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SCOTTIES FORD HOT SHOTS COMPETITION

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Team Canada lead Dawn Askin of Winnipeg was three

points better than any other Scotties rock-tosser on Friday during preliminary play in the pre-Hearts Ford Hot Shots competition at the Essar Centre.

Askin scored an impres-sive 25 of 30 in the points event and led Winnipeg skip Jill Thurston (22), Sas-katchewan second Tammy Schneider, Manitoba third Kristen Phillips and Quebec third Brenda Nicholls (tied with 20).

The shotmaking show-down requires curlers to execute six shots: Hit-and-stay, draw-the-button, draw-the-port, raise, hit-and-roll and double takeout. Each shot is awarded points on a scale from 0-5, rating the success of each.

Following Fri-day’s preliminary round involving all 48 Scotties curlers, the top eight advance to quarter-fi nal, semi-fi nal and fi nal contests today at 1:15 p.m., following the Scotties open-ing ceremonies.

Sweeping (qualifi ers can select two sweepers) is per-mitted, beginning with the fi nal eight.

Ford of Canada will provide the winner with a two-year lease on a 2010 Ford Taurus SEL FWD, an approximate retail value in excess of $25,000. The vehicle features a 3.5L V6 engine with 6-speed auto-matic transmission.

In addition, second-place fi nishers will take home $2,000, while third-place fi nishers receive $1,000.

Rounding out the quarter-fi nalists decided Friday, Ontario lead Kari MacLean and Saskatchewan skip Amber Holland scored 19 points each while Territories lead Danielle Ellis had 18 including a draw that cov-ered the button, affording

her a tie-breaking nod for today’s last quarter-fi nal posi-tion.

Others scoring 18 points who were eliminated were British Columbia skip Kelly Scott, Nova Scotia second Sheena Gilman,

New Brunswick lead Lianne Sobey, Newfoundland sec-ond Rhonda Rogers, Alberta skip Valerie Sweeting and Team Canada second Jill

Offi cer, the winner two years ago.

The only two-time winner in the history of the event was Kelley Law of Vancou-ver, the B.C. runner-up this year and 2002 Canadian Olympic skip.

Other previous winners:Yukon/NWT’s Kelli

Turpin, British Columbia’s Sherry Fraser and Kristy Lewis, Alberta’s Marcy Balderston, Saskatchewan’s Kay Montgomery, Manito-ba’s Gerri Cooke, Ontario’s

Andrea Lawes and Jenn Hanna, New Brunswick’s Allison (Franey) Farrell, Prince Edward Island’s Suzanne (Gaudet) Birt, Nova Scotia’s Colleen Jones and last year’s winner and current Olympic skip Cheryl Bernard of Calgary.

Meanwhile, for the second consecutive year, Ford and the Canadian Curling As-sociation has launched an interactive on-line version of the Hot Shots skills com-petition.

Curling fans will have a chance to win a two-year lease on a 2010 Ford Taurus SE, an autographed Team Canada curling jacket, full event VIP passes to the 2011 Tim Hortons Brier in London,Ont., Nintendo Wii and gift certifi cates to the Online Store of the Cana-dian Curling Association’s Season of Champions.

The Ford on-line game culminated last year with a one-game playoff at the Ford World men’s curling

championship at Moncton after approximately 27,000 participants had played a total of over 1.6 million games.

Dan Sherrard of Ed-monton was the inaugural winner.

Similarly, once the current contest closes on March 14, two fi nalists will be fl own to Swift Current, Sask., site of the 2010 Ford World women’s championship, March 20-28, for a one game playoff.

Askin ablaze after first roundManitoba skipJill Thurstonof Winnipegsits secondafter Friday’sinauguralround of theFord Hot Shotscompetitionat the EssarCentre.Thurston has22 points,three backof Team Canadalead DawnAskin. Thepre-Scottiesevent wrapsup todayat 1:15 p.m.

Dawn Askin

Saturday, January 30, 2010

ROAD TO THE SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS


It was deja vu all over again at the Liverpool Curling Club when

Nancy McConnery and Mary-Anne Arsenault squared off for the Nova Scotia Scotties title.

A year ago, with a far more experienced squad, the veteran fi ve-time Scot-ties champion Arsenault of Halifax went into the game as a heavy favourite and admitted later “it was the worst game I ever remem-ber playing in my life.”

Needless to say, McCon-nery and her Dartmouth team of Jennifer Crouse, Sheena Gilman and Jill Thomas was the eventual winner.

This time around, Arse-nault was directing a team of relative rookies while McConnery was back with the same lineup that struggled to a 2-9 record at the Tournament of Hearts at Victoria last year. And once again Arsenault gassed it.

Qualifying directly to the fi nal from the eight-team round robin which she led with a 5-2 record — actu-ally tied with McConnery but No. 1 on account of an 8-4 Round-Six victory — Arsenault opened with three points on the fi rst two ends.

But the favourite then was blanked over the next fi ve as McConnery scored once in the third, stole one in the fi fth after a blank fourth and stole a go-ahead two in the seventh after a blank sixth.

In the fi fth, Arsenault could have locked things up with a three-ender but her last rock wrecked on a guard. In the

seventh, an Arsenault stone picked up debris, a incidence of misfortune which contrib-uted to the game’s turning-point theft.

Arsenault chose to take a tying point rather than blank the eighth but McConnery blanked the ninth and then didn’t need the hammer in the 10th when Arsenault failed to reach a counting position looking at two with her last shot. It ended 5-4.

From a provincial stand-point, the McConnery repeat is the fi rst in Bluenose coun-try since Colleen Jones won back-to-back Nova Scotia titles in 1996 and 1997.

