MEOTA — The season-long grind for the Silver Broom continued at the Meota curling rink as two weeks remain in the regular season.
The story of the second half of the season continues to be the Zane Lacousiere team as they entered their Tuesday night matchup against Gil Cadrin looking to extend their winning streak to an unprecedented seven games. After breaking open the game in the third end scoring five points, Lacousiere played a conservative and clean game to cruise to a 9-6 win over Cadrin.
Two equally matched and first-year Grand Slam teams, Randy Iverson and Al Collie, entertained the gallery to a close game where the result could have gone either way. It was Randy and Shannon Iverson along with Dave and Trudy Trepple coming out on top with a 5-4 win.
Redemption game for Bob Bartkewich and the Lonnie Alm rink as they matched up against Bartkewich’s former teammates, the Colin Sharp rink. After losing to Sharp leading up to Christmas, the Alm rink hoped for a better fate Tuesday night as they came into the matchup well-rested after a much-needed holiday. The rest versus rust debate was answered quickly in six ends as Sharp defeated Alm 11-3.
Randy Sharp knocked down Kyle Doom in their game 9-4 while Kirsten Bru re-entered the win column after defeating Wanda Weber 10-3.
Intensity echoed throughout the ice surface as the Pat Becotte and Colin Mack rinks squared off on the featured sheet Thursday night. Becotte found himself behind the eight ball early giving up three points in the first end and being without Scott Shepherd for the first part of the game, as Shepherd was calf pulling. Shepherd’s late introduction into the game did not provide the impact needed and was far too late, as Mack won handily 9-2.
Al Doom led the Evan Schmidt rink in relief to an 8-2 win over the Randy Orchison team. Managerial off-ice duties of Darrell McCarthey often overlooked due to his high performance on the ice, proved to be a difference maker as he poached substitute curler Colin Waters a couple hours before the Orchison rink could secure their regular substitute curler to fill in. The Schmidt rink was able to use the extra sweeping power of four curlers to their advantage against the short-handed Orchison rink.
Derek Welford and Caleb Gaunsage was the only game Thursday that went the full eight ends and to the final shot. Gaunsage needed two but scored only one with the hammer in the final end, as they fell to the Welford rink 7-6.
