Maitland Curling Report: Nov. 11 – Nov. 14

Winning 7-2 over Adam Glen and Amalie Lagace the doubles team of Kate Nicholson and Kathy Hallam move to first place in the doubles league as its only undefeated team. The other doubles match this week saw Catherine Snieder draw for five to erase a 5 – 1 deficit on the way to her and partner Dave Cloet’s 8 – 5 win over Matt Hill and Mark Mertens.

After two week’s of play in the 12-team Monday/Tuesday league there are but three teams that remain undefeated.

Defending champ David Delano got there by way of an 8 – 4 win over perennial contender Bob Corrigan. Laurie Ginn and Bert Dirven made a series of terrific draws in the latter half of their game versus Chris Connor and the ‘Frozen A$$ET$’ to come back from 4 down and win 7 – 5.

Brenda Parker skipped the other undefeated team; they handed new curler Jessica Spurdza her first loss 8 – 3.

The other three games in the Monday/Tuesday league saw teams earn their first win of the year.   New to the league, Ron Cave led his team to a 9 – 5 win over the still winless team of Peter Feagan.

It was close for the first four ends before Barb and Steve Graff opened it up for their first win of the year over Dale Dolson and ‘Smarty Pants’. Cody Joudry is getting comfortable with his new team and led them to a 9 – 4 win over Myles Murdock and ‘Coastal Conservation’.

One of the beauties of sport is that success can be measured in many different ways, not simply in wins and losses. For Stacey Denunzio, Jamie Grandmaison, Rick Haas and Derek Langtry of ‘Team Akromold’ their milestone achievement in their second week of curling was scoring their first point.

Unfortunately one point wasn’t enough to secure a win over Agnes and Ken Logtenberg but that still leaves them with lots of goals to aim for. After only two wins all of last season ‘Team Kintail’ led by the efforts of Mark Mertens and Craig Ludington, and in the absence of skip Jonathon Lee, have won their first two games of the season.

Victims this week were Jan Simonson and Greg Pressault. Another team off to a good start is Team Dunn (Git R, Kinda, Almost), the name changes weekly. They blitzed Doug Yeo’s team 7 – 2 this week to record their first win about about a month ahead of their normal schedule.

Grant Dawson rebounded from a first week loss by making a couple of clutch shots late in his 6 – 5 comeback win over Laura Blackmore.

-CHRIS CONNOR