TURCOTTE SIDELINED AT SENIOR ONTARIO FINAL
by Jim Easson
Ajax resident Bob Turcotte, curling out of Scarboro Golf and Country Club, competed in the Provincial Senior Men’s Championship at his home club January 14 - 18. Turcotte had hoped to add to the three Canadian Senior titles he has to his credit. With Turcotte this running were Roy Weigand, Frank McCourt, and Steve McDermot. They ended their run losing a tie breaker game Saturday Night. Eight teams played a round robin and after all was finished, send the victor Bruce Delaney of RCN Ottawa Curling Club to Summerside PEI in March for the Canadian finals.
The TCA Energizer Men's bonspiel, keeping one of the world's oldest continuous curling events alive, started TCA wide January 10. The ‘spiel ended Saturday January 17 with the finals held at the Mississauga Golf & Country Club . Annandale started the event with five teams entered, skipped by Glenn Bull, Dale Patterson, Brian Hawke, Sandy McMillan, and Barry Gillespie. The best showing for Annandale was the Brian Hawke team of Jim Easson, Wes Stitt, and Mark Scanlan who made it to the semi-finals in the Senior Fourth Event. Each of them won a $50 restaurant card.
The Freeze Day Ladies bonspiel slated for January 21 was cancelled. There were not enough entries to make a go of it. The next Bonspiel at Annandale is the annual Rabbie Burns FunSpiel; a mixed Funspiel/Jitney slated for Saturday January 31.
Annandale women's team of Sandra Thain, Barb Luffman, Meaghan Snow, and Joan O'Leary, will be curling with Rhonda Welch, Janet Alexander, April Risto and Leslie Bainard in the OCA Zone for the Women's Tankard, the two team event, scheduled to commence January 24 in Sutton.
Annandale had two teams entered in the Fairfield Marriott Challenge Zone playdown held in Uxbridge January 10. Chris Van Huyse, Andrew Klein, Rob Bushfield, and Tyler Anderson advance from the zone directly to the Provincial in Brighton and Trenton January 23 -25, where 32 teams will meet with 3 games each guaranteed.
Team Glenn Howard, with Pickering resident Richard Hart at vice, and Brent Laing and Craig Savill next compete in Winnipeg, January 21-25. They will play in the third leg of the men’s 2008-09 Capital One Grand Slam of Curling series, the BDO Classic Canadian Open. Eight of 18 top teams will qualify to share the $100,000 purse.
Jim Easson,
January 18, 2009
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