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movesP.E.I. soars, Ontario falters and Manitoba

surges on ‘moving day’at the Scotties

Ontario third Tara Georgereflects on her team’spair of costly defeatson Wednesdayto Manitobaand the Territories.

■ Curling’sa family thingfor Cormiers

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■ A ‘timely’problemon the ice

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■ O’Rourke’sIslandersstill afloat!

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Assured ofplayoffs afterdramatic winLarry WoodHeartChart Editor

Will this be the pat-tern of the future when it comes to

forming curling teams?The one where the veteran

skip plays second and the young hotshots toss the last four bricks?

Like it worked for Brad Gushue and Mark Nichols with Russ Howard calling traffi c at the Torino Olym-pics, so it is working for Prince Edward Island at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts at the Essar Centre.

The Islanders, with 45-year-old Kathy O’Rourke skipping and tossing second rocks, 39-year-old Tricia Affl eck playing lead and 21-year-olds Eric Carmody and Geri-Lynn Ramsay handling fourth and third stones respectively, climbed to the top of the Scotties heap on Wednesday night with an unexpected 9-5 victory over defending champion Jen-nifer Jones of Winnipeg.

It left the Islanders at 7-and-2 and assured of some sort of playoff match subsequent to the comple-

tion of the round robin preliminary draw today.

One game behind heading into today’s last two rounds, Jones, Ontario champion Krista McCarville and Mani-toba champion Jill Thurston had 6-and-3 records.

Another game back were Amber Holland of Saskatch-ewan and two-time Scotties champion Kelly Scott of Kelowna at 5-and-4.

Jones controlled Wednes-day’s pivotal match until Ramsay executed a great hit-and-roll in the ninth end that set up a stolen go-ahead deuce for the Islanders.

O’Rourke and Co. then played an immaculate last end and wound up stealing a

meaningless pair when Jones was forced to attempt a triple takeout with her last stone.

“Sure, I may be a little surprised that we’re lead-ing,” said O’Rourke, “but I always knew this team could come out here and be competitive.

“We feel pretty terrifi c. We had a team meeting this morning after last night’s loss. We analyzed the situ-ation and decided to simply go out and shoot one rock at a time and not worry about anything else. When you do that it’s amazing what happens.

“We’re trying not to look at results, we’re just trying to look at making shots.”

Jones was philosophical about her team’s third loss. The last two years, she has won the title while absorb-ing four defeats in each.

“Obviously, they did play very well and we just had the bad fi nish to the game and that’s not characteristic of our team at all,” she said.

“Their whole team’s play-ing well. They’re in fi rst place for a reason. They’ve only got two losses and they’re obviously making the right shots when they have to. They did and we didn’t today.”

She was more than disconcerted about losing control in the late going.

“It was a bad ninth end. I wish we could play it over again but we can’t so we’ll have to come out with better efforts tomorrow,” Jones said. “I know we’re still in it. I just don’t like to lose games like that. We were up playing eight and didn’t play well at the end of the game and we don’t like to do that.”

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Islanders rise to the top

Above, Colette Lemon and Stephanie LeDrew of Newfoundland apply the brushes. Right, Quebec’s Brenda Nicholls calls out instructions while Dawn Askin of Canada watches intently. Below, at right, Manitoba’s Jill Thurston tracks one of her stones.

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Junior Stars joinprovincial teamsas special guests

When local curler Larry Pallot learned that his

son had been chosen to take part in team ceremonies for the 2010 Scotties Tourna-ment of Hearts, he knew right away what would be the perfect gift for the team hosting his son.

Larry’s 15-year-old son Je-bidiah, who is a bantam curl-er, had applied on-line to the Canadian Curling Association (CCA) to be part of the Junior Stars program. The program selects young curlers, who are given the opportunity to meet Canada’s top curling teams and be honourary members of the teams during the national championships. Jebidiah was

among 24 local junior curlers selected to be part of the 2010 Scotties ceremonies in Sault Ste. Marie and was assigned to Team Newfoundland/Lab-rador.

As a gesture of thanks, the young curlers, including Jebidiah, were asked to pro-vide their host team mem-bers with a special memen-to, or “good luck charm” . . . and that’s where his father Larry’s unique hobby came into play. Several years ago Larry began creating special fi gurines out of small stones collected along the shore of Lake Superior, north of Sault Ste. Marie. “Over the years I have made a hundred of these fi gurines. Every-thing from a voyageur in a canoe to a baseball player, with most them coming upon request,” he says.

Some of Larry’s unique fi gurines have also been used as prizes at local curl-ing bonspiels. The fi gures are designed similar to “inukshuks,” which are tra-ditional stone markers origi-nally used for navigation in the far North. Inuksuks are usually in the form of a person and are made from

stones piled on top of each other. They are a familiar site along highways across northern Ontario.

Larry decided to create special stone fi gures in the shape of curlers within a special presentation box to commemorate the Scotties and, in particular, his son’s involvement.

