CHAMPIONSHIPS


Washington captures Mixed National Championship title


By Terry L. Davis, Editor


the 2016 USA Curling Mixed National Champi- onship at the Coyotes Curling Club in Tempe, Ariz. Maxie (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and teammates Em


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Good (Seattle), Mac Guy (Seattle), and Frances Walsh (Burien, Wash.) handed Alaska’s Greg Persinger rink its lone loss of the tournament in earning the national title. “Winning was awesome. Alaska was playing so


well all week. Te game when we played them in the round robin, it was such a great game by both teams. But in the final, it was their one bad game of the week at the wrong time,” Maxie said. Te Granite Curling Club rink will now repre-


sent the U.S. at the 2016 World Mixed Champion- ship Oct. 15-22 in Kazan, Russia. “It is a tremendous honor to represent our


country. We are super excited and looking for- ward to it, ” Maxie said. “We are looking forward to going to Russia. We’re tying to do some bon- spiels in the summer to make sure we are ready to peak at the right time.” Persinger and his Fairbanks Curling Club teammates Vicky Persinger, Quinn Evenson, and


From Page 23: U-Penn College Champs


pionship battle with the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point. Te Pointers also made a good show- ing again this year in their title defense, losing to Minnesota in the semifinals, but out of the medals. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)


beat Nebraska in the third-place game. Tis was the third time in the last four years that MIT took the bronze. In that fourth year, MIT lost the third- place game making them the only school to have placed this high all four years. Nebraska was play- ing in its first medal game aſter competing in each of the last four championships. Colgate won the fourth-place game against


Wayne State College of Nebraska. For Colgate it was their first medal aſter participating in each of the past three championships. Wayne State made it to the college tournament in only their second season of competition. Hamilton College took fiſth-place honors in an-


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2016 USA Curling Mixed National Championship winners were (l-r) Fred Maxie, Em Good, Mac Guy and Frances Walsh.


Catharine Persinger (all of Fairbanks) started the game with the last rock and scored a single point. Aſter holding Washington to a single in the sec- ond end, Alaska was again forced to accept just one point in the third. Washington, which also won the event last year with Brady Clark’s team representing the region, would keep the Alas- kans off the scoreboard thereaſter. Maxie’s team scored a game-changing four points in the fourth end and then stole three points over the next two


other dramatic game that took an extra end to defeat Bowdoin College of Brunswick, Maine. Fiſteen schools from across the nation participat-


ed in this year’s event. As a developmental champi- onship, the College event is as much educational as it is dramatic. While the competition on ice was as in- tense as always, the College Championship is known for its educational component in the off-draw hours. Many of the invitees participated in a skills clinic


red Maxie led his Washington rink to the region’s 14th


mixed national title af- ter defeating Alaska, 8-2, on April 9 at


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Alaska (Greg Persinger) Washington (Fred Maxie)


Massachusetts (Robert Melville) Wisconsin (Sean Murray) Minnesota (John Lilla)


North Dakota (Tucker Smith) Michigan (Bret Jackson) Illinois (Greg Wilson) Arizona (Greg Gallagher) Colorado (Darrick Kizlyk)


Wisconsin *Washington


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9-0 6-3 5-4 5-4 5-4 5-4 3-6 3-6 2-7 2-7


5JFCSFBLFST Massachusetts 6, North Dakota 4 Wisconsin 10, Minnesota 1 Semifinals: *Alaska


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ends to secure the victory. Tis is the first mixed national title for all four team members. “Fran, our lead, the morning of the champi-


onship, learned that a very close family member had passed away. I was worried about her men- tal state, but I don’t believe Fran missed a shot. I think she curled 100 percent. Our team was phenomenal in the final. I had some pretty easy shots. My life wasn’t that complicated in the fi- nal because my team played so well. We played our best game of the week in the final. It was good timing on our part.” Q


hosted by Joseph Murphy of Halifax, Nova Scotia, during their down time. His clinics covered a va- riety of topics, and content was tailored to fit the needs of the participants. Te Chaska Curling Center was a fantastic ven-


ue. Te College Curling Committee would like to thank Jeff Isaacson, his staff and the community of Chaska for providing us with every comfort pos- sible as amazing hosts. Q


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