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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Day 2 - Draw 4 - Alberta and Manitoba take early lead


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Alberta and Manitoba take the early lead in the standings after 3 draws. Newfoundland played an excellent game in this morning's draw but they are in tough to get their first win this afternoon against undefeated Alberta. British Columbia also will need to play well against the other undefeated team, Manitoba, in order to not drop to the middle of the pack.

This afternoon sees the challenge of the North with Northern Ontario taking on the host team. We're also watching Saskatchewan and Ontario in what could be a fight for a playoff position.

Sheet A
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Total
British Columbia
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
-
4
Manitoba
3
0
1
0
0
0
0
4
-
8

End Notes:

End 1- Great shot making by both teams but a wonderful double hit cleared the way for a triple for Manitoba

End 2- A series of hits left Austgarden with the opportunity to blank and retain the hammer

End 3- Austgarden was a bit light and clipped the guard leaving Manitoba with a counter back 8

End 4-  Labounty's first rock was a peach. He angled in off one of his guards and landed on the button behind lots of cover

End 5- Thiessen's last rock came up light and wrecked on the guard to give BC the steal of 1

End 6- A great try at a long angle take out moved shot rock but didn't remove it - steal of one by BC

End 7 - Austgarden made a lovely angle raise to the button forcing Thiessen to throw his last rock away

End 8 - Two beautiful take outs by Manitoba's Vice Wherret set up an exciting finish for Thiessen to remove Austgarden's last rock


Sheet B
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Total
Saskatchewan
0
3
0
0
0
5
1
0
1
10
Ontario
2
0
3
2
1
0
0
1
0
9

End Notes:

End 1- Good shot making by Ontario gave them the deuce

End 2- Saskatchewan, after a series of nice draws behind cover, had rocks in places Ontario couldn't remove

End 3- This time it was Ontario's turn to put rocks in places SK couldn't remove

End 4- An angle in off a SK stone gave Ideson a pair

End 5- A draw behind cover allowed ON to steal a single

End 6- Ideson missed a take out and left Bender with a chance to hit Ontario's lone house rock.  Bender didn't miss

End 7- A rock which was hiding behind a couple of guards was too difficult for Ontario to remove

End 8 - A pressure draw to the back eight by Ideson got ON the single to force an extra end


End 9 -Team Bender put a rock on the button and after a series of guards were thrown up all Ideson had left was an angle raise take out which he VERY narrowly missed

Sheet C
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Total
Host                               
1
0
0
2
1
0
0
2
-
6
Northern Ontario
0
3
2
0
0
1
1
0
-
7

End Notes:

End 1-  Good shots by both teams left NO with the only point

End 2- Northern Ontario loaded the house and came away with the triple

End 3-  NO kept HO from scoring with the hammer by making some lovely shots.  Their two counters weren't removed and they came away with a double

End 4- Host got two rocks behind a lot of cover and left Levesque a difficult draw which he didn't make

End 5- NO had difficulty getting to the Host shot rock and Team Prud'homme stole 1

End 6- Good draw for the single

End 7- Great shot making gets single for Northern Ontario

End 8 - The pair by the Host team were not enough to force an extra end
Sheet D
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Total
Nova Scotia              
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
-
2
Quebec
1
0
2
0
2
3
3
0
-
11

End Notes:

End 1- An open draw in for the first point

End 2- Nova Scotia repeated their shots of the first end and came away with the point

End 3- Quebec got their pair after a series of nice draws

End 4- A measure gave Nova Scotia the single

End 5-  Quebec mixed a series of good shots to take 2 with the hammer

End 6- Nova Scotia was facing 3 and had a hit to take one but was a little wide and rolled out leaving all three rocks still there

End 7- After some perfectly weighted draws by Quebec and another steal of 3 the teams shook


Sheet E
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Total
Alberta                   
4
0
4
1
2
0
1
0
-
12
Newfoundland
0
1
0
0
0
3
0
0
-
4

End Notes:

End 1- An open draw for Yizek added to the three shots that were scattered around the house

End 2- MacDonald came a bit light on her draw for a second point

End 3- Again Manitoba scattered rocks around the house and came away with another 4

End 4- Alberta put a rock behind a guard early in the end and Newfoundland could neither remove it nor draw in better

End 5- A valiant attempt by MacDonald to raise a rock and remove shot stone came up a bit light and Alberta stole two more

End 6-  MacDonald made a nice angle raise to add to the two that were already buried

End 7 - Alberta made a draw through a narrow port to score 1














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