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JIM CRONINHeartChart Columnist

Jebidiah Pallot, withspecial gift figurine forTeam Newfoundland.

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Howard ringsalarm bell onstopwatches

There are times when it appears that com-petitive curlers insist

on trying to transform a simple game into one that’s far more diffi cult.

If you’ve been casting an eagle eye at the activity on the Essar Centre ice lanes this week you’ll notice that Scotties teams often seem to be confused going on bewildered by the playing conditions.

Some fi gure it’s the ice that’s wonky. Others just can’t adjust to the neces-sary weight control. Still others suspect funny rocks.

In many cases, it’s just a matter of teams with a lack of experience playing on arena ice.

But TSN commentator Russ Howard, who has skipped more games in Briers than any living human being, zeroes in on those little stop-watches you see clutched in the paws of skips or dangling from the waists of practically every other player on the premises.

“The stopwatch,” he says, “was brought into curling to give you a rough idea of where the rock was going to go. It’s just a predic-tion. You time a constant distance from the back line to the hogline and you can ‘guesstimate’ where it’s going. Right? Well, think about that!

“You can only ‘guess-timate’ the other 80 per cent of the distance if the conditions are identical everywhere on the sheet — if all the rocks are the same speed, if all the curlers’ slides are at the same speed, if all the deliveries are the same. All those variables

distort your prediction.“If there was one rock in

curling and there was one curler, and you were practis-ing by yourself, throwing the same shot roughly down the same area of the ice, it works. But as we all know there are different spots on the sheet, straighter spots where the rocks will glide a little farther, spots where it’s going to slow down later in the week.

“Reading ice isn’t easy but you have to know the vari-ables. And it’s the responsibil-ity of front-end sweepers to know those paths.”

Howard recalls the expert ice- and weight-reading work of Neil Harrison in that regard.

“He was the best front-ender I ever curled with,” he says. “And he knew, as I was letting it go, 99 times out of 100, where it was go-ing to go. He didn’t need a stopwatch. With Neil it was all feel.”

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LARRY WOODHeartChart Editor

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Skip: KellyScott

Nickname: Kell, Cupcake.Home: West Kelowna, B.C.Began curling at age: 11Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Accoun-tantEmployer: Nutri-Lawn Ecology-Friendly Lawn CareDOB: June 1, 1977Place of birth: WinnipegMarital status: MarriedSpouse/partner: Chad ScottChildren: Nash 1.First vehicle: TrackerCurrent vehicle: Ford EscapeFavourite food: Perogies are a treatFavourite drink: Pina coladas, preferably near a beachCelebrity dream man: Unfortunately, all have agedMost annoying celebrity: Ben MulroneyAll-time favourite movie: Seabiscuit, The NotebookLast movie she loved: Still trying to see The HangoverLast movie she hated: Maybe Star Wars. Not a science-fiction fanTattooed? Yes, twoNever leaves home with-out: Kissing my Nash’s chubby cheeksCompeted in: 1991, 1995 Junior Nationals, 1995 World Junior, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Scotties, 2006, 2007 World Women’s, 2005 Olympic trials.

Third: JeannaSchraeder

Home: Kelowna.Began curing at age: 10Delivery: Right.Occupation/title: Data warehouse architectEmployer: B.C. Interior

HealthDOB: September 21, 1976 Place of birth: Kelowna.Marital status: MarriedSpouse/partner: Jeremy SchraederChildren: Luke 4, Dion 2First vehicle: Toyota Ter-celCurrent vehicle: Honda CivicFavourite food: Sushi, ribs, butter chickenFavourite drink: MojitoMost annoying celebrity: Paris HiltonAll-time favourite movie: UndecidedLast movie she loved: Finding Nemo (all the movies she sees these days are kids’ movies)Last movie she hated: Groundhog DayTattooed? Yes, oneNever leave home with-out: Giving my boys hugs and kissesCompeted in: 1991, 1994, 1996 Junior Nationals, 2006, 2007, 2008 Scotties, 2006, 2007 World Wom-en’s, 2005 Olympic trials.

Second:Sasha Carter

Nickname: SashHome: KelownaBegan curling at age: 10Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Busi-ness managerEmployer: Peacock Sheri-dan GroupDOB: July 20, 1974Place of birth: Ashern, Man.Marital status: MarriedSpouse/partner: Greg CarterChildren: No children, just a pug named Snickers

First vehicle: Chrysler CordobaCurrent vehicle: Mazda CX-9Favourite food: LobsterFavourite drink: Ameri-can Misto (pre-noon), honey lager (mid-after-noon), spiced rum and coke (pre-dinner), red wine (dinner)!Celebrity dream man: George Clooney, the late John F. Kennedy Jr.Most annoying celebrity: Janice DickensonAll-time favourite movie: The Goonies.Last movie she loved: Ice Age 3Tattooed? Yes, two.Never leave home with-out: Credit cards

— never know when you might find the next pair of perfect shoes which are mandatory for your closet!Competed in: 1995 Junior Nationals, 1995 World Junior, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Scotties, 2006, 2007 World Women’s, 2005 Olympic trials.

