Curling - Page 19

    Just two games played in the Super Curling League Wednesday because of the World Series game between Toronto and Texas.         Four games were postponed Wednesday. Stephen Trickett vs Jeff Thomas–postponed  Shelly Nichols 7 –John Sheppard  4 Paul Harvey vs Rick Rowsell–postponed Trent Skanes vs Colin Thomas–postponed Heather Strong vs Andrew Symonds–postponed Andrew Boland 6–Andrew Taylor 4 Stacie Curtis and Glenn Gosse have the byes in opening week…

  Newfoundland’s Team Gushue captured another World Curling Tour championship Sunday in Basel,Switzerland with a 7-2 victory over the Netherlands Team van Dorp in the final game. After losing their first game, Team Gushue racked up 8 straight victories to claim their 4th Swiss Cup title since 2006. There were 40 teams competing in the triple knockout event.     Teams  1  2  3  4  5  6  7 Final Jaap van Dorp Zoetermeer, NED      0  0  1  0  0  1  X  2   Brad Gushue St. John’s, NL    2  1  0  2  2  0  X  7  …

The Brad Gushue curling team captured a World Curling Tour championship at the “AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic” in Cornwall, Ontario with a 5-4 extra end victory over Glen Howard Sunday. Gushue with the hammer scored the single point in the extra end. Team Gushue went through the event undefeated with eight straight victories including a semi-final win over Brad Jacobs.…

      Gushue defeated McEwen 7-3 to advance to the final game game at curling in Paradise. He will now face Kevin Koe in the final Sunday afternoon at six.     TEAMS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Total 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 2  7        …

      The Sports Page has learned that the City of St. John’s has been awarded the 2017 Canadian men’s Curling Championship—The Brier. Sources tell the SportsPage that an announcement will be made in St. John’s within the next two weeks. Local officials will not comment on the story only saying that the announcement will be made by Canadian Curling officials as to what bid has been successful. St. John’s hosted the 1972 Brier at the Old Memorial Stadium. Orest Meleschuk and his rink of Dave Romano, John Hanesiak  and Pat Hailley claimed the championship. Newfoundland’s only Brier win…

  Brad Gushue has a 2-1 record at the Pinty’s Curling Classic in Paradise. Thursday he defeated Adam Casey of P-E-I 8-1. Gushue sored five in the fourth end in this one. On Friday he plays Nicklas Edin of Sweden.…