The Citizen, 2007-03-29, Page 10PAGE 10. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2007.
Brussels Atom Local League plays Mount Forest
Winners
The winners of the December-January draw at Brussels
Curling Club received their trophy Friday night. From left:
skip Mervyn Bauer, vice Dona Knight and second Brian
Warwick. (Vicky Bremner photo)
The Brussels Atom Local League
players travelled to Mount Forest
last Wednesday night. Brussels
played a very strong offence, taking
46 shots on net. Mount Forest only
took 19.
The game was very fierce between
these two teams. Both teams
played very hard to outskate the
other.
A Mount Forest player scored the
lone Brussels goal when Logan
Clarke took a shot and it went off the
Mount Forest player’s skate into the
net.
Mount Forest netted their goal
against Austin Johnston later in the
third, to tie the game at 1-1.
The game went into a 10-minute
sudden-death overtime, with no
clear winner. This was the second
sudden-death game for Brussels in
this series.
The last game for Brussels will be
tonight (Thursday) in Teeswater.
The team with the most points will
take the WOAA Atom LL title.
Brussels currently has six points,
Mount Forest has five, and
Teeswater has two.
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In rock action at the Wingham Curling Club on Mondaynight, Stewart Leedham defeated Les Shaw to the tune of 7-3 and John Nixon was two better than Bruce Robertson withfinal score of 8-6.***
The ladies’ Tuesday action saw Amy Miller defeat Cathy
Donnelly 6-3 and Kayla Bishop defeat Ann Crawford by a
similar score. Debbie Gammie was a 6-4 winner over Mary
Henry. Marg Moffatt and Sandra Morrison had to throw
extra rocks to decide the winner with Marg Moffatt the
victor.
***
Playoff action in the Tuesday competitive league is at a
high pitch with some close ones and some one-sided scores.
Earl Fitch edged Russ Taylor 6-5 and Bill DeVos was an 8-
7 winner over Rob Middleton. Aart DeVos showed no mercy
downing Dean Newson 9-3 and Calvin Ruttan was a
runaway 12-3 winner over Shawn Cottrill.
***
In the Wednesday mixed league playoff action three teams
remain undefeated after two weeks of playoffs. Wayne
Horton hit the win board with a 9-4 victory over Steve
Burke. Aart DeVos defeated Earl Fitch 8-2. John Dailleboust
remained undefeated, eking out a 5-4 victory over Leanne
Elston and Tammy Adams downed Dean Newson.
***
In the Thursday mixed league Mike Cottrill had great ring
control with a 13-3 win over Cam Alton. Kevin Bishop ran
up a 10-3 win over Elliott Miller while daughter Kayla lost a
close one 8-7 to Bill McDonald.
***
In the daytime league on Monday the results were: Lloyd
Wheeler 10, Ron McMichael 3; Irving Elliott 9, Mac Inglis
8; Stewart Leedham 13, Norm Fairles 1; Bruce Robertson 7,
Glenn McMichael 4; Les Shaw 11, Wendell Stamper 2; Ivan
Dow 6, Nelson Frank 5 and Jim Coultes 9, Dusty Henry 4.
There were some really wild scores on Thursday. Results
were: Wendell Stamper 12, Ron McMichael 4; Mag Inglis
11, Glenn McMichael 8; Bruce Robertson 10, Norm Fairles
3; Lloyd Wheeler 8, Les Shaw 6; Nelson Frank 11, Dusty
Henry 8.
Stewart Leedham downed Jim Coultes 11-4 thanks to a
scoop-loaded shot by one of the Coultes rink which wiped
Coultes four counters off the rings.
In the other game it was a real battle between Irving Elliott
and Ivan Dow. It looked like Ivan with pastoral help was wellon his way to a win but the Elliott foursome came up with abig seventh end to be down one without the hammer goinginto the eighth end. They managed to steal one in the eighth to send the game
into an extra end and with a well buried shot the Elliott
foursome gained the win 8-7.
***
The Belgrave curlers played their second double header
for the second week in a row.
In the opener, both Vincents came up with wins as Joyce
Vincent edged Cathy Goetz 5-4 while husband Murray
recorded a 10-4 win over Ruth Olson. Bruce Howson
recorded his third win of the playoffs in a low scoring 3-2
win. The other game left a little aroma as Linda Meier
skunked Dave Linton 9-0.
In the night-cap action, there were some very close scores:
Dave Linton 4, Bruce Howson 3; Jim Scott 5, Ruth Olson 4;
Murray Vincent 5, Cathy Goetz 4; Joyce Vincent 5, Linda
Meier 4.
***
The Wingham Golf and Curling Club annual meeting was
held on March 21 with president Mary Henry opening the
meeting with the chairperson’s report. The financial report
was given by Tom Deyell. Cathy Goetz, curling chair,
outlined the activity for the year making special mention of
the great success of the junior curlers.
Dennis Knox, golf chair, reported on golf plans and
outlined ongoing maintenance and upgrading of the course.
The club will continue with a tree planting program in April
with trees planted along the west border of the course as well
as along the back hole beside the river. Trees will be planted
on the east side of the driving range, to be used for future
placement on the course.
The board has carefully considered and approved a new
layout of the holes for the 2007 season. This should be a
positive change for the course with the major benefit having
the finishing hole close to the clubhouse to direct more
traffic into the clubhouse.
Jim Ross gave the property report indicating in the past
year a new aerator and used fairway mower were purchased.
A new nipper was purchased for the curling operations and a
new dishwasher and chairs purchased for the clubhouse.
Items on the agenda for the coming year include
replacement of fuel tanks and work along the laneway road
due to excessive river erosion.Mary Henry introduced the new pro shop manager andgolf co-ordinator Dave Merian.The directors for the coming year will be the same as thepast year: Mary Henry, Tom Deyell, Ken Ducharme, Tim
Coultes, Bob Foxton, Dean Newson, Jim Ross and John
Kuyvenhoven with Cathy Goetz as curling representative
and Dennis Knox as golf representative.
***
Merian comes to us from Goderich Maitland Golf Course
where he was assistant pro. Dave is a graduate of Georgian
College Pro Golf Management Course.
In the past he has good schooling on the job having worked
on the course cutting grass etc., working the pro shop and
giving lessons. Many of the ladies will remember the very
informative group lessons Dave gave last year. He hopes to
work with youth and has plans for many students for the
junior golfers.
Dave is a scratch golfer and I’m sure many top golfers are
anxious to challenge him. This scribe advised Dave that he’ll
find the Wingham nine much harder than the Maitland
Course to master.
***
Now the grass is beginning to show. Remember if you
want lower cart rental and free driving range privileges
membership must be paid by March 31. A good number have
already been out to pay their memberships and are just
itching for the golf season to start.
***
It’s never over until it’s over. This was certainly the case in
the play for the June Casemore trophy. The Friday night
season winners after five ends were ahead of the Thursday
night winners 7-2 but the youthful Thursday nighters didn’t
give up and came on strong and stealing two in the last end
came up with an 8-7 win and the Casemore Cup. Youthful
members of the winning team are Kyle Forster, Ainslie
Weishar, Kayla Bishop and Matthew Cottrill.
***
Last kick at the cat will be the ice B-gone bonspiel on
April 1. This will be fun, fun galore as Bruce Pewtress has
a rather unique bonspiel planned. There is no entry fee.
Forget everything you know about curling. Bring your
neighbour, your kids and friends. There will be continuous
starts every 15 minutes beginning at 10 a.m.
Lunch will follow.
Rock Talk – By Bill Johnston