CHAMPIONSHIPS
2014 USA Curling Club National Championships Round robin standings:
Women: Minnesota (Norma O'Leary) North Dakota (Beth Bohlman) North Dakota (Ann Podoll) Wisconsin (Lori Karst) Washington (Miyo Konno) Minnesota (Jamie Kraus) Maryland (Ann Drummie) Ohio (Jennifer Paine) California (Sarah Walsh) Arizona (Tracy Heuermann)
*advanced to playoffs via tiebreaker
2014 U.S. club national champions (l-r) Joel Larway, Benj Guzman, Peter Sommer, and Chad Siefert.
2014 U.S. club national champions (l-r) Norma O'Leary, Jill Hansen, Mary Shields, and Patti Luke.
Washington, Minnesota capture Club Nationals championships
By David Garber, Emeritus Editor
Champions. O’Leary (Silver Bay, Minn.) and teammates Jill Hansen, Patti Luke and Mary Shields (all of Duluth), controlled their final game against North Dakota II (Fargo’s Ann Po- doll, Carmen Delaney, Madonna Fitzgerald, and Patty Olesen), 8-4. Team O’Leary finished 11-0 in a terrific example of consistent curling. Tis is the third time O’Leary has led a team to the Club Nationals title. Joel Larway (Lynnwood, Wash.) led his Wash-
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ington foursome, with Benj Guzman (Everett, Wash.), Peter Sommer (Carnation, Wash.), and Chad Siefert (Seattle) to the championship by dominating Massachusetts’ Peter Bialek rink, 8-2. Bialek (Billerica, Mass.) led Adam Jacob- son (Westborough, Mass.), Dan Naylor (also of Billerica), and Daniel Cho (Providence, R.I.). A Washington men’s team also won the title last
orma O’Leary and her Duluth Curl- ing Club teammates capped a perfect week to become 2014 Club National
year. In the women’s bronze medal game, North
Dakota I stole two points in the 10th end to edge Lori Karst’s Wisconsin rink. Team North Da- kota I includes Beth Bohlman and Amy Bushaw of Grand Forks, Tanis Hastmann of East Grand Forks, and Gail Ingwalson and Jean Vorachek, also of Grand Forks. Karst (Madison, Wis.) curled with Mary Parker (also of Madison), Re- becca Reinhart (Monona, Wis.) and Cynthia Rhyer (McFarland, Wis.). Five points by Karst in the first end was not enough to stop Bohlman’s comeback for bronze. Jeff Wright’s Team Illinois won men’s bronze
with a steal of its own in the last end to beat Peter Stolt’s Minnesota team, 9-8. Wright (Lib- ertyville, Ill.) teamed up with Russ Armstrong (Lake Bluff, Ill.), Russ Brown (Lake Forest, Ill.), Steven Waters (Evanston, Ill.), and Steve Wright (Chicago). Team Minnesota includes Stolt (Plym- outh, Minn.), Brad Caldwell (Andover, Minn.), Cameron McLelland (Minneapolis, Minn.), and Evan Jensen (Minneapolis). n
Men: Washington (Joel Larway) Minnesota (Peter Stolt) Illinois (Jeff Wright)
Massachusetts (Peter Bialek) Wisconsin (Steve Day) Michigan (Chad Roberts)
North Dakota (David Pengilly) Oregon (Jim Smoltz) Alaska (Dave Flippo) Colorado (Phil Moir)
7-2 7-2 7-2 6-3 5-4 5-4 3-6 3-6 2-7 0-9
Women's semifinals: *Minnesota (O'Leary) 120 211 110 x – 9 Wisconsin (Karst) 000 000 001 x – 1
North Dakota (Bohlman) 101 010 010 x – 4 *North Dakota (Podoll)
020 201 203 x – 10
Men's semifinals: *Illinois (Wright) 200 220 000 x – 6 Massachusetts (Bialek) 011 002 223 x – 11
Washington (Larway) 010 200 100 1 – 5 *Minnesota (Stolt) 101 010 010 0 – 4
Bronze medal: *Illinois (Wright) 301 010 102 1 – 9 Minnesota (Stolt)
Wisconsin (Karst) 020 102 030 0 – 8 500 000 110 0 – 7 *North Dakota (Bohlman) 011 211 001 2 – 9
Gold medal: *Minnesota (O'Leary) 102 002 101 1 – 8 North Dakota (Podoll) 010 110 010 0 – 4
Massachusetts (Bialek) 000 001 010 x – 2 *Washington (Larway) 020 110 202 x – 8 *last rock in first end
9-0 6-3 6-3
5-4* 5-4 5-4 3-6 2-7 2-7 1-8
Jacksonville set to host 2016 Nationals
ship will take place in the Sunshine State. Te Jacksonville Veterans Me- morial Arena will serve as the venue for the event, which will be staged Feb. 6-13, 2016. Te arena has a 14,000 seating capacity with 6,000 being utilized for the curling championship. Te arena has hosted numerous con- certs and major sporting events since it opened in 2004, including NCAA men’s basketball competitions. “We extend a warm welcome to a cool sport,” said Jacksonville Mayor
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urling is coming to Florida! Jacksonville has been selected as the site for the 2016 USA Curling National Championships. Tis will be the first time that a curling national champion-
Alvin Brown. “Jacksonville has become a premier venue and destination for a wide range of major sporting events, and we’re honored to have the 2016 curling national championships in our city. We look forward to host- ing America’s top curling teams as well as their fans from far and wide.” Te weeklong national championships feature the top 20 men’s and
women’s teams competing for the chance to represent the U.S. at the 2016 world championships. Florida is currently home to one active curling club – the Panthers Curl-
ing Club in Coral Springs, Fla., and Jacksonville has a very enthusiastic fan base of people hoping to start a club in the area. n
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