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Morning Issue 5 – Sunday, December 5, 2010 An Official Publication of the Canadian Curling Association. Try the Half Cup! This is the package that puts you in the heat of the action all day Saturday and all day Sunday… when all the big points are on the line! $ 165 Includes GST & service charges. Make Your Day! Single Day Passes are Also Available! If weekdays work better for your schedule, sample our day passes on Thursday and Friday. $ 69 For tickets call 780.451.8000 or order online Marc Kennedy Includes GST & service charges. Clean sweep? Here’s the deal: Cheryl Bernard, Carolyn Darbyshire and Cori Morris have qualified for their first Canada Cup women’s final. Kevin Martin seeks his fourth Canada Cup title in a classic confrontation with Glenn Howard Page 2 Cheryl Bernard, Stefanie Lawton are on a collision course . . . with a $25,000 payday at stake Page 3

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Page 1: Canada Cup Morning Cup Dec 5

Morning

Issue 5 – Sunday, December 5, 2010 • An Offi cial Publication of the Canadian Curling Association.

Try the

Half Cup!This is the package that puts you in the heat of the action all day Saturday and all day Sunday… when all the big points are on the line!

$165Includes GST & service charges.

Make Your Day!Single Day Passes are Also Available!

If weekdays work better for your schedule, sample our day passes on Thursday and Friday.

$69For tickets call

780.451.8000 or order online

Marc Kennedy

Includes GST & service charges.

Clean sweep?Here’s the deal: Cheryl Bernard, Carolyn Darbyshire and Cori Morris have qualified for their first Canada Cup women’s final.

■ Kevin Martin seeks his fourthCanada Cup title in a classicconfrontation with Glenn Howard Page 2

■ Cheryl Bernard, Stefanie Lawtonare on a collision course . . .with a $25,000 payday at stake Page 3

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Men’sFinalToday

12:30 p.m. — Kevin Martin(6-0, A1-B1winner) vs. Glenn Howard (6-1, semifi nal winner)

Hello,stranger:

Martin,Howardto meetin final

Larry Woodand Todd KimberleyMorning Cup Editors

Teamwork is prov-ing to be the key for Kevin Martin’s

defending Olympic cham-pion quartet as they head into today’s 12:30 p.m. championship fi nal in the Canada Cup of Curling at the Medicine Hat Arena.

The Edmonton-based Martin outfi t won its sixth straight game at the Canadian Curling Associa-tion’s fi rst major event of the season, defeating Glenn Howard of Coldwater, Ont., 7-4 in the Page One playoff game at The Arena on Sat-urday morning.

“We feel good. It’s the truth,” said Martin, whose Saville Sports Centre outfi t includes third John Morris, second Marc Kennedy, and lead Ben Hebert.

“I didn’t play very well,

but then John did. And John didn’t play very well last night (in their pool-play fi -nale against Randy Ferbey), so then Marc did. So it’s all up to somebody else.”

Which is to say, it’s a team game.

Howard, whose record against Martin is far from scintillating — 0-for-6 in the Tim Hortons Brier, 1-for-3 in the Canadian Olympic trials and the Canada Cup and 1-for-2 in the Players’ champion-ship — earned another shot at the gold-medal team Saturday night by ousting defending Brier champion Kevin Koe of Edmonton 9-7 in the semifi nal.

“We’re all mentally ready,” said Howard after-ward. “It’s just all four of us have to be playing well. My front end struggled this morning and put a lot of pressure on us. We had a couple of bad rocks we

didn’t pick up on. But for this game we get to pick a whole net. I think we’ll be fi ne.”

The Ontario skip admit-ted his record against the Martin outfi t has been “hor-rible lately.

“The last few years he’s got us just about every time. We throw the odd one in there for his three or four,” said Howard.

“We didn’t play well at all this morning. I felt gthe fi rst four or fi ve ends he should have blown us out. We just have to come out better this time.”

The semi-fi nal progressed in yo-yo fashion for open-ers. Howard opened with a deuce, Koe replied with one and then stole two in the third when Howard admitted pulled the string on a last-rock draw.

But Koe couldn’t abide with that prosperity. Howard rebounded with a four-ender in the fourth end when two gambling big-weight shots from Koe failed to come off.

“He threw two bad ones,” said Howard.