Lead: JacquieArmstrong

Home: Surrey, B.C. Began curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupa-tion/title: Soft-ware

development managerEmployer: IP ApplicationsDOB: March 19, 1976Place of birth: Penticton, B.C.Marital status: MarriedSpouse/partner: Paul ArmstrongChildren: Jeffrey 6, Megan 4.First vehicle: 1976 VW Super-beetleCurrent vehicle: Ford EscapeFavourite food: Grilled steaks and garlic mashFavourite drink: Coffee with Bailey’sCelebrity dream man: Sean Connery (the younger version, of course)Most annoying celebrity: Perez HiltonAll-time favourite movie: Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

Last movie she loved: TwilightLast movie she hated: Barbie and the Diamond Castle

Tattooed? NoneNever leave home

without: A key to get back in (made that mis-

take only once)Competed in: 2003 Scot-ties (fifth)

Fifth: ShannonAleksic

Home: Abbotsford. B.C.Began curling at age: 5Delivery: Right

Occupation/title: Offi ce manager Employer: Kinder Sidhu & Associates, Chartered AccountantsDate of birth: Sept. 28, 1976Place of birth: Wawota, Sask.Marital status: SingleSpouse/partner: Boy-friend, Dean JoanisseChildren: Brooklyn Alek-sic (5)First-ever vehicle: OldsmobileCurrent vehicle: Nissan Quest . . . yes, it’s a van but it’s a cool van!! ☺Favourite food: Sushi, chocolateFavourite drink: WineCelebrity dream man: Jeff Schroeder , Big Brother 11 cast member (hottie)Most annoying celeb-rity: Pee Wee HermanAll-time favourite movie: Bridget Jones’ Di-ary, Pretty Woman, Dirty DancingLast movie you loved: New Moon (Twilight fan)Last movie you hated: NoneTattooed? None.Never leaves home without: Cellphone, wal-let, keysCompeted in: 99, 07 Scotties

Coach: GerryRichard

Home: KelownaOccupation/title: Fire-fi ghter (captain)Employer: City of KelownaDate of birth: Feb. 26, 1956Place of birth: KelownaCoached/played: 2005, 06, 07, 08 Scotties, 06, 07 Worlds women’s/1974 Junior Nationals, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2002 (fi fth) Brier, 2004 Worlds.

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Timing opposition stones often can totally confound a curler, Howard contends.

“I played in a bonspiel in the early ’80s and I used a stopwatch,” he recalls. “It’s the only time I ever used one. I timed from back line to button and I was getting times of 28 seconds — I feel you should time the whole distance instead of part of the distance.

“So it was 28, 28, 28, 28 28, and the skip I was playing against had a come-around draw with his last one and I timed it so I’d be ready for mine, and it was 27 seconds. I got in the hack and whipped it down there heavy. And I turned to Glenn and I said, ‘Never again, never again will I use the watch!’ I mean, maybe he had a slower rock, maybe he didn’t slide out as quick as I did. You know? Maybe I didn’t time it right. Maybe my rock wasn’t in quite the same spot. Maybe it had more rotation than his. There’s no way of knowing.

“I proved it to (Brad) Gushue. Had a practice. Got rid of the clocks..

“A game comes to mind in the (2005) Trials. We had to play a draw to the pin, no

backing, against Jay Peachey. Without the clocks they put it right on the spot. Gushue’s team doesn’t use clocks now.

“I just think the women rely on them far too much. I’d urge them to give it a try without one.

“The rock comes over the hogline,” Howard says, “you look at your time, you put it back down, and from that point on you’re judging it, anyway. So why not judge it three seconds earlier out of the guy’s hand?

“I was at a clinic once where they threw a rock with one of those speed-trap things. And they had two curlers doing the split times. Over the course of an hour there was as much as two/tenths of a second differ-ence between the lead and the second. So what is it — 3.5 or is it 3.7? Because two-tenths of a second relates to, maybe, 10 feet!

“We’re all better than that! I can go out there right now at age 54 and beat that. So is it helping you? I don’t think so. I think it throws you off.

“It’s one of those new ideas that came along that, some-body saw it on TV, and the team that won the game used the stop-watches, and all of a sud-den the rest of the world thought it was great.

“Well, maybe I’m old-school but I’m positive that on good ice — and it’s always good in the arena — that I’m better off without a watch.”

And Howard suggests it’s a big part of the confusion he’s

seeing at the Essar this week.“I’ll give you a good ex-

ample,” he says. “We’ve just returned from the Olympics, I’m watching Glenn at the Brier, and I’m getting reports on my daughter who’s in a sudden-death game to go to the Canada Games. And it turns out she’s two down coming home and she has a draw for three to win the game. She had to touch the eight-foot. She missed it.

