne Miller, Laura Hickey, and Katie Hickey with coach Jennifer McGhee lost in the 2nd event-quarter finals. The Junior Men's
team of Michael Bryson, James McPherson, Sandy Martin and Josh Hall coached by Susannah Moylan was runner-up in Jr. Men's
3rd event collecting $440. An Annandale Bantam team entry of Ben Bevan, Chris Avery, Jake McGhee and Carter Adair, coached
also by Jennifer McGhee was runner-up in 3rd event in Bantam boys and got to the prize table. Other Annandale curlers were
participating on out-of-club teams. Annandale's Chantal Lalonde and Tracy O'Leary competed with Danielle Inglis of Burlington
and were winners of 4th event in Jr. Women's and collected $380. Stacey Hogan was on the Laura Crocker team from Scarboro
Golf and they lost in the 2nd event semi-finals. Joan Moore with Carly Howard out of Midland were 2nd event runner up in the
bantam girls. The Howard team won the 'A' side of zone 10 for bantam girls, and advance to the Regionals in Markdale January
17-18.
The TCA Energizer Men's bonspiel (also known as Canada Life Bonspiel) is one of the world's oldest continuous curling events
and it runs TCA wide January 10 - 17, 2009. Annandale has four teams entered. Arthur McCrorie, Glenn Bull, Dale Patterson, and
Brian Hawke are listed and eligible for the early bird draw. With Hawke in the Senior Event are Jim Easson, Wes Stitt, and Mark
Scanlan, and also in the Senior event Dale Patterson skips the team of Ron Zuber, Dave Walmsley, and Ron Reeve. In the open
event, Glenn Bull has a team of Al Waters, Byron O'Donnell , and Jim Barrett. Arthur McCrorie has an entry in the Open Event, but
says he thinks his team will be withdrawing as 2 members will be away during the event, so if you are interested in participating, give
Arthur a call.
The first bonspiel on the Annandale club calendar is the Day Ladies Freeze Bonspiel January 21. Annandale has two teams entered
in the Fairfield Marriott Challenge Zone playdown to be held in Uxbridge January 10. Chris Van Huyse, Andrew Klein, Rob
Bushfield, and Tyler Anderson are going to join the playdown along with Annandale's Adam Sonley, Blair Metrakos, Steve Smith,
and Tim LaRoche. Two zone winning teams head directly to the Provincial in Brighton and Trenton January 23 -25 where 32 teams
will meet with 3 games each guaranteed.
The march for another crack at the Tim Hortons Brier for Team Glenn Howard continued on the weekend. Howard, with Pickering
resident Richard Hart at vice, and Brent Laing and Craig Savill won the A side of the Regional TSC Stores Tankard in Elmira
January 3 and 4. They now advance to the Provincial finals slated for Woodstock February 2 - 8. The one winner out of 10 teams
in Woodstock will represent Ontario at the Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary March 7 to 15. TSN has full coverage of the event this
year.
The Rob Lobel team that won the A side of the December 5 - 7 TSC Stores Tankard Zone at Annandale will also advance to the
Provincial finals. The Whitby team won their Regional held at St. George's. Greg Timbers of Uxbridge was also competing there
with Annandale member Warren Leslie along with Barry Acton and Kent Cochrane. This team was sidelined 0-2.
January 4, 2009
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