Arsenault’s new batting order of Marie Christianson, Jennifer Baxter and Kelly

MacIntosh was formed with a four-year view toward the 2014 Olympics. Arsenault failed to qualify for last year’s trials. But MacIntosh was retained by the McCon-nery squad as fi fth player for the Soo Scotties.

McConnery doubled CFB Halifax’s Sarah Rhyno 8-4 in the semi-fi nal. Rhyno fi nished tied at 4-3 with Jill Mouzar of Halifax Mayfl ow-er and eliminated that former provincial champion 10-2 in a tiebreaker with a theft of fi ve in the eighth end.

The semi was deadlocked after seven frames but Mc-Connery hit for her second three-ender of the argument in the eighth end and stole another digit in the ninth.

McConnery won seven of nine games while Arse-nault was 5-3, Rhyno 5-4 and Mouzar 4-4. Finish-ing at 3-4 were Jocelyn Nix of Kentville, Margaret Cutcliffe of Halifax and defending national senior champion Colleen Pinkney of Truro. Tanya Hilliard of Halifax won once in seven assignments.

McConnery gangserves up

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O’Rourke, Affleckshuffle the deck

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Nancy McConnery: Back-to-back Scotties.Larry WoodHeartChart Editor

One thing you can count on when it concerns Prince

Edward Island teams at the Scotties. There’s always something new about the curling combination.

Known as the province that changes batting orders more often than the Blue Jays, the Island produced another new-found combo for the current Scotties when Charlottetown veter-ans Kathy O’Rourke and Trisha Affl eck sandwiched junior grads Geri-Lynn Ramsay and Eric Carmody between them and charged through the seven-team triple knockout provincial championship at Montague with a 7-1 record.

Something else about this team, too. O’Rourke skips but throws second rocks. Carmody, Island junior champion skip the past three years, plays second but throws last boulders. Ramsay, Carmody’s long-time cohort, throws third rocks while Affl eck man-

ages the lead position she has handled in fi ve previ-ous Scotties renewals.

O’Rourke stopped Mon-tague’s Tammy Dewar 8-6 in a sudden-death playoff that was decided in the 10th end with a stolen deuce.

Dewar singled in the fi rst end but O’Rourke, after a blank second, took three in the third. Following a swap of singles, Dewar respond-ed with a go-ahead trio in the sixth. Singles with last rock then proved the order of fare until O’Rourke had it tied playing the fi nal end with Dewar in possession of the hammer. The Mon-tague skip needed a draw to the button with the last rock but her stone over-curled leaving O’Rourke the monumental theft.

O’Rourke won the A and C sections of the draw

while Dewar won four straight for the B berth in the playoffs. Had Dewar won an extra section, she also would have earned an extra life in the playoffs.

In the A grouping, O’Rourke powered past Donna Butler of Cornwall 8-4, defending champion Rebecca-Jean MacPhee of Charlottetown 10-4 and Lisa Jackson of Charlottetown 9-5. In B, Dewar dropped former champion Suzanne Birt of Charlottetown 8-7, MacPhee 7-6, Jackson 9-8 and O’Rourke 6-3.

O’Rourke rebounded in C to sideline Birt 8-7 with a last-end theft and Butler 7-5. Dewar earlier had lost to Butler 7-4 in the C semis.

Shelly Bradley, who played third for Birt, will be the P.E.I. fi fth player at Sault Ste. Marie. Bradley has skipped at three previ-ous Scotties (1994, 2000, 2001) and threw fourth stone for MacPhee in 2005.

Behind O’Rourke at 7-1, Dewar fi nished 4-3, Butler 3-3, Jackson and Birt 2-3, and Shirley Berry of Corn-wall 1-3; MacPhee, a pre-tourney fave, was eliminated with three straight defeats.

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Another major compinent of the Sault’s successful bid was the planned location in the city’s new downtown entertainment centre with a capacity of almost four thousand.

“When CCA offi cials did a walk-through of the Essar Centre they said it was a perfect location for the Scotties,” says Randa. “And the players who have arrived here for the event agree this is a phenomenal site for the Scotties.”

Randa admits to having butterfl ies in her stomach leading up to the opening ceremonies and the fi rst draw in the competition, but feels confi dent her commit-tee and hundreds of volun-teers have done a great job.

“Our committee just seemed to jell so well. We had lots of humour at our meetings and no internal confl ict. When that happens you see the results which will be a great 2010 Scot-ties,” she says.

And it’s that advice that the Sault committee will be

passing on to their counter-parts from Charlottetown who are here to observe and learn from the Sault event.

At the conclusion of the Scotties, volunteer work crews will begin the daunt-ing task of dismantling at the Essar Centre so the OHL’s Sault Greyhounds can return to the ice, and lo-cal curlers can resume their league schedules.

And Randa, who has put in hundreds of hours as the lead organizer, said she plans to “really retire” after the Scotties and spend a month in the sunshine in Florida, far from the cold of the curling rink.

Sault Ste. Marie has a long history of hosting major curling events since 1978. This is the fi fth national event for the city including the 1990 Brier, the Canadian men’s curling championship, and the 2008 Canadian junior curling championship.

Profi t from the 2010 Scot-ties is shared with the CCA. The Sault’s portion of the profi t is in turn shared with the two local curling clubs and some district curling venues.

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2010 Scotties tourney chair Sandra Randa is ready for a great week.

Three teams fi nished with 3-4 records — skipped by Jessica Ronalds and 2008 champion Sylvie Robichaud of Moncton and Frederic-ton’s Mary Jane McGuire who lost the 2009 fi nal to Kelly. Veteran 11-time pro-vincial champ Heidi Hanlon of Saint John was 2-5; Sha-ron Levesque of Fredericton fi nished 1-6.