Please see MEN,Page 10

Above, top: Kevin Koe and Carter Rycroft discuss strategy during Saturday night’s 9-7 semifinal loss to Glenn Howard. Above: Mike McEwen lets it all

hang out during his Page Two-Two playoff defeat to Koe earlier in the day. Left: Wayne Middaugh and Brent Laing bring a Howard rock into the house.

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Women’sFinalToday

11 a.m. — Cheryl Bernard (5-1, A1-B1 winner) vs. Stefanie Lawton (6-1,semifi nal winner)

Larry Woodand Todd KimberleyMorning Cup Editors

Calgary’s Cheryl Bernard is back in Olympic-Games form and she’ll

face Saskatoon’s Stefanie Law-ton to provide conclusive proof when the women’s scrapping at Canada Cup of Curling winds up in a battle for $25,000 today at 11 a.m. MT at The Arena.

Bernard and Lawton took turns making short work of an 18-game winning streak amassed by Calgary’s Shannon Kleibrink heading into Satur-day’s Page playoffs.

Winning her eighth straight over her Cowtown rival, Bernard and her team of Susan O’Connor, Carolyn Darbyshire and Cori Morris stole vital

fi fth- and sixth-end singles en route to a 6-4 duke in the Page One morning match and advanced directly to the championship fi nal.

Kleibrink ap-peared frustrated by a relentless Lawton onslaught in the afternoon semi-fi nal and surrendered 8-4.

Lawton, with Sherry Anderson, Sherri Singler and Marliese Kasner op-erating effi ciently in front, clobbered Krista McCarville of Thun-der Bay 9-2 to emerge from the sudden-death Page Two scuffl e.

“We came to play today and it re-ally showed,” said the 30-year-old Lawton. “We made all kinds of shots.

“They (Kleibrink) just struggled with draw weight and having an early lead we were able to hit away.”

Much was being made of the addition of veteran skip Sherry Anderson to Law-ton’s lineup.

“She brings a ton of expe-rience,” says Lawton, who moved sister Kasner down to

lead when Anderson became available. “And she brings a calming manner.”

Said Anderson, who closed out the Saturday semi with a triple takeout: “Maybe the time is right for this now. Were still

in the honeymoon stage but it has been enjoyable.

“I think, from experience playing with your fam-ily, playing with sisters, it’s different and you do things differently with somebody who’s not your sister.

“It’s probably working well in the house with Stefanie because we’re more of a team and not two sisters back there, if you get what I mean. And Marliese is playing so well at lead, she hasn’t missed a double this year, I don’t think.”

Lawton said her team will need “the A-game” if it hopes to compete

with Bernard’s Olympians this

morning at The Arena.

Please see WOMEN,Page 7

Bernard, Lawton take turnsbursting Kleibrink’s balloon

Stefanie Lawton: Two big wins on Saturday.

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fun and they’re still the ones.

Olympic curling heroes Kevin Martin and Cheryl Bernard, who both played before almost seven million Canadians on TV in their gold-medal games at the

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, completed TSN’s daily double Satur-day.

They both won to put themselves through to today’s televised fi nals of the Canada Cup, curling’s Season of Champions lead-off event.

But mostly these two deliv-ered messages.

They’re back! And they mean business!

When you’re on top, it’s not a bad idea to come to the fi rst big event after the Olympics and remind people you haven’t gone away, that you haven’t lost your desire and your fi re.

Both Olympic gold-medal winner Martin of Edmonton and silver-medal winner Bernard of Calgary did that Saturday morning.

In sending Glenn Howard and Shannon Kleibrink to the semi-fi nals, they actually delivered stronger messages than that.

More like: “We still own you!”

Both claimed they had no idea the extent they’ve main-tained dominance. But curl-ing has reached the point of growing public appeal where people are starting to keep track of this sort of stuff.

That was the eighth straight time Bernard has defeated fellow Calgarian and 2002 Olympic bronze-medal win-ner Kleibrink. It also stopped an 18-game winning streak Kleibrink had put together this season.

Please see JONES,Page 10

Photography:Michael Burns, Jr.

Associate Editor:Todd Kimberley

Editor:Larry WoodMorning

Kevin Martin’s Edmonton-based crew now has six straight wins at The Arena. “It’s important to us to come out and play like we have in the past,” he says.

