Playoffs begin next week. A slight change in the playoff schedule. The 3 vs 4 game will now be played on Mar. 29th and the 5 vs 6 game on Mar. 31st. Teams TBA after this Thursday’s games.

On Tues. Mar. 22nd a mixed team of curlers from Guysborough Academy captured the Mixed division regionals with wins over SAERC (9-1) and SCA (5-4). The team now advances to the provincials on Friday Mar. 25th in Halifax at CFB Halifax. They will play in a semi final game at 10am and then play for Gold or Bronze at 2pm. The team, coached by Alicia Mills, is made up of skip Vanessa Dort, mate Ryan Sangster, second Brooklyn Jordan and leads Anthony Lopez, who played the 1st game, and Gavin Dort, who played in the 2nd game. The club was also host to the girls regionals with two teams from CEC and SAERC. The team from CEC won both games and also advances to the provincials. Thanks go out to club members Paul Long, Phil O’Regan and Mary K. Connolly who helped with ice and kitchen during the day.

Our club is hosting the High School regionals for the Mixed and Girls teams on Tues Mar. 22 starting at 9am. Our school has a Mixed team of Ryan Sangster, Vanessa Dort, Brooklyn Jordan, Anthony Lopez, and Gavin Dort. They play at 9am and 2pm. All spectators are welcome. Mask wearing is encouraged but not enforced. Lunch and snacks are available for players and their parents.

Our 18th featured sponsors of the week to begin the 2021_22 season for Mar. 21-27 are Strum Consulting, Strait Engineering Ltd., and Ross Screenprint. Please note that our club is back open. Please acknowledge & thank the sponsors when you might happen to visit their business. 

The Chedabucto Curling Club Community Activity Society (CAS) appreciates all who provide sponsorship to its society by allowing it to display and promote their businesses’ promotional signs to all of its members via email, within the rink, via Twitter, Facebook and CAS’s website: (https://www.chedabuctocc.ca/sponsors)

To continue to promote and support your business, CAS will now post sponsorship signs throughout the entire year. On behalf of the CCC Executive, members and volunteers, I thank you for your continued support.

Our annual Skins Cash Bonspiel took place this past weekend. A total of 6 teams played 3 games each. Each game was worth $100 with the money coming from our four sponsors: Mulgrave Machine Works, Scotia Diesel Services, Ron Chisholm Hydro-Seeding, and new this year Scotia Hills Farm. A huge thank you goes out to these sponsors who made this bonspiel work. It was decided that all teams would play for money and in the end not only did every team win money but all teams got back their bonspiel fee of $100. Before I announce the winners thanks go out to all who helped getting the ice ready for each game, for our bar and kitchen help and to Maurice and Phil who made the beef stew for lunch. Also to Francis who baked some delicious muffins for the morning. Finally I want to thank our bonspiel committee of Blair, Paul, Mary, and Phil who helped put this together. We had hoped with restrictions being lifted that we would have  some out of club teams. Instead we ended up with 6 teams from our club. After a close round robin of games we had four teams with the same 2-1 record but in the end Team O’Regan with skip Phil O’Regan, mate Ryan Sangster, second Nancy O’Regan, and lead Jeff Campbell won the most money at $196 plus a bonus $100 for winning. It should be noted that this was Ryan Sangster 3rd win in a row at the Skins. Once with his father Wayne two years ago and last year as a skip of his own team. It was also Phil and Jeff’s 1st time winning a bonspiel at the club. In 2nd place was Team Jamieson with $180, Team Brymer came in 3rd with $173, Team Long was 4th with $129, Team DeCoff was 5th with $118, and Team Wright was 6th with a $104. Next up is the MacLeod Lorway Ladies FUNspiel on April 1st and 2nd.