“I’m talking to her on the phone, and I ask, ‘What happened to your draw for three’? And she says, ‘I threw the split, 3.7 was what we were looking for because that’s what it was all game, so I threw the split’. I say, ‘You came up light, didn’t you?’ She says, ‘Yeah, how did you know’? I say, ‘You threw it down the middle, didn’t you’? She says, ‘Yeah’. And you and I know why. It slows down later in the game. She was still throwing the weight you needed in the sixth end not the 10th. So what hap-pened was, she throws the 3.7, and the sweepers think, ‘I don’t have to sweep it, it’s perfect’. It gets to the far hog line, and it’s like oh-oh. And it’s into the slush. You have to be able to judge that!

“It bothers me,” says How-ard. “And that situation in the fi fth end (Wednesday morn-

ing) with Krista (McCarville) was a terrifi c opportunity to bring it up (on TV). She as all confused about times on the clock.”

So how to help with the bewilderment? How about a pre-event clinic for all the teams, dealing with the vaga-ries of arena ice and rocks and weight control?

“Valid point,” says Howard. “I’m sitting here watching this all day and I’m saying to myself, ‘you have to be joking’. My producer and I are watching Saskatchewan-New Brunswick (Tuesday night). Saskatchewan’s losing. The ice crew comes out at the break and they shammy the ice. When you shammy the ice after fi ve, it’s a known fact the fi rst couple of rocks thrown in the sixth end will glide farther. But the stop-watch doesn’t tell you that.

“So I say to my producer, ‘watch this, this will be heavy’. The fi rst call is for the top 12-foot, the rock goes to the back 12. ‘How did you know that?’ he asks. Because they shammied the ice. Now, I say, ‘Watch this.’ New Brunswick needs a corner guard. I say, ‘I’ll bet you lunch she puts it in the rings’. Goes right to the teeline. But the stopwatch says 3.6.

“If you take 3.7 here it won’t feel like 3.7 in a curling

club. You need a constant push to get out to the hogline in a curling club. Here you barely have to kick. Your body keeps going. I do a prac-tice slide at a club I might get halfway down the ice. Here? I can get to the far hogline. So the clock might say 3.7, but the rocks glide farther, you glide farther.

“It doesn’t look good because they’re missing too many easy shots out here,” Howard says. “They’re making some good ones but they’re missing easy ones. It’s not that they’re bad curlers. They just need some help.

“My brother’s favourite line on draw weight is, you have to smell it. You also have to feel it. Richard Hart, who

plays for Glenn, is all feel. He’s not always splitting the broom. But he throws the right weight on every shot. You ask for hack he gives you hack. You ask for back-line, he gives you back-line. There’s none of this 3.6 stuff.

“I’ve argued with my

daughter for four years. I think I’ve fi nally got her con-vinced to get rid of the watch. All the young people are trained that way now. But not by me. ‘You gotta use your split times and you gotta do this and do that’. Forget it.

“I’ll give you one more example. We’re on incredibly fast ice at one of the Grand Slam events. I’m playing with this young guy, Kenny Mc-Dermott. There’s Peter Corner and Glenn and I but Ken’s the rookie. And he’s timing every shot on his clock. This was back when watches were fi rst being used. And we’re playing Rob Ewing from Saskatchewan.

He has to draw the four-foot to win. And according to Kenny McDermott, 3.7 is what you need. So he times Robbie’s last shot. It’s 4.03 so it’s going to be way light, right? Like 15 feet light. Kenny says, ‘We have a good chance, he’s way light,’ and I’m looking at it and saying, ‘He’s perfect.’ Kenny says, ‘Nah, won’t get anywhere near the rings.’ I say, ‘It’s per-fect.’ They sweep it, off, on, off, on, right to the button.

Kenny can’t fi gure it out. But Rob has a stainless steel slider, he’s up on his toe, he just slides forever. He doesn’t lose speed like I would. So if Kenny McDermott saw that shot and saw 4.03 he’d have been sweeping his guts out until halfway down and then he’d realize, wait a minute, this is going through the four-foot.

So clocks are detrimental, in my opinion, and you’ll never convince me otherwise,” says Russ Howard.

“If everybody was a machine, clocks would make sense. But everybody isn’t.”

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From Page 5

WOOD:‘I’m better off

without a watch’

RussHoward

B.C.’s Kelly Scott, above, and Shelly Bradley, far left, of P.E.I. are shown using stopwatches at the Scotties this week.

your guide to what’s goin’ on

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Yellowknife’s Sharon Cormier had to urge and cajole her

20-year-old daughter into joining her on this season’s Yellowknife team that even-tually earned a representa-tive berth in the Scotties at the Essar Centre.

“It’s beyond words, the way I feel about being able to play with her at an event like this,” says Mother Cormier of skipping her 20-year-old offspring, Megan.

