The Morning Roar - December 12th Edition

Issue 7 – Saturday, December 12, 2009 • An Official Publication of the Canadian Curling Association.

On the ’brink!

Semifinal winner Kleibrink one step from a second Olympic Winter Games

The Shannon Kleibrink team celebrates its 10-5 semifinal win over Krista McCarville’s outfit Friday night, setting up tonight’s all-Calgary Trials final against Cheryl Bernard.

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An all-Calgary affair

It’s Kleibrink vs. Bernard in women’s Trials final Larry Wood and Todd Kimberley Morning Roar

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hannon Kleibrink must have deja-vu on the mind and in the eye as she heads for today’s 6 p.m. Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings women’s final at Rexall Place.

The Canadian curling Trials defender and the Olympic bronze-medal winner at Torino in 2006, Kleibrink will again use a semifinal win as a springboard, this time in an all-Calgary final against long-time arch-rival Cheryl Bernard.

Four years ago, Kleibrink scored three in the last end to defeat Kelly Scott of Kelowna in the final. Scott had earned the bye to the final, as Bernard earned the current berth.

“The good news is that someone from Calgary will be going to the Olympics,” said Kleibrink with a smile, moments after defeating a dog-tired Krista McCarville team from Thunder Bay personal battle and eight of 10-5 in Friday night’s semi. the last 10 going back to “It’s been like that our April 2006. whole careers. Bernard is a “I’ve great team and always said we’ve battled it “Three Trials, three the team out for probfinals. That’s not that comes ably 15 to 20 bad.

It gives me out of the years. So this confidence, having semis has is no surprise a definite been there before. to us.”

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At left, Kari MacLean applies a manic brush during Friday’s semifinal. Top, it’s a team effort for Amber Holland and Co. in tiebreaker No. 2.

Above, Stefanie Lawton’s crew guides a stone into the house during tiebreaker No. 1.

changed or not. It’s an advantage. It’s tough to get through the semi but if you do I’d rather be that team.”

Bernard will direct Susan O’Connor, Carolyn Darbyshire and Cori Bartel in the sudden-death showdown for the date at the Vancouver Olympics.

A steal of two in the second end for a 3-0 spot catapulted Kleibrink and her team of Amy Nixon, Bronwen Webster and Chelsey Bell into the driver’s seat against McCarville, who was playing her third game of the day.

But McCarville, as she’d

been inclined to do all day, fired a double-kill in the seventh to square the account, only to lose control of the eighth, miss her last draw and yield a killing five-ender.

“I am tired,” the 27-yearold McCarville admitted later. “I am disappointed that we didn’t play our best that game, because we curled so well earlier. But in the long run, I’m really happy with third place. Obviously I’d love to make it to the Olympics, so hopefully in 2014. And every game was giving us more and more

experience, so I think that’s a really good thing.

“I’m really proud of our team. We worked really hard in the past four years, and this gives us the confidence to know we can compete here and at the Scotties.”

Kleibrink said she was equally proud of her Trials record.

“Three Trials, three finals.

That’s not bad,” she said.

“Won one, lost one. Right now we’re just happy to be in it.

“It gives me confidence, having been there before. I was confident in my team even in the game today. I feel confident my team will play well tomorrow and I’m sure Cheryl’s will, too. It should be a great game.”

The semi, according to Kleibrink vice-skip Amy Nixon, was a “gong show.”

“We watched them on TV earlier and they were making great shots so we knew they’d have some chances and we’d probably have some chances,” said Kleibrink.

“We just had to capitalize.

“We thought they might be a little more conservative after they got the three to tie, but they’re an aggressive team. They love to play that come-around stuff.

Krista goes hard. There are always a lot of rocks around. We don’t mind that but we wouldn’t be adverse to getting away from it.”

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The Glenn Howard rink, above: Heavy favourites today? Jeff Stoughton says yes: “No one expects Stoughton to go the the Olympics except ourselves.”

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eff Stoughton professes to be a rank underdog going into today’s men’s semifinal against Glenn Howard at the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian curling Trials.

“No one’s giving us much of chance because everyone wants a (Kevin) MartinHoward rematch in the final,” the 46-year-old Winnipeg skip said following a practice session at Rexall Place on Friday.

“All the pressure’s on them (Howard) to perform at their best. We’re coming in as underdogs and we’ll milk that until the cows come home. We have to use it to our advantage.

“We know we can win.

We know it will be a great game. But no one expects Stoughton to go to the Olympics except ourselves.”

Stoughton, of course, lost the 2005 final against Brad Gushue to go the Torino Olympics.

“That was different,” he said. “We were the favourites. We were expected to

win. So this time, it’s a great position for us to be in.”

Stoughton doesn’t take it as a slight on his team of Kevin Park, Rob Fowler and Steve Gould.

“Kevin and Glenn deserve to be favourites,” he said.

“We can’t expend the time and effort to put into the game that they can. It’s not an excuse. We just have to be good at the right times and we’re getting good at being good as the right times.”

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Nagano near-miss spurred Hart’s quest for gold

LARRY WOOD Morning Roar Editor

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lympic Games experience on the men’s side of the current Trials equation amounted to three players at The Rex this week.

