Curlers out and about

The Morrisburg Curling Club’s athletes are ending the season in a flurry of bonspiels. 

Our women have been especially active, although in some cases they took men along with them. On Wednesday, Alice Thompson, Penny Davidson, Linda Murphy and Nelda Hickman travelled to Alexandria where they defeated a foursome from Ormestown in the morning. After a fine lunch, they went out and did the same to a Cornwall quartet. With the scores computed, our ladies were declared the overall champions, and got their names in Alexandria’s local paper.

Thursday saw three of our teams in Winchester’s Grandmothers’ Bonspiel. Alice Thompson, Betty Locke, Sharon Van Allen and Janie Connelly played matches against Russell and Navy, while Ruth Kelly, Joan McKinnon, Penny Charlebois and Nelda Hickman played Navy in the morning, and after lunch did battle with an R. A. team. 

Susan McIntosh, Kathy Norg, Joanne Baker and Claire Locke defeated a Carleton Heights foursome in the morning, and gave the same treatment to an R.A. team from Ottawa in the afternoon. After the evening banquet, the overall winners for the 12-team competition were declared, and Susan’s team took home the championship prizes.

Then on Friday our local ladies took some men along with them to Kemptville’s 2-2-2 Bonspiel. Keith Robinson, Kathy Hardy, Rick MacKenzie and Marie Fawcett dropped their morning match to the eventual champions of the competition, led by Lynne Stacey from Navan. Our other team, Dave King, Ruth Kelly, Bert Smail and Joan McKinnon lost their morning match 7-5 to a foursome from Huntley and came back in the p.m. to defeat Metcalfe 12-2, finishing third overall.

Our Thursday morning mixed curlers have their season wind-up and banquet this week and our senior men have one last Friendly bonspiel in Winchester. We’ll have those results next time.

On Monday, March 23, Lynn Kreviazuk, long-time lead for Rachel Homan, and multi-bonspiel and competitive champion, visited our local elementary schools in the daytime to work with Grades 4, 5 and 6 with the “Rocks and Rings” program. Our curling club made the arrangements for the visit to help ensure the success of our sport in South Dundas. 

The Little Rocks program has been growing in recent years, and we hope to see it expand to form bantam and junior leagues. 

Lynn is a former Ontario Bantam Champion, Ontario Winter Games Gold Medalist, Provincial and Canadian Champion and World Junior Champion, to name but a few. She also dropped by the club to speak on the CCA’s “Getting Started for Adults” program, aimed at potential members of curling clubs, and speak on curling aids for adults. Monday’s events were a wonderful opportunity in our schools and at our club. 

Finally, the closing bonspiel will be Saturday, March 28, and that evening will end with a roast beef banquet. For the entertainment of those present, the club championship, the Thursday night final, will be on, and two teams from the ladies and from the senior men will also compete. 

See you there.

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CORNWALL & DISTRICT–Plans for local 55 plus winter games are under way, as the district prepares to send a team to the Ontario 55 plus Winter Games in Huntsville, February 26-28.

The local games will kick off with prediction skating, scheduled for Monday, November 12 and Friday, November 16 at the Benson Centre in Cornwall. Convener is Robert Peladeau (613-931-1641).

Glengarry Curling Club in Maxville will host a qualifying mixed bonspiel. The Stuart McKay rink from that club is the Ontario 55 plus Winter Games champions from 2011 in Haliburton. 

Dates are being finalized and information will be sent soon to local curling clubs.

Other qualifying events which will take place in the next couple of months are duplicate bridge and hockey, which has two age divisions (55 – 64 and 65+).

Alpine skiing and nordic skiing held their qualifying events in February 2012.  District 8’s Nordic Ski team won the Ontario team award in 2011 so will be defending that title in Huntsville.

Any 55 plus seniors wanting more information may contact the District Winter Games coordinators: Stanley Fraser (613-525-3777) or Monique Patenaude (613-543-3453).

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Hurricane Irene was the big winner at the annual Men's Valley League hosted by the Summer Heights Golf Links here on Sunday.

Play was halted when the rain became too much, and this year's Valley League championship was decided using nine hole rounds.

At the end of nine holes, it was the hosting Summer Heights team that claimed the D. MacLennan Championship trophy with 641 strokes.

Cedar Glen was second with 649 and Morrisburg third with 660. Iroquois posted 680 strokes and Sandy Row had 723.

The Morrisburg team won the tournament on its home turf in 2010.

Successfully defending his title was Cedar Glen golfer Kurtis Barkley who claimed the Millard Trophy for low gross in A flight with a 37. Barkley won the trophy in Morrisburg last year.

The B flight win and the Sports Unlimited Trophy was went to Morrisburg's Kirk Barkley, while Frank Miller of Summer Heights successfully defended his 2010 low gross C flight win with a 47. The win allowed Miller to hang onto the S.H. Fun Night Trophy for another year.

Stepping to the front of the senior category was Morrisburg's Bob Mann who claimed the T. Parker Trophy with a 42 (retro tie-breaker).

The low gross 'junior' Highlands trophy was won by Bradley MacKay of Summer Heights with a 43.

Mike Deschamps of Morrisburg won the A net Julien Trophy, and Darrell Shelp picked up the B net Cedar Glen Trophy. The C net Lorne Barkley Memorial Trophy went to Rob Robinson of Cedar Glen.

The team low net Comrie-Blakely Trophy was won by Morrisburg.

Terry Barkley of Cedar Glen won the Russ Fader Net Trophy in the president's position and Rick Cauvier of Sandy Row picked up the Hugh Hutchinson Memorial Trophy for low net among the club captains.

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