“It’s so exciting. We laugh every day. And we’re hav-ing really good times. It’s fun being here together.

“It took me a long time to convince her to curl. She was going to play Juniors because she had one more year left. But she couldn’t fi nd a team. A lot of kids her age up in Yellowknife go away to school. She tried to

convince a couple of girls to come back and curl but . . . money, you know?”

So Megan fi nally agreed to play second for mom.

“She kept saying, I’ll be your fi fth, I’ll be your fi fth,” says Cormier, the skip.

“Her grandpa (fi ve-time Brier competitor Al Del-mage) gave her the bug,” says Sharon. “And her mother. She didn’t have much choice. The curling club up there is like the babysitting place. She has watched us curl for a long time while she’s been grow-ing up and just naturally took up the game. And she’s great little curler, too.”

Cormier Jr., isn’t turning in fantastic percentage num-bers on the statistics sheet. But her team already has knocked off both defending champion Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg and tournament co-favourite Krista McCar-ville of Thunder Bay.

The Cormier combo is the fourth such mother-daughter

pair in the history of the Canadian women’s curl-ing championship that was launched a half-century ago.

Edmonton’s Hazel

Jamieson is the ultimate curling mom. She played with daughters Gale Lee and June Coyle on a 1966 Canadian champion team

at Vancouver that won nine straight games without a loss. Then, she skipped a 1968 Canadian cham-pion team at Winnipeg that

included three daughters — Lee, Coyle and Jackie Spencer — and won eight of 10 assignments.

Two Manitoba mother-daughter combos round out the lineup.

In 1985, skip Merline Dar-byshire of Portage la Prairie had daughter Carolyn at second. That team wound up 5-5 at the Scotties in Winnipeg.

By coincidence, Carolyn Darbyshire is still excel-ling at the game, playing second for Calgary’s Cheryl Bernard on the squad that will represent Canada at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games.

Brandon’s Lois Fowler played third and daughter Rhonda was the lead on a Manitoba team in 1993 skipped by Maureen Bonar that lost to Regina’s Sandra Schmirler in a memorable Scotties fi nal match at Bran-don’s Keystone Centre.

That team wound up with a 9-4 record.

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The fi gures were then presented to Team New-foundland/Labrador by his son Jebidiah as a thank-you for allowing him to be part of their on ice ceremonies. He said they were very appreciative of the unique gifts. “The skip said these

were among the nicest gifts they had received,” says the young curler.

In turn, Team Newfound-land/Labrador presented Jebidiah with gifts that included a stuffed puffi n toy and a curling broom that had been used by the team while in Norway.

The young curler was also allowed to sit in on the team’s pre-game meeting and joined the coach in

standing behind the house as the team members took their practice throws. He then joined the team as they marched out onto the ice for the start of the draw. Jebidiah also had an op-portunity to tour the TSN mobile broadcast unit and watch the on-air broadcast team providing live daily television coverage of the Scotties.

Another highlight of the

junior curler’s trip to the Scotties was the opportu-nity to actually throw some rocks on the curling sheets before the start of the com-petition.

“It was awesome! What a great experience. It was the best ice I have ever curled on . . . so smooth and fast,” he says.

All 24 junior curlers from the local region will be able to share the same

experience of a lifetime as Jebidiah before the Scotties ends on Sunday.

Meanwhile, both the Pallots have enjoyed the Scotties action as spectators in the Essar Centre and on television at home, and both agree that there are some “select” teams in this year’s Scotties, includ-ing Team Ontario with its Sault Ste. Marie connection through third Tara George, a local product.

Larry, a well-known competitive curler, also has his mind on a major curling event coming up in a few weeks. He will be leading his senior men’s team from Soo Curlers to the provin-cial playdowns in Blind River east of the Sault later this month, with an eye to representing Northern Ontario at the Canadian championship in Ottawa in March.

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Family ties bolster Territories quartet

Sharon Cormier, centre, and her daughter Megan, right: “Really good times.”

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Skip: JillThurston

Home: WinnipegBegan curling at age: 11Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Phar-macy technicianEmployer: Saint Boniface General Hospital Date of birth: Dec 2, 1971Place of birth: WinnipegMarital status: MarriedSpouse/partner: Dwayne Thurston Children: NoneFirst vehicle: Pontiac Grand-AmCurrent vehicle: Honda CivicFavourite food: SteakFavourite drink: Coke or beerCelebrity dream man: Michael Buble (so sad he just got engaged)Most annoying celebrity: Paris HiltonAll-time favourite movie: Pulp FictionLast movie she loved: The HangoverLast movie she hated: Revolutionary RoadTattooed? NoneNever leaves home with-out: LypsylCompeted in: 91 National Juniors, 00 (fifth), 06 Scot-ties