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2. Name the first win-ner of the Ford Hotshots competition connected to the Scott Tournament of Hearts, also her home province.3. Did she skip in that Scott championship? If not, which position did she play and for whom?4. Name the curler she defeated in the Hotshots final, and that curler’s home province.5. Shannon Aleksic, the current B.C. fifth player, last played for B.C. in the

Scotties at which position for which skip in which year?6. She also played for a Scotties contender from another province. Which one, who was the skip, what was Shannon’s posi-tion and in what year?

7. Who was the desig-nated fifth player for that team at the Scotties?8. In 1991, a provincial junior champion team at the Nationals included three current Scotties skips. That team was from which province and who were the three skips and their positions on that junior team?

9. Where did that team finish at the Junior Nation-als?10. Krista McCarville recently won the won the Ontario provincial round-robin segment for the sec-ond straight year. Name the skips she defeated this year and last year in the finals.11. Count back six Quebec championships and current vice-skip Brenda Nicholls played which position on the 2005 Quebec champ? Who else played on that team.12. In how many Scott Tournament of Hearts renewals were Colleen Jones and Kay Zinck teammates?13. During the five tourna-ments in which Colleen Jones won national titles, she lost less than three games only once. That year was . . .?14. Can you name her conquerors (skips) in that tournament?

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Veteran Kathy O’Rourke of Charlottetown will skip the P.E.I. entry but throws second rocks. Junior grads Erin Carmody and Gery-Lynn Ramsay play the back end.

Manitoba’s Jill Thurston is a relative veteran with a young Winnipeg team of rookies.

The same applies to Sha-ron Cormier’s Polar bunch from Yellowknife. Cormier has played in fi fth previous Scotties but will be on the teehead for the fi rst time in this fracas.

Meanwhile, the spectre of that strange week at the Trials will hang over the early going at the Essar Centre. And Cheryl Ber-nard’s Olympic entry will be in town throwing rocks on Friday.

“I don’t know if you ever get over something like that,” said Jones of her stunning 2-5 showing. “But you grow from it. We were incredibly disappointed but six other teams left disap-pointed, too.

“It’s the nature of the game. If there was a guar-antee in sport you wouldn’t want to play. The fact you can go out there and on any given day you can be beaten is why sport is so exciting.

It gives you goosebumps. I wouldn’t change that.

“We knew all along that we had the Scotties to play for and we’ve been excited about that. The Trials are the past and we have to look forward to the future.

“We just carried on. We didn’t try to analyze the whys of it. We had Christ-mas right after it so we had a little break. Then we went to Switzerland and had some fun. We’ve curled together for a long time and we’ve had our share of big losses before, we’ve lost the Canadian fi nal before, and you can analyze something until you’re blue in the face but at the end of the day sometimes it just does not work out. We’ve had suc-cess. We know we can have success.

“The Trials is one event. If you let it weigh you down you might as well stop play-ing. You can’t continue to

play if you’re not enjoying it. So we went over to Berne and played a ton of games — 10 in three days — against high-calibre teams and that’s a great way to get all the disappointment out of your system.”

And Jones won that tournament, too. The fi eld included most of the top Olympic contenders.

“You can’t band-aid some-thing and we aren’t looking to fi x anything or how we felt inside,” she said.

“We’re just looking to go out there and do our thing. Our team has a great perspective on that. You can’t change what happened the game before or the event before, you can only look forward.

“The past is history and history is good but you can’t live your life in the past. If you do you’re always going to doubt yourself and that’s not how I want to live. And that’s not how we play the game.”

Jennifer Jones, by the way, is bound for the Olym-pics next month in any case.

“Yeah,” she said. “I’m go-ing to the dark (media) side for the fi rst time.”

She’ll be blogging on the web for Yahoo throughout the Games.

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Saturday

Draw 1 (3 p.m.)P.E.I vs. SaskatchewanTerritories vs. Newfoundland/LabradorNew Brunswick vs. OntarioQuebec vs. Nova Scotia

Draw 2 (7:30 p.m.)Nova Scotia vs. TerritoriesManitoba vs. Team CanadaSheet C British Columbia vs. AlbertaSheet D New Brunswick vs. P.E.I.

Sunday

Draw 3 (10:30 a.m.)Team Canada vs. New Bruns-wickP.E.I. vs. AlbertaNova Scotia vs. ManitobaTerritories vs. British Columbia

Draw 4 (3 p.m.)Manitoba vs. Newfoundland/LabradorQuebec vs. British ColumbiaTeam Canada vs. Saskatch-ewanOntario vs. Alberta

Draw 5 (7:30 p.m.)Ontario vs. QuebecNew Brunswick vs. Nova ScotiaP.E.I. vs. TerritoriesNewfoundland/Labrador vs. Saskatchewan

Monday

Draw 6 (10:30 a.m.)Saskatchewan vs. OntarioQuebec vs. Newfoundland/Labrador

Draw 7 (3 p.m.)British Columbia vs. New BrunswickTeam Canada vs. Territories

Alberta vs. Nova ScotiaManitoba vs. P.E.I.

Draw 8 (7:30 p.m.) Newfoundland/Labrador vs. Team Canada Alberta vs. Quebec Saskatchewan vs. Manitoba British Columbia vs. Ontario

Tuesday

Draw 9 (10:30 a.m.)P.E.I. vs. Nova ScotiaBritish Columbia vs. ManitobaTerritories vs. New BrunswickAlberta vs. Team Canada

Draw 10 (3 p.m.)Alberta vs. ManitobaOntario vs. Newfoundland/LabradorBritish Columbia vs. Team CanadaQuebec vs. Saskatchewan

Draw 11 (7:30 p.m.)Quebec vs. TerritoriesNew Brunswick vs. Saskatch-ewanOntario vs. P.E.I.Nova Scotia vs. Nfl d/Labrador

Wednesday

Draw 12 (10:30 a.m.)Saskatchewan vs. British ColumbiaQuebec vs. Team CanadaNewfoundland/Labrador vs. AlbertaOntario vs. Manitoba

Draw 13 (2 p.m.)New Brunswick vs. Newfound-land/LabradorTerritories vs. OntarioNova Scotia vs. SaskatchewanP.E.I. vs. Quebec

Draw 14 (6:30 p.m.)Team Canada vs. P.E.I.

