CHAMPIONSHIPS
2015 U.S. senior women's champions (l-r) Norma O'Leary, Linda Chris- tensen, Mary Shields, and Lucy DeVore.
2015 U.S. senior men's champions (l-r) Lyle Sieg, Tom Violette, Ken Trask, and Steve Lundeen.
O’Leary, Sieg rinks win 2015 Senior Nationals
By Terry L. Kolesar, Editor, terry.kolesar@
usacurl.org
onships as the 2015 USA Curling Senior National Championships came to a close Feb. 1 in Eveleth, Minn. Washington’s Lyle Sieg rink held on to defeat
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Minnesota’s Ross Litman, 6-5, to win their first senior national title. In the women’s division, it took two rounds of tiebreakers but Minnesota’s Norma O’Leary prevailed as the champion with a convincing 9-1 victory over Shelley Dropkin’s rink from Massachusetts. Sieg (Tacoma, Wash.) and teammates Tom
Violette (Issaquah, Wash.), Ken Trask (Seattle), and Steve Lundeen (Seattle) finished the compe- tition with a perfect 7-0 record. Te champion- ship final, however, was the closest battle for the Seattle-based rink. Litman’s team took an early advantage aſter stealing a single in the fourth end to go ahead 4-1 at the halfway point. Sieg’s team came out firing in the second half with four points in the fiſth end. A steal of one in the seventh end put the team up 6-4 and they held Litman’s Du- luth team of Dave Johnson, Sam Perrella, and Lee Leksell to a single in the final end of play to hold on for the one-point victory. Te final women’s game was less dramatic with
Dropkin’s team of Suzanne Roy (Hudson, Mass.), Nancy Jennett (Natick, Mass.), and Margaret Lawler (Norfolk, Mass.) scoring in the opening end with the hammer. However, O’Leary (Silver
new senior men’s champion was crowned while a familiar women’s skip will return to the world champi-
ROUNDROBIN STANDINGS:
Shelley Dropkin (Broomstones) Norma O'Leary (Duluth) Kathy Pielage (Madison) Sharon Vukich (Granite) Margie Smith (St. Paul) Debra Horn (Mayfield) Dana Watson (Evergreen) Ann Wiggins (Potomac)
Tiebreakers: Kathy Pielage 030 020 0x – 5
*Shelley Dropkin 102 102 2x – 8 Sharon Vukich
*Norma O'Leary Final:
*Shelley Dropkin 100 000 xx – 1 Norma O'Leary
011 322 xx – 9 *last rock in first end Lyle Sieg (Granite)
Paul Matzke (Madison) Kent Beadle (St. Paul)
Greg Eigner (Fort Wayne) Kent Bahr (Bemidji)
Bay, Minn.) and her team of Linda Christensen (Duluth, Minn.), Mary Shields (Duluth, Minn.), and Lucy DeVore (Superior, Wis.) would follow up with a single and then steal the remaining ends for the 9-1 victory. Te O’Leary and Sieg rinks will now represent
the U.S. at the 2015 World Senior Championships April 18-25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in So- chi, Russia. Tis will be the third straight trip to the senior world championships for O’Leary and second for DeVore. It will be the first appearance for the Sieg team. n
Larry Sharp (Rice Lake)
010 100 xx – 2 202 044 xx – 12
5-2 5-2 5-2 5-2 4-3 3-4 1-6 0-7
ROUNDROBIN STANDINGS: Pool A
Jeff Wright (Exmoor) Bill Rhyme (Green Bay) Dale Gibbs (St. Paul)
Dennis Jorgensen (Curl Mesabi) Gert Messing (Ardsley)
Rick Tangedal (Williston Basin) Lionel Locke (St. Paul)
Pool B:
Jeff Erickson (Duluth) Ross Litman (Duluth) Paul Pustovar (Hibbing) Seppo Sormunen (Duluth) Tony Beraducci (Hibbing) David Cornfield (Granite) Tim Funk (Madison)
Pool C:
5-0 4-1 3-2 2-3 1-4 0-5
Tiebreaker: Pustovar 7, Erickson 4
Quarterfinals: Rhyme 10, Matzke 3; Litman 5, Pustovar 4
Semifinals: Sieg 5, Rhyme 2; Litman 8, Wright 7 Final:
Lyle Sieg *Ross Litman
010 004 10 – 6 101 110 01 – 5
*last rock in first end USA Curling (( 15
4-2 4-2 4-2 3-3 2-4 2-4 2-4
6-0 4-2 3-3 3-3 2-4 2-4 1-5
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