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JIM MORRISThe Morning Roar

If the first day of competition is any indication expect the unexpected this week as Canada’s top rinks battle for the right to compete at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

It didn’t take long for the underdogs to show some teeth and leave bite marks on the favourites at the 2013 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian Curling Trials, presented my Monsanto.

John Epping of Toronto, who has never won a national title, defeated 2010 world champion Kevin Koe of Calgary 9-8 while John Morris, who had to scrap his way through the pre-trials in Kitchener, Ont., downed favourite Glenn Howard of Tiny, Ont., 8-6.

“I know we are picked as a long shot,” said Epping. “We believe we can win this week. That’s why we are here. We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t think we can win.”

Morris said the tone has been set for the rest of the week.“That is an exciting first round of action,” he said. “I think

the crowd got what they paid for. It was nice to see some really, exciting close games.”

In other men’s games, defending Olympic champion Kevin Martin needed a last-rock draw to score two in a 5-3 win over Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen while defending Brier champion Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., scored a 7-4 win over Jeff Stoughton.

Among the women, Edmonton’s Val Sweeting took Rachel Homan, the defending Scotties Tournament of Hearts cham-pion, to the woodshed for a 10-3 whipping. In a battle of Alberta, Renee Sonnenberg of Grande Prairie defeated former Scotties champion Heather Nedohin of Edmonton 8-6.

Martin said the close calls and clear upsets are a result of a 16-team field overflowing with talent.

“Every shot is makeable,” said the Edmonton skip who also won silver at the 2002 Olympics.

“The separation is so little that one shot here and one shot there, it’s a different ball game. That’s the way it’s going to be here all week. It’s going to be a real dogfight for the whole time.”

McEwen fought back from a 4-1 deficit to make things inter-esting.

“It’s getting slippery out there,” said McEwen. “How knows what’s going to happen tomorrow.”

Jacobs jumped into a 4-1 lead over Stoughton and never let the Winnipeg skip back in the game.

“We were able to go out there and take the crowd out of it, which was huge,” he said. “The guys played great in front of me.

“This is going to be a long week. It’s probably going to feel like a slow week. You have to just stay calm and stay in the moment.”

Howard fell behind 3-0 early, but then battled back to make it close before Morris scored three in the ninth. Howard agreed there was a lot of casualties on the first day.

“Notably Howard,” he said.“I struggled a little bit early. We made a great comeback but

they kept making the right shot to make sure we didn’t get a big end.”

In other women’s games, Jennifer Jones scored six points in the sixth end in a 10-2 romp over fellow Winnipeg skip Chelsea Carey while Sherry Middaugh of Victoria Harbour, Ont., beat Stefanie Lawton of Saskatoon 5-3.

One victory doesn’t punch anyone a ticket to Sochi, but a

loss does put a rink in an early hole in the talent-laden field. Only one first-round loser in trials history ever went on to win the event. That was Ed Lukowich in 1987, when curling was a demonstration event at the 1988 Calgary Winter Games.

Sweeting might have flown under the radar in the days lead-ing up to the trials, but she was right on target against Homan,

the world champion bronze medallist. She built an early 2-0 lead with a couple of steals, then stole deuces in the eighth and nine ends.

“It feels good to get a win off the bat,” said the 26-year-old mother.

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A day of upsets at Roar outsetRenee Sonnenberg

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2“We had some breaks from them at the

beginning of the game, some tough shots that they usually make.

“We were a little fortunate but I thought we played better in the last half.”

Things went so bad for Homan the young Ottawa skip could only shake her head and smile.

“It’s just kind of funny when things are going so horribly wrong,” she said. “You just try to laugh it off.

“We learned a lot out there. It may not look like it, but we did. We have to play bet-ter than that.”

Like Sweeting, Sonnenberg’s trip to the MTS Centre began with her battling through the pre-trials in Kitchener, Ont. She quickly showed she belonged in Winnipeg by steal-ing three in the third end to build a 4-2 lead after five ends.

“We pulled one out and we battled hard,” said Sonnenberg. “Now we are going to move forward and take very game for what it gives us.

“If you start 0-1, you don’t want to be 0-2. If you start 1-0, 1-1 doesn’t seem so bad but 2-0 seems amazing. That first win is big win.”

Nedohin was happy her rink never quit.“I had a slippery start, there’s no doubt

about that,” said the 2012 Hearts champion. “I was a little heavy on a couple of draws.

