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■ Ring giants clashagain, Page 2

■ Jones gang finallyeliminated, Page 4

Stefanie Lawton, above, qualified for a tiebreaker

by handing Cheryl Bernard her only round-robin loss.

At right, Glenn Howard and Kevin Martin waged another

epic battle, with Martinearning the victory . . .

and capturing first place.

Page 2 Morning Roar

Men’s Playoff Picture

Saturday1 p.m. —Semifinal: Glenn Howard (6-1) vs. Jeff Stoughton (5-2)

Sunday1 p.m. — Final: Kevin Martin (6-1) vs. semifinal winner

Martin’s one win from his third Olympics, thanks to a big win over old rival Howard

Larry Wood and Todd KimberleyMorning Roar

Kevin Martin,Edmonton’s Old Bear, is zeroing in

on his third curling tourna-ment at the Olympic Games with a view to winning his first gold medal.

Martin and his team of John Morris, Marc Ken-nedy and Ben Hebert, the Brier winners of the past two winters, won the match that counted Thursday night during men’s action at the Roar of the Rings Canadian curling Trials at Rexall Place, scoring a large three-ender in the ninth panel en route to an 8-6 conquest of long time Brier rival, Glenn Howard of Coldwater, Ont.

In terms of the Trials, Martin pulled even with Howard at 6-and-1 for the round robin but earned the bye to Sunday’s 1 p.m. final where the ducats to Vancou-ver and the Winter Games will be on the line.

Howard and his team, un-beaten until the last gasp in the preliminaries, now faces Winnipeg’s Jeff Stoughton in the semifinal which is set for Saturday at 1 p.m.

The schedule is a duplicate

of the last two matches at the Tim Hortons Brier last year at the Calgary Saddledome with Martin ensconced in the final and Howard tackling Stough-ton in the semi. The Manito-bans won that semifinal but lost big-time to Martin in the final.

“We’re one win away,” allowed Martin. “But we’ve lost the last game before (in 1997 to Mike Harris), so we know that we’ve done noth-ing yet.”

Martin admitted his team was chasing after the fourth end.

“When Johnny (Morris) locked that freeze absolutely perfect in there (ninth end), we had them on the run for two, and we ended up get-ting three.”

Howard’s first rock crashed on a guard and his second drew into the four-foot, but in the worst possible in-between position to set up Martin’s big shot.

“If we’re a foot short or a foot long he can’t make that shot,” said Howard. “But I could see it was lined up perfectly and Kevin just

doesn’t miss those.”Martin agreed.“He didn’t put his rock

just where he wanted, because he left a pocket there. I could have hit off of ours or off of his. And the result’s the same.”

Martin’s two previous Olympic experiences, skip-ping different teams, trans-pired in 1992 at Pralognan, France, when curling was a demonstration event, and in 2002 at Salt Lake City when he lost the gold-medal final to Pal Trulsen of Norway. In his previous visit, his

team lost the bronze-medal match to Bud Somerville of the U.S.

Stoughton recorded his third straight win Thursday night — 8-7 over Pat Sim-mons of Davidson, Sask. — to advance alone with a 5-and-2 record. The victory eliminated Kevin Koe (4-3) of Edmonton, who defeated citymate Randy Ferbey (3-4) by a 9-4 count. In a battle of also-rans, Wayne Middaugh (2-5) of Toronto dusted off winless Jason Gunnlaugson of Winnipeg 9-4.

Howard and his team of

Richard Hart, Brent Laing and Craig Savill took control of the night’s feature match with a three-count in the fourth end for a 4-2 edge.

Martin finagled the tying deuce in the fifth and the teams exchanged last-rock singles for the next three ends until Martin delivered the game’s killing blow, a runback-double with last rock to spring two enemy stones and leave his side the count of three and a two-point lead.

Howard ran out of granite in his 10th-end bid for a ty-ing deuce.

“It’s a fine line between us,” said Howard. “He may have an edge in games but it isn’t great. The scenario here looks familiar but we’ll be looking to change the ending.”

Stoughton was of a similar feeling.

He lost control to Sim-mons in the sixth end of their match and the lead changed hands the rest of the way as each team socked the other with deuces. In the last frame, Simmons missed a runback attempting to re-arrange Stoughton’s winning pair.

“We’re always confident we can get the deuce when we need it,” said Stoughton. “We made some good ones at the end to pull it out.”

Koe awaited the result with some trepidation, hop-ing for a Simmons victory that would have given his team a shot in a tiebreaker.

“We’re disappointed,” said the Grande Prairie-based skip. “We blew out four teams and lost to the three playoff teams in tight games, and really missed a few opportunities in those games.”

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A perplexed Kevin Koe, left, failed to make playoffs, while Jeff Stoughton is into Saturday’s semifinal.

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Cheryl Bernard’s crew dropped its round-robin finale, but still finished first at 6-1.

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They eliminated two more teams, in-cluding defending

Canadian champion Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg, as they cemented final round-robin results in the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings women’s competition Thursday after-noon at Rexall Place.

When the smoke cleared, week-long leader Cheryl Bernard (6-1) of Calgary had lost her first game but still planned a 48-hour re-spite before playing in Sat-urday’s championship final, defender Shannon Kleibrink (5-2) of Calgary still quali-

fied for tonight’s semifinal and teams of Krista McCa-rville of Thunder Bay and

Saskatchewan’s Stefanie Lawton and Amber Holland (all 4-3) faced tiebreaker as-signments earlier in the day.

McCarville and Lawton, of Saskatoon, face off in a sudden-death affair today at 8:30 a.m. with the winner drawing Holland of Kronau, Sask., at 1 p.m. The survivor there will be back on the freeze at 6 p.m. in the semi against Kleibrink.

The Calgary skip helped drum the Jones team out of the running Thursday, triumphing 10-9 in an extra-end with a last-rock draw to the four-foot ring.