Albertans flex thatOlympic muscle

TERRY JONESSun Media Columnist

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If everything continues to tran-spire the way the Asham World Curling Tour and iSportsMedia

people have been operating, this Canada Cup championship you’ve watched this week at the Hat Arena is something of a dinosaur among cash bonspiels.

Why? Because there are no defi nite plans yet unveiled by the Canadian Curling Association to offi cially proclaim the game a debate spanning less than the long-accepted 10 ends in duration.

Oh, there have been fading rumbles in certain quarters that those CCA types dealing with grouchy TV executives assigned to produce programming suit-able to viewers with varying degrees of Attention Defi cit Disorder are tiring of the fi ght and are prepared to capitulate some year soon.

The rumbles — and that’s all they are — suggest the CCA is consider-ing a compromise position similar to those taken by any politician primar-ily concerned with survival in the public arena. Which is to say, hello to the nine-end curling game, maybe along about 2015 or beyond.

Mind you, don’t bet the mortgage on it. Not right now.

The Canada Cup, of course, is a CCA concoction. Everything else in the realm of cashspiels of account these days is hooked up, for better or worse, with the AWCT. The signa-ture events overseen by this group — otherwise known as the Grand Slams — offi cially adopted eight-end matches a couple of seasons ago. The iSportsMedia group, which runs the AWCT, announced back then with some trumpets blasting and drums rolling that all tour events would move to the eight-end format.

Still, some insider say the tour moguls, some of the sponsors and some of the participants will get their way sooner or, hopefully, much later, across the board. Which may be great for some, disastrous for others.

Let’s see now. Kevin Martin loves the eight-end idea. Glenn Howard likes it, too. Brad Gushue hates it. Kelly Scott has leaned more and more to playing eight ends after originally announcing she favoured 10. At last query, Jennifer Jones preferred 10.

Cheryl Bernard likes eight.The participants and spectators at

the Scotties, Brier and world men’s championships three years ago were asked what they thought of eight-end games in terms of provincial, national and world championship competition. The results indicated the fans were far more adamant about their rejection of eight ends than the players.

For the record, 67 per cent of Hearts participants favoured 10-end games for championships while only 48 per cent of Brier participants liked the status quo and 46 per cent of the national champs at the Ford

Worlds preferred 10 ends.The other side of the coin? Twenty-fi ve per cent of Scotties shooters defi nitely liked eight ends while eight per cent were uncertain. It was 44 per cent in favour of eight and eight per cent undecided for Brier types and 40 per cent and 14 per cent in the dark for the internationals.

By contrast, there was no grey area for the fans. At the Scotties, it was 88-12 in favour of retaining 10 ends. At the Brier, it was 97-3. And at the Worlds, 97-3.

At last year’s World Curling Feder-ation conclave, a move to eight ends was shot down in fl ames. Raging

fl ames. So, too, were the abolition of extra ends and tiebreakers at world championships.

All of which leaves you to wonder what iSportsMedia and World Tour execs were smoking and who they were canvassing when they suggest-ed their move to eight ends was the result of unanimous thinking.

Said iSportsMedia poobah Kevin Albrecht: “The eight-end format is an example of our dedication to providing forward-thinking solutions that resonate with everyone involved with the sport . . .”

Said then-World Tour commish Paul Boutilier: “Curling needs posi-tive change to ensure we maintain our leadership position as one of Canada’s top sports, while continu-ing our growth internationally. The support I’ve heard for this progres-sive shift (to eight ends) in thinking has been overwhelming.”

What they really said, in fact, is that TV wants shorter games and more sponsorships and what The Idiot Box wants The Idiot Box should get. It is, after all, the world’s No. 1 mechanism for spreading a particular gospel.

All right, so maybe the idea of cashspiels and the like moving to eight ends is fi ne for the players. Sta-tistics show a very limited number of fans care about these events, anyway. But let’s leave the major champion-ships at 10 ends. Sort of along the lines of 10-round box-fi ghts and 15-round championship box-fi ghts, three-set tennis matches and fi ve-set tennis matches.

Most people will agree there’ll always be a distinction between player’s events and longstanding national and international champion-ships. So maybe eight ends is fi ne for tournaments offering cash prizes and nothing else, even if stats show a lot of the games get out of hand early and most arenas are as empty as your last glass of maroon.