“I was really proud of myself and my teammates. We kept battling and made a really good game of it. It’s a long week. A loss at the start is not a big deal. We have to keep grinding.”

Jones was leading 3-1 when she used a raise take-out to score a half dozen and crush any hopes Carey had for a comeback.

“If we could score six in every game I would be pretty excited,” said Jones, who has won just about everything in curling except the chance to compete at the Olympics.

“It’s a long week but a short week. It’s a pretty short round-robin from what we are used to so you don’t want to get behind the eight-ball early.”

Carey had to do some lineup juggling when third Kristy McDonald came down with the flu. Alternate Breanne Meakin stepped in but Carey said that had nothing to do with the outcome.

“Breanne played great,” she said. “We were just on the wrong side of the inch.“There’s not much you can do about that.”

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There once was a time when the sum-mer fitness program for many curlers was a round of golf. If someone needed a sports psychologist during the sea-son they turned to Dr. John Labatt.

Today’s curlers have a year-round regi-mented fitness program. They pay atten-tion to nutrition and sports psychologists make them mentally tougher. The change in how the game is played, and how the sport is perceived by others, can be attrib-uted to curling becoming a medal sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

“It changed everything,” said Winni-peg’s Jeff Stoughton, one of the 16 skips battling for a ticket to the Sochi Win-ter Olympics at this week’s 2013 Tim Hor-tons Roar of the Rings Canadian Curl-ing Trials, presented by Monsanto.

“It’s clearly the pinnacle of the sport. It’s made all the teams want to be elite ath-letes and take things very seriously and want to compete at the highest level.”

Jennifer Jones, who like Stoughton is a former world champion, said adding curling to the Games has raised the pro-file of the sport. It also has forced teams to focus on the Olympic cycle as opposed

to simply planning one year at a time.“The Olympics has brought a lot to curl-

ing,” said Jones. “It’s really grown the game in Asia and around the world.

“It’s brought a lot more athleticism to the game. You are seeing a lot fitter ath-letes, a lot younger athletes getting bet-ter at a younger age, which has been great for the game. It also really (made teams) focus on four years so all teams build for the four-year cycle. It has changed how you approach the game for sure.”

At age 51, Glenn Howard of Tiny, Ont., is the oldest skip at the tri-als. He sees how the game exists today and remembers how it used to be.

“Back in the day we didn’t do any of

that,” said Howard, who lost to Kevin Martin in the final of the 2009 tri-als. “We didn’t even think about it.

“We didn’t even consider physi-cal fitness to a degree. Back in the day I did nothing in the summer. We played some golf. Come September I would do some stretching and a little bit of light movement. There wasn’t much.”

During the days of corn brooms some curling arenas had cup holders on the ice to hold beverages. Many curlers wore gloves with nicotine stains on the fin-gers. It all made sense because for years major curling events were sponsored by tobacco companies or breweries.

When curling was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olym-pics, Ed Werenich complained pre-cision and strategy was more impor-tant for winning than physical fitness.

Howard understands how some people had a hard time taking curl-ers seriously as athletes.

“I look back now and it wasn’t a proud moment,” he said. “But that’s just the way it was.”

Gerry Peckham, high-performance direc-

tor for the Canadian Curling Association, said the Olympics produced a mind shift in how curlers approached the game.

“The natural by-product of Olympic inclu-sion has been the fact a higher percentage of our more elite teams treat themselves like full-time athletes,” said Peckham. “The type of training they do, the attention to fit-ness, nutrition, sports psychology, how they organize themselves for peak performance.

“All of a sudden that is mainstay of a good percentage of our top 15 to 20 teams in the country. As result of that, there has been a natural separation between our more elite teams and what you might call the rest of the pack.”

As the athletes changed, so did the percep-tion of the game. Curling drew huge crowds at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics where Kevin Martin won the gold medal and Cheryl Ber-nard took silver. Brad Gushue’s gold medal at the 2006 Olympics resulted in his rink being named team of the year by The Canadian Press. The sport commands huge television audiences, even outdrawing NHL games.

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CONTINUED FROM 4 “It brings a lot more awareness to those in other sports who

don’t know what curling is,” said Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin. “That additional awareness of our game, it’s become cool to curl.

“Before it was an older person’s game, or some-thing your parents did. We (now) have some young girls playing the game. It’s drawn great attention.”