Please see SWEPT, Page 13

Women’s Playoff Picture

Today8:30 a.m. —Tiebreaker No. 1: Stefanie Lawton (4-3) vs. Krista McCarville (4-3)1 p.m. — Tiebreaker No. 2: Amber Holland (4-3) vs. winner of tiebreaker No. 16 p.m. — Semifinal: Shannon Kleibrink (5-2) vs. winner of tiebreaker No. 2

Saturday6 p.m. — Final: Cheryl Bernard (6-1) vs. semifinal winner

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Amber Holland smiles a lot. She is, obviously, happy

with her lot in life, much of which revolves around curling.

“If you can’t smile,” she says, “you can’t curl.”

A lot of curlers would argue that the 35-year-old Hol-land, a former national junior champion skip, has the best of both curling worlds.

Last spring, she was firmly installed in the Saskatch-ewan Curling Association’s executive director’s chair in a four-person Regina office.

This week, she is giving it her best effort at The Rex in the Tim Hortons Olympic Trials. And qualifying for the playoffs and some sudden-

death swings at the big carrot are something nobody was predicting for the girls in “Shrek green” going in.

Something missing from Holland’s resume, though, is a trip to the Scotties Tour-nament Of Hearts. In the better part of two decades of trying, she’s never won the Saskatchewan women’s title and that’s where her other curling job may have threatened to qualify as a disadvantage.

Still, “I took the job (SCA executive director) on the condition I could still curl and that still works,” she says.

The slender blonde is as

busy on the ice as off. In addition to a steady diet of tour events, she won the Saskatchewan mixed last spring with skip Jason Ackerman and then had to bypass the Nationals in Burlington because of its near-collision with the Olympic pre-Trials at Prince George. She made the right move, obviously.

“I think all the teams now are physically prepared to play a lot of tournaments,” says Holland, one of the more frank and down-to-earth skips in Canadian women’s curling. Not only does she refuse to dodge media questions, her answers usually are of the tell-it-like-it-is variety.

She put together her cur-rent team of younger players four years ago with a view to playing at The Rex this week. In many ways it has been a successful operation.

“In the past, I always had teams with older, more ex-perienced players,” she says.

They were contenders, but never champions.

Please see WOOD, Page 15

Young Holland quartet ready

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LARRY WOODMorning Roar Editor

Amber Holland, right, put together a younger team in 2005 in advance of the Olympic playdowns.

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Skip: Krista McCarville

Home: Thunder Bay.Began curling at age: 10Delivery: RightOccupation/title: TeacherEmployer: Thunder Bay Catholic District School BoardDOB: Nov. 10, 1982Place of birth: Thunder BayMarital status: MarriedSpouse/partner: Mike McCarvilleChildren: Daughter Isa-bella, 2 monthsFirst vehicle: Hyundai AccentCurrent vehicle: Hyundai Santa FeFavourite food: Toast with peanut butterFavourite drink: Coors LiteCelebrity dream man: Wentworth Miller (Prison Break)Most annoying celebrity: Molly Burnett (Days Of Our Lives)All-time favourite movie: The NotebookLast movie she loved: Nothing lately has been that goodLast movie she hated: QuarantineTattooed? NoNever leaves home with-out: Her purse that has everything she needsCompeted in: 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 Junior Nation-als, 2006, 2007, 2009 Scotties, 2005 Mixed Nationals, 2003 Uni-versity World Games in Italy.

Third: Tara George

Home: Thunder BayBegan curling at age: 10Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Casino shift managerEmployer: Casino Thunder Bay, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.DOB: Sept. 15, 1973Place of birth: Sault Ste. Marie

Marital status: MarriedSpouse/partner: Mike GeorgeChildren: Mykaila 5,Carter 3First vehicle: MazdaCurrent vehicle: Dodge Grand CaravanFavourite food: Prime ribFavourite drink: Sour key martiniLast movie she loved: The ProposalCompeted in: 1992 Junior Nationals, 2006, 2007, 2008 (fifth) 2009 Scotties

Second: Kari MacLean

Home: Thunder BayBegan curl-ing at age: 11Delivery: RightOccu-pation/title: Client facili-tator

Employer: Options North-westDOB: Dec. 25, 1977Place of birth: Thunder BayMarital status: RelationshipSpouse/partner: Dan LavoieChildren: NoneFirst vehicle: ’91 Acura IntegraCurrent vehicle: 2008 Nis-san RogueFavourite food: Anything ItalianFavourite drink: BeerCelebrity dream man: Grady Sizemore (Cleveland Indians)All-time favourite movie: Old School

Last movie she loved: The Hang-

overTattooed? Nope

Never leaves home without: Lip glossCompeted in: 1996, 1997, 1998 Junior Nationals, 2009 Scotties, 2006 Mixed Nationals

Lead: Lorraine Lang

Home: Thunder BayBegan curling at age: 20Delivery: RightOccupation/title: MRT Pro-gram Co-ordinatorEmployer: Confederation CollegeDOB: Oct. 8, 1956Place of birth: Port Arthur Marital status: MarriedSpouse/part-ner: RickChildren: Adams 23,

Sarah 20

First vehicle: Volkswagen BeetleCurrent vehicle: Nissan Xtrail and SentraFavourite food: SaladsFavourite drink: Red wineCelebrity dream man: Johnny DeppMost annoying celebrity: Lindsay LohanAll-time favourite movie: The BodyguardLast movie she loved:P.S. I Love YouLast movie she hated: Vanilla SkyTattooed? No

Never leaves home without:

Her curling “stuff”Competed in: 1983,

1988 (won), 1989 (won), 1990, 1991,

2006,

2007, 2009 Scotties. 1981 Mixed Nationals (won).

