At last night’s Night League playoffs Team S. Brymer beat Team DeCoff in the 3/4 game and will now play Team Luddington in the ‘A’ Semi-final on Thursday night. Also last night Team Hyam beat Team O’Regan in the 7/8 game and will play Team O’Connor in the ‘B’ Semi-final game also on Thursday night. Good luck to all. Winners of Thursday’s game play in the ‘A’ and ‘B’ finals on Tuesday April 5th at 7pm.

Our goal is to have at least 6 teams (24 curlers) for next weekend’s season-closing bonspiel; thus far we have 17curlers with some people sitting on the fence regarding their involvement. We are using the same format as in the Exxon/Mobil Skins; you put your name on the rink’s list located next to the Club’s phone and state your preferred position and then the teams will be formed. There will be three games — one 8-ender on Friday night and two 6-enders on Saturday.

A lot of time and energy has already gone into organizing our season-closing bonspiel. People have already started to volunteer to contribute food and to help with chores. A turkey has been donated for your Saturday dinning pleasure (dressing, veggies, desserts, tea/coffee) — to be included within your $20.00 per- person registration. Draw prizes have been obtained from the Labatt Brewing Company (three emails, two phone calls and one trip to Antigonish), Central Home Improvement (three emails and two trips to Antigonish) and the Atlantic Superstore (one letter and two trips to Antigonish). The top team will have its name engraved on our rink’s trophy. Entertainment for Friday night is also in the works. (And — you might get your photo on the rink’s website or in a newspaper. 🙂 )

We have had a great year at Chedabucto CC with much being done and a lot of darn good curling matches. Let’s all put our efforts 100% behind making next weekend’s closing bonspiel a “rocking” success. Contact other Club members, spares or curling friends so we can get the teams for a great Friday and Saturday of socialization and recreational curling.

With this week being used our rink’s playoffs all members might not be in the rink to sign up therefore you may instruct me or Phil to add your name and preferred position(s) to the list.

Cheers and best wishes for a great Easter weekend. 🙂 Ray

On Wednesday Mar. 23rd the Night League Page playoffs started with Team B. Brymer narrowly beating Team Luddington to advance to the A final on Tues. April 5th at 7pm. Team Luddington will now play the winner of the 3/4 on Thursday Mar. 31st at 7pm. Team Hadley beat Team O’Connor in the 5/6 game to advance to the B final on Tues. April 5th at 7pm. Team O’Connor will now play the winner of the 7/8 game also on Thursday Mar. 31st at 7pm.

In the Day League Page playoffs that happened today Mar. 24th the winner of the 1/2 game was Team Long over Team Luddington. Team Long advances to the Day league final on Thursday Mar. 31st at 10am. Team Luddington plays the winner of the 3/4 game. In the 3/4 game Team Worth beat Team MacDonald to advance to the Day League semi-final vs Team Luddington on Monday Mar. 28th at 10am. The winner of that plays Team Long in the final.

We are on need of players for our Memorial Bonspiel happening on April 1 and 2. As of today Mar. 23rd we have 16 players signed up. We need at least 24 to make a go of it with the hope of at least 32 for 8 teams. Sign-up sheet is up at the club. Or you could email or call Phil at 533-2539. A free turkey dinner provided to us by Wilfred and Della Myette will be available on Sat the 2nd for all registered curlers. Possible entertainment on Friday the 1st. Friday night’s draw’s will be 8 ends and Saturday’s two games will be 6 end games with the hope of everyone sitting down to dinner after curling.

Memorial Bonspiel poster