Nova Scotia vs. British Colum-biaManitoba vs. TerritoriesAlberta vs. New Brunswick

Thursday

Draw 15 (10:30 a.m.)Nova Scotia vs. OntarioNewfoundland/Labrador vs. P.E.I.New Brunswick vs. QuebecSaskatchewan vs. Territories

Draw 16 (3 p.m.)Territories vs. AlbertaManitoba vs. New BrunswickP.E.I. vs. British ColumbiaTeam Canada vs. Nova Scotia

Draw 17 (7:30 p.m.)Manitoba vs. QuebecSaskatchewan vs. AlbertaTeam Canada vs. OntarioNewfoundland/Labrador vs. B.C.

Friday

9 a.m.Tiebreaker (only if two or three tiebreakers are required)

(3 p.m.)Tiebreaker (only if one, two or three tiebreakers are required)

7:30 p.m.Page One-Two playoff

7:30 p.m.Tiebreaker (only if three tie-breakers are required).

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1 p.m.Page Three-Four playoff

7 p.m.Championship semifi nal

Sunday, Feb. 72:30 p.m.

Championship fi nal

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ROAD TO THE SCOTTIES


When rookie Valerie Sweet-ing of Edmonton

engineered a 9-7 extra-end victory over veteran Shan-non Kleibrink of Calgary in the Alberta Scotties fi nal last month at the Calgary Curling Club the immediate aftermath was unreal.

Sweeting and her team of Megan Einarson, Whitney More and Lindsay Ma-kichuk appeared totally stunned with disbelief after the young Vegreville skip executed her fi nal shot, a crisp runback that required some precision on the angle.

“This may sink in later,”

allowed Sweeting, a former Saskatchewan junior cham-pion vice-skip, on cable TV. As it was, everybody in the building appeared to be en-gulfed in a fog of confusion.

The 22-year-old Sweeting rated among the longshots in the 12-team triple-knock-out provincial joust that transpired minus defending champion and Olympic tri-als survivor Cheryl Bernard of Calgary but still involved some big-name shooters.

None of the names seemed to impress Sweet-ing, though. She and her young team survived with a 7-2 record and failed to trail at any point in the fi nal.

Sweeting stole the second end after Kleibrink blanked the fi rst. Kleibrink then

settled for a tying single in the third. The teams then miraculously traded deuces from the third to eighth ends at which point Sweeting continued to lead by a pair.

Kleibrink blanked the ninth end to retain hammer for the 10th and seemed to have a winning three-spot locked up there but her last stone was slightly off target

on an open hit at the back of the rings and nipped out one of her own rocks as well as Sweeting’s counter.

That left Sweeting with the hammer in overtime and she called and executed her precise last shot to score a winning deuce.

Sweeting was overlooked almost immediately when she was clobbered 12-3 by Leslie Rogers of Calgary in the opening round of play. But the young team with homes in Vegreville (Sweet-ing), Edmonton (Einarson), Red Deer (More) and Lloydminster (Makichuk) rebounded to upend former champion Renee Sonnen-berg of Grande Prairie 8-6 and Calgary’s Crystal Web-ster 7-5 before dropping to

the last-chance C grouping following an 11-2 pummel-ling from veteran Cathy King of Edmonton.

No matter. Sweeting rebounded for fi ve straight wins — 9-1 over Tiffany Odegard of Edmonton, 6-3 over Sonnenberg, 9-7 over Rogers for the C berth in the semi, 8-3 over B winner King and the fi nal decision against previously undefeat-ed A winner Kleibrink who had earlier shaded King 5-4 in the A-B playoff.

In the semi, Sweeting trailed 1-0 after fi ve but scored a sixth-end deuce, stole three in the seventh and a single in the eighth.

Kleibrink had stolen the 10th to edge Rogers 5-4 in the A quarter-fi nals, then

knocked off King 10-8 and Heather Nedohin of Edmon-ton 8-5 to win the initial fl ight. Hence, the favourite was 4-0 heading into the fi nal while Sweeting was 6-2, having played twice as many games in the poorly-conceived provincial format.

At the fi nish, Sweeting was 7-2, Kleibrink 4-1, King 4-3 and Rogers, who joins Sweeting as fi fth player for the Scotties, 5-3.

Trailing were Sonnen-berg and Webster with 3-3 records, former champs Nedohin and Jodi Busche of Dawson Creek at 2-3, Ode-gard, Megan Kirk of Leth-bridge and Delia DeJong of Edmonton at 1-3. Brenda Doroshuk of Edmonton was winless in three starts.

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As they say on The Rock, it was time.

Time, that is, for a change of face in the provincial women’s curling throne room after fi ve straight years of teams skipped by Heather Strong and a dozen years of con-tenders handled by either Strong or Cathy Cunning-ham or both.

The outsider, decid-edly younger, was Shelley Nichols and her Remax St. John’s club team of Stepha-nie LeDrew, Rhonda Rogers and Colette Lemon, the eventual champion. Nichols, carrying a smattering of expe-rience after playing third for Strong at the 2006 and 2007 Scotties, needed everything in her shotmaking arsenal as she

stole the winning point from Strong in an extra-end, sud-den-death, 9-8 gut-clencher to decide the overland junket to the Soo Scotties.

