CARLYLE - The Carlyle Gordon F. Kells High School U18 women’s curling team had an exciting weekend in Estevan when they entered a U18 Bonspiel on January 17 and 18.
Robin Brown has been coaching this team for the past four years, but the team has played together for five years. Devin Brown also helps coach the high school program this year, but he started with the team last year.
The Estevan Curling Club hosted a U18 bonspiel which began on the Friday evening.
The first game that Carlyle played was against Team Allen from Regina. This game was filled with excitement, but Carlyle came ahead in the end with a 14-8 win.
Saturday morning the games began once again, with Carlyle playing the Estevan Comprehensive Schools Senior girls team. This was an extremely intense game, but Carlyle prevailed with a 6-5 win.
This placed the team first in their pool, and they went into the semi-finals against the Estevan Comprehensive schools boys team. The tension in this game was felt by all that attended.
Carlyle came out fighting and although the boys team gave them a run for their money, Carlyle took another win 8-5, sending them into the final game.
The final game was played against Team Fonstad, and it was a good competitive game, but Carlyle could not quite get the win, with a loss of 10-4.
Carlyle took home the silver medal, and the team and coach are proud of how the weekend went.
“We had a great weekend overall,” said Brown. “We had to use a couple of different lineups due to illness with the girls, but they all came together and performed amazing.”
The high school program has been highly successful, and they also have one at the Carlyle elementary school for the grade fives and sixes. Justine Kyle looks after that group.