Well, make that four.

If you include the first two Olympic curling demo events, Edmonton’s Kevin Park would fit in there along with his 1991 skip Kevin Martin, 2002 second Carter Rycroft in a different Martin lineup, and Ontario-based vice-skip Richard Hart, a 10-year fixture with Glenn Howard since competing with silver-mining Mike Harris at the 1998 Games at Nagano, Japan.

Hart, an electrical contractor in Pickering, Ont., was part of a team that never

had won anything outside his home province when it suddenly was thrust on the Olympic stage.

“When we won the Trials in ’97,” he is recalling, “it was literally just one game at a time, we almost didn’t know what we were playing for. Every single time we went out on the ice we were playing against a team we thought was better than us.

“It was like every single game we won was an upset.

That kept us going and then when we got to the final (against Martin), it was a matter of, ‘OK, we’re going to need a break,’ and that’s what we got in that third end (stole two for a 3-0 lead).

“After that we played terrific and went on somehow to beat Martin. But every single game, we felt like we had to do something special to beat these teams that everybody in the world thought were better than we were. Except that they weren’t. Turned out we were just as good if not better than most of those teams.”

And Hart, Harris, Collin Mitchell and George Karrys wound up in curling’s first legitimate medal Olympics.

The experiences of which

have kept Hart in the thick of competitive curling ever since.

“It’s probably a cliche, and you hear it from a lot of athletes at the Olympics, but it really is special to be a part of 150 or 200-member team,” Hart says. “It’s something that, in this sport, you really don’t get to experience very much.

And to get that chance, and possibly to meet some idols of yours, it’s great. We had a chance to do some of that.

I had a chance to sit down and have a beer with Wayne Gretzky. It was an amazing experience. When we got back, about a month or two after the Olympics he had a party down in Toronto at his bar and he was nice enough to invite us and that was really, really special. That’s one thing I’ll never forget.

To meet and be a part of a group that included all those other athletes.”

But there’s another Olympic lure for Hart.

“I really want the opportunity to win that gold medal,” he says.

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GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Team Howard: Skip: Glenn Howard Nickname: Cliffy Home: Penetanguishene, Ont. Began curling at age: 10 Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Manager Employer: The Beer Store Date of birth: July 17, 1962 Place of birth: Midland, Ont. Marital status: Married Spouse/Partner: Judy Howard Children: Scott 19, Carly 16 First vehicle: 1980 Honda Civic Current vehicle: Nissan Maxima Favourite food: All pasta Favourite drink: White Russian Celebrity dream woman: Charlize Theron Most annoying celebrity: Sacha Baron Cohen All-time favourite movie: The Sting Last movie he loved: Star Trek Last movie he hated: None recently Tattooed? Nil Never leaves home without: Watch and wallet Competed in: 1986, 87, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 06, 07, 08, 09 Briers, 87, 93, 07 Worlds, 07 Continental Cup

Third: Richard Hart Home: Pickering, Ont. Began curling at age: 13 Delivery: Left Occupation/title: Project manager Employer: Hart-Well Electrical Date of birth: Oct. 14, 1968 Place of birth: Toronto Marital status: Married Spouse/Partner: Margaret Hart Children: Joseph 12, David 10, Lauren 7 First vehicle: Pontiac

Grand Am Current vehicle: Ford F150 Favourite food: Pizza Favourite drink: Rum and Coke Celebrity dream woman: Megan Fox Most annoying celebrity: Oprah All-time favourite movie: Hoosiers Last movie he loved: Star Trek Last movie he hated: New Moon Tattooed? None.

Never leaves home without: Phone Competed in: 1998 Olympics, 06, 07, 08, 09 Briers, 07 Worlds, 07 Continental Cup.

Second: Brent Laing Nickname: Lainger Home: Horseshoe Valley, Ont. Began curling at age: Nine Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Operations manager Employer: Weed Man, Collingwood-Barrie Date of birth: Dec. 10, 1978 Place of birth: Meaford, Ont. Marital status: Common Law Spouse/Partner: Leah Children: Wil (2) First vehicle: Ford Escort Current vehicle: VW Passat CC Favourite food: Pizza Favourite drink: Rye and Coke Celebrity dream woman: None.

All-time favourite movie: Good Will Hunting Last movie he loved: The Hangover

Pizza, White Russians, Oprah opposition, and New Moon malice

Last movie he hated: None Tattooed? No Never leaves home without: iPod Competed in: 2002, 06, 07, 08, 09 Brier, 07 Worlds, 07 Contiinental Cup, 03, 06, 08 Canada Cup, 98, 99 Canadian Junior, 98, 99 World Junior.

Lead: Craig Savill Nickname: Savvy Home: Ottawa Began curling at age: 10 Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Owner, real estate appraisal Employer: Savill Appraisal Services Date of birth: Oct. 25, 1978

Place of birth: Lahr, Germany Marital status: Married Spouse/Partner: Karen Cumberland Children: None First vehicle: 1997 Honda Civic Current vehicle: 2010 Ford Fusion and 2008 Honda CRV Favourite food: Chicken Favourite drink: Rum and Coke Celebrity dream woman: Megan Fox Most annoying celebrity: Rosie O’Donnell All-time favourite movie: Superbad Last movie he loved: Superbad Last movie he hated: It was so bad I can’t even remember it Tattooed? None Never leaves home without: Cellphone Competed in: 2002, 06, 07, 08, 09 Brier, 07 Worlds, 07 Continental Cup, 03, 06, 08 Canada Cup, 97, 98, 99 Canadian Junior, 98, 99 World Junior.

