Two Annandale rinks vie to sweep up junior mixed crown
February 09, 2009
AJAX -- Annandale will mix it up on the pebbled ice at the next zone playdown slated for Oshawa this weekend.
The Ajax-based club will have two entries at the Junior Mixed Zone playdown at the Oshawa Curling Club Feb. 14 and 15. Michael Bryson is skipping the team of Emily Lindsay, Sandy Martin and Carly Bee. Josh Hall is teamed with Spencer Anderson, James McPherson and Yvonne Lalonde. Three of the ladies are Competitive Annandale memberships. A total of five teams are entered in the double-knockout draw that will send two teams to regionals in Fenelon Falls next month.--- Blair Metrakos skipped an Annandale team to victory in the OCA Colts Zone at Tam Heather from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. With Metrakos were Chris Van Huyse, Andrew Klein and Scott March. The team now heads to regionals at East York this Saturday. Two of the eight teams at regionals will advance to the Ontario final at Leaside on March 18.--- Annandale is hosting a Ladies Olympic Bonspiel on Saturday, Feb. 21 and the event is full. This year they are playing two eight-end games and using a 'skins format'. The team that wins the most 'skins' money wins a cash prize and the opportunity to compete in the Melitta Bonspiel of Champions.--- Annandale's Susannah Moylan, with Rhonda Lawson, Shannon Sliva and Heather MacDonald, competed in the Zone Playdown in the Best Western Intermediate Women at the Whitby Curling Club last weekend. Six teams participated, but the Annandale entry did not advance. However, Susannah Moylan, Barry Moylan, Carol Wilson and Brian Moffatt won the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club Mixed Bonspiel recently. The Moylan rink emerged out of a draw of 24 teams and qualified for the Melitta Bonspiel of Champions in late March.--- Annandale's Gord Norton team went to Chicago for the 60th Annual Men's All Inclusive International Bonspiel recently. Competing were 15 Canadian teams from three provinces and 17 American teams from five states. Team Norton won the event again. The team included Craig Jewer, Doug Lawson and the lead was Ron Alexander. It was the fourth time in six years the foursome have won it. All say they have a great time at the event every year. They won bragging rights and a winner's pin.--- Annandale women's team of Sandra Thain, Barb Luffman, Meaghan Snow and Joan O'Leary curled with Rhonda Welch, Janet Alexander, April Risto and Leslie Bainard in the OCA Zone for the Women's Tankard, the two-team event, in Sutton recently. The teams were sidelined and did not advance to the Region.--- The Annandale team of Ben Bevan, Chris Avery, Jake McGhee and Carter Adair lost in the 'B' side semifinals at the Bantam Boys' regions recently. Games were at Leaside and Donalda. A win would have put them into the Ontario Provincial finals. The team was coached by Jennifer McGhee.--- Annandale had two teams entered in the Fairfield Marriott Challenge Zone playdown held in Uxbridge recently. Chris Van Huyse, Andrew Klein, Rob Bushfield and Tyler Anderson advanced from the zone directly to the Provincial in Brighton and Trenton, where 32 teams met with three games each guaranteed. The Annandale team won its first game but was then sidelined.--- Team Glenn Howard, with Pickering resident Richard Hart at vice and Brent Laing and Craig Savill, competed in Winnipeg recently in the third leg of the men's 2008-09 Capital One Grand Slam of Curling series, the BDO Classic Canadian Open. Eight of 18 top teams qualified to share the $100,000 purse. Team Howard scraped through the round robin to qualify, but then won the quarter-final, the semifinal and then the final against undefeated Kevin Martin from Edmonton. The team won $22,500, plus $1,500 for each round-robin win for a $24,000 total.