But, it says here, the status quo of the championship events should be preserved. They represent, to most afi cionados of the game, far more than just another money-grab of which there are far too many in the world of sports these days.

LARRY WOODMorning Roar Editor8Great

?Not so, say players and fans,

who object to the ideathat eight-end games

are inevitable in curling

2007 Brier champion Glenn Howard of Coldwater, Ont., likesthe idea of eight-end games, but the majority of Brier and Heartssweepers — and the vast majority of fans — prefer to keep games at 10 ends in provincial, national, and world championships.

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Prince Edward Island, skipped by Robert Campbell of Charlottetown, won the Canadian Mixed curling championship last month in Morris, Man., defeating Manitoba in a squeaker, 4-3.

For Campbell, it was his second mixed title, after winning the 1989 renewal in Brandon, coincidentally the last time Manitoba had hosted the championship.

Campbell became the sev-enth skip to win the Mixed twice, behind only three-time winner, Larry McGrath of Saskatchewan. But Camp-bell was the fi rst skip to win Mixed titles so many years apart — 21.

It was the fi rst Canadian Mixed title for third Rebecca Jean MacPhee, second Rob-bie Doherty and lead Jackie Reid. It also was Prince Edward Island’s third crown since the Mixed began in 1964 in Toronto. Skip Peter Gallant won his province’s fi rst title in 1987.

As the top-ranked team in

the round robin with a 10-1 mark, Prince Edward Island had earned a bye to the fi nal. Its only loss had come at the hands of Manitoba, an 8-5 decision in Draw 5.

Meanwhile, Manitoba had clawed its way out of a three-way tie for third to reach the fi nal, fi rst beating Ontario in the second tiebreaker for third place, then dusting former champion Paul Flem-ming of Nova Scotia, 8-3 in the semi-fi nal.

The championship fi nal proved a battle, as the ‘Is-landers’ opened with a single in the second and a steal of one in the third for a 2-0 lead. But Manitoba cut the defi cit to 2-1 with a single in the fi fth end.

Then, after a blanked sixth, Campbell counted one in the seventh for a 3-1 advantage. However, the host province wouldn’t quit. The Terrry McNamee skipped unit responded with one in the eighth, then a steal of one in the ninth, to square the match at three coming home.

But McNamee was unable to remove a buried Island

counter with his fi nal rock, and Campbell didn’t have to throw his last stone.

“Rebecca Jean made a raise-back,” said the 44-year-old Campbell. “We had one buried in the top four. He (McNamee) tried a double runback and just missed.

“They (Manitoba) played really well all week long. They were one of the top teams, defi nitely. The fi rst time we met them, the game could have gone either way. I didn’t trust my in-turn all week. But the chance for re-demption (today) was great.

“I forgot all about it (World Mixed Doubles),” laughed Campbell, when reminded about the fact that two play-ers from the winning team will now represent Canada at the 2011 World Mixed Doubles curling champion-ship, April 15-24 in St. Paul, Minn.

Campbell, who had been out-curled percentage-wise by McNamee for most of the contest, eventually emerged with a slight edge, 75-to-74 although Manitoba held a 78-75 team margin.

Campbell’s crewfrom the Island

claims mixed crown

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Page 72010 Canada Cup

On the subject of A-games, Bernard and her mates appeared to be rounding into peak form in the morning.

“Club curling and club ice are pretty tricky, and have never been our forte,” said Bernard, who won a silver medal at Vancouver.

“This is really nice to get out on this ice. Everybody’s playing great and having fun and doing what we need to do out there.

“My stomach is going again, just like the Olym-pics and the Trials. It’s amazing how quickly it comes back. And that was a concern at the beginning of the year. We wondered if we would still have that (magic). But it’s right back there.”

Bernard’s win was her eighth straight against

arch-rival Kleibrink. The latter skip’s last decision in this personal battle was at Calgary’s Autumn Gold Classic in the fall of 2008.

The pivotal point Bernard needed proved to be the sixth-end steal for a 5-3 lead.

“That was not a good effort on either team’s part,” said Kleibrink, who later said that based on the day’s play the Lawton team appeared the stronger side, “but you never know, every day is a new day.

“That (Page One) was a horrendous game . . . on both sides. It was not well played. I don’t know why.”

In the afternoon, Lawton picked up a fi rst-end single and stole a critical pair and a 3-0 lead in the second when Kleibrink’s last rock ticked a guard.

