Congratulations to Sweetheart Spiel winners the Barb Cook rink from the Baddeck Curling Club.
Skip - Barbie Cook
Mate - Ruth Morrison
Second - Gretchen Landry
Lead - Heather MacIntosh
The annual Schooner Sweetheart spiel was held at the club on February 9-10 and was once again a huge success. This year boasted a full roster of twelve teams and things were hopping at the club all weekend. On Friday, play got underway at 5:30pm and continued all evening until the 9pm draw as all twelve teams would see their first action on opening night. When not entertaining the many fans in attendance with their creative outfits and great shot-making, curlers were treated to a wine and cheese reception that included many home made dips and desserts that were donated by various people. For those who didn't want wine, they could sample one of the special cocktails that were formulated especially for the event or stay warm on the ice with one of the shots that were making their way around the club. After play on Friday, two teams were tied for first place, the Barb Cook rink and the Marie Young rink, with thirteen points each. Not too far behind was the Yvonne Donovan rink who accumulated nine points for her first game efforts. Play on Saturday got started early with the first draws hitting the ice at 9am. First round leader Marie Young was among the first teams on the ice Saturday and was able to win her second game and get nine points towards her total that now stood at twenty two. Barb Cook was part of the mornings second draw and also was a winner, getting eleven points to sit in first place alone with twenty four, two better than Young and six ahead of Yvonne Donovan who also won her second game and gained another nine points to sit at eighteen. That was only good enough for fourth place at this point as the Charlotte Labelle rink had gotten a big win and thirteen points to now sit in third place with a two-game total of twenty points. As the day went on game times began to run behind by quite a bit, it was decided to shorten the games from six ends to fours ends so as to finish play are a reasonable time for dinner. A formula was worked out so that teams with four end games would still have a fair shot at getting points towards their totals. Marie Young finished her spiel in the second last draw of the day and was once again victorious, taking eleven points that gave her and her foursome a thirty three point total and first place at the time, having passed Charlotte Labelle who had earlier put a third win on the books for her squad but sat with a final total of thirty one points. The only team who was still within reach of bumping the Young rink from first was the Barb Cook rink who would take the ice in the final draw of the day, needing nine points to tie and ten points to take first place. Cook had a great game and was able to add thirteen points to her total, surpassing Young for first place overall. The Marie Young rink took second and Charlotte Labelle was third. Joining skip Barb Cook in first was mate Ruth Morrison, second Gretchen Landry and lead Heather MacIntosh. Congratulations to you all. For the win the Cook foursome received Sweetheart Spiel championship jackets along with a few special prizes. Joining Marie Young in second spot was Joan Latimer, Bernadette Cormier and Lisa Gentile while third place was enjoyed by Charlotte Labelle, Jill Ramsey, Donna Binns and Val Flemming. Fourth place overall was taken by the Joanne Hunston rink who sported an undefeated record but had a tie in their first game along with two wins and that dropped their totals a bit. Joanne was joined by Barb Mercer, Jacklyn MacDonald and Meghan Burns. Rounding out the top five was the Yvonne Donovan rink who ended up losing their third game after victories in their first two. Yvonne was aided by Cheryl MacKinnon, Georgette Sparkes and Celiegh Forrest. Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to all the ladies who took part. It was a great weekend of very entertaining curling. After curling was through, all curlers and guests were treated to a wonderful dinner prepared by Tommy Young and served by some of the Schooner men. Dinner was funded by donations from Schooner's male members. Prize presentations followed dinner and wrapped up what could arguably be called the best Sweetheart Spiel to date. Thank you once again to all the ladies who took part, especially those from the Sydney and Baddeck Curling Clubs and to those who aren't regular curlers but enjoy the sport enough to participate. A big thank you to Lynn Kelly who heads the organization of the event every year and also to the Spiel Committee who played a big part in pulling this off as well. Thank you to Bill Farr and CC Computer Solutions for returning as sponsor of the event again this year, thanks to the ice crew, Kevin Gouthro and other who helped out for bartending, to the Georgette and Bernadette on the housing committee for keeping the club in top shape all weekend, to everyone who brought the delicious food on Friday and to Tommy for a great meal on Saturday and thank you to anyone else who helped out in any way to make this a great event. We hope to see you all back next year for the 2019 Schooner Sweetheart Spiel.
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Schedule
Friday, February 10th
Time:
5:30 PM
Ice 1 - Hunsten vs Buchanan
Ice 2 - Kelly vs Drover
7:00 PM
Ice 1 - Young vs Ford
Ice 2 - Gillis vs Labelle
9:00 PM
Ice 1 - Cook vs Campbell
Ice 2 - Chiasson vs Donovan
Saturday, February 13th
Time:
9:00 AM
Ice 1 - Kelly vs Ford
Ice 2 - Young vs Drover
10:30 AM
Ice 1 - Gillis vs Cook
Ice 2 - LaBelle vs Campbell
12:00 Noon
Ice 1 - Hunsten vs Chiasson
Ice 2 - Buchanan vs Donovan
1:30 PM
Ice 1 - Kelly vs Gillis
Ice 2 - LaBelle vs Drover
3:00 PM
Ice 1 - Hunsten vs Ford
Ice 2 - Young vs Buchanan
4:30 PM
Ice 1 - Chiasson vs Cook
Ice 2 - Donovan vs Campbell
6:00 PM
Dinner and Prize Presentations
Good Curling Everyone
