ST. JOHN’S, NL – Hometown hero and curling legend, Brad Gushue and his team opened the first round the Curling Canada 2026 Montana Briar Canadian curling championship in St John’s, Newfoundland on Friday night. The Mary Brown Centre was at capacity as fans came…
Continue ReadingGUSHUE LOSES IN FINAL IN EXTRA END AT CHINA OPEN
Brad Gushue and his rink finished lost 9-8 to Dmitry Mironov in the final of the China open. The game went into an extra end after Gushue scored two in the eighth to force the extra. Gushue won his semi final match to advance beating Fredik Nyman 5-2.…
GUSHUE RINK BACK TO THE ICE
Brad Gushue and his curling rink of Mark Nicols, Brett Gallant and Geoff Walker are set to start a new season Wednesday. They will be competing at the Princess Auto Elite 10 being held in Chatham-Kent Ontario. Gushue’s first game is at 5:30 island time against Glenn Howard…
GRAND SLAM OF CURLING TICKETS GOING ON SALE
The Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling, Boost National, which will take place at the Conception Bay South Arena from December 11-16. Ticket sales will be processed at Mile One Centre box office. Full event packages will go on sale Friday, at noon. On sale dates for individual tickets will be announced in fall 2018. Further information is available at www.conceptionbaysouth.ca/curling/. …
NEW CURLING TEAM LOOKS TO 2019 BRIER
Newfoundland will have two teams at next year’s Brier and already the moves are being made for a new team to challenge for a trip to the 2019 Brier. We all know that Brad Gushue will be Team Canada so Newfoundland can again have two teams at the Canadian mens championships. Greg Smith and his rink of Matthew Hunt, Andrew Taylor and Ian Wityhcombe were the Newfoundland representatives as they defeated the Andrew Symonds rink in the Newfoundland final. Well sportspagenl.ca has learned that Symonds will have a new team next year to compete for the…
THOMAS WINS SUPER LEAGUE CURLING TITLE
Colin Thomas and is rink are the champions of the St. John’s Super Curling League. They defeated the Andrew Symonds crew 5-2 in the final game. Therapeutic Services Physiotherapy (skipped by Andrew Symonds) had choice of hammer or rocks because they won the 15-team Round Robin. They chose last rock in the first end and used it to advantage by blanking the first two ends. In the 3rd end, the third played with one centre-line guard figuring prominently, Symonds was long with a freeze attempt on his first stone. makethecall.ca skip, Colin Thomas, chipped the guard forming a wall…
NFLD 4TH AT WHEELCHAIR CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Newfoundland finished 4th at the Canadian Wheelchair Curling championships. The team of skip Darlene Jackman, Felix Green, Mel Fitzgerald, and Cecilia Carroll lost 10-4 to British Columbia. Saskatchewan won the gold beating Manitoba 11-1.…