Fifth: Steve Bice Home: Milton, Ont. Began curling at age: 12 Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Chemical, safety, environmental technician Employer: Ontario Power Generation Date of birth: Oct. 5, 1981 Place of birth: Sarnia, Ont. Marital status: Single Spouse/Partner: Leah Crane Children: None First vehicle: 1997 Honda Accord Current vehicle: 1997 Honda Accord with dent on the trunk Favourite food: Pizza with green olives Favourite drink: Rum and Coke Celebrity dream woman: Elisha Cuthbert Most annoying celebrity: Ben Mulroney All-time favourite movie: Dumb and Dumber Last movie he loved: Harry Potter Last movie he hated: Pineapple Express Tattooed? Nope Never leaves home without: My teeth Competed in: 07, 08, 09 Brier, 07 Worlds

Coach: Scott Taylor Home: Barrie, Ont. Occupation/title: Partner/manager Employer: BalancePlus Curling Equipment Date of birth: April 4, 1954 Place of birth: Barrie, Ont. Coached: 1995 Canada Winter Games, curling gold-medal; 99 World junior; 01, 05 Olympic trials, 02, 06, 08, 09 Brier, 07 Worlds

Richard Hart, left, and Glenn Howard

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Bernard blueprint bold and balanced Larry Wood

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heryl Bernard has hit upon a balancing act that may have made her a more consistent shotmaker at the age of 43.

“I think you’re much better off when you’re not hung up thinking about this game all the time,” Bernard said Friday following a 40-minute session tossing “lots of practice rocks” at Rexall Place.

She’s winning at the Tim Hortons Olympic Trials, and was awaiting an opponent in today’s final at 6 p.m. It’s a position she hasn’t occupied for more than 13 years, since the 1996 Scotties final.

And the secret? As Terri Clark used to warble, she’s “got better things to do.”

“The last three or four years have been a grind getting to this,” Bernard said. “Now we’re at the end of it. The last two years we played a ton.

I think we burned ourselves out. And it was starting to be not very much fun. And, I don’t care what you think, you do have to have fun doing this. Or it makes it like a really bad job.

“I mean, you have to spend days and days in hotels and travel all over and they’re never very glamorous towns. And it does get to where it’s kind of your

life and I don’t think that’s the greatest.

“You have to find somewhere in the middle and still give a lot of time to the game but you don’t want to do it too much. Because it just becomes everything, which is I think what has happened the last couple of years. You get tired. We got tired.”

Cheryl Bernard: “Other stuff to think about.”

No longer. Bernard has been going back to the hotel between draws here, working to set up a new (her second) insurance business. She also has purchased a condo in San Diego.

“There’s other stuff to think about,” she said.

“You’re not thinking about curling 24 hours a day. It allows you to focus more sharply on one thing at a time, I think.”

Looks like it’s working to a tee for Bernard and her

team that will have been gameless for almost 48 hours when it steps on the freeze tonight.

“Today (Friday) will be exhausting for one of these teams,” she said. “For us, it was a long week and I know we were rather tired in that last game (Thursday). So it’s nice to take a break from the game.

“We don’t have a preference for an opponent. I don’t like to watch because of all the great shots they’re making. They’re all tough teams.”

In the meantime?

“Everybody’s going to be doing her own thing,” said Bernard. “We all kind of go our own way. There’s family here. Some people are going to work out, maybe have a nice dinner.”

Bernard said she won’t be changing her game plan no matter who she plays.

“We’re pretty aggressive with the hammer, not so much without. So we’ll go for it, but we’ll wait a little bit early, we don’t go hard early, we’ve never found that works that great for our team.

“We always need time to settle in, whether we’re in a club ‘spiel or in an arena somewhere. But now, everybody knows the ice and no matter who you play, they’re going to throw everything at you.

“We know that.”

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Responding to the scene was their dream.

Kleibrink’s analysis, meanwhile, of her preliminary fifth-round loss to her final foe on Wednesday morning?

“We had a tight game, played well the first half then kind of fell apart and she had an easy shot for the win.”

McCarville noted that giving up those fateful five points in the eighth end on Friday night, immediately after tying the score, was particularly painful.

“We tried to battle back, and were pretty close, but that (eighth) end, a couple of our draws came up short, we ticked on a few, and it was pretty much bad luck,” said McCarville. “We were thinking either the triple or else the draw, and just try and go for the steal . . . it was a little bit curlier on that sheet today, rather than this morning, and I wasn’t catching on to it like they were.”

McCarville used spectacular double-takeout shots for four-enders to survive two tiebreakers earlier in the day.