Third: KristenPhillips

Home: Roseland, Man.Began curling at age: 7 (competitively at 12)Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Farm production advisorEmployer: Manitoba Agri-culture Food and Rural InitiativesDate of birth: Sept, 14, 1981Place of birth: BrandonMarital status: MarriedSpouse/partner: Garret PhillipsChildren: None

First vehicle: Ford TopazCurrent vehicle: VW JettaFavourite food: Steak, baked potato and broccoliFavourite drink: Rye and CokeCelebrity dream man: More into the outdoors than actorsMost annoy-ing

celebrity: DittoAll-time favourite movie: Field of DreamsLast movie she loved: The HangoverLast movie she hated: Doesn’t hate much; spends more time doing activities than watch-ing moviesTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: Her cowboy bootsCompeted in: 02 Junior Nationals, 02, 04 University Nationals,

03, 06 Mixed Nationals, 07 Scotties (fifth)

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Home: Pinawa, Man.Began curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Envi-ronmental specialistEmployer: Atomic

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Home: WinnipegBegan curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Account manager, equipment leas-ingEmployer: National Leas-ing Date of birth: May 1, 1976Place of birth: WinnipegMarital status: Relation-shipSpouse/partner: Kurt

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Home: Miami, Man.Began curling at age: 9Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Service attendantEmployer: VIA RailDate of birth: May 25, 1982 Place of birth: Saska-toonMarital status: MarriedSpouse/partner: Mark GeorgesChildren: NoneFirst vehicle: Ford Tempo Current vehicle: VW PassatFavourite food: Choco-lateFavourite drink: BeerCelebrity dream man: Matthew McConaugheyMost annoying celeb-rity: Britney SpeersAll-time favourite movie: The NotebookLast movie she loved: The Hangover

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Here’s how they’ll wind it up today:■ Prince Edward Is-land (7-2) — 10:30 a.m. Newfoundland/Lab. (4-5), 3 p.m. British Columbia (5-4).■ Team Canada (6-3) —3 p.m. Nova Scotia (1-8), 7:30 p.m. Ontario (6-3).■ Ontario (6-3) —10:30 a.m. Nova Scotia (1-8), 7:30 p.m. Team Canada (6-3).■ Manitoba (6-3) —3 p.m. — New Brunswick (4-5), 7:30 p.m. Quebec (4-5).■ Saskatchewan (5-4) — 10:30 a.m. Territories (3-6). 7:30 p.m. Alberta (3-6).■ British Columbia (5-4) — 3 p.m. P.E.I. (7-2), 7:30 p.m. Newfoundland/Lab-rador (4-5).

In other late games, Thur-ston won her third in a row and staunchly remaining in contention with an 8-6 win over Sharon Cormier’s Ter-ritories outfi t while Scott led a charmed life in stealing the tying point in the 10th end and the 8-7 winner in an extra end. Nova Scotia’s Nancy McConnery missed double-kills with her last rocks in both.

Said Thurston: “Those were two big games that we obviously had to win. And now, with some people fall-ing back, we’re in control of our own destiny again.”

Scott said she felt it was about time her B.C. team, which has been involved in a bunch of tight-fi ts, was afforded “a break.”

“Krista McCarville made a great shot against us to win that game, and our missed shot this morning

against Amber Holland, you know, we thought we had that one too. Thank goodness we were fortunate enough to pull this one out.”

O’Rourke praised her young teammates for hanging in under pressure in such a major Scotties confrontation.

“I think the kids have been on TV two or three times this week. They’re handling this like old pros. I don’t have to tell these kids too much,” she said.

“But our job is far from fi nished here. We’re going to get a good rest and re-focus again in the morning.”

Miraculously, this team is playing in its fi rst arena competition this season.

“The only way we get used to this is at Nationals but, for myself, I watch a lot of curling on TV, and I’ve been to the Brier I think nine times with my husband and I’m an avid fan of the game,” said O’Rourke.

“I watch a lot of rocks. And you know once you watch one Brier game or Scott game or Slam game it’s pretty consistent so just watching it gives you an idea where to put the broom.

“I tell the girls, ‘look, you have to watch as much curl-ing as you can’. Because we don’t get to play on this kind of ice. It’s a great way to learn the game.

Both O’Rourke and Jones earlier knocked coff Eve Belisle’s Quebec outfi t, 7-3 and 9-4 respectively.

McCarville, the leader heading into the day. lost two straight — 10-5 to Manitoba’s Thurston and 7-5 to giant-killer Sharon Cormier of the Territories.

“We just didn’t have a good day,” said McCarville, understating the fact. “We have to put it aside and re-group for the last day. We’ll meet and talk about today and try to fi x it.”

In other afternoon clashes, Saskatchewan’s Amber Hol-land remained in the hunt with her second win of the day, a 5-2 decision over McCon-nery while Shelley Nichols of St. John’s directed her Newfoundland/Labrador unit to a 9-7 win over Kelly’s New Brunswickers. Other sunrise shift results: Saskatchewan 5-4 over B.C., with a last-end steal on a Scott fl ash; Nichols 11-4 over fast-fading Alberta.