The eventual champs earned an extra playoff life with an undefeated record throughout the six-team round robin tournament at the home club. So when the veteran Strong dispensed with former national junior champion Sta-cie Devereaux of St. John’s 10-3 in the semi-fi nal, she was faced with twice defeat-ing Nichols.

It was a new role for Strong who, in most other years, had been sitting in that catbird seat with an extra life in the fi nal.

Having lost to both Nich-ols and Devereaux during the round robin, Strong launched her comeback bid by stealing the margin of difference in a 6-3 victory

over Nichols that forced a second and deciding scuffl e. And that was a classic.

Nichols stole a third-end deuce for a 3-1 lead when Strong was short on a draw.

But Strong bounced right back with a tying deuce in the fourth. Nichols cracked a three-ender in the fi fth but Strong grimly answered with two in the sixth and a steal of one in the seventh to square matters again.

Nichols regained a single-

point lead in the eighth with a draw to the four-foot. But Strong took the lead for the fi rst time since the opening end with a draw to count two in the ninth.

In the 10th end, Nichols could have attempted a wide-angle raise-double take-out for the win with her last rock but opted to play a hit through a port (against two) to tie the score.

And that set up the 11th where Nichols stashed a counter behind a series of guards and Strong was left with an in-turn 12-foot raise for the decision. Her rock failed to curl suffi ciently for the connection.

Team Nichols — Michelle Jewer is the fi fth player — will be a favourite at the Scot-ties, trotting out pink-coloured brushes to create awareness for breast cancer. Second player Rogers is a cancer

Newcomer Nichols is money in the bank

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survivor who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002. Following surgery, chemo-therapy and radiation therapy was successful and Rogers has been cancer-free since.

Nichols fi nished with a

6-1 record to Strong’s 5-3 in the all-St. John’s competi-tion. Devereaux was 4-2, veteran former champion Laura Phillips was 2-3, Cindy Miller was 1-4 and Susan Hannan was 0-5.

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Rolling into Sault Ste. Marie and target-ting a third straight

national women’s curling championship at the Scot-ties, skip Jennifer Jones isn’t fazed by being thrust into the obvious role of fa-vourite, never mind coming off a major disappointment at last month’s Olympic Trials in Edmonton.

“I think it’s a honour to be made a favourite in any com-petition,” Jones was saying Friday following an Essar Centre practice session.

“It’s an honour to be placed in such a great category. But, you what? I think it’s a honour just to be playing in something like

this. Every year you come out and get that same rush you got the fi rst time. That’s never changed and whether you’re a favourite or an underdog doesn’t really matter.”

Jones heads a quartet of unsuccessful teams from the Trials that form one-third of the Scotties fi eld. Former champion Kelly Scott of Kelowna also experi-enced a poor performance at Edmonton.

On the other side of the coin, Thunder Bay’s Krista McCarville and Amber Hol-land of Kronau, Sask., are

riding waves of high con-fi dence after credible showings at the Trials followed by powerhouse

runs in their respective pro-vincial championships.

But Jones and her Winni-peg team of Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Offi cer and Dawn Askin remains the fa-vourite in anybody’s book. Overton-Clapham, the most experienced player at Essar,

begins her 11th Scotties trek today.

“There’s absolutely no pressure attached to it,” said Jones of the unlimited expectations heaped on her team, “I’d just rather be

here. I love to play, and obvi-ously we’re playing to win, but it’s the experience that makes it. We’re not scared to be out there, we’re excited to be out there. You can’t look at it as a pres-sure situation.

“We know we didn’t perform well at the Trials, hopefully we’ll perform well here.”

Jones agreed the Trials experience might be some-thing of an advantage for those who participated.

“Those teams are defi -nitely more experienced,” she said. “But I think it’s tremendous for curling to have a group of new young teams and it means the sport is evolving. The young team coming out of a tough province like Alberta beat some tough teams and that’s exciting for the future of the game. I think you’re going to have a youthful energy out there that will be great for the fans.

“Obviously they know our names but they’re going to hear about all these other people in the future.”

Names, of course, sell tickets at an event like that Scotties.

“It helps to have some ‘name’ teams but I think you need a little mix,” Jones said.

“I mean, look at (Jason) Gunnlaugson in the men’s Trials. He became a fan fa-vourite and he made a name for himself there. It’s great that these young teams are

getting their start. Some of these are teams people will be talking about down the road. They’ll be the “name” teams.

The Alberta unit, out of Edmonton, is skipped by 22-year-old lefthander Val-erie Sweeting of Vegreville.

She leapfrogged former provincial champion and Trials fi nalist Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary, Trials contender Crystal Webster of Calgary and four other provincial champions — Cathy King, Renee Sonnen-

berg, Heather Nedohin and Jodi Busche.

Another rookie skip in the lists is Shelley Nichols of St. John’s.

Dartmouth’s Nancy Mc-Connery is back for the fi fth time, Fredericton’s youthful Andrea Kelly returns for the third time and Quebec’s Eve Belisle of Montreal is back for a second crack at the title.

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Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones and her teammates have moved on from theirsurprising 2-5 showing at the Olympic Trials in Edmonton back in December.

“It’s an honour just to be playing in something like this. Every year you come out and get that same rush you got the first time.”

Two-time defending Scottieschampion Jennifer Jones

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a trip to the Soo



Former Canadian junior champion Andrea Kelly of Fredericton

will be returning for her second straight national women’s championship at Sault Ste. Marie following a eight-game unbeaten sweep of the New Brunswick Scotties at the Saint John Thistle-St Andrews Curling Club.