In the morning, the Thunder Bay skip blew open the argument with Stefanie Lawton

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FINAL: ‘Pretty much bad luck’ of Saskatoon in the fifth end, executing a tight but precise double-kill that gave the Lakehead team a 5-2.

The youngest skip in the women’s Trials went on to eliminate Lawton, the 2005 semifinal loser, 7-4.

“Absolutely, it turned out to be a one-shot game,” said McCarville. “We had to hit her rock anywhere on the high side and it was going to be there for four. Anywhere else and we probably get three.

“But it’s tough to protect a lead for five ends on this ice. Your nerves always are a little more rattled.”

In the afternoon, the big four-ender transpired in the

sixth end against Amber Holland of Kronau, Sask.

It was, however, a tighter match. Holland pushed McCarville to an extra end, eventually losing 7-6.

The 27-year-old McCarville assumed a 5-2 lead when she made a double-kill through a narrow port to count three, then finished with a hit-andstick for the quartet.

But Holland battled back and engineered a ninth-end a deuce and a 10th-end theft to force overtime. But, in the extra exchange, with McCarville counting a pair, Holland was heavy with a last-rock draw and McCarville didn’t require the hammer for a 7-6 decision.

“We just stayed in it, which was good,” said Holland. “But we play this game for more than just winning. If the players out there on that ice play just to win every single event they enter, they’re going to be thoroughly disappointed.

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It’s been a great ride. And we enjoyed ourselves.”

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Men’s sweepfest returns to London

John Labatt Centre to host 82nd Brier Morning Roar staff

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he 2011 Tim Hortons Brier, presented by Monsanto, will be staged in London, Ont. The 82nd edition of the Canadian men’s curling championship will be played at the 9,100-seat John Labatt Centre from March 5 to 13, 2011.

It will mark the 30th time that the province of Ontario has hosted the Brier since it began in 1927 in Toronto.

The last Tim Hortons Brier in Ontario was held at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton in 2007, and was won

by Ontario’s Glenn Howard.

London previously hosted the 1974 Macdonald Brier when it was played at the London Gardens and the 1981 world men’s curling championship. The 1974 Brier winner was Hector Gervais of Edmonton. In 1981, Jurg Tanner of Switzerland won the world title.

More recently, the city successfully staged the 2006 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women’s curling champi-

onship, at the John Labatt Centre, where the third highest attendance figure in the championship’s history of 105,065 was generated.

The winner that year was Kelly Scott of Kelowna.

The province is investing $500,000 to assist in the staging of the Brier in London.

Host committee chairman is Peter Inch, who held a similar position for the 2002 Canadian Seniors at St. Thomas and the 2006 Scotties.

“What at the outset may have appeared to be an insurmountable task to accomplish, the support, dedication and commitment by the volunteers and partners in successfully hosting such previous national curling events have clearly contrib-

Jeff Stoughton won Briers in ’96 at Kamloops and ’99 at Edmonton.

uted to London obtaining the Brier,” says Inch.

The Brier has been played in 31 cities across Canada, from Victoria to St. John’s.

Manitoba has won a record 26 Briers. Alberta has won 24. New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Yukon/ Northwest Territories have yet to win.

The Brier attendance record is 281,985, set at Edmonton’s Rexall Place in 2005, the first Tim Hortons Brier, which eclipsed the former mark of 248,793 established in 2000 in Saskatoon.

When London hosted the 1974 Brier, the attendance for the week was 48,170.

Since 1980, when the first Labatt Brier was held in Calgary and a playoff format was introduced, 19 of 30 Brier winners have gone on to win the world men’s curling championship. The latest was Alberta’s Kevin Martin, who won the 2008 Tim Hortons Brier in Winnipeg and the world men’s curling championship in Grand Forks, N.D. Meanwhile, the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier will be held at the Metro Centre in Halifax, March 6-14, with the winner then representing Canada at the Capital One World Men’s championship, April 3-11 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

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GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Skip: Shannon Kleibrink Home: Okotoks, Alta.

Began curling at age: 14 Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Mortgage associate Employer: Dominion Lending Date of birth: Oct. 7, 1968 Place of birth: Norquay, Sask.

Marital status: Married Spouse/Partner: Richard Kleibrink Children: Torri 16, Kyler 14 First vehicle: 1989 Ford Mustang Current vehicle: Ford Explorer Favourite food: Pizza Favourite drink: Beer Celebrity dream man: Mel Gibson All-time favourite movie: Major League Last movie she loved: New Moon Last movie she hated: Transformers Tattooed? Yes . . . one Never leaves home without: Cellphone Competed in: 2006 Olympics, 93, 04, 08 Scotties, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 Canada Cup, 96, 03, 04 Mixed, 06 Continental Cup

Third: Amy Nixon Nickname: Li’l Hate or Wee Home: Calgary Began curling at age: 10 Delivery: Right Occupation/ title: Lawyer Employer: City Of Calgary, Prosecutions, Law Department Date of birth: Sept. 29, 1977 Place of birth: Saskatoon Marital status: Married Spouse/Partner: Mike Westlund Children: None First vehicle: Chevy S-15 Truck with AM radio Current vehicle: Honda Civic SL Favourite food: Pretty

Team Kleibrink:

Li’l Hate, B-Web, pizza, Keith’s ale, AM radio, and that Ferbey love-hate thing much anything but mushrooms Favourite drink: Steeped tea or Keith’s beer Celebrity dream man: None Most annoying celebrity: No time to worry about celebrities!