Saskatoon’s Stefanie Lawton remembers when curl-ers laughed at the idea of sports psychologists. Now they are accepted like push brooms and sliders.

“Now you need to do that to compete at this level,” she said.“You can compare curling to golf. It’s such a men-

tal game. In your own mind, if you have nega-tive thoughts, that can affect how you are throw-ing your shots. You need to be mentally tough.”

Howard said not only have the athletes improved, so has the ice conditions they play on. Ice making has become a sci-ence, allowing curlers to make more high-light reel shots.

“There are way more shots being made collec-tively on a team than 20 years ago,” he said.

The Olympics have brought a golden glow to the sport but Stoughton has also witnessed some tarnish.

“The only bad thing the Olympics has done is it’s separated the teams quite a bit from your aver-age team you put in a bonspiel,” he said.

“Now you have these elite six to 10 teams that seem to win most of the events. That’s just because they have put in the extra time and the other teams can’t com-pete anymore. It’s disappointing for them.”

Howard understands Stoughton’s concern but believes the Olympics have moved curling in a positive direction.

“It’s a form of evolution in the game,” he said. “I like the way the game is today. It’s a better product.”

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First, I’ll be docked pay by EIC Larry Wood who oft admonishes that a col-umn should never contain the word “I”.

“It’s not about you,” he would say, – don’t use it.

I’ll pay the fine for this one.Context is important, and that Winnipeg is

the perfect place to host an event of this mag-nitude and national importance is real: To me.

I was born in Winnipeg, grew up in Kenora, all of my formative curl-ing years were defined by Winnipeg.

Spending time at the local curling club with my Dad and his pals, often play-ing in big cash spiels such as the Lake of the Woods, some of this country’s most famous curlers were no strangers to me.

CBC Winnipeg in my day produced a made-for-TV curling event that I watched religiously on Saturday afternoons. Don Wittman and Don Duguid called the play and more importantly explained the game, the tactics, and why a shot was chosen. While the rules have changed, the tacti-cal thinking required to be successful has not, and in many way, those gents were ahead of their time in the broadcast side.

As a kid I remember watching rock tossers such as Laliberte, Bonar, Darby-shire and Harvey; Burtnyk ,Meleschuk, Fry, Peters, Neufeld, Turnbull and even a very young mullet-sporting Stoughton.

Growing up in Kenora was the perfect curling storm.

It was ‘neutral ice’ in a day – my day – when some of Canada’s best curlers were from either Winnipeg or Thunder Bay.

Years later, I look back on the day I helped out as a junior curler, realizing I watched Heather Houston play against Connie Lalib-erte; that I watched Al Hackner play against Kerry Burtnyk....and any number of other combinations – Tetleys and Langs and Arnotts – now, in my role, I realize how significant that was, even if I did not appreciate it then.

Plus the canteen burgers and fries in Kenora were amazing: Great curling and the smell of wonderful food wafting through the lobby – these are memories etched on my brain.

Winnipeg is the prefect host for the event that will choose who goes to Rus-sia to wear the Maple Leaf for curling.

Western Canada – per capita – and Man-itoba specifically and statistically – have and continue to represent that toughest province to win to get to a Brier or Scot-ties. If you don’t believe me, have a chat with Chelsea Carey or Mike McEwen.

Lower Fort Garry might suggest a cer-

tain Scottish lilt to the whole place, right-fully so and as such, the province and this city blend the best of curling’s actual home country and its adopted home country.

Winnipeg houses some of Canada’s most decorated curling clubs – Fort Rouge, St. Vital, Granite, Heather, Kildonan.... and more.

And at the end of the day, Win-nipeg personifies the game maybe more than any other in Canada.

It’s about being polite and sportsman-like; you’ll be slapped on the back and given credit for a good shot and be respected for reciprocated comments. But expect no pity if you are getting waxed. If your oppo-nent can draw for five he or she WILL draw for five. Because that’s the way it has to be. You don’t get any better through cod-dling, and the very spirit and respect of the game is in Winnipeg’s every day regimen.

Like the statue atop the province’s legisla-ture, Winnipeg dusts off the notion that it’s too cold, is always quick to offer and hand up as opposed to a hand out; it has a work ethic that’s collar blue and heart gold.