The rangy Kelly just wasn’t to be denied in the eight-team round-robin affair but needed to tighten it up at the fi nish in order to scrape past Ashley Howard, also of Fredericton, 8-7 in the championship fi nal.

Howard, daughter of legendary Brier shooter Russ Howard of Moncton, completed the round robin in third place with a 4-3 record before upending for-mer world junior champion Melissa Adams of Grand Falls 6-5 in the semi-fi nal. Adams was a 5-2 fi nisher in

the round robin.Kelly nudged Adams 4-3

in the opening round and the pairing appeared ideal for a fi nal rematch but Howard, just one year out of the junior ranks, threw a wrench into those plans.

Kelly broke open a tie with two in the fourth and a stolen trio in the fi fth end for a 6-1 lead in the fi nal.

But Howard wasn’t done. Trailing 8-2 after seven frames, Howard took one in the eighth and stole back-to-back deuces in the ninth and 10th ends to fall one point short of forcing the affair into overtime.

Kelly’s outfi t includes returnees Denise Nowlan at third and Lianne Sobey at lead. Rookie second Jillian Babin played a year ago on Howard’s junior team.

Howard employed the hammer to eliminate Adams, drawing a narrow port with the last rock of the semi-fi nal for the decision.

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After two yearsof planning,

Scotties rockfestis ready to roll

Sandra Randa looks out over the four glisten-ing sheets of curling

ice at the Essar Centre with pride, satisfaction . . . and just a bit of relief.

After 24 months of plan-ning, recruiting, organiz-ing and fi nally execution, Randa, chair of the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Sault Ste. Marie, and her 450 volunteers are about to witness the fruits of their labour as the fi rst curling rocks slide down the sheets, accompanied by the

shouts of “hurry hard!”Randa, a retired human

resources professional who has been involved with curl-ing for more than 40 years, readily admits there have been many sleepless nights, bouts of anxiety and missed meals through the almost two-year process leading up to today’s Scotties opening ceremonies and fi rst draw, but it has all been worth it.

“The meetings are done, the planning is done, we are ready, so let’s roll,” says the enthusiastic chair.

To host the Scotties, Sault Ste. Marie entered a bidding process that began back in 2004. The goal was to convince the Canadian Curling Association that our city had the resources, volunteers and community support and enthusiasm to host this national event. The Sault was up against some tough competition from Charlottetown, which will be hosting the 2011 Scot-ties.

In July 2008 came the exciting news that Sault Ste. Marie would host the 2010 event. The local committee immediately began the task of recruiting an army of volunteers who would be re-sponsible for a multitude of jobs ranging from personal drivers for the curling teams to construction crews who would turn the Soo Curl-ers rink into the HeartStop entertainment centre.

And not all of the volun-teers are regular curlers, says Randa. “Probably 30 per cent of the volunteers don’t curl, but were excited to be involved in this na-tional event,” she says.

Randa said the Sault has a phenomenal record of vol-unteer support which was an important factor in the Canadian Curling Associa-tion’s decision to give the Scotties to this city.

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SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS: THE PLAYING FIELD

AlbertaSaville Sports Centre

(Edmonton)

Experience factor: 0Skip: Valerie Sweeting (22-0)Third: Megan Einarson (23-0)Second: Whitney More (21-0Lead: Lindsay Makichuk (21-0)Alternate: Leslie Rogers (29-0)Coach: Carmen EinarsonRunner-up: Shannon Kleibrink, CalgaryLast year’s record: Cheryl Bernard, Calgary, 6-5, finished seventh

OntarioFort William CurlingClub (Thunder Bay)

Experience factor: 8Skip: Krista McCarville (27-3)Third: Tara George (36-3)Second: Ashley Miharija (23-1).Lead: Kari MacLean(32-1)Alternate: Sarah Lang (20-0).Coach: Rick LangRunner-up: Tracy Horgan, SudburyLast year’s record: Krista McCarville, Thunder Bay, 6-5, finished sixth

P.E.I.Charlottetown CurlingClub (Charlottetown)

Experience factor: 10Skip (second stones): Kathy O’Rourke (45-5)Third: Geri-Lynn Ramsay (21-0)Second (fourth stones): Erin Carmody (21-0)Lead: Tricia Affleck (39-5)Alternate: Shelly Bradley (47-5)Coach: Allan LedgerwoodRunner-up: Tammy Dewar, MontagueLast year’s record: Rebecca-Jean MacPhee, Charlottetown, 7-5,finished fifth

Quebec(Montreal, Ste-Foy,and St-Romuald)

Experience factor: 8Skip: Eve Belisle (30-1)Third: Brenda Nicholls (37-4)Second: Martine Comeau (30-1)Lead: Julie Rainville (37-2)Alternate: France Cha-rette (52-5)Coach: Bill TschirhartRunner-up: Marie-France Larouche, St-RomualdLast year’s record:Marie-France Larouche, 7-6, finished third

SaskatchewanKronau Curling Club

(Kronau)

Experience factor: 2Skip: Amber Holland(35-2)Third: Kim Schneider(25-0)Second: TammySchneider (27-0)Lead: Heather Kalenchuk (25-0)Alternate: JoleneCampbell (28-0)Coach: Merv FongerRunner-up: SherryAnderson, SaskatoonLast year’s record:Stefanie Lawton,Saskatoon, 7-5, finished fourth

TerritoriesYellowknife CurlingClub (Yellowknife)

Experience factor: 7Skip: Sharon Cormier (45-6)Third: Tara Naugler (32-1)Second: Megan Cormier (20-0)Lead: Danielle Ellis (28-0)Alternate: Dawn Moses (40-10)Coach: Brian KellnRunner-up: Leslie Grant, WhitehorseLast year’s record: Kerry Galusha, Yellowknife, 4-7, finished 10th