Fifth: Ashley Miharija

Nickname: Smash.Home: Thunder BayBegan curling at age: EightDelivery: RightOccupation/title: Labora-tory technicianEmployer: Life LabsDate of birth: Jan. 21, 1987Place of birth: Thunder BayMarital status: SingleSpouse/Partner: Boy-friend BrianChildren: NoneFirst vehicle: Volkswagen BeetleCurrent vehicle: Nissan Xtrail and SentraFavourite food: SaladsFavourite drink: Red wineCelebrity dream man: Johnny DeppMost annoying celebrity: Lindsay LohanAll-time favourite movie: The BodyguardLast movie she loved: P.S. I Love YouLast movie she hated:

Vanilla SkyTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: Her curling “stuff”Competed in: 2008 junior nationals, 2009 mixed, 2009 Scotties

Coach:Rick Lang

Home: Thunder BayOccupation: Clini-

cal investigatorEmployer: Office Of

The Children’s LawyerDate of birth: Dec. 12, 1953Competed in: National Juniors: 1971; Brier: 1975, 76, 80, 81, 82, 85, 88, 91, 93, 95, (fifth) 00; Worlds: 75, 82, 85; National Mixed: 81; National Seniors: 04, 06; 08, 09 World Seniors 07. Coached: Scotties, 09.

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The 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts will return to Prince

Edward Island for the third time in the event’s history and the fourth in the history of the Canadian women’s curling championship.

P.E.I. premier Robert Ghiz hailed the announcement last month.

“This is a great oppor-tunity to showcase our province and our renowned Island hospitality to not only the participants, sponsors and fans but to all of those who will be watching the televised coverage across the county,” said Ghiz.

It was announced, too, that Kruger Products Limited and the Canadian Curling Association have reached a new sponsorship agreement.

The 2011 Scotties at the

Civic Centre in Charlottetown Feb. 19-27 will mark the 30th anniversary of Kruger’s sponsorship of the Canadian women’s championship.

Long time Island curler Kim Dolan will chair the local host committee. Dolan has competed in nine Scot-ties and last year coached her provincial team at the championship in Victoria.

“We will use our experi-ence in hosting the Scotties in 1984 and again in 1999 to stage what we promise will be a unique and memorable experience for curlers and fans,” said Dolan.

Kruger Products has sponsored The Scotties Tournament of Hearts since 1982 making it the longest corporate sponsor of ama-teur sport in Canada.

The 2010 Scotties is slated for Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Jan. 30 to Feb. 7.

Charlottetown fi rst hosted a Canadian women’s championship in 1973. The winner was Saskatoon’s Vera Pezer, completing a threepeat.

The event returned under the Kruger banner in 1984 with Connie Laliberte of Winnipeg emerging trium-phant. In 1999, Nova Scotia’s Colleen Jones won her sec-ond of six Canadian titles.

Island to host firstScotties since ’99

Jennifer Jones has won the past two Scotties.

Morning Roar staff

China won gold, Japan took silver and Korea won the bronze in both the men’s and women’s competitions at the Pacifi c Curling Champion-ships 2009. Staged at the site of the 1998 Winter Olympic curling tournament at Ka-ruizawa, Japan, the Chinese team skipped by reigning world champion Bingyu

Wang of Harbin whaled Moe Meguro of Japan 10-3 in the women’s fi nal. Fengchun Wang’s Chinese team won the men’s fi nal 8-3 over Japan skipped by Yusuke Morozumi from Karuizawa.

Both China and Japan secured the World Curling Federation Pacifi c Zone qualifi cation places at the world championships.

Defending world champ Bingyu Wang and Meguro will skip their teams at the Ford World Women’s cham-pionship in Swift Current, Sask., March 20-28. Both China and Japan also are through to the Capital One World men’s fi nal at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, April 3-11.

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FLAME“That’s what we’ll

probably remember from this event,” added Koe. “There’s a lot of pressure here. I thought we handled it pretty well. I thought we played great top to bottom, just a couple of shots here and there, and we didn’t get many breaks along the way.”

The three-time world champion Ferbey team probably led the league in disappointment, winning only three of seven starts.

“It’s four years of our lives that have been dedicated to this,” said last-rock dispens-er Dave Nedohin. “There are other things that we’re going to try and continue to do this year, the Brier, a lot of tournaments, the skins and stuff. But this is hard to put into perspective right now. What it means as far as what we’ve done and where we’re going in the future.

“I don’t know what we’re doing after this year.”

Ferbey said he wanted to keep playing the game “but I don’t want to be an also-ran.”

“We’ll have to have a talk

about it. I don’t know what the other three guys want to do. We’ve been together too long to take this lightly.”

Howard and Martin both clinched playoff appear-ances in the morning while Stoughton registered another dramatic victory to leave him in the prime posi-tion to fi nish third.

Howard scored an 8-6 vic-tory over Ferbey, helped out by a critical ninth-end steal of two.

“I thought it was a heck of a game,” said Howard. “A few misses here and there, but a lot of really great shots.”

Martin, meanwhile, was forced to an extra end by Koe, but emerged with an 8-7 win.

Stoughton was looking at a complicated playoff pic-ture until he stole one in the 10th end and another in the 11th to eke out a monumen-tal 7-6 win over Middaugh.

Simmons defeated Gunn-laugson 6-2.

Howard was up 6-5 in the ninth end when the Ferbs made a critical decision to go for a diffi cult double-kill to score two. Last-rocker Dave Nedohin missed the shot, just glancing off How-ard’s shot stone, and the 2007 world champions were in complete control with an 8-5 lead.

Martin, meanwhile, was taken to overtime after Koe scored a deuce in the 10th end with a last-rock hit-and-stick. But in the 11th, facing two red Koe rocks in the rings, Martin made a draw to the 12-foot for the victory.

As for Stoughton, things were looking grim, with a 6-4 disadvantage after eight ends. But the Winnipeg-gers scored one in the ninth. Then Middaugh wrecked on a guard with his fi nal shot of the 10th and, in the 11th, Middaugh played a hit-and-roll with his fi nal brick, but rolled too far and gave Stoughton the verdict..