Which is fitting, when you think about it. Like that boy on the top of the building,

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JIM MORRISThe Morning Roar

Curling, which he dubbed “the game of kings” received a visit from the court jester Sunday when Ron Burgundy brought his charm and insight to the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Cana-dian Curling Trials.

“I really enjoy Winnipeg, the Paris of Canada as it’s known,” Burgundy told spectators at the MTS Centre.

“The sights and the sounds and the smells are just fantastic. A lot of smells.”

Behind the bushy moustache and the deadpan act was film star Will Ferrell who was promoting his movie Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Ferrell has also starred in films such as Elf, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

“I think I can bring some dignity and class” to curling, explained Burgundy, who was flamboyantly, but tastefully, dressed in a burgundy sports jacket with a TSN logo.

“I know I smell good. Finally there’s someone to give (TSN announcer) Vic Rauter some competition in the booth and straighten him out for once.”

Burgundy drew cheers from the crowd at the MTS Cen-tre when he appeared on the ice before the opening draw. He learned some fine points of the game from former Brier and world champion Glenn Howard and then launched a stone that slid into the 12-foot ring.

“I got it to the blue target area,” said Burgundy.“Glenn is a wonderful teacher. He’s one of the legends of the

sport. He’s an ugly, ugly man. Unsightly. I am attracted to his brother.”

During an irreverent media scrum Burgundy was asked why he decided to accept TSN’s offer of covering curling, as opposed to last week’s Grey Cup or even an NHL hockey game.

“Don’t forget the knife-throwing competition in Saskatoon,” he replied.

“I took curling because curling is where my heart is. I’ve always loved curling. We used to do a curling segment on the news in San Diego. No one watched it. In fact, viewership plum-meted 33 per cent during those times.”

Burgundy also showed his knowledge of curling terms like ‘hurry hard.’

“It’s, of course, one of the classic terms in the sport of curling, which is the game of kings,” he said. “I use it when someone is in my way, usually when I’m stuck in traffic. I will yell ‘hurry hard.’”

Burgundy also explained Winnipeg is a word, ‘Latin in its roots’ that means “small tundra bunny who lives in the hole in the hill.”

He was asked if he consider accepting a job at the CTV station in Winnipeg.

“I would,” Burgundy said. “It’s unfortunate they are going off the air.”

Later, wearing a kilt, Burgundy joined Rauter, Linda Moore and Russ Howard in the TSN broadcast booth.

“I was stuck at the airport,” he explained when asked about his appearance at the curling trials. “I had 12 hours to kill. I brought a city bus here.”

Burgundy appeared doubtful when told curling originated in Scotland.

“I don’t trust the Scots,” he said. “They are lying about that.”Burgundy also explained his technique for relaxing.

“I do yoga,” he said. “I also have a sip of scotch. Or a whole bottle.”

Former world champion Jennifer Jones said Burgundy gave her team a thumbs up prior to their opening-draw game against

Chelsea Carey.“It’s amazing,” she said. “You are an athlete playing a game.

Then to have this celebrity come in and put Winnipeg and our trials and curling on the map, (it’s) pretty cool to be part of.”

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01DEC13 2013 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings - Women Presented by Monsanto MTS Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba STATISTICAL REPORT FOR DRAW 1 Draw 1 GAME SCORES FOR DRAW 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOTAL A Sherry Middaugh *1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 5 04:19 Stefanie Lawton 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 3 03:10 B Rachel Homan *0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 X 3 05:05 Val Sweeting 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 2 2 X 10 10:22 C Jennifer Jones 0 1 2 0 0 6 0 1 X X 10 10:31 Chelsea Carey *0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 X X 2 12:33 D Renee Sonnenberg 0 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 8 00:23 Heather Nedohin *2 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 6 01:16 *last rock advantage TEAM STANDINGS AFTER 1 DRAW FUTURE GAMES TEAM WINS LOSSES 2 3 4 Val Sweeting 1 0 -- LAW -- Renee Sonnenberg 1 0 -- HOM -- Sherry Middaugh 1 0 -- JON -- Jennifer Jones 1 0 -- MID --