CanadaSt. Vital CurlingClub (Winnipeg)

Experience factor: 23Skip: Jennifer Jones(35-5)Third: Cathy Overton-Clapham (40-10)Second: Jill Officer (34-5)Lead: Dawn Askin (29-3)Alternate: Jennifer Clark-Rouire (34-2)Coach: Janet ArnottRunner-up: Marla Mallett, VancouverLast year’s record:Jennifer Jones, Winnipeg, 11-4, finished first

B.C.Kelowna Curling Club

(Kelowna)

Experience factor: 12Skip: Kelly Scott (32-4)Third: Jeanna Schraeder (33-3)Second: Sasha Carter (35-4)Lead: Jacquie Armstrong (33-1)Alternate: Shannon Alek-sic (33-2)Coach: Gerry RichardRunner-up: Kelley Law, VancouverLast year’s record: Marla Mallett, Vancouver, 9-4, finished second

ManitobaDeer Lodge Curling

Club (Winnipeg)

Experience factor: 4Skip: Jill Thurston (38-3)Third: Kristen Phillips(28-1)Second: Leslie Wilson (30-0)Lead: Raunora Westcott (33-0)Alternate: Kendra Georges (27-0)Coach: Ron WestcottRunner-up: Janet Harvey, WinnipegLast year’s record: Barb Spencer, Winnipeg, 2-9, finished 12th

NewBrunswick

Capital Winter CurlingClub (Fredericton)

Experience factor: 6Skip: Andrea Kelly (24-2)Third: Denise Nowlan (38-3)Second: Jillian Babin(20-0)Lead: Lianne Sobey (25-1)Alternate: Jodie deSolla (24-2).Coach: Daryell NowlanRunner-up: AshleyHoward, FrederictonLast year’s record: Andrea Kelly, Fredericton, 5-6, finished eighth

Nfld/LabradorRe/Max Centre

(St. John’s)

Experience factor: 2Skip: Shelley Nichols(27-2)Third: Stephanie LeDrew (25-0)Second: Rhonda Rogers (37-0)Lead: Colette Lemon (28-0)Alternate: Michelle Jewer (34-0)Coach: Jeff WilsonRunner-up: Heather Strong, St. John’sLast year’s record: Heather Strong, St. John’s, 5-6, finished ninth

Nova ScotiaDartmouth CurlingClub (Dartmouth)

Experience factor: 7Skip: Nancy McConnery (46-4)Third: Jennifer Crouse (30-1)Second: Sheena Gillman (31-1)Lead: Jill Thomas (34-1)Alternate: Kelly MacIntosh (29-0).Coach: Carole MacLeanRunner-up: Mary-Anne Arsenault, HalifaxLast year’s record: Nancy McConnery, Dart-mouth, 2-9, finished 11th

(player’s age and total Scotties appearances in brackets)


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It’s that time again — to scrutinize the entry form and handicap the fi eld

for the Scotties Tourna-ment of Hearts here at Essar Centre. So, without further ado, here are our fearless predictions . . .

The Front Line1. TEAM CANADA (St.

Vital Curling Club, Winni-peg). Throw out the Olympic Trials result. Jennifer Jones, the Canadian champion two years running, has to be the favourite here.

Odds: 2-to-1

2. ONTARIO (Fort William Curling Club, Thunder Bay). Krista Mc-Carville’s rink must dump its old habit of going sour following a hot provincial run. She’s got a newfound confi dence discovered at the trials.

Odds: 3-to-13. BRITISH COLUM-

BIA (Kelowna Curling Club, Kelowna). Kelly Scott’s bunch is capable of winning it all if they can locate the old touch. They’ll need a massive recovery from disastrous Trials week.

Odds: 7-to-24. SASKATCHEWAN

(Kronau Curling Club, Kronau). It’s a long over-due visit for Amber Hol-land, a former junior champ. Her team has built up a formidable head of steam this season.

Odds: 9-to-2

The Second Wave5. QUEBEC (Town Of

Mount Royal, Etchemin & Victoria Curling Clubs, Montreal, St-Romuald, Ste-Foy). Eve Belisle’s crew turned in poor Trials effort, but this team has shown it can be a handful for anybody if the timing is ripe.

Odds: 6-to-16. MANITOBA (Deer

Lodge Curling Club, Win-nipeg). Jill Thurston, the survivor of this provincial gauntlet, can’t be over-looked, but her team may be short of training for the long haul.

Odds: 7-to-17. NEW BRUNSWICK

(Capital Winter Club, Fredericton). Andrea Kelly, the smooth-shooting former junior champ, is not to be overlooked, but is still likely to be a spoiler at best.

Odds: 8-to-18. NEWFOUNDLAND/

LABRADOR (Re/Max Centre, St. John’s). Youth fi nally prevails on The Rock, but Shelley Nichols’ highly-rated unit surely will need a race.

Odds: 9-to-1

The Longest Shots9. PRINCE EDWARD

ISLAND (Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlotte-town). There’s an accent on

youth from the Island, too, but Kathy O’Rourke’s unit will be in tough repeating last year’s MacPhee record.

Odds: 15-to-110. ALBERTA (Saville

Sports Centre, Edmon-ton). Valerie Sweeting, the young lefthanded skip, scored upsets at home, but a repeat at this level is prob-ably not in the cards.

Odds: 18-to-111. NOVA SCOTIA

(Dartmouth Curling Club, Dartmouth). Nancy Mc-

Connery’s Bluenose entry is back intact from her 2-9 trek a year ago. Her quartet may carry added confi dence this time, but are the shots suddenly there?

