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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Team Yizek wins 7th straight title!


Anne Hibberd, Martin Purvis, Jack Smart, Bruno Yizek
Team Yizek wins 7th straight title at Alberta provinical championshisp at the Jasper Place curling club!
In game much closer than the score of 7 to 1 showed.
Bruno Yizek and his team of Jack Smart, Anne Hibberd, Martin Purvis has won their 7th straight title in the Alberta provincial championships.Yes, I said 7th!
Congratulations to Teams Graves, Team MacEachern and Team Bene on strong play over the last few  long days!
Final Standings:

Gold – Team Yizek

Silver – Team Graves
Bronze- Team MacEachern
4th – Team Bene


Many thanks to our Twitter friend, Cathy Craig, Al Cameron, @YEGWHeelchaircurling and @Lisachuk for their onsite coverage and twitter feed that helped us cover this great event.
Here are a few photos from the last few days…


Team Graves (left) - Team Yizek (winners)
Medla presentation
I thought Alberta was blue not red?????

Finals coverage of the Alberta provinicals


In the Alberta provincials this morning Team Yizek and Team Graves wheeled away easy with wins to
finish respectfully Yizek (1) and Graves (2).
The final today should be a barn burner if the last game these two teams played is any indicator.
We will only be following the final this after with Yizek taking on Graves!
Game starts at 3:00pm (mountain time)

Team
Ends
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Total
Yizek
0
1
  1     2    1     1   1   x
-
7
Graves
1
0
  0     0  0    0   0   x
-
    1

Semi Finals & Final day at Alberta Provinicals (updated)


After a day that saw to extra end games at the Alberta provinical we head into the Semi finals and later today will see the finals. Team Yizek out of Calgary has keep their championship ways coimg out the round robin games with a pefect 3 and 0 record, really only being challanged by Team Graves in an extra end game yesterday.

This brings us to to the Semi finals today which see Team Yizek take on Team        and Team       vs. Team       .

Finals will take place at 3 pm tonight.

On to the Semi's....

Standings (Round Robin)
Rank
Team
Wins
Loses
Points For
Points Against
1
Yizek
3
0
41
12
2
Graves
2
1
37
17
3
MacEachern
1
2
18
27
4
Bene
0
2
11
444

 Semi –Finals -January 21, 11 am
Team
Ends
Total

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Yizek (1)
2
0
4
2
0
2
2
2
-
10

Bene (4)

0

1

0

0

0

0

2


0

-

2


Team
Ends
Total

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9


Graves (2)

1

1

0

2

2

1

x

x

-

7

MacEachern (3)

0

0

1

0

0

0

x

x

-

1

Game called in 6th!

Team Cameron in action this weekend!

Team Cameron

Bruce Cameron and his crew have been busy this weekend at the The Ottawa Valley Curling Association (OVCA) annual mixed bonspiel. Bruce is using this weekend as another opportunity for his team to get ready for the Ontario playdowns happening next weekend.

Team Cameron and Team Fraser, both curling out of the RA Curling Club and the only two wheelchair teams,  are entered in the seven team Recreational division. Each team in this division plays four games and wins/loses/points determines who advances to Sundays finals. Team Cameron is defending champion of this division.

Although the first two games for Team Cameron did not go their way last night was the big rebound by taking a 7 ender and the win.

Bruce will be sending along his summary after the final on Sunday and we wish Team Cameron and Team Fraser all the best for their remaining games.

Alberta Provinicals UPDATE



Over the last 2 days the Alberta Provincials have been happen at the Jasper Place Curling Center. The Wheelchair Blog 2 has been providing updates as they happen during the event and we have been Twittering as the games go along as well.

@Wheelchairblog

You can join us on Twitter by following us at: @Wheelchairblog

Now back to our provincials: Seems like Team Yizek has continued to dominate the Alberta w/c curling play downs with 3 straight wins and why not with Team Canada Alternates Bruno Yizek and Jack Smart they should have an advantage.

However; Team Graves seems to have their number yesterday in a very close game in the morning going to an extra end in what was referred to as an "ugly win" by one of our readers who was on site.

But like I have always said in my 12 years experience - "a win is a win regardless of how it happens. You learn from it and move on"

So, this morning in Alberta at 11am (MT) we see a repeat of yesterday afternoons games with Team Yizek taking on Team Bene and Team Graves taking on Team MacEachern.

And with that being said Team Graves needs to be careful as they just squeaked out a win yesterday afternoon over MacEachern by 1 in an extra end as well.

Should be fun to watch! Good curling to all Alberta Teams on behalf of wheelchair blog 2.


CPA Ontario posts web page on the Wheechair Curling Blog 2


Orginal Article found at:  CPA Ontario

New Wheelchair Curling Blog

A new blog for information sharing, postings and updates on wheelchair culing is being established by Chris Daw. With the end of Eric Eales blog at wheelchaircurling.com, there is now a void that needs to be filled.

If you could kindly consider sending along any information regarding wheelchair curling or other important information you would like to get into the hands of wheelchair curlers, Chris will do his best to post it.
The blog will be information-shairing format with no personal commentary.

The blog can be found at: http://wheelchaircurler.blogspot.com/

And all updates can be sent to: chris@chrisdaw.ca

Your information and support is warmly welcomed and NEEDED!

Friday, January 20, 2012

Day 2 - Alberta Provinicals - last of the round robin games (completed))

Bruno Yizek in action

After a few technical difficulties we are back.

The last of the round robin games are up. Alberta provinicals are happening at the Jasper Place curling center. Brouno Yizek had a close match this morning having to go the extra end to beat Graves. Watch what happens this afternoon.
Follow along below:



Standings (Round Robin)
Rank
Team
Wins
Losses
Points For
Points Against
1
Yizek
3
0
27
10
2
Graves
2
1
31
16
3
MacEachern
1
2
17
21
4
Bene
0
3
9
34

 January 20, 3pm

Team
Ends
Total

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Graves (Edmonton)
0
1
3
1
0
2
0
0
 1
7
MacEachern (Edmonton)
1
0
0
0
1
0
4
1
6

Extra End Required!

Team
Ends
Total

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Yizek (Calgary)
0
4
1
3
0
1
3
x
 -
12
Bene (Lethbridge)
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
x
 -
2

Semi Finals happening in the morning at 11am