01DEC13 2013 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings - Men Presented by Monsanto MTS Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba STATISTICAL REPORT FOR DRAW 2 Draw 2 GAME SCORES FOR DRAW 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOTAL A Kevin Martin *0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 5 06:17 Mike McEwen 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 01:59 B Kevin Koe *1 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 8 00:51 John Epping 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 1 9 04:33 C Glenn Howard *0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 6 04:13 John Morris 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 8 01:09 D Brad Jacobs *0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 7 05:34 Jeff Stoughton 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 4 05:26 *last rock advantage TEAM STANDINGS AFTER 2 DRAWS FUTURE GAMES TEAM WINS LOSSES 3 4 5 Brad Jacobs 1 0 -- MCE -- John Morris 1 0 -- KOE -- John Epping 1 0 -- HOW --

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MenMorris 1-0Jacobs 1-0Martin 1-0Epping 1-0Koe 0-1Howard 0-1Stoughton 0-1McEwen 0-1

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The party in the Patch got off to a roaring start for the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings, presented by Monsanto. Crowds packed the MTS Centre Sunday for opening day of the competition. And when the games were done, they headed to the RBC Convention Centre for the fun! The Foster Martin Band was the opening act to hit the stage following the afternoon draw – and the longtime favourites of the local country music started it all off on the right note. The revelry carried on into the late hours of the night with the Boom Chucka Boys taking over the stage. The group got curling’s party crowd onto the dance floor with their unique style of country/rockabilly sounds. The Patch will be rocking all week long, with a great lineup of live entertainment and lots of tasty food and beverages. And admission is included in every same-day ticket!

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

1. Two skips scored game-total highs of 14 points in Olympic Trials histo-ry. Name the skips.2. Who skipped the losers that respectively yielded the 14 points?3. Final scores, in which Trials, when and where?4. Two skips have scored six-enders in Canadian Olympic Curling Trials history. They are:5. Name the skips that surrendered the big six-counts.6. Final scores, times and places, please.7. The record for high combined one-game score in Olympic Trials history is 21. Can you name the winning skip in the game in which the final score totalled 21?8. How about the final score, the losing skip, when and where?9. Two of the eight men’s skips in the current Olympic Trials never have skipped in a Brier. Name them.10. Only one of them never has played in a Brier at any position. His name?11. Only one of the eight women’s skips in the current Olympic Trials never has performed in a Scotties. Name her.12. Four of the eight women’s skips in the current Trials have adopted married (husband’s names). Can you name four, and their maiden sur-names?

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The question of qualification for the 1992 Olympic demonstration curling competiton was resolved some time prior to commence-ment of play at the 1991 Scott Tournament of Hearts and the 1991 Labatt Brier.

T h e C a n a d i a n Cu r l i n g A s s o c i a t i o n announced that, in each case, the winner would be Canada’s Olympic representatives at the Albertville, France, Olympic Games.

If ever there was a Labatt Brier in which par-ity was paramount, it was the ’91 slugfest at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton.

Truly, Alberta’s Kevin Martin emerged the winner strictly by outlasting a field that, one-by-one, seemed rattled by exhaustion as the week wore on.

But, at the finish, it was the teams that fared best over the complete week squaring off and it was the younger Martin and his Edmon-ton team of third Kevin Park, second Dan Pet-ryk and lead Don Bartlett who persevered 8-4 when Regina’s Randy Woytowich faltered in the clutch.

Still, what a see-saw week it was! Woytowich, who was to wind up with the

playoff bye to the championship final, lost to Quebec’s Kevin Adams 4-3 in the opening round. Adams followed up by losing eight in a row, checking the skid only in time to upend Alberta, the eventual champ, 5-3 for Quebec’s only other victory in the tournament. Go figure.

Four defeats wound up giving a team a crack at the playoffs. B.C. lawyer Gerry Kent of Cran-brook made it by winning his last three, his longest winning streak of the preliminaries. And Rick Lang of Northern Ontario, a former world king, had to knock off Saskatchewan, then stop New Brunswick 4-3 in an extra end to survive.

Alberta and Saskatchewan, meanwhile, led the way at 8-3 with Woytowich getting the play-off advantage on the strength of his 10-4 victory over Martin at mid-week.

Kent doubled Lang 6-3 in a tiebreaker but was shaded 4-3 by Martin in a semi-final Alberta controlled throughout.

In the final showdown, Woytowich lost con-trol of his draw weight after assuming a 3-2 lead over three ends. Martin blanked the fourth and

fifth, struck for a whopping killer four in the sixth and stole two more in the seventh to tear it wide open.