“We were fortunate,” said Stoughton. “We haven’t had very many good breaks go our way, and that was our

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Hear the High of the Lows! Shane Chisholm is a man with a voice that dwells in the lower register. And playing bass in his band, his instrumental talents take on a similar tone. Tonight you can hear both starting at 9:30 pm in the Oh Canada Lounge.

The singer/musician has been touring Canada extensively with his own band – as well as taking on assignments on bass and backup vocals for many of Canada’s biggest stars. The long list includes the likes of Aaron Lines, George Canyon and Lisa Brokop.

Chisholm and his band shared the stage in September with Tim McGraw at Rexall Place. They have also toured in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan performing for Canada’s troops on duty.

Keith’s Patch is the Party Place!Fun and Games… after the Games The wall-to-wall party atmosphere of Keith’s Patch also comes with a competitive edge. All week long the Roar of the Rings has been alive with contests, games and unique competitions that challenge fans to make their own mark on the 2009 Canadian Curling Trials.

Obviously, the stakes aren’t quite as high as those facing the teams competing for the right to represent Canada in Vancouver. But some serious bragging rights are still on the line!

Everything that happens at Keith’s Patch is in the name of fun. And, in some cases, great prizes are in store for the ultimate winners.

Cool Curling Comes Down to the Crunch! It’s quarter-final Friday for Cool Curling at the Roar of the Rings. All week long some very cool curling fans have been competing for the right to play in Saturday’s championship finals… with some very cool prizes at stake! The competition started Monday and the 32 teams have been at the Cool Curling tables all week. When today’s action is done, the survivors will face off tomorrow in the showdown to decide who truly is the “coolest of the cool” in Keith’s Patch. Quarter-finals are underway at noon, 4:00 pm and 9:00 pm. The winners take home $600 for first, $300 for second and $150 for third – along with two prize packs each.

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Fans Just Wanna Have Fun!When championship weekend comes around at the Roar, Keith’s Patch kicks into high gear. And the driving force behind the high-energy atmosphere comes from our two popular MC’s – Jim Jerome and Stuart Brown.

Fans have been coming in by the thousands all week long for the food, the refreshments and, most importantly, the fun. Well, now it’s time to get the serious partying underway!

The Brown and Jerome show has been synonymous with fun at the Patch for years. Regulars at the Season of Champions “party cen-tral” have come to know the two just as well as the stars on the ice.

Jerome has long been one of the most entertaining personali-ties on Canada’s radio scene including the Edmonton and Ottawa markets… not to mention considerable contributions to community events.

Brown has over 25 years experience as a live event announcer work-ing in front of crowds across North America including a recent role as main stage announcer for Sheryl Crow’s U.S. tour.

You can see them all weekend, introducing the fabulous entertain-ment lineup – and leading the way in a range of crazy contests and competitions.

And while you’re in the neighborhood, step next door for a visit to the Oh Canada Lounge – with live entertainment tonight and Satur-day night.

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Our City. Our News.

MORNING NEWS.5.30

Shaye GanamAndrea Engel

Kleibrink led 8-4 after six ends, having recorded a crushing four-spot, but Jones kept clawing back.

“You always have trouble putting them away,” said Kleibrink, a bronze winner at the 2006 Olympics.

“Why? Because they’re good. Because they’ll use any rocks. If the ice curls they’ll use a rock in the top-12 to come around. You’re never safe.”

Jones outscored Kleibrink 5-2 over the last five ends but still fell short.

Elsewhere, Lawton upended Bernard 6-5 with a final-end deuce to remain alive in the hunt for Olym-pic glory while McCarville dealt Calgary’s Crystal Webster (2-5) a 6-5 setback and Holland rifled reeling Kelly Scott (1-6) of Kelow-na by a 10-4 count.

“Of course it’s a surprise,” Kleibrink said of the pre-playoff Jones demise. “I think everybody thought that Jennifer would be there, at least in a tiebreaker, maybe the semi-final, but that’s the way curling goes, it just wasn’t their week.”

Kleibrink finished the Tri-als round robin in the same fashion at Halifax four years ago. She won the semi over Lawton, then stopped Scott in the final. Both were tight fits.

Two years later, she domi-nated the Scotties but lost to Jones in a sudden-death, last-rock, extra-end final.

“I honestly think the semi-final winner has a better chance,” said Kleibrink.

Bernard’s last rock over-curled allowing Lawton a precise, draw-weight rub-in for her winning deuce.

“I think we were a little flat but I’m not worried

about losing any momen-tum,” said Bernard.

“We’ll work out, throw rocks, decide what rocks we’re going to throw, have a couple of practices tomor-row and the next day, and try to keep busy.

“The worst thing for me or any of our team is to sit around and think. If you knew you were guaranteed, as the old saying goes, then, yeah, you’d rather be playing. We’ll try to simulate as much game activity as we can when we go out to practise.”

The last time Bernard awaited a one-game shot for something of this magnitude? A matter of 13 years! That would be the 1996 Scotties final against Marilyn Bodogh of St. Catharines.

Jones (2-5) variously de-scribed the disappointment of bombing out as “hugely” and “incredibly.”

“We’ve worked three years for this and things just didn’t go our way, we had one bad end in every game we lost,” said Canada’s rep in the last two world women’s champi-onships. “Unfortunately that cost us but we got outplayed and I hope whoever wins is going to go on and do Canada proud.

“We didn’t play as well as we’d like, I don’t know why. If I knew why we would have corrected it. Hopefully we’ll come out in the Scotties (as Team Canada starting in late Janu-ary at Sault Ste. Marie) and play better there.

“I want to go to the Olym-pics. So does every Cana-dian. But you can’t make some things happen and it just wasn’t meant to be.”

McCarville predicted a tight battle today with Lawton.

“It’s going to be a tight one,” said the Lakehead skip. “We beat them the first time around with two in the last end and we beat them in the Scotties with an angle-tap, so they’ll prob-ably come out firing to beat us. We’ll have to bring our A-game for sure. We want to be in that final.”

Holland professed more comfort “as the week pro-gressed.”