All-time favourite movie: The Color Purple, Shawshank Redemption Last movie she loved: My Sister’s Keeper and 21 Last movie she hated: 27 Dresses Tattooed? One, right ankle Never leaves home without: Her pillow and her team Competed in: 2006 Olympics, 04, 08 Scotties, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 Canada Cup, 03 Mixed, 06 Continental Cup

Shannon Kleibrink

Second: Bronwen Webster Nickname: B-Web Home: Calgary Began curling at age: 15 Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Recruiter Employer: CMA Alberta Date of birth: Aug. 2, 1978 Place of birth: Calgary Marital status: Married Spouse/Partner: Kevin Webster Children: None First-ever vehicle: VW Jetta

Current vehicle: Honda Civic Favourite food: Sushi Favourite drink: Turbo Celebrity dream man: Matthew McConaughey Most annoying celebrity: Britney Spears All-time favourite movie: Shawshank Redemption Last movie she loved: Seven Pounds Tattooed? None Never leaves home without: Lip balm Competed in: 2008 Scotties, runner-up. 07, 08, 09 Canada Cup, Champions in 2009. 6 Continental Cup, 1998 Canadian Junior, 2005 Kurizawa International Champions (Third for Webster). 2001 Olympic Trials (Second for Fowlie)

Lead: Chelsey Bell Home: Calgary Began curling at age: Eight Delivery: Right Occupation/ title: Dietitian,

diabetes educator Employer: Alberta Health Services Date of birth: Sept. 1, 1982 Place of birth: Regina Marital status: Single Spouse/Partner: None Children: None First-ever vehicle: Saturn Current vehicle: 09 Rav-4 Favourite food: Cereal Favourite drink: Beer Celebrity dream man: David Beckham Most annoying celebrity: Perez Hilton All-time favourite movie: None Tattooed? Nope Never leaves home without: Chapstick Competed in: 2005, 08 Scotties, 07, 08, 09 Canada Cup, 06 Continental Cup, 01, 03 Canadian Junior, 03 World Junior

Amy Nixon

Fifth: Heather Nedohin Home: Sherwood Park, Alta.

Began curling at age: Six Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Mother Employer: Nedohin Estates Date of birth: July 15, 1975 Place of birth: Fort St. John, B.C. Marital status: Married Spouse/Partner: David Nedohin Children: Halle 7, Alyssa 3 First vehicle: Pontiac Sunfire Current vehicle: Nissan Pathfinder Favourite food: Anything made by Grandma Nedohin Favourite drink: High Impact Acai Booster Juice Celebrity dream man: Randy Ferbey Most annoying celebrity: Randy Ferbey All-time favourite movie: Sweet Home Alabama Last movie she loved: Ugly Truth Last movie she hated: Can’t remember. So bad we only watched the first five minutes Tattooed? Temporary tattooes with the kids only.

Never leaves home without: Cellphone Competed in: 1996 Canadian Junior, 96 World Junior, 97, 98, 99, 00 Scotties, 98 World Womens, 03, 07, 08 Canada Cup, 07 Mixed Canadians

Coach: Ron Meyers Home: Saskatoon Occupation/title: Coach, instructor Employer: Self Date of birth: May 5, 1943 Place of birth: Victoria, B.C. Coached: Sherry Anderson team at two Olympic trials and Scotties, Pat Simmons team at the Brier, Doug Harcourt team at the Brier, Ireland at two Euro championships, provincial and national CCA coach

Saturday, December 12, 2009 Meanwhile, Howard doesn’t expect a late-game controversy concerning Martin team sweeping in their round-robin finale Thursday night will have any adverse effect on his team’s performance.

“We’re not bothered,” Howard said. “We just hope that Team Martin plays by the rules as far as the sweeping goes and just sweep properly. That’s all we’re asking. We’re just pointing out the fact that they aren’t really sweeping the way the rule states. So that’s what we’d like them to do and if they do that, then great.”

Howard’s vice-skip Richard Hart suggested Martin

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DREAM

lead Ben Hebert was lifting his broom in front of a Martin draw in the ninth end Thursday.

“I’m not calling those guys cheaters,” Hart said Friday. “I brought it to their attention. Maybe I’m the one at fault here. Maybe I should have gone to the officials. I thought I saw an infraction. But no way am I calling them cheaters, they’re a great team and everybody knows that.”

Howard admitted he wants another crack at the Mar-

tin juggernaut that sat out Friday awaiting today’s 1 p.m. semi-final winner for a climactic opponent Sunday at 1 p.m.

“I want to get to Vancouver,” said Howard. “I don’t know how much time I have left. I don’t know how much time my legs have left. So, yes, I want another crack at Kevin. Nothing personal.

He’s one of the best players and everything you want to do you seems to have to go through Kevin. But we have Jeff first and that’s our No. 1 priority now.”

Howard beat Stoughton in the Trials opener when the Winnipegger gassed his last draw. But Stoughton defeated Howard in the Brier semi last year at Calgary after Howard lost two mentally taxing battles with Martin.