Martin finished 10-3, Woytowich 8-4, Kent 8-5 and Lang 7-5. Missing the playoffs by a game with 6-5 records were Russ Howard of Penetanguishene, Jeff Stoughton of Winnipeg and Robert Campbell of Charlottetown.

Howard was eliminated by the time the final round began but Stoughton was drummed out there by Martin, 3-2. Campbell won his last four, three in extra ends, and he led the league in killing giants, beating Howard, Woytowich and Lang.

Danny Bentley of Halifax was 5-6 after win-ning four of his last five. John Boland of Gan-der and Gary Mitchell of Moncton tailed off to 4-7, Boland losing his last five and Mitchell his last three.

Territories veteran Chuck Haines of White-horse dropped his last five to finish 3-8 while Adams surprisingly tail-ended at 2-9.

The Scotties at Saskatoon boiled down to vindication for Victoria’s Julie Sutton and heart-break for Saint John’s Heidi Hanlon.

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On the strength of the week’s play, Sutton had the clear-cut edge — she’d whaled Hanlon 10-2 in the first round of preliminary play and had proceeded to run up an unequalled 10-1 record.

But the final shootout was no repeat wipe-out. In fact, Hanlon managed to steal three points and manufacture a cozy 5-2 lead after seven ends.

With pressure dripping from the girders, Sutton set about staging the rally of a cham-pion. She cooked up an eighth-end deuce, stole another pair in the ninth when Hanlon miscued, then stole the 7-5 victory in the 10th when Hanlon’s last-rock draw veered on stray debris.

With sister Jodie at third, Melissa Soligo at tsecond and rookie Karri Willms at lead, Sutton lost only to Saskatchewan’s Sandra (Schmirler) Peterson during the round robin.

But there was the inevitable logjam behind and some big names took turns beating on one another.

Alberta’s Deb Shermack (Santos) of Edmon-ton gave Sutton the longest run of the week but lost three of her last four and finished crammed at 7-4 along with former world

champion Heather Houston of Thunder Bay and Peterson, who won her last two.

Houston appeared to be up to the old tricks of previous tournaments, struggling to a 4-4 start before winning her last three including a 5-4 squeaker over Colleen Jones of Halifax and a 6-5 extra-ender against Shermack in the last round.

Hanlon, meanwhile, quietly won seven of eight after losing at the outset and finished alone in second place with an 8-3 record and wins over all her playoff opponents save Sut-ton.

Peterson stole two in the sixth and doubled out Shermack 6-3 in the first tiebreaker. Then Houston cracked a ninth-end three to elimi-nate Peterson 6-3.

In a wild semi, Ontario got out in front 2-0 and led 5-3 after seven. But Hanlon scored three in the eighth, stole one in the ninth, gave up a tying deuce in the 10th before grabbing both those points back in an extra-end 9-7 win.

Sutton finished 11-1 to Hanlon’s 9-4. Hou-ston and Peterson were 8-5 and Shermack was 7-5.

Defending Scotties champion Alison Goring of Toronto wound up 6-5, never managing to advance beyond one win over .500. At 5-6 were Jones, who lost six of her last eight, and Winni-peg’s Kathie (Ellwood) Allardyce who lost five of her last seven.

Anna Lidgren of Whitehorse was 4-7, Mon-treal’s Francine Poisson was 3-8, Angela Rob-erts of Charlottetown and Cathy Cunningham

of St. John’s each checked in a 2-9.In the Olympic demo scrap at Pralognan,

France, Sutton won three straight to emerge from her round-robin section as the lone unbeaten team. Denmark’s Helena Blach was 2-1 in the same grouping while Andrea Schoepp of Germany, Dordi Nordby of Norway and Jackie Lockhart of Great Britain wound up snarled at 2-1 in the other section.

Schoepp nudged Lockhart 6-5 and Nordby administered a 9-2 pummelling of the Scots in tiebreakers.

Then, in the crossover semis, Nordby clob-bered Sutton 9-2 and the Victoria team was forced to work hard in order to bounce back and claim bronze with a 9-3 win over Blach. Nordby wound up succumbing 9-2 to Schoepp

in the gold-medal fixture.Martin was less fortunate on the men’s side.He, too, won three straight in his group-

ing but was bounced 8-4 in the semi-finals by Switzerland’s Urs Dick. Martin then suffered an embarrassing 9-2 defeat at the hands of vet-eran Bud Somerville of the U.S. in the bronze-medal match.

