Youth Curling

Junior and Bantam Curling information will be posted here as it comes available.

Bantam Mixed Results:

The Bantam Mixed Team gained valuable experience at the Bantam mixed Provincials the weekend of March 30th. The team, all rookies at a Provincial event represented the town of Parry Sound and the Parry Sound Curling Club very well. After cruising through the Zone and Regional playdowns, they met up with some experienced competition at the Provincial event, falling short of their goal to become Provincial Champions. However they gained invaluable experience that will help them in their development.
An additional note - Terri Weeks was voted as the Most Sportsmanlike Athlete of the event.
Congratulations to Terri Weeks, Nathan Marshall, Sarah Stoneman and Nick Mayede and to Coach Chris Weeks for a job well done!

The Parry Sound High School Curling Team consisting of Nicole Heikoop (Skip), Ashlyn Simpson (Vice), Allie Kane (Second), Elizabeth Edington
(Lead) and Coaches Rick Graziotto and Stephen Webb travelled to Orangeville Feb 16 to 17th to compete in the Gore Mutual High School
Provincial Curling Championships.
Team Heikoop, which are all grade nine students, won the B flight in their zones in Midland.

They then went to the regionals in Owen Soundand won the B flight there as well.

This gave them the berth into the Gore Mutual Provincial Championship.

During round robin play they went 3-0 and were in first place going into Saturdays semi final match up. The girls needed to beat their fellow zone mates of Patrick Forgarty fom Orillia, who were the A flight champions from both the Zones and Regionals in which the Parry Sound team played in. After a solid game Parry Sound came up a little short and lost their semi final game to the eventual Gore Mutual Provincial Champions - Patrick Fogarty. This moved them to the consolation match up where they unfortunately lost. But more importantly these young girls represented our town, school and club well and with class and ended up in the top four of all high school-aged girls curling team. If they keep up the hard work they can return to try again within the next three years! Good job ladies.

In addition, Nicole Heikoop was named as the second team all star skip.

Congratulations to the girls and their coaches for an incredible run at the Gore championships.

Congratulations to Coach Weeks, Nathan Marshall, Terri Weeks, Cameron Johnson and Nicholas Mayede, the 2010 Timbit Champions.

For photos from the tournament click here - Timbits 2010

Here is a day by day rundown provided by Trudie Johnson of how all of our curlers did in Galt over the March Break.

What happened at the 2010 Timbit’s Bonspiel

Day 1- Mar. 18th

The Galt Curling Club and Galt Golf and Curling Club are hosting this year’s bonspiel. They have provided the curlers with beautiful jackets.

McDougall Team 1 started the day with a big win. They then went on to win a close one in their second game at 7:00 last night.

McDougall Team 2 is a young team. They lost their first two games by knocking their opponent’s rocks in to count. Let’s hope for a better day today in the C event.

McDougall Team 3 took the first four ends of their first game to adjust to the quick ice. They made a comeback in the last two ends, but not quite enough for the win. However, they accumulated an amazing 33 points in the hot shots. We will see if this is enough to win at the opening ceremonies tonight.

Humphrey took a big four ender to start their first game. Unfortunately, the other team fought back to win. They lost their second game and are hoping for a better day tomorrow.

The Beatty team had a really close first game. It came down to the last rock. The other skip wicked and rolled right to the dot to win the game. The girls were tired for their second game and came up short again.

Day 2 at the Timbits - Mar. 19th

Beatty started the day with a game against Fonthill. Fonthill jumped out a 3 point lead. The girls tried a gutsy shot for three points in the second end but ended up giving up one. In the third end skip Ashlyn made an amazing draw to the dot to take a single point. Then I had to leave so I will get back to you on the final score.

Good news on all the other teams.

Both McDougall #2 and Humphrey won their games easily today. They both remain in the “C” event.

McDougall #3 cruised to a substantial win as well. They continue in the “B” event.

In the “A” event it was a nail-biting thriller of a game. Nathan’s team jumped out with a four point lead. Cambridge came back and lead by three points in the forth end. The McDougall team stole three to tie up the game coming home, without the hammer. The Cambridge skip missed his take out in the last end leaving McDougall with four points for the win. They are now in the quarter finals of the “A” event.

A message for Mr. Holmes: The McDougall #3 team of Abbi, Charlotte, Sarah, Emma and Laura won the skills program with 33 points. First out of 60 teams is pretty amazing. That was the highlight of the Opening Ceremonies. Yahooo!

Day 3 at the Timbits - Mar. 27th

Still no word on Beatty so I think they are on their way home.

McDougall #3 had a heart breaking fourth game. Tied up coming home, the win was within their grasp. The skip on the opposing team made a great shot and took two or the win.

McDougall #1 was down two coming home in their fourth game but managed to tie the game and take them to skips rocks. They gave the job to their lead Nick who threw his rock through the house. Fortunately so did the other team. On his second shot, Terri and Cameron swept Nick’s rock to within a foot of the pin. The other team again threw their rock through the house. McDougall #1 is on to the “A” even semi-finals tomorrow morning.

McDougall #2 came up against a three person team who had their aim and weight down to a fine art. With tired arms and disappointed hearts, this young team also headed for home.

Humphrey took 3 points in the first end of their fourth game, and then continued with singles until the last end. There were many rocks in play, but not enough to outscore Humphrey’s six point lead. Humphrey will move on to the semi-finals in the “C” event.

Good luck to the two remaining Parry Sound teams in their final day of play.

They won, they won!
The McDougall team of Nathan Marshall, Terri Weeks, Cameron Johnson and Nicholas Mayede coached by Chris Weeks have won the Timbit's Provincial 2010 Bonspiel.
Yay!

On February 11, 2010 the Parry Sound High School boys curling team travelled to Bracebridge to compete in the MPS championships. The boys would play in a 3 game round robin to determine the winner.

The first game the boys played BMLSS (Bracebridge). The boys got off to a great start scoring three points in the first end. They dominated the game and won with a score of 9-3. The second game against St. Dominic's Catholic Secondary School was a bit tighter in the first four ends. The boys were leading 5 to 2. In the fifth end the Parry Sound boys found their draw weight and scored 6 points. They won the game 13-3.

The final game was against Gravenhurst. Each team had won their first two games and the winner would be the MPS Champions. The teams were evenly matched and the ends went back and forth. In the seventh end Gravenhurst scored one point and they were all tied up and Parry Sound had last rock coming home. Skip Cory Pepper had to draw to the four foot to win the game. Vice Luke Milligan calling the line, and Alex Tudhope and Chris Edington sweeping and judging the weight the team made the shot by an inch to win. The boys will be travelling to Penetanguishene in early March to compete at GBSSA.

Here is a great link for interested Junior and Bantam curlers, coaches and parents.

This has lots of good information about the sport of curling and has some worksheets to check what you learn. Download it for free and try it out! (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.)