“We just didn’t plan the next day very well,” recalled Howard. “I didn’t feel myself. I don’t know how the other guys felt. This time we’re going to be ready.

And that won’t be an excuse if we lose.”

Stoughton’s recollection of that Brier confrontation?

“They didn’t come out as sharp as they had been and they made a couple of dumb calls in the second end when they gave us four and we took full advantage of it,” he said. “But it was still a lastrock game.”

Stoughton said he’d settle for another last-rock draw shot in the semi: “Hopefully we have another shot like that. I’d love the opportunity to draw the four-foot to get to the final. I’d hope to make it this time.”

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he Canada Cup of Curling will resume in December, 2010, with the Medicine Hat Arena the host building. Staged last March at Yorkton, the event will be played from Nov. 30 to Dec. 5, 2010.

The Canadian Curling Association competition, which brings together 10 of the best men’s and 10 of the best women’s teams in the country, will be contested as the first event in the CCA’s Season of Champions for the first time..

“The City of Medicine Hat continues to be a great location to hold significant curling events in Canada,” says CCA CEO Greg Stremlaw

of Ottawa. “After the recent successes of the Continental Cup there, we were enthused to learn that the city had a keen interest in hosting the nation’s top curling athletes in the 2010 Canada Cup. “ Medicine Hat was the site for the most successful-ever renewal of the Continental Cup in 2004, when a record 42,317 fans attended the unique four-day international competition, patterned somewhat after golf’s Ryder Cup. The city also staged the 2007 renewal of the Continental Cup at the Arena and drew the secondhighest attendance, 26,810.

Team North America prevailed over Team Europe both times.

Host committee chairman Des Grant returns for his third event, having chaired both Continental Cup renewals.

“We continue to attract the creme de la creme of Canadian curling to our city,” says Grant. “This promises to be a tremendous event.

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ous people that to get out of Alberta sometimes is as tough as winning a Brier.

Now, we’ll likely have not only all of the best men’s and women’s teams in Alberta participating in this Canada Cup, but all of the best teams in Canada.”

Since its inception in 2003, the Canada Cup has been won by some of the country’s most successful curling teams. Edmonton’s Kevin Martin (2005, 2006, 2009) and Randy Ferbey (2003, 2004, 2007) are both three-time men’s winners.

On the women’s side, skip Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary is the only two-time winner (2005, 2009).

The first six Canada Cups were played in Kamloops before the event moved to Saskatchewan for the 2009 edition.

Winners of this week’s Roar of the Rings, the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Sault Ste. Marie, 2010 Tim Hortons Brier in Halifax and 2010 Players’ Championship in Dawson Creek will earn invitations to the 2010 Canada Cup. The last three Canada Cups were used as qualifying events for the Canadian Olympic trials and it is anticipated that the 2010 affair will offer similar qualifying status leading to the 2013 Trials.

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RESULTS AND STATS

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Showdown looms in St. Albert Morning Roar staff

Playoff Schedule Men

Today

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

Sunday

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

Women Today

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

Shannon Kleibrink (5-2)

Friday’s Results

Kleibrink* McCarville %age Kleibrink McCarville

Women’s Semifinal

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 T 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 5 x x 10 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 x x 5 Lead Second Third Skip Team 89 86 80 77 83 88 81 77 67 78

Women’s Tiebreaker No. 2

McCarville Holland* %age McCarville Holland

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 T 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 1 7 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 6 Lead Second Third Skip Team 89 81 89 86 86 86 77 88 86 84

Women’s Tiebreaker No. 1

McCarville Lawton* %age McCarville Lawton

Friday was a busy day for Tara George and the McCarville rink, with three playoff games.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 T 0 1 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 7 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 Lead Second Third Skip Team 87 90 78 79 83 85 79 71 72 77

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urling’s Continental Cup is back.

Despite numerous predictions of doom and gloom for the Ryder Cuptype competition on the ice lanes, Continental Cup VII will be held at the Servus Credit Union Place in St. Albert, Jan. 13 to 16, 2011.

The event will be the first sponsored by the World Financial Group and will continue to be presented

by Monsanto. In addition, “I’m not afraid to say that. It’s what’s keeping me going. Obviously it is going to be just as difficult as this (Olympic Trials). But I’d love to have that chance to get back there and get one more go . . . that would be something.

“Don’t forget, it was only five years ago when I’d never been to a Brier. The last Trials we played in (2005), I still hadn’t been to a Brier.

It was after that event in Halifax that we won our first provincials. That was keeping me going, shooting for the Brier, and now we’ve been to four straight and I mean I still love that event, there’s nothing like it in the world, but I achieved that goal.

“It was quite an accomplishment, that Olympic silver medal we have, but I’d love to get another chance at that gold. Boy, that would be something. It’s No. 1 right now.

“Hey, the world championship in this building is something I’ll never forget, too. But I’m sure the gold medal in Vancouver, if we ever had a chance to win that, it would be at the top of the mantle.”

Hart nevertheless figures he’s been endowed with a rabbit’s foot over the last dozen years.