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6. What year was it and where?7. Of the current dozen skips (plus players throw-ing last rocks) at the Scott Tournament of Hearts, how many finished runner-up in their respective pro-vincial championships a year ago?

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are repeating as provincial champs?10. Name them, if any.11. Of the competing play-ers (excluding skips and fifth players) at the current Scott, how many have won a Canadian junior women’s championship?12. Name them, if any.13. What is distinctive about women’s curling teams from Sault Ste. Marie?14. All other national championships admit teams from both Ontario and Northern Ontario, but not the Canadian women’s. Over the past 51 years, how many Ontario women’s champs have hailed from northern precincts and how many fron southern precincts?

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SCOTTIES CUMULATIVE STATSSkips

Name % ageKelly Scott (B.C.) 79Jennifer Jones (Canada) 75Jill Thurston (Man.) 74Amber Holland (Sask.) 73Krista McCarville (Ont.) 73Erin Carmody (P.E.I.) 72Valerie Sweeting (Alta.) 71Sharon Cormier (NWT/YT) 69Eve Belisle (Que.) 67Nancy McConnery (N.S.) 67Andrea Kelly (N.B.) 66Shelley Nichols (N.L.) 66

ThirdsName % ageCathy Overton-Clapham (Canada) 80Kristen Phillips (Man.) 78Jeanna Schraeder (B.C.) 76Stephanie LeDrew (N.L.) 75Tara George (Ont.) 74Brenda Nicholls (Que.) 74Jennifer Crouse (N.S.) 74Geri-Lynn Ramsay (P.E.I.) 73Denise Nowlan (N.B.) 71Megan Einarson (Alta.) 71Kim Schneider (Sask.) 70Tara Naugler (NWT/YT) 70

SecondsName % ageJill Offi cer (Canada) 81Sasha Carter (B.C.) 79Leslie Wilson (Man.) 77Jillian Babin (N.B.) 76Ashley Miharija (Ont.) 76Tammy Schneider (Sask.) 75Kathy O’Rourke (P.E.I.) 73Whitney More (Alta.) 72Sheena Gilman (N.S.) 70Martine Comeau (Que.) 67Rhonda Rogers (N.L.) 67Megan Cormier (NWT/YT) 65

LeadsName % ageDawn Askin (Canada) 88Jacquie Armstrong (B.C.) 82Tricia Affl eck (P.E.I.) 82Heather Kalenchuk (Sask.) 80Jill Thomas (N.S.) 80Julie Rainville (Que.) 79Kari MacLean (Ont.) 78Colette Lemon (N.L.) 78Raunora Westcott (Man.) 77Lindsay Makichuk (Alta.) 77Danielle Ellis (NWT/YT) 76 Lianne Sobey (N.B.) 72

Teams % ageCanada (Jones) 81British Columbia (Scott) 79Manitoba (Thurston) 77Ontario (McCarville) 76Saskatchewan (Holland) 75P.E.I. (O’Rourke) 75

% ageAlberta (Sweeting) 73Nova Scotia (McConnery) 72New Brunswick (Kelly) 71Quebec (Belisle) 71 Newfoundland/Labrador (Nichols) 71Territories (Cormier) 70

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StandingsTeam W LP.E.I. 7 2Canada 6 3Manitoba 6 3Ontario 6 3Saskatchewan 5 4B.C. 5 4Quebec 4 5Nfl d/Labrador 4 5New Brunswick 4 5Alberta 3 6Territories 3 6Nova Scotia 1 8

Draw 12 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TSaskatchewan 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 5B.C.* 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 4%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamSaskatchewan 94 69 74 76 78B.C. 85 85 80 70 80

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TQuebec 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 x x 4Canada* 4 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 x x 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamQuebec 77/100 63 86 77 76Canada 88 89 75 91 86

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TNfl d/Labrador* 3 0 2 0 4 1 1 x x x 11Alberta 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 x x x 4%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamNfl d/Labrador 64 57 82 80 71Alberta 79 57 68 54 64

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOntario* 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 x 5Manitoba 0 1 2 1 3 2 0 0 1 x 10%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamOntario 85/88 65 85 63 75Manitoba 77 82 86 75 80

Draw 13 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TNew Brunswick* 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 0 1 0 7Nfl d/Labrador 1 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamNew Brunswick 70 70 54 48 60Nfl d/Labrador 86 51 61 63 66

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TTerritories 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 x 7Ontario* 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 x 5%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamTerritories 75 54 74 81 71Ontario 74 83 63 63 71

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TNova Scotia 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 x 2Saskatchewan* 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 x 5%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamNova Scotia 79 83 68 84 78Saskatchewan 71 83 75 89 80

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TP.E.I. 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 7Quebec* 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamP.E.I. 84 83 74 89 82Quebec 85 57 80 69 73

