Results from the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline Skins Cash Spiel from yesterday Feb 22nd are in. A fun filled 2 day event has wrapped up at our club over the weekend. Our annual Skins Cash spiel with 6 teams this year playing three 6 end games in the round robin and one playoff game of 8 ends. Before I give the results I would like to thank our major sponsor, Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, who again this year donated $750 towards the cash prizes and quite a few table prizes. Thanks to Lorraine Brymer for taking care of this again for us this year. New to the spiel this year we had three $250 sponsors in Mulgrave Machine Works, Scotia Diesel Ltd., and Ron Chisholm Hydroseed. Thank you Paul Long for obtaining these three sponsors. So with their help we were again able to have teams play for a total of $1395 over three finals. The remaining $105 went to food at dinner time. Speaking of dinner Strait Engineering donated $100 towards our dinner of Big G’s pizza’s. Thank you Basil Mattie and Ghandi at Big G’s. Also thank you to Robin’s Donuts for supplying us with table prizes. Thank you Fraser. Many thanks go out to our volunteers who helped out at the bar (Maurice and Maureen), kitchen (Maureen, Nancy, Francis), ice prep (George L., George N., Paul, Neil, Phil, Maurice), and food donations (Lois, Maurice, Nancy, Francis, Kay, Gary, Evelyne, Elaine, Paul etc).
Now to the results: After the 3 round robin games Team Sangster went undefeated with 182pts, 2nd place went to Team Jamieson with 139pts, 3rd place was Team DeCoff with 85 pts, Team Long was in 4th with 73pts, in 5th place was Team Armstrong with 68pts and 6th place was Team Luddington with 56pts. In the playoff finals the 5 vs 6 game, sponsored by Scotia Diesel Ltd., Team Luddington sqeaked one out and won the game. They took home $125 with Team Armstrong winning $120. In the 3 vs 4 game, sponsored by Mulgrave Machine Works, Team DeCoff won and took home $300 while Team Long took home $165. And finally in the championship game, sponsored by Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, Team Sangster was able to take every end and take home $685 vs Team Jamieson. Also in this event and other spiels we have a draw to the pin in case of tiebreakers. Each team member throws a rock to the pin with the closest member winning a prize. Also the team score is used for the tiebreaker and there is a prize for the team. Sponsoring this closest to the pin was Ron Chisholm Hydroseed. The closest to the pin was Junior curler Vanessa Dort. Her rock was 1.5″ from the pin. Doug Avery was also 1.5″ but graciously gave it to Vanessa, thank you Doug. Team award was Team Luddington with 15 pts, 2 pts ahead of Team Armstrong. Thank you to all who curled 4 games over 2 days. Hope to do this again next year. Next up is a St. Patrick’s Day Mixed Doubles Spiel on Sat. Mar 14th. A poster will go up soon. Here are some pics from this weekend.
50_50 draw with Ray and Emily doing the draw. Winner was Valerie Ash taking home $132. 
Winners of the 1 vs 2 Championship game are Team Sangster with Wayne Sangster, Emily Perry, Gary Neufeld, and Ryan Sangster. 
Runnersup in the 1 vs 2 Championship game are Team Jamieson with Jack Leonard, Evelyne Jamieson, Maurice Landry, and Gerry Jamieson. 
Winners of the 3 vs 4 game are Team DeCoff with Fred Sullivan, Lois MacDonald, Neil DeCoff, and Mary K. Connolly. 
Runnersup in the 3 vs 4 game is Team Long with Doug Dort, Doug Avery, Paul Long, and Phil O’Regan. 
Winners of the 5 vs 6 game is Team Luddington with Kay Chisholm, Vanessa Dort, and George Luddington. Missing from photo is George Nahrebecky and spares Ray Bates and Margaret Hadley. 
Runners up in the 5 vs 6 game is Team Armstrong with spare Margaret Hadley, Heather Manuel, Don Armstrong, Chris West, and spare Francis Brymer. Missing from photo is spare Ray Bates. 
Prize table… 
Closest to the pin was Vanessa Dort. Pictured here with Maurice Landry. 
Closest to the pin team winner was Team Luddington.
Best photos ever posted, not just because of the subjects.