The Calgarian, with third Nixon, second Bronwen Webster, lead Chelsey Bell, drew for a pair in the third but missed a diffi cult double in the fourth leaving Lawton a routine draw for another deuce.

Lawton executed a double-kill in the fi fth and

Kleibrink was forced to settle for one. Then Lawton sparkled again in the sixth with a fi rst-rock double-angle runback on a buried enemy stone and wound up drawing the four-foot for yet another deuce when Kleibrink’s sweep-

ers allowed her last freeze attempt over-curl in the middle ring.

The jig was quickly up in the seventh after Nixon, coming off 24 hours of sick leave, executed a cross-the-rings double to set up a seemingly certain deuce. After Lawton killed one enemy brick, a frustrated Kleibrink was short on a draw to the rings, then rubbed her own stone with her last and left Lawton with the theft of a single-ton.

“We’ve played some lights-out games here so we felt at the top of our game and I think we’ll go into the provincials with that in mind,” said Kleibrink.

“I had diffi culty with draw weight (against Lawton). It was challeng-ing ice and we didn’t get it and they obviously did. With ice like that, when you’re not quite sure and they’re hitting well, you’re in trouble.”

Lawton started her game against McCarville with a single point in the fi rst, then stole one more in each of the second, third, and fourth ends. She went up 6-1 with a deuce in the sixth, and scored three more in the eighth to end the proceedings early.

“In the third end, they looked like they were going to have a pretty good end, but we ended up freezing on them to get out it,” said Lawton.

“We were defi nitely

throwing well and making some great shots. Krista’s team was going harder for the steals (in the later stag-es). They were throwing up the two guards . . . and left

our rocks around in play, trying to freeze to them. Their freezes didn’t quite work out, and we were able to get some points out of those ends.”

From Page 3

WOMEN:Bernard crew’s

in peak form

Sharon Kleibrink, foreground, says she had trouble with draw weight in Saturday’s semifinal.

Krista McCarville lost a one-sided Page Two-Two playoff game to Stefanie Lawton.

Cheryl Bernard: In fine form this week.

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Page 8 The Party Line • Your guide to what’s goin’ on

your guide to what’s goin’ on

The success of every Season of Champions event comes down to the energy and enthusiasm of a dedicated team of volunteers. Over the past five days, we’ve seen all that and more in the extraordinary contributions of more than 380 volunteers for the 2010 Canada Cup.

They’ve been on the job from early morning to the wee hours of the night – attending to every detail in dozens of different roles – ensuring fans and competitors alike make the very most of their experience at the Canada Cup. And, for many, their efforts date backto the beginning of the year.

So here’s a toast to the volunteers – we thank you all… for all you’ve done!

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The Final Showdown for the Cool Curling Title!After four days of action in Keith’s Patch, it all came down to Saturday’s four-team championship playoff. The daily winners faced off to compete for the 2010 Canada Cup Cool Curling title. The winning team took home the $500 grand prize and $200 was awarded for second place.

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Martin is 6-0 here and registered his fourth straight win over How-ard and his Coldwater, Ont., team which is also 0-6 lifetime against Martin at the Brier.

“You hate to give another team an edge,” said third John Morris.

“You get to an event like this and you want to show people you haven’t gone soft with success.

“You want to come right back and beat them this year. We’re competitive. We have a burning desire to win. We hate to lose. It’s programmed into us to refuse to lose.

“We want to show people starting right now that we had a taste of the Olympics and we want to get back to the next ones in 2014 in Russia just as bad.”

Both Martin and Bernard have played reduced schedules on the front end of this season before getting to this one.

Martin and his team missed the last cash competition to take a tour of Northern Alberta, making appearances and raising more than $50,000 for junior curl-ing.

“It’s important to us to come out and play like we have in the past,” Martin said.

“We hadn’t worked hard and weren’t play-ing that well in the events we did play. I wasn’t fi ring on all cylinders. But we went back to practising hard last week,” said the skip, after the 7-4 win Saturday morning.

For Bernard, who had only played three events and was 14th in points, it has just been good to get back to a more signifi -cant stage.

“It’s good to come back to play in an arena

on consistent ice. This validates us a bit. I think we knew it but we needed this kind of an event.