“I feel really lucky to be where I am right now because if this (Trials) doesn’t work out I won’t have any regrets. I mean, I’ve been to the Olympics, I had my shot, I won the world championship here, which was

WFG has contracted to sponsor the competition in 2012 and 2013.

The unique international curling competition, a favourite among curlers, features teams from North America vs. The World. The competition began at Regina in 2002. Over the first six editions Team North America and Team World each have recorded three wins.

Several months ago, it was announced that the CCA and the WCF had committed to a long-term continuation of the Continental Cup and that the

World Financial Group would become the title sponsor.

The Cup format brings together six teams (three men’s and three women’s) for both Team World and Team North America in various competitions during a four-day event — regular team games, mixed doubles, singles, mixed skins and skins games.

Each segment awards points for wins (or ties), with the first side to reach 200 points declared the winner.

“The World Curling Federation, along with our partner the Canadian Curling

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WOOD: ‘It’s what’s keeping me going’ unbelievable, too. Back on home soil and this crowd in this place. What an amazing experience to be in a building where there were 12,000 to 15,000 people all cheering for you! Not many curlers get that!

“Winning a Brier isn’t the same because the crowd is always split. But we had every single person in this building cheering for us. We talk about that all the time — the experience here in Edmonton.

“It could be somewhat similar in Vancouver. Bigger stage, maybe, but in a smaller building. Maybe 4-to-5,000.”

Hart recalls one other

Richard Hart hadn’t been to a Brier until 2006, but has now played in four straight.

obvious past coup.

“If we hadn’t hooked up with Glenn (Howard) back in 2000 — this is my 10th season with him — there’s no way I would be here trying for this. I’m really, really lucky. I mean, there are lots of great curlers out there but to play with two really special curlers like Glenn Howard and Mike Harris, now that’s good fortune.

“I don’t know how well a lot of people out here know Mike but when he was at the top of his game he was one of those top three (in Ontario) skips. There are guys who have skipped all their lives who are never good enough, and I was lucky to be with Mike — when he was the best, nobody could beat him.

“And now it’s the same with Glenn. Same situation.

As I say, there are tons and tons of great curlers who are equal to me but not many who are as special as Glenn and Mike.

“The difference here is there isn’t that Mike Harris team or that Gushue team that is perceived to be weaker. Now there are only three top-level teams left.

Nobody’s an underdog. The team that gives the best performances is going to win.”

Association, is pleased to be returning to the province of Alberta for the 2011 World Financial Group Continental Cup,” says WCF president Les Harrison of Moncton.

“Due to tremendous government and sponsor support, as well as a strong fan base for curling, St. Albert will be an excellent host in a great facility for the most elite teams in the world to showcase our sport in a variety of disciplines.”

The event has been shifted to a new time slot — midJanuary — as opposed to November or December.

A decade or so ago, if you’d told Hart how hard he’d have to work to maintain success at this level of curling, he might have scoffed. Maybe even retired.

“I never thought I’d have to work as hard as I have,” he admits, but, let me tell you, there’s nothing more satisfying than working hard for something and achieving it.

“I don’t want to take away from what we did in ’97, but it was an amazing thing because it just happened.

But to work hard, and wait and wait and wait. Like my first Brier trip, it made it so much sweeter.

“Knowing the effort our team has put in, if we could somehow do it, well, wow!

That would just be off the charts. The feeling the four of us would have. I mean, the sheer number of events in which we’ve played, the hours of practice, the time away from work and families. And it takes so much more than just us.

“I mean, I’m part of a company back home and those people are covering for me, and people are covering for me being away from my family. You need all these people.

“I don’t think it’s generally known how much toplevel curlers need have to lean on the world. We’re not professional, right? We’ve got so much other stuff going on.

“In this game, without an understanding employer and an understanding wife or partner, you are retired.”

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Trivia time Canadian junior men’s champions vying for places at the Olympic Games during these trials.

4. Aside from previous double winners, there are seven former Canadian junior women’s champions competing at these trials. Can you name all seven players.

5. Only one player in these trials has won four world championships. Name that player.

6. Four of the current men competing also have won three world titles. Name them.

7. Only one other player in the field has won four Briers.

Name him.

8. Only one other player in the field has won four Scotties titles. Name her.

9. Name two other players in the trials field who have won three Canadian men’s or women’s championships.

10. How many players in the men’s trials field of 32 never have played in the Brier?

11. How many players in the women’s pre-trials and trials fields of 64 never have played in the Scotties?

12 Name the skips of winners of the men’s and women’s Olympic berths from the first Olympic trials held in 1987?

ton-Clapham, Kelly Scott.

5. Randy Ferbey.

6. Glenn Howard, Dave Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer, Marcel Rocque.

7. Kevin Martin.

8. Cathy Overton-Clapham.

9. Jennifer Jones, Jill Officer.

10. There are seven men’s

1. Jay Peachey, Pat Ryan, Shawn Adams, Mark Dacey.

2. Jan Betker, Colleen Jones, Jo-Ann Rizzo.

3. Steve Laycock, Kevin Martin, Jon Mead.

4. Chelsey Bell, Sasha Carter, Amber Holland, Jennifer Jones, Jill Officer, Cathy Over-

(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. Four players who skipped men’s teams at the 2005 Canadian Olympic trials in Halifax are missing from the current lineup of contenders.