“I wouldn’t say we’ve peaked, but I think we’re getting there,” she said.

Holland said she was saddened to watch Scott, the 2007 world champion, depart with an ignominious 1-6 record.

“You know, it was hard to watch them,” she said. “And you know I mean that in all due respect. They really struggled out there.”

From Page 4

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Amy Nixon, foreground, and the Kleibrink crew eliminated Jennifer Jones’ Winnipeg outfit.

Page 14 Morning Roar

Skip: Kevin Koe

Home: Grande PrairieBegan curling at age: 13Delivery: RightOccupation/title: LandmanEmployer: Talisman EnergyDate of birth: Jan. 11, 1975Place of birth: EdmontonMarital status: MarriedSpouse/Partner: Carla KoeChildren: Ava 4, Lila 2First vehicle: Chrysler LeB-aronCurrent vehicle: Ford F150 4x4Favourite food: SpaghettiFavourite drink: Coors LightCelebrity dream woman: Britney SpearsMost annoying celebrity: Jamie KoeAll-time favourite movie: Blades of GloryLast movie he loved: Madagascar 2Last movie he hated: NoneTattooed? NopeNever leaves home with-out: Lip balmWon: 2000 National Mixed, 2008 Canada Cup

Third: Blake MacDonald

Home: St. Albert.Began curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupation/title: VP Business Development, partnerEmployer: Franvest Capital PartnersDate of birth: April 10, 1976 Place of birth: Cold LakeMarital status: MarriedSpouse/Partner: Lawnie MacDon-aldChildren: Spencer 6, Bronwyn 3First vehicle: Toy-ota CamryCurrent vehicle: Volkswagen Jetta TDIFavourite food: Steak and king crabFavourite drink:

Spiced rum and Dr. PepperCelebrity dream woman: Catherine Zeta-JonesMost annoying celebrity: Ben MulroneyAll-time favourite movie: Shawshank RedemptionLast movie he loved: The HangoverLast movie he hated: The Talented Mr. RipleyTattooed? Yes, one on the armNever leaves home with-out: BlackBerryCompeted in: 2008 Canada Cup

Second: Carter

RycroftHome: Sher-wood ParkBegan curling at age: 10Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Co-owner

Employer: Prairie West TruckingDate of birth: Aug. 29, 1977 Place of birth: Grande PrairieMarital status: MarriedSpouse/Partner: Sheila Children: Leah 4, Jayden 2First vehicle: 1978 Ford F150Current vehicle: 2005 Chevy pickupFavourite food: Prime rib and crabFavourite drink: Lots!Celebrity dream woman: Carrie UnderwoodMost annoying celebrity:

Donald Trump All-time favourite

movie: Tomb-stone Last movie he loved: TakenLast movie he hated:

None

Tattooed? I wish, but I’m scared it might hurtNever leaves home with-out: Phone . . . and my Bat-man toothbrushCompeted in: 2002 Olym-pics (silver medal), 2008 Canada Cup, 1998 National Junior runnerup

Lead: Nolan Thiessen

Home: EdmontonBegan curling at age: 11Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Chartered accountantEmployer: Ernst & YoungDate of birth: Nov. 6, 1980Place of birth: Bran-don, Man.

Marital status: SingleSpouse/Partner: NoneChildren: NoneFirst vehicle: 1992 Pontiac SunbirdCurrent vehicle: 2008 Chevy SilveradoFavourite food: PizzaFavourite drink: Chocolate milkCelebrity dream woman: Marissa MillerMost annoying celebrity: Kanye WestAll-time favourite movie: Godfather, Parts I and IILast movie he loved: “Tyson” documentaryLast movie he hated: QuarantineTattooed? Yes, one

Never leaves home without: Clothes on

Competed in: 2000 National Mixed, 2008 Canada Cup, 203 Uni-versity Games gold medal, 2001 National Junior run-

nerup

Fifth: Jamie King

Home: EdmontonBegan curling at age: 13Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Manager, commercial creditEmployer: TD BankDate of birth: Nov. 21, 1973Place of birth: EdmontonMarital status: MarriedSpouse/Partner: Marie GrahamChildren: NoneFirst vehicle: 1971 Pontiac Le MansCurrent vehicle: 2008 Nis-san AltimaFavourite food: Everything at Chicken For Lunch (Sco-tia Place Edmonton)Favourite drink: Gibson’s Rye Celebrity dream woman: Aside from his wife (Carin Koch, LPGA Tour)Most annoying celebrity: Kanye West All-time favourite movie: CaddyshackLast movie he loved: The WrestlerLast movie he hated: NoneTattooed? NoneNever leaves home with-out: A pack of Halls cough drops.Competed in: 2003, 2005 Alberta men’s runnerup

Coach: John Dunn

Home: EdmontonOccupation: University professorEmployer: University Of AlbertaBorn: April 11, 1967Place of birth: Bells-mill, ScotlandCoaches: Canadian

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“So I decided to try it the other way ’round.”

But what about curling’s fu-ture beyond this week and the Vancouver Olympics? What about fears of burnouts? Retirements? Is the game at a crossroads right now?

“It could be,” Holland admitted a while back, “that a few people the immedi-ate year following will say, ‘Yeah, enough is enough, I’ve committed enough time and I’ve sacrificed enough of everything else, my job, my family,’ but three years out I think people are just going to gear up and do it all over again.

“I agree with the current Trials and points system to a point. What I like about it is they’re creating something that demands teams stay together and work together as a team as opposed to a one-shot deal. And I’ll be first to admit that at the 2001 Trials, I got in on the one-shot deal.”

She’s not big, however, on

the crowded schedule that called for “two pressure-packed events only two months out from the Olym-pics.”

“This is nothing to do with the way we’ve performed here,” she said the other day. “I just firmly believe that, preparing for this event, after going through the pre-Trials and having only two-and-a-half weeks to get here, is tough on teams. Any teams. It’s tough on managing lives.