Odds: 20-to-112. TERRITORIES

(Yellowknife Curling Club, Yellowknife). Sharon Cormier, the veteran cam-paigner, will upset some-body, but this competition is always tough on the under-trained Polars.

Odds: 25-to-1

SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS: FEARLESS PREDICTIONS

Beware thedefending champs!

Jennifer Jones, Cathy Overton-Clapham and Team Canada are two-timedefending champions at the Scotties. Despite its disappointing result at the Olympic Trials, the Jones rink is the odds-on favourite at the Essar Centre.

your guide to what’s goin’ on

Page 8 The Party Line • Your guide to what’s goin’ on

Over the years, the Season of Champions has experienced overwhelming growth. Hundreds of thousands of fans across the country have been drawn to the game. And, they’ve also discovered that curling comes with an incomparable party atmosphere!

The Party Line is new… and it’s your guide to what’s goin’ on here at the

Scotties. We’ll be bringing it to you every

day to keep you on top of all the festivities at the Soo.

The heart of the party for the “Big Do in the Soo” is the HeartStop

Lounge. All week long it pulsates with excitement as fans, volunteers – and at times, even the competitors – gather for a roaring celebration.

The HeartStop Lounge features a diverse lineup of food and all your favourite beverages. You can dance to the beat of some great entertainers. Plus, the HeartStop MC – Stuart Brown – leads the way with all kinds of crazy competitions and games.

So stay tuned to The Party Line and we’ll keep you in touch with the fun!

Welcome to

Upcoming Acts Sunday, January 31 – The Chevelles • 10:30 pm

Monday, February 1 – DJ Night • 10:30 pm

Tuesday, February 2 – Bone Yard • 10:30 pm

Wednesday, February 3 – College Battle of the Bands • 10:00 pm

Thursday, February 4 – Dirty Little Swing Thing • 10:30 pm

Friday, February 5 – Superfreak Disco Band • 10:30 pm

Saturday, February 6 – Rockstar Live • 10:00 pm

The Chevellesare Revved Up for the HeartStop LoungeHop in for a wild ride back to the live music scene of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s as the Chevelles take the stage tonight at 6:15 pm and again at 10:30 pm.

They rocked the house at the HeartStop on opening night – and if you weren’t there to see it, don’t make the same mistake twice. Get ready for their explosive, dynamic power as they draw on a lengthy songlist of fan favourites.

The band features Buck Chevelle (lead vocals/lead guitar), Kitty Chevelle (lead vocals/bass), Woody Chevelle (lead vocals/rhythm guitar/keyboards) and T.T. Chevelle (vocals/drums/sound tech).

on stage

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Thundering into the Soo!Today – 6:30 pm

At just 27 years of age, Thunder Bay’s Krista McCarville has shaken up Canadian women’s curling in a very short space of time!

It started with three consecutive trips to the M&M Canadian Juniors – 2000 to 2002 - before

moving on to represent Ontario in four out of the past fi ve Scotties Tournament of Hearts. In the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings, the team fought their way through a tie-breaker day to a bronze medal fi nish.

And in this year’s provincial Scotties, McCarville stormed through undefeated.

They’re making more noise than most teams in the country – and they’ll be in the HeartStop Lounge

tonight to answer your questions.

up closeandpersonal

The Lewis family and Maitland Ford Lincoln are proud to be serving this great community for the past 50 years. Starting with an Esso service station in 1959, Maitland Lewis built that fi rst business based on a philosophy of fairness, hard work and

trust. That philosophy carries on today at Maitland Ford Lincoln through Brent Lewis, General Manager and Judith Kovala (Lewis) Operations & Young Drivers Manager. We are extremely excited about what the future holds with Ford and with Sault Ste Marie. Staying connected with our community and the support of those within it, are what make Maitland Ford Lincoln a success. We are proud to be the offi cial vehicle sponsor for the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Good Luck to All!

Homestyle CookingAvailable Daily 11 am – 8 pm

Provided by Rico’s Catering

Daily MenuPasta and Meatballs $6.00Soup and Sandwich $6.00Salads (Garden, Caesar or Greek) $4.00

Today’s SpecialsServed 6 pm - 8 pm

Dinner Feature Cabbage Roll Dinner $10.00Served with Garden Salad

Vegetarian OptionVegetable Stir-Fry – Noodles $8.00

Nightly MenuAvailable Daily 8 pm – 1 am

Provided by Soo Curlers Restaurant

Nacho Chips $5.00Chili & Bread Sticks $5.50Jumbo Hot Dog $4.00Chili Jumbo Dog $4.75Sausage On A Bun $5.00Hamburger $5.00Lemon Pepper Chicken Hoagie $5.00Roast Beef On A Bun $5.50Bbq Beef & Mozzarella On A Bun $5.50Mrs. B’s Pizza By The Slice $2.25Chicken Wings (8) $8.00

HeartStop Lounge Menu

Sponsor of the Day

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Twenty-four young curlers - representing clubs in Sault Ste. Marie and surrounding communities - were selected as Junior Stars through a random draw of applicants. The lucky Stars receive: a hat, event pin, jacket, photo with their assigned team, a tour of the TSN mobile and event tickets to their team’s draw for themselves and two chaperones.

Saturday 7:30 pm feature Stars:

Team Manitoba Jacob Pelletier Marcus Reid

Team Canada Akeshia Trudeau Kayleigh Fisher

Shuttle service is available daily between the Essar Centre and HeartStop Lounge at the Soo Curlers Association. The service is provided by Tim Hortons and the City of Sault Ste. Marie. Shuttles will depart every half hour to both venues. Departure points are the main parking lot near the front entrance of the Essar Centre and front door of the Soo Curlers Association.

Full schedules are posted at both departure points and online at seasonofchampions.ca

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