“It was hard to get up for the other events after all the stuff. And we can make some money here for Christmas presents,” she said of the $25,000 (fi rst) and $15,000 (sec-ond) with $800 per win in the round robin.

To Martin, this event seem to be his own per-sonal ATM machine.

But for a guy who has done so much winning, he doesn’t know much about what he’s winning sometimes.

“I didn’t know that,” he said. “Are you sure about that?”

Positive.Every year they hold

itthis event an Edmonton men’s team has won it.

Randy Ferbey: 2003. 2004. 2007; Kevin Mar-tin:2005. 2006. 2009; Kevin Koe: 2008.

“That’s hard to be-lieve,” said Martin.

From Page 4

JONES

VIEWERSHIP BY THE NUMBERS2010 Olympics: Men’s curling gold-medal game, 6.8 million viewers 2010 Olympics: Women’s curling gold-medal game, 6.7 million viewers 2009 Roar of the Rings: Men’s fi nal, 1.2 million viewers2009 Roar of the Rings: Women’s fi nal, 832,000 viewers2010 Tim Hortons Brier: Men’s fi nal, 1.6 million viewersNHL: Average 2009-10 regular-season audience, 714,000 viewersCFL: Average 2010 regular-season audience, 807,000 viewers

“He doesn’t usually miss those. Even the second one was set up for the triple.”

Said Koe, who had ear-lier defl ated Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen 10-7 in a wild Page Two playoff match:

“We had a couple of bad ends and I had a shot, right in my wheelhouse, to bail us out and I missed it and gave up the big four points and that was the big turning point.

“I threw them hard, maybe I went too hard, but I had to kill at least one of them. I thought I could have got them all, I’m usually pretty good at those, and that would have been defl ating for them, but not this time.”

The teams swapped singles over the next three ends but Koe, trailing 7-5 couldn’t get his rock on the button covered by a last-rock guard in the eighth and Howard chipped out the counter to score a deuce for a four-point lead.

Martin has won the last four confrontations with Howard dating back to Howard’s win at the Cactus Pheasant Classic at Brooks in October. 2009.

The Edmontonians jumped out to an early 3-0 lead, How-ard struck back to tie the score 4-4, and Martin scored singles in each of the eighth, ninth, and 10th ends for the win.

“I was a little heavy on all my shots,” said Martin. “I didn’t get the rolls. I ended up being close to the nose all the time. Glenn was getting the rolls. It was one of those days when John had to step up to the plate. And that’s a good team when one guy will cover for the other.”

The Howard team, including third Wayne Middaugh, second

Brent Laing, and lead Craig Savill, didn’t get on the board until the fi fth end with a deuce.

“We hung on and made a real good game of it,” said Howard. “If I throw a little better shot in nine, we get our deuce, and it would have been a whole dif-ferent ball game. At that point, I didn’t think we deserved to be in it. But I threw a little heavier than I wanted, and it ran, and he stole one. That was totally defl ating.”

Koe took the long route to the semi after losing a fi rst-place qualifying-pool battle to Howard by an 8-6 tally by sifting his last rock through the four-foot.

That sent him back on the ice in a late tiebreaker but he responded with a superlative performance, hammering Jeff Stoughton of Winnipeg 11-4 in six ends.

Playing with third Blake MacDonald, second Carter Ry-croft, and lead Nolan Thiessen, Koe kept up that momentum against McEwen — counting three in each of the fourth and sixth ends en route to victory.

“For us to come back and beat Stoughton and McEwen, who’s been having a great year, shows we’re mentally tough enough to shake that loss off,” said Koe.

McEwen, who’d fashioned a 4-1 record in his pool, coming off three straight bonspiel vic-tories, also gave up deuces in the second and eighth ends, and wasn’t thrilled afterward with

his team’s performance.“We were awful. You can’t

win games missing that many shots,” said McEwen, whose Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club squad includes third B.J. Neufeld, second Matt Wozniak, and lead Denni Neufeld. “I had nothing to work with. Yeah, we were bad. Simple as that.

“First three ends, we turned the game around. We were leading (4-2). But every time they had the hammer, we couldn’t do anything defen-sively to hold them. It wasn’t pretty out there when it came to my rocks, what I was looking at. We were having to make too many tough shots, and missing too many easy ones.”