Can you name the four skips?

2. Three of the 2005 women’s skips are missing from the current lineup of contenders.

Name the three skips.

3. Aside from previous double winners, name three former

Answers

players who have yet to compete at the national men’s championship.

11. There are eight women’s players who have yet to compete at the national women’s championship.

12. Ed Lukowich and Linda Moore.

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

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The drawing of the winning 50/50 raffle 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 final and final 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.

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The first 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.

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2001 OLYMPIC TRIALS

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evin Martin of Edmonton and Kelley Law of New Westminster, B.C., emerged triumphant from the 2001 Canadian Olympic trials played at Regina’s Brandt Centre (nee Agridome).

Martin, who’d represented Canada at the 1992 Winter Olympics at Pralognan, France, directed Don Walchuk, Carter Rycroft and Don Bartlett to six straight wins after splitting his first four round-robin assignments.

Conquerors of eventual Olympians were Bert Gretzinger of Kelowna (9-4 in Round 2) and Jeff Stoughton of Winnipeg (8-3 in Round 4).

Thereafter, Martin peeled off five round-robin wins and advanced directly to the final

with a 7-2 record.

Kerry Burtnyk of Winnipeg and Gretzinger finished at 6-3 and Burtnyk won the semifinal argument 8-6.

In the final, Burtnyk led 3-2 after five but Martin took control with three in the sixth end and parlayed the lead into an 8-7, last-rock decision.

Stoughton finished with a 5-4 record, along with Russ Howard of Moncton, Randy Ferbey of Edmonton and John Morris of Kitchener, Ont. Sharing 2-7 logs were Wayne Middaugh of Toronto, Kevin Park of Edmonton and Greg McAulay of Richmond, BC. On the women’s side of the ledger, Law and her team of Julie Skinner, Georgina Wheatcroft and Diane Nelson (Dezura) led the round-robin field with a 7-2 record. She was beaten by Sherry Anderson of Saskatoon (6-5 in

Round 4) and Amber Holland of Regina (9-7 in Round 6).

Anderson and Colleen Jones of Halifax finished at 6-3, squared off in the semi-final and Anderson prevailed 9-5.

Law trailed the final 2-1 after four ends, then Anderson went cold and yielded a deuce, single and deuce over the next three ends.

Law wound Kelley up on top by Law a 7-3 count.

Sharing 5-4 records were Sherry Middaugh of Coldwater and Michelle Englot (Ridgway) of Regina. Cathy King of Edmonton, Heather Rankin (Fowlie) of Calgary and Holland were 4-5, while Marie-France Larouche of StRomuald, Que., and Sherry Fraser of Richmond, B.C.,

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finished 2-7.

At the Salt Lake City Olympics, staged in nearby Ogden, Canada’s Martin settled for a silver medal while Law won bronze.

Both Canadian teams dominated their respective roundrobin segments with 8-and-1 records.

Martin won four in a row, dropped a 6-5 decision to Peja Lindholm of Sweden, then won four more. Law swept the table under the final round during which she was nicked 7-6 by Luzia Ednother of Switzerland.

Playoff games unseated the Canucks.

Martin avenged his earlier loss to Lindholm in the semifinal, 6-4.

But, in the final, after controlling the match for nine ends, the Edmonton skip was inches off on a lastrock out-turn to the button, rubbed slightly on the counter

Pal Trulsen of Norway had deposited with the other turn, and left Norway with a 6-5 gold-medal victory.

Trulsen also stole the semifinal, with thievery on the 10th and extra ends in a 7-6 win over Andy Schwaller of Switzerland.

Schwaller beat Lindholm 7-3 in the battle for bronze.

Trulsen finished the round robin with a 7-2 record, Schwaller and Lindholm were 6-3, Markku Uusipaavalniemi of Finland was 5-4, Sebastian Stock of Germany was 4-5, Tim Somerville of the U.S., Hammy McMillan of Great Britain and Ulrik Schmidt of Denmark were 3-6 and Dom Dupont-Roc of France was 0-9.

Great Britain’s Rhona Martin of Scotland proved the upsetter in the women’s race.

Her team finished the round robin at 5-4, tied with Natalie Nessler of Germany

and Elisabet Gustafson of Sweden, three games behind Canada.

But, in playoffs, Martin ousted Gustafson 6-4, then Nessler 7-5, the Canada 6-5 in the semi-final by stealing control of the game with a third-end deuce.

In the gold-silver skirmish, Martin posted a deuce in the fifth and stole a single in the seventh that proved the difference in a 7-4 win over the Swiss.

Ebnother was 7-2 in the preliminary while Kari Erickson of the U.S. was 6-3.

Ebnother dropped Erickson 9-4 in the semi-final and the Law team won the bronze with a 9-5 win over the Yanks.

Boasting sub-.500 records were Dordi Nordby of Norway (4-5), Akiko Katoh of Japan (2-7), Lene Bidstrup of Denmark (2-7) and Olga Jarkova of Russia (1-8).