Annandale rink wins gold at Ontario Winter Games
Team advances to Canada Winter Games in 2011
March 12, 2010
By Jim Easson
There was a second general meeting Wednesday, March 3 to elect the future officers for the Annandale Curling Club Executive Committee.
The Second Vice President voted in to take office in 2013 is a young curler, Renee Lalonde, who has moved through the junior curling programs for many years. We still believe that 2014 will be the 50th anniversary for the curling club, so Renee will be the past president that year if all executive terms flow as planned.
The Ontario Winter Games were held in Gravenhurst from March 4-6 and the Bevan rink from Annandale, who were competing in the boys curling, were victorious in a tiebreaker game for the gold medal to advance to the Canada Winter Games which are to be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia in February of next year.
In their final game of the round robin, Skip Ben Bevan, Vice Carter Adair, Second Jake McGhee and Lead Corey Gaudette along with coach Jennifer McGhee had to beat the undefeated Jack Lindsay rink from St. George's Golf and Country club in Toronto. They won that game 9-5 in an extra end and forced a tiebreaker for later that same afternoon. The tiebreaker was another close, very well played game, and the Bevan rink beat the Lindsay team 3-2 after eight ends.
Coach Jennifer McGhee said, "I am very proud of how well the boys played in all of their round robin games and the tiebreaker. Their only loss was an extra end game against Team Sagan and that game could have gone either way. After finishing second at provincials in February they were focused on what they wanted to achieve and did it. They are very excited to have won the gold and advance to Halifax as Team Ontario."
On the calendar next, a Junior Mixed Annandale team of Josh Hall, Katelyn WasYlkiw, James McPherson, Yvonne Lalonde and coach Donna Hall advance to the Regional playdown March 13 at the Oshawa Curling Club. Then the OCA Mixed Curling Regional playdown for the Annandale team of Patrick Janssen, Clancy Grandy, Tim March and Alison Kreviazuk at the Richmond Hill Curling Club March 27-28.
Pickering resident Richard Hart is vice on the Ontario Men's Curling Championship team competing in Halifax at the Tim Hortons Brier. He helped his skip Glenn Howard to become the Ford Hot Shot on March 6, and win a two-year lease on a $25,000 Ford Taurus. With Brent Laing and Craig Savill, the team is in their fifth Brier in a row, and Hart says it feels as fresh as his first. The team hopes to win the Canadian Championship and represent Canada at the Ford World Men's Championship April 3-11 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.