Koe assessed his team’s tournament this way:

“We were pretty good this week but we defi nitely didn’t play out best. We had some trouble with draw weight all week so to make the semis was pretty good, but we still have a way to go this season in terms of the way we were playing at the end of last season.

“We’re sneaking out a few wins and making enough shots to get by but we’re not all fi ring as a team yet. We’re not putting in a totally strong effort.

“I’m closer to the guys now (residing in Calgary rather than Grande Prairie) but we haven’t had one team practice all year. There’s other stuff going on and no time just to go to Ed-monton to practice.

“It’d be nice to get a chance to practice before the provin-cial playdowns. We’ll try to get together for a weekend and work on some things we need to work on.”

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Answers

1. Kevin MacKenzie, the answer to the last ques-tion in Saturday’s quiz, has a sister who is a former world champion. Her name?2. Three women’s play-ers and seven men’s players currently em-broiled in the action at the Hat Arena have played in the Canada Cup for two different skips. Can you name the

three women?3. How about their skips?4. And the seven men?5. How about their skips?6. Now it gets tough. Five other female curl-ers, not involved this week, have played for two skips in the Canada Cup. They are?7. And their skips?8. Six other male curlers, not involved this week, have played for two

skips. They are?9. And their skips?10. Heading into this week’s event, the Canada Cup skip (male or female) with the best won-lost percentage was? 11. The won-lost percent-age?12. The next edition of the Canada Cup (No. 9) will be played in which Canadian city?

1. Kelly Scott. 2. Chelsea Bell, Caro-lyn Darbyshire, Sherri Singler.3. (Bell) Stefanie Law-ton, Shannon Kleibrink, (Darbyshire) Renelle Bryden, Cheryl Bernard, (Singler) Patti (Roche-leau) Herzikorn, Stefanie Lawton.4. Ryan Fry, Brent Laing, Marc Kennedy, Blake MacDonald, Jonathan Mead, Carter Rycroft, Craig Savill.5. (Fry) Jeff Stoughton, Brad Gushue, (Laing) John Morris, Glenn Howard, (Kennedy) Kevin Koe, Kevin Mar-tin, (MacDonald) Pat

Simmons, Kevin Koe, (Mead) Jeff Stoughton, Wayne Middaugh, (Ry-croft) Kevin Martin, Kevin Koe, (Savill) John Morris, Glenn Howard.6. Jolene (McIvor) Campbell, Deanna Doig, Sara Gatchell, Kim (Arm-bruster) Hodson, Geor-gina Wheatcroft.7. (Campbell) Jan Betker, Michelle Englot, (Doig) Heather Rankin, Michelle Englot, (Gatchell) Penny Shantz, Jo-Ann Rizzo, (Hodson) Sherry Ander-son, Heather Smith-Dac-ey, (Wheatcroft) Kelley Law, Jennifer Jones,8, Joe Frans, Dean Hicke, Joel Jordison,

Kevin Park, Don Wal-chuk, Mike Westlund.9. (Frans) John Mor-ris, Wayne Middaugh, (Hicke) Glen Despin, Joel Jordison, (Jordi-son) Brad Heidt, Pat Simmons, (Park) Kevin Martin, Jeff Stoughton, (Walchuk) Kevin Martin, Kerry Burtnyk, (West-lund) Kevin Koe, Jamie Koe.10. Randy Ferbey.11. 33 wins, 11 losses for a .750 percentage. (Jan Betker led women with the same percentage for a 9-3 record but, of course, played far fewer games.12. Cranbrook, B.C.

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So long, farewell . . .we’re outta here!

Morning Cup staff

There’s something you should know about this estimable news

sheet to which you’ve sub-scribed the past fi ve days.

What’s that? Well, simply, it never gets the fi nal story. Hardly ever. And certainly not this year, either. Sorry about that.

The Morning Cup, you see, does not publish on the post-Canada Cup Monday. The way the Medicine Hat organizing committee fi g-ures it, if we’re over budget after fi ve days, we won’t be going for six.

Oh yes, and there’s some-thing else you should know. This publication would not exist without the efforts of the Medicine Hat organiz-

ing committee, the Cana-dian Curling Association and its sponsors. Between them, they fund the whole shebang. So, save a cheer, also a tiger, for them.

Now, what we’re asking from you today is this. We set up today’s champion-ship fi nal matches in this last edition. Hereafter