Somerville had finished second to Mar-tin with a 2-1 record but lost 8-3 to Norway’s unbeaten Tormod Andreassen in the other semi.

The Norwegians’ unbeaten skein was halted by the Swiss in the gold-medal final. Dick avenged an earlier round-robin defeat by heisting the winning point, and the gold, in an extra end by a 7-6 count.

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Switzerland and Sweden won gold medals Saturday at the 2013 Euro urli ng championships at Stavanger, Nor-way.

Sven Michel’s Swiss team from Adelboden defeated Thomas Uls-rud of Norway 8-6 in the men’s final. Michel had an open draw to the rings to ensure the victory in the 10th end.

This was the first success for Michel (skip), Claudio Pätz (third), Benoit Schwarz (second), Simon Gempler (lead) and Sandro Trolliet (alternate).

In the women’s final, Margaretha Sigfridsson’s outfit doubled the score — 10-5 — against world champion Eve Muirhead of Scotland.

The Swedish team win was their country’s 19th European wom-en’s title. Playing with Sigfridsson, who skipped and threw lead rocks, were Maria Wennerström as second, Christina Bertrup as third and Maria Prytz as fourth.

This team has lost the final of the World women’s championship the last two years.

Playing in front of a packed home

crowd, Ulsrud blanked the first end before scoring two points in the sec-ond end of the men’s final. But the Swiss rebounded to score three points in the third end.

Ulsrud drew for another two points fourth end. Switzerland singled in the fifth end to level the score at 4-4.

Norway blanked the next two ends but the tactic backfired in the eighth end when Ulsrud was heavy with his final draw to give up a whopping steal of three points.

Norway fought back with a nose-hit by Ulsrud in the ninth end to score two points but Michel was left with the free draw on last rock at the finish.

“It feels so great,” said Michel. “We played so well and my team did such a good job. We took a timeout before the ninth end to talk about tactics. Our goal was to reach the playoffs and everything that came after was a bonus.”

Meanwhile, Ulsrud was bemoan-ing earlier mistakes.

“The eighth (end) was a really bad end for us,” he said: “We played great all week and it’s been real fun to play in front of our home crowd. It’s been a

good experience for us.”

Norway 020 200 002 0 — 6Switzerland 003 010 030 1 — 8Muirhead had a complete miss in

the first end to yield a stolen single in the women’s final.

The Scots retaliated with one in the second end but, in the third, Sweden made a breakthrough when fourth player Maria Prytz promoted one of her own stones and knocked out a Scottish counter to score three points for a 4-1 lead.

Scotland blanked the fourth end and scored score two in the fifth to narrow the gap, then squared the account in the sixth with a steal when Prytz managed only half of a dou-ble-takeout attempt.

Sweden took a go-ahead two in the seventh end, at which point the Scots started to run out of time on the match clock.

The teams swapped singles in the eighth and ninth ends before Muir-head, with her last stone played with only 12 seconds remaining, miscued and Sweden stole three points.

“We felt very comfortable and

really brave on the ice today, we just kept playing our own game and mak-ing the right decisions,” said Sigrids-son. “We really wanted to get our play working the way we wanted and to get everything feeling right this time.”

“That was pretty sore,” Muirhead admitted. “We just didn’t seem to be as sharp as we had been earlier and we ended up running the clock down a bit. But give them (Swedes) their dues, they played well. We just wer-en’t good enough today and that’s the bottom line.”

Scotland 010 021 010 0 — 5Sweden 103 000 201 3 — 10In the women’s bronze medal

game, Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott dumped Lene Nielsen of Denmark 6-4

Scotland won the men’s bronze. Skip David Murdoch didn’t require his last stone to hang up a 10th-end deuce for a 7-6 win over Rasmus Stjerne of Denmark.

The final standings:Men1. Switzerland (Gold)*

2. Norway (Silver)*3. Scotland (Bronze)*4. Denmark*5. Sweden*6. Russia*7. Czech Republic*8. Latvia (Lost challenge series 2-0

to Germany)9. France (Relegated to B-Group)10. Finland (Relegated to B-Group)*Quallfied for 2014 World men’s

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Women1. Sweden (Gold)*2. Scotland (Silver)*3. Switzerland (Bronze)*4. Denmark*5. Russia*6. Czech Republic*7. Latvia*8. Germany* (Won challenge series

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