CHAMPIONSHIPS O’Leary, Goodland top senior teams for 2016 By Terry L. Davis, Editor
Curling Club led her team to a 5-1 record to cap- ture the 2016 USA Curling Senior Women’s Na- tional Championship title Jan. 31 at the Colum- bus Curling Club in Ohio. O’Leary and her team of Linda Christensen
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(Duluth, Minn.), Mary Shields (Duluth, Minn.), and Lucy Devore (Superior, Wis.) defeated Bos- ton’s Shelley Dropkin rink, 7-5, in the final draw of the round robin to finish with the best record amongst the competing seven teams. It is the fourth straight title for O’Leary, who won with this same group last year and earned bronze at the 2015 World Senior Championships. It’s the second title for Christensen and Shields and third for Devore since 2013. Men's recap
Wisconsin’s Geoff Goodland headed back to
the World Senior Championships for the first time since 2011 aſter capturing the 2016 USA Curling Senior Men’s National Championship title Jan. 31 at the Medford (Wis.) Curling Club. Goodland (Eau Claire, Wis.) and teammates
Tim Solin (St. Paul, Minn.), Pete Westberg (St. Paul, Minn.), and Jeff Annis (Mapleton, Minn.) defeated Lyle Sieg’s defending national and world champions, 9-1, to finish the championship with a perfect 7-0 record. Sieg’s team of Tom Violette (Lake Stevens,
Wash.), Ken Trask (Seattle), and Steve Lundeen (Seattle) also came into the final with an unde- feated record but had trouble generating offense – or holding back their opponent’s. Goodland’s team started modestly with a single point with the hammer in the first end and then capitalized to steal three points to take a 4-0 lead at the half- way mark. Aſter holding Sieg’s Granite Curling Club team to a single point in the fiſth end, the Goodland rink emphatically ended the game by scoring five points in the sixth end to earn the national title. Tis is the third senior title for Goodland,
who won as skip previously in 2011 and 2007 and went on to earn a silver medal at the 2011 World Senior Championships. Solin and Westberg were Goodland’s teammates during that 2011 run and have now earned their second national titles. Tis is the first victory for Annis, who curls out of the Heather Curling Club. Te Goodland and O’Leary’s rinks represent-
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Team USA (l-r) Phil DeVore, Jeff Annis, Pete Westberg, Tim Solin, and Geoff Goodland.
innesota’s Norma O’Leary has pulled off the four-peat. Te petite 54-year-old from the Two Harbors
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Norma O’Leary (Silver Bay, Minn.) Debra Horn (Shaker Heights, Ohio) Kathy Pielage (Madison, Wis.) Anne Wiggins (Edgewater, Md.)
5-1* 4-2 4-2 4-2
Cathy Shuttleworth (Fairbanks, Alaska) 2-4 Kelly Stephens (Mesa, Ariz.)
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Shelley Dropkin (Southborough, Mass.) 0-6 *round robin winner is national champion
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Lyle Sieg (Vancouver, Wash.) Kent Beadle (Hudson, Wis.) Dave Lemke (Medford, Wis.) Tim Funk (McFarland, Wis.) Dale Gibbs (Woodbury, Minn.) Ken Towne (Anderson, Ind.)
(SPVQ #: Jeff Erickson (Proctor, Minn.)
Mike Fraboni (Lac du Flambeau, Wis.) 4-1 Paul Pustovar (Hibbing, Minn.) Doug Cameron (Duluth, Minn.) Rory Ellingson (Cambridge, Minn.) Tim Ho (Boston)
4-1 4-1
1-4 1-4 1-4
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Team USA (l-r) Shelley Dropkin, Lucy DeVore, Mary Shields, Linda Christensen, and Norma O'Leary
ed the U.S. at the 2016 World Senior Champion- ships April 16-23 in Karlstad, Sweden. World Senior Championships recap USA’s Geoff Goodland couldn’t tempt fate one
more time. Aſter stealing three wins earlier in the week, the U.S. team’s luck ran out as Denmark stole two points in the quarterfinal match to earn a 5-4 victory and advance to the semifinals of the 2016 World Senior Championships in Karlstad, Sweden. Te U.S. men had control of the match aſter
taking a 4-2 lead aſter the sixth end and holding Denmark to a single point in the seventh end. A miss with the final stone of the game, however, ended the U.S. run at this world championship at the Karlstad Curling Arena. “We’re very disappointed … We played a
good game and that one got away,” Goodland said. “I let that last stone go and I thought I had it right, hit the broom and had the weight and it just didn’t finish. Tat’s just how the game goes sometimes.” “I don’t think I can believe it right now,” said Denmark’s Ole De Neergaard. “We played very
Geoff Goodland (Eau Claire, Wis.) Dennis Mellerup (Hoboken, N.J.) Jeff Wright (Libertyville, Ill.) Paul Matzke (Madison, Wis.)
Jeff Tomlinson (Vancouver, Wash.) Steve Swoboda (Rice Lake, Wis.)
*advance directly to semifinals 5JFCSFBLFST
Beadle 6, Lemke 5 2VBSUFSĕOBMT Erickson 6, Mellerup 3
Erickson 10, Fraboni 2 Pustovar 6, Beadle 2 Mellerup 6, Wright 5 4FNJĕOBMT
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Goodland 5, Erickson 4 Goodland 9, Sieg 1 Sieg 4, Pustovar 3
5-0* 3-2 3-2 2-3 2-3 0-5
5-0* 3-2 3-2 2-3 1-4 1-4
well in the first half of the game and we dropped totally aſter the break. So standing here, stealing two in the last end, it’s close to unbelievable.” Te U.S. men went 7-1 in the round robin and secured a direct berth in the quarterfinals. Te American ladies went 5-2 in their round
robin and were relegated into a tiebreaker game against Germany’s Andrea Schoepp, which re- sulted in a 7-6 loss as the American ladies missed out on the playoffs. Te U.S. women finished ranked seventh with a 5-3 overall record. Scotland’s Jackie Lockhart rink went on to
win the women's world championship title while Sweden’s Mats Wrana rink captured the men's gold medal. Q
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