CHAMPIONSHIPS
Illinois wins 2014 mixed national championship
Championship at the South Wood County Recreational Center in Wiscon- sin Rapids, Wis. Wilson (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and his Illinois teammates Pam Wilson (Ver-
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non Hills, Ill.), Collin Rittgers (Highland Park, Ill.), and Michele Rittgers (Highland Park, Ill.) scored two points in the 11th
rink from North Dakota. Gulseth and teammates Nicole Reiser (Mandan, N.D.), Mark Gulseth (Frazee, Minn.), and Patty Olesen (Fargo, N.D.) tied the game with a single in the 10th
2014 Mixed National Championship Round robin standings:
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a close match of the two Mid- west teams. Te gold-medal game was
tied 2-2 aſter five ends until Illinois scored the game’s first deuce. North Dakota was held to a single in the seventh but then stole a point back in the eighth to tie the game. Te sides exchanged singles in nine and 10 before Wilson’s team battled to score two in overtime. Tis is the first mixed national title for the Illinois region since 1987 and second overall. In the bronze-medal game,
Washington (Brady Clark) Wisconsin (Sean Murray) North Dakota (Al Gulseth) Illinois (Greg Wilson) Minnesota (Randy Baird) Colorado (Darrick Kizlyk) New York (Michael Stefanik) Ohio (Stu Cohen)
California (Adam Endicott) Oregon (Kevin Rutherford)
7-2 7-2 7-2 6-3 5-4 5-4 4-5 2-7 1-8 1-8
Semifinals: *Washington (Clark) 202 020 010 x – 7 Illinois (Wilson)
Wisconsin (Murray)
010 101 405 x – 12 002 010 00x x – 3
*North Dakota (Gulseth) 100 201 12x x – 7
Bronze medal: Washington (Clark) 001 012 002 x – 6 *Wisconsin (Murray) 100 100 020 x – 4
Gold medal: Illinois (Wilson)
North Dakota (Gulseth) *last rock in first end
100 102 001 02 – 7 010 010 110 10 – 5
nine-time champion Brady Clark (Lynnwood, Wash.) led his Washington rink to a 6-4 win over Wis- consin’s Sean Murray rink to go home with more hardware for their grow-
end to defeat Al Gulseth’s
2014 U.S. mixed national championship winners included (l-r) Pam Wilson, Greg Wilson, Collin Rittgers, and Michele Rittgers of Illinois.
ing collection. Much like the gold-medal game, Washington and Wisconsin had a tight battle with the scored tied 2-2 at the halfway mark. Clark and teammates Cristin Clark (Lynnwood, Wash.), Derrick McLean (Bothell, Wash.), and Bev Hale (Seattle) grabbed the game’s momentum with a key steal in the sixth end that gave them a 4-2 lead. Murray’s team of Heather Betzhold (Hartland, Wis.), Mike Graziano (St. Paul, Minn.), and Paige Cau- lum (Middleton, Wis.), which finished second last year, scored a deuce in the ninth but could not keep Washington off the scoreboard in the ninth as the veteran rink scored two more to put the game away. n
Te USWCA Congratulates Sr. Women’s National Champions
Hutchinson Rink from Broomstones CC, Boston Skip: Jamie Hutchinson, Vice:
Carolyn Macleod, Second: Gwen Krailo-Lyons, Lead: Nancy Jennett
Women’s National Champions Cutter Rink from Broomstones CC, Boston
Skip: Sharon Cutter, Vice: Nicole Vassar, Second: Teri Olson, Lead: Karen Walker
And all 5-Year and Under Champions, All American Champions, and Junior Bonspiel Champions
Te USWCA is proud to support these events nation-wide. Learn more at
www.uswca.org
Te Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena (above) in Jacksonville, Fla., will host the 2016 National Championships.
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reg Wilson’s Illinois rink broke a 27-year drought without mixed titles with an extra-end victory over North Dakota, 7-5, on March 22 to win the 2014 USA Curling Mixed National
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