Draw 14 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TCanada* 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 5P.E.I. 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 2 2 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamCanada 91 89 76 71 82P.E.I. 96 74 71 80 80

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TNova Scotia 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 7B.C.* 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamNova Scotia 79 76 82 70 77B.C. 77 64 78 73 73

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TManitoba* 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 2 0 1 8Territories 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 6%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamManitoba 73 76 78 74 75Territories 73 66 64 64 67

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TAlberta 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 x 3New Brunswick* 1 0 0 2 0 3 0 2 1 x 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamAlberta 78 60 57 60 64New Brunswick 72 79 65 81 74

Today’sGames

Draw 15 (10:30 a.m.)Nova Scotia vs. OntarioNfl d/Labrador vs. P.E.I.N.B. vs. QuebecSaskatchewan vs. Territories

Draw 16 (3 p.m.)Territories vs. AlbertaManitoba vs. N.B.P.E.I. vs. B.C.Canada vs. Nova Scotia

Draw 17 (7:30 p.m.)Manitoba vs. QuebecSaskatchewan vs. AlbertaCanada vs. OntarioNfl d/Labrador vs. B.C.

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Jennifer Jones of Win-nipeg became just the sixth skip to claim

back-to-back champion-ships at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts which earned her another Team Canada citation for this 2010 scuffl e.

Jones’s Team Canada quartet — third Cathy Overton-Clapham, second Jill Offi cer, Dawn Askin — defeated B.C.’s Marla Mallett of Vancouver 8-5 in the championship fi nal.

The Jones team joined Vera Pezer (Saskatoon), Sandra Schmirler (Regina), Heather Houston (Thunder Bay), Colleen Jones (Halifax) and Kelly Scott (Kelowna) as repeat champions.

For Overton-Clapham, it was her fourth national title (she also won with Connie Laliberte in 1995), putting her in a group of just eight players to have won four or more Canadian women’s titles.

“It’s unbelievable; I can’t believe we’ve now won three, and Cathy’s won four,” said Jones. “I dreamed of this as a little kid, and to do it with this team — we work so hard, we put so much into it, and it’s so very special for us right now.”

As appears to be this team’s wont, it was forced to again battle from the brink of elimination to emerge victorious.

The Jones team won what amounted to fi ve straight sudden-death matches to claim the title, feeding off its experience of the year

previous when it won eight in a row after losing four of its fi rst seven outings.

This time, Jones sustained her fourth loss with one round-robin test to go. She won that 6-5 over front-running Mallett, then stole a 6-5 extra-end win against Rebecca-Jean MacPhee of P.E.I., defeated Stefanie Lawton of Saskatchewan 8-6 in the Page Three-Four playoff, walloped Marie-France Larouche of St-Romuald, Que., in the semi-fi nal and then repeated her superiority over Mallett in the fi nal.

Team Canada took an early lead, stealing a single in the fi rst end set up by Overton-Clapham’s draw to the button behind a centre guard. Mallett’s last-rock angle-raise attempt over-curled.

The teams then traded deuces for the next four ends, and B.C. blanked the sixth. In the seventh, Jones executed a perfect hit-and-

roll behind cover to sit two, forcing Mallett to draw full eight-foot for a single point. Instead, Mallett drew light, giving Team Canada a decisive steal of two and a commanding 7-4 lead.

“It was just a little soft out of my hand, and on this ice, if you let it out soft, it’s going to grab the curl and go, which is exactly what

happened,” said Mallett. “Of course it’s very disap-pointing. I certainly would have liked to come out on the other side, but we did have a great week.”

Mallett catapulted her team directly to the fi nal with a 7-5 win over La-rouche in the Page One-Two playoff.

The teams were tied 2-2 through fi ve ends of a de-fensive struggle. But in the sixth, Larouche’s attempt to hit and roll behind a guard failed to curl enough, and Mallett made the open hit to score a crushing three. Then Larouche missed an oppor-tunity for two in the seventh and yielded a killer deuce in the eighth.

The key victory in the Jones surge transpired in a post-preliminary tiebreaker when the defending champ

stole points in the 10th and 11th ends to beat MacPhee.

At the fi nish, the champs were 11-4 to B.C.’s 9-4 while Quebec was 7-6 and Saskatchewan and P.E.I. each 7-5. Alberta’s Cheryl Bernard of Calgary and Ontario’s Krista McCarville of Thunder Bay missed playoffs by one game, fi nishing at 6-5. Veteran Heather Strong of St. John’s and Andrea Kelly of Freder-icton skipped their Atlantic teams to 5-6 records while Kerry Galusha’s Polars from Yellowknife were 4-7. Tied with 2-9 records were Nancy McConnery of Dartmouth, N.S., and Barb Spencer of Winnipeg, the Manitoba rep.

Total attendance for the Victoria Scotties was 70,218, the ninth highest in event history.

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