“I understand that it’s mar-keting and viewership for everything involved in the current timing. But I think we could have had either one set of Trials, or if you’re

going to have a pre-Trials, have them in, say, April. Give the teams some time.”

Holland has been a fixture at the head office of Sas-katchewan curling going on 13 years.

“I’ve done a lot more of the programming in the past,” she said.

“As executive director, there’s more staff manage-ment, obviously more of the political side with all our board meetings, the Cana-dian (CCA) meetings.

“All the stuff I really love!” she added with a large touch of sarcasm.

“And I’m taking more of a lead role in a lot of our com-petitions, trying to take a bit of a lead role in some of our development areas, more of the club development. Our Regina office is so small, so all of us tend to do a lot of the work that needs to get done when it needs to get done.”

And it gets done, of course, with that smile.

Amber Holland is executive director of the Saskatchewan Curling Association.

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TV and big crowds. We’re aware of it. But we’re nofocusing on it. And the rocks don’t know they’re on TV or how many fans are in the stands.”n Calgary’s Cheryl Ber-nard, on the long road to the Trials: “The last four years have been a lot of work but the trip has been great. We took four players and our coach and focused on accom-plishing this goal. It’s a juggling act with family, jobs and just life. We’ve had marriage, moves, illness, change of careers and injuries. But through all of that none of us took our eye off of what our goal was when we

started. We are a team in the truest sense of the word and right now we gotta believe and trust all the work and enjoy the ride. This is a great event and we are going to love every moment of it.”

n Moose Jaw’s Pat Sim-mons, on the reasons for calling Davidson his team’s curling home: “We used to have two guys from the south and two from the north and Davidson’s half way. Now there’s third Gerry Adam of Yorkton, second Jeff Sharp and Steve Laycock both of Saskatoon and I’m from Moose Jaw, so we kind of move around the province a lot. We don’t really have a home club. We just never changed it being listed as Davidson because they’ve been so good for us. We hardly ever get a chance to prac-tise together as a four-some. A lot of it is based on individual trust.”n Ottawa’s Craig Savill, on the improvement of the Trials opposition: “They’re better prepared. They realize what the week is like and how to overcome it. A big differ-ence is the Slams. It’s arena ice, playing against all the big teams. All the teams that are in it are Slam teams so it evens out the field.”

n Regina’s Amber Hol-land, on her time on the curling tour: “I wouldn’t call myself a money curler. We play on the tour to gain experience and to work on developing as a team. It’s not about winning cash. Going to the Olympics has been our goal. All of the events leading up to that are the means to that end. I’d rather be known as an Olympian. For sure. No doubt. All athletes would love to be described as an Olympian. We knew get-ting to Edmonton meant

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ROAR OF THE RINGS: RESULTS, STANDINGS, AND STATS

Women’s Final

Round-Robin Statistics

SkipsName %ageAmber Holland 79Cheryl Bernard 78Shannon Kleibrink 78Krista McCarville 78Stefanie Lawton 77Jennifer Jones 76Crystal Webster 75Kelly Scott 70

ThirdsName %ageLori Olson-Johns 81Amy Nixon 81Susan O’Connor 81Marliese Kasner 80Cathy Overton-Clapham 78Kim Schneider 78Jeanna Schraeder 77Tara George 74

SecondsName %ageBronwen Webster 85Sam Preston 81Sherri Singler 81Jill Officer 80Sasha Carter 80Carolyn Darbyshire 79Kari MacLean 77Tammy Schneider 77

LeadsName %ageDawn Askin 88Heather Kalenchuk 86Stephanie Malekoff 85Chelsey Bell 85Lana Vey 84Cori Bartel 82Lorraine Lang 82Jacquie Armstrong 81

TeamsName %ageTeam Kleibrink 82Team Webster 81Team Bernard 80Team Lawton 80Team Jones 80Team Holland 80Team McCarville 78Team Scott 77

Men’s Final

Round-Robin Statistics

SkipsName %ageGlenn Howard 88Kevin Koe 87Wayne Middaugh 84Jeff Stoughton 82Kevin Martin 81Pat Simmons 81David Nedohin 81Jason Gunnlaugson 72

ThirdsName %ageRichard Hart 88John Morris 88Kevin Park 87Jon Mead 85Blake MacDonald 85Randy Ferbey 85Gerry Adam 83Justin Richter 79

SecondsName %ageCarter Rycroft 90Brent Laing 88Marc Kennedy 88Rob Fowler 87Scott Pfeifer 85Braden Zawada 85John Epping 83Jeff Sharp 82

LeadsName %ageBen Hebert 92Marcel Rocque 92Tyler Forrest 90Steve Laycock 89Scott Bailey 89Craig Savill 88Nolan Thiessen 88Steve Gould 87

TeamsName %ageTeam Howard 88Team Koe 88Team Martin 87Team Stoughton 86Team Ferbey 86Team Middaugh 85Team Simmons 84Team Gunnlaugson 82

Draw 12 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TKoe 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 7Martin* 1 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamKoe 99 93 92 82 91Martin 98 94 93 94 95

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TGunnlaugson 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 x x 2Simmons* 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 x x 6%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamGunnlaugson 92 80 70 65 77Simmons 96 88 98 78 90

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TStoughton* 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 7Middaugh 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamStoughton 88 86 83 78 84Middaugh 80 93 89 83 86

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TFerbey* 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 6Howard 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamFerbey 95 86 91 83 89Howard 90 98 93 80 90

Draw 13 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TMcCarville* 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 6Webster 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 4%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamMcCarville 84 75 70 75 76Webster 88 81 75 65 77

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TLawton* 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 6Bernard 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 5%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamLawton 85 84 85 78 83Bernard 88 78 90 86 85

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TKleibrink* 0 2 0 2 0 4 0 0 1 0 1 10Jones 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamKleibrink 89 91 88 78 86Jones 92 76 85 77 83

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 THolland* 3 0 2 0 1 0 3 1 x x 10Scott 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 x x 4%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamHolland 89 83 89 94 89Scott 86 94 67 58 76

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TSimmons 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 7Stoughton* 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamSimmons 90 85 84 83 86Stoughton 91 91 88 82 88

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TFerbey 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 x x 4Koe* 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 x x 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamFerbey 95 84 78 67 81Koe 91 98 84 86 90

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 THoward 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 x 6Martin* 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 3 x 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamHoward 85 81 94 87 87Martin 88 79 80 86 83

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TGunnlaugson 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 x x 4Middaugh* 1 0 2 0 3 0 2 1 x x 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamGunnlaugson 94 84 80 84 86Middaugh 92 91 72 97 88

Draw 14 Results

Women’s Final

StandingsTeam W LBernard 6 1Kleibrink 5 2McCarville 4 3Lawton 4 3Holland 4 3Jones 2 5Webster 2 5Scott 1 6

Men’s Final

StandingsTeam W LMartin 6 1Howard 6 1Stoughton 5 2Koe 4 3Ferbey 3 5Middaugh 2 5Simmons 2 5Gunnlaugson 0 7

Page 18 Morning Roar

1. Mark Dacey, 2004.2. Colleen Jones, 2004.3. Shannon Kliebrink.4. Runnerup at 7-4.5. Kevin Martin.6. Runnerup at 7-4.7. Ted Appelman, Jason Gunn-laugson, Rachel Homan, Kevin Koe, Mike McEwen, Crystal Webster.8. All but Koe.

9. Cathy King, Brent Laing, Kai-tlyn Lawes, John Morris, Craig Savill.10. King skipped winners from Alberta in 1977 and 1978; Laing played lead with Morris skipping and Savill at third on an Ontario team that won in 1998 and 1999. Lawes skipped Manitoba teams to titles in 2008 and 2009.11. Marliese Kasner, Scott

Pfeifer.12. Kasner played third for sister Stefanie Lawton on the 2000 Canadian champ, then skipped her own Saskatchewan team to the title in 2003. Pfeifer played second for Colin Davison’s Alberta winner in 1994, then played third and threw last rocks for Alberta’s Ryan Keane in 1997.

(Note: The 1991 Labatt Brier and Scott Tournament of Hearts constituted the 1991 trials for the 1992 Canadian teams bound for the Albertville Winter Olympics).

1. Name the skip and the year of the last Brier champion team who is missing from the current Olympic trials and/or pre-trials lineup.2. Name the skip and the year of the last Scott Tournament of Hearts winning team which is not represented by any of its four members on the five-player rosters of the current Olympic trials and/or pre-trials.

3. Name the current skip in the women’s Olympic trials and/or pre-trials who boasted the best record at the 1997 trials in Brandon. 4. What was the record and in which position did she finish?5. How about the current skip in the men’s trials and/or pre-trials who boasted the best record at the 1997 trials?6. What was his record and in which position did he finish?7. Six skips — four men’s, two women’s — qualified for the current Olympic trials and/or pre-trials despite having had no experience either at the Cana-dian men’s or women’s champi-

onship. Name them.8. Of those six skips, how many were/are directing entire lineups devoid of experience at either the Scotties or the Brier?9. Five players who quyalified to compete for Olympic berths have won back-to-back Cana-dian junior championships. Can you name the five?10. How about the years they won back-to-back and the prov-inces they represented?11. Two other Olympic tri-als competitors are two-time national junior champs. Name them.12. How about the years they won their junior titles?

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The Northern Alberta Curling Championship Society, operating as the 2009 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings proposes to hold 50/50 Raf� es at the 2009 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings held at Rexall place in Edmonton, December 6 – December 13, 2009.

A designated Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings committee director will be responsible to conduct the 50/50 Raf� e draws and to administer all the activities but will not share in any of the pro� ts. This 50/50 Director is Ken Duggan.

The ticket selling volunteer sales staff will be provided by Non-for-pro� t Curling Clubs that belong to the Northern Alberta Curling Association (NACA). See Schedule I for a list of the NACA Clubs. The pooled pro� ts will be divided equally among the eligible NACA Curling Clubs who participate in the sale of the 50/50 tickets.

50/50 Sales for each draw at Rexall Place:

• Sales for the 50/50 raffl e tickets for each draw shall commence up to 60 minutes before each scheduled curling draw and will cease when the last two teams end their 5th end break.

• The drawing of the winning 50/50 raffl e ticket shall be conducted, with at least two members of the Executive for the Northern Alberta Curling Championship Society (NACCS) present, in the 50/50 control room at Rexall Place as soon as possible after the cease of sales and the determination of the 50/50 prize for that draw based on the number of tickets sold for that draw.

• The winning 50/50 ticket number shall be displayed on the jumbotron by the end of the 8th end of the feature game for each of the scheduled curling draws. The winning number shall also be posted on two announcement boards in Rexall Place and the Keith’s Patch at the Edmonton Expo Centre, and will be announced on the public address system when the last curling game is completed. If there is only one curling game played (semi � nal and � nal games), the public address system will announce the winning 50/50 number at the break at the end of the 7th end or the end of the 8th end.

• The winning 50/50 numbers will be displayed on bulletin boards in both Rexall Place and the Keith’s Patch at the Edmonton Expo Centre during the 2009 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings, Canadian Men’s and Women’s Curling Trials until claimed or until 45 minutes prior to the � nal draw on Sunday, December 13, 2009, whichever comes � rst. Any unclaimed prizes at that time shall become a carryover prize, the winner of which will be determined by drawing an extra ticket from the tickets sold on Sunday, December 13th.

• The fi rst 50/50 ticket drawn will claim the share of the Sunday, December 13th sales and if required, a second 50/50 ticket drawn will claim the carry-over prize.

• For the Sunday, December 13 draw for the fi nal game, there will be an extra ticket drawn. This extra ticket will be used in the event that the ticket for the Sunday draw or – if applicable – the ticket for the carryover draw have not been claimed within 15 minutes of the announcement for the original 50/50 or, if applicable, the carryover 50/50 prize.

• If a winner does not come forward for the draw(s) or the additional ticket drawn after the fi nal curling draw on Sunday, December 13, the NACCS will apply to Alberta Gaming for the winning raf� e amount for that draw to be provided to the designated charities that the pro� ts will be distributed to; that is the participating curling clubs.

General Rules

• 50/50 Ticket sales will be conducted at Rexall Place for each of the 18 draws for the 2009 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings, Canadian Men’s and Women’s Curling Trials, (plus tie-breaker games if applicable).

• Tickets will be sold for $2.00 each. • 50% of ticket sales will be distributed as prizes, • Profi ts for distribution to NACA Curling Clubs will be made after deducting printing, security, bank charges and

all other directly related costs required to operate the 50/50 raf� e. • Sales will only be made to persons 18 years or older. • The number of consecutively numbered tickets printed will be 150,000 blue tickets, and 150,000 green tickets. • Both Blue and Green 50/50 tickets will be sold at each of the 2009 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings draws (plus

tie-breakers if applicable). • Payouts to winners will be by cheque. • The members of the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings 50/50 Raffl e Committee will not be allowed to purchase

tickets. This will include, The Chair for the, the Vice Chair of Promotions, the Director of 50/50 and all the Executive members of the NACCS.

• Two Board members of the 2009 NACCS Executive will be present at all drawings • Seller’s will advise all adult ticket purchasers not to give bearer ticket to a person under the age of 18 otherwise

due to the requirements of the Public Trustee Act. • No refunds will be given

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1997 OLYMPIC TRIALS

Larry WoodMorning Roar Editor

Sandra Schmirler’s memorable off-the-wall curling shot in the

seventh end of the women’s final and Mike Harris’s upset in the men’s final highlighted the 1997 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials played at Bran-don.

Schmirler defeated Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary 9-6 in the women’s final but trailed 4-3 heading into the seventh end of the gut-clenching match.

In the seventh, Kleibrink had stashed a rock on the but-ton and sandwiched between two enemy stones, top and bottom. There was no way Schmirler could see the stone let alone hit it without a carom off an outside stone. So the three-time Canadian champ from Saskatchewan

calmly fired a rocket that caught the perfect angle on the outside rock, picked the Kleibrink stone cleanly and remained for a big three points.

The shot knocked the wind out of the Kleibrink team, and Schmirler and her team of Jan Betker, Joan McCusker and Marcia Gudereit rolled to the three-point victory.

Schmirler led the 10-team field with a 7-and-2 record during the round robin. Her conquerors were Cathy King and Marilyn Bodogh.

Kleibrink and Kelley Law of Richmond, B.C., finished 6-3 and collided in a semi-final, bronze-medal match won 7-4 by Kleibrink.

Trailing the leaders, King, Bodogh and Anne Merklinger of Ottawa were 5-4, Connie Laliberte of Winnipeg, Alison Goring of Toronto and Sherry (Middaugh) Scheirich of Saskatoon were 3-6 and Mary

Mattatall of Halifax was 2-7.Harris, directing Rich-

ard Hart, Collin Mitchell and George Karrys, led the men’s round robin with a 7-2 records, having lost to Kevin Martin and David Smith of Winnipeg. Martin and Ed Werenich trailed with 6-3 records and qualified for the semi-final.

It was 5-5 after seven ends when Martin decided he’d had enough and pole-axed Werenich with an eight-end four spot to effectively wrap up the argument. It ended 9-6.

Harris, looking for revenge in the final, erupted for a 4-1 lead and then hung on to dis-pense with Martin 6-5 with a 10th-end hammer win and tickets to the Olympic Games in Kariziuwa.

Trailing the leaders in the trials standings were the Win-nipeg trio of Smith, Kerry Burtnyk and Jeff Stoughton at 5-4, Brent MacDonald of

Edmonton at 4-5, Wayne Mid-daugh of Toronto and Russ Howard of Penetanguishene, ON at 3-6 and Kevin Park of Edmonton at 1-8.

At Nagano, Schmirler powered her way through the eight-team field with only a

single loss — 6-5 in an extra end to Dordi Nordby of Nor-way.

Also finishing at 6-1 was Elisabet Gustafson of Sweden while Helena Blach-Lavrsen was 5-2 and Kirsty Hay of Great Britain was 4-3.

Schmirler required an extra end to nudge Hay 6-5 and was close to watching her last rock sliding too far at the finish.

Blach-Lavrsen, meanwhile, upended Gustafson 7-5 before losing 7-5 to Schmirler in the gold-medal match. Gustafson, meanwhile, won the bronze by defeating Hay 10-6.

Trailing were Nordby, Mayumi Okhutsu of Japan and Lisa Schoeneberg of the U.S. at 2-5 and Andrea Scho-epp at Germany at 1-6.

Harris and Co., ran up a 6-and-zip record in the men’s competition before the skip-per ran afoul of a debilitating case of the flu.

Canada lost its last round-robin tussle 10-8 to Eigil Ramsfjell of Norway, ham-mered Tim Somerville of the U.S. 7-1 in the semi but had nothing left for the final dur-ing which Harris could barely stand on his feet.

Hence Canada bowed to Switzerland’s Patrick Huer-limann by a shocking 9-3 count.

Somerville eliminated Makoto Tsuruga of Japan 5-4 and Sweden’s Peter Lindholm 5-2 in tiebreakers to reach the semi-final.

Huerlimann knocked off Ramsfjell 8-7 in the other semi.

Behind Canada’s 6-1 log during the round robin, Nor-way and Switzerland were 5-2, Sweden, the U.S. and Japan were mediocre at 3-4.

Douglas Dryburgh of Great Britain was 2-5.

Meanwhile, Germany’s Andy Kapp was 1-6.

Schmirler’s golden gals stole the show

Sandra Schmirler and her Regina quartet won Olympic gold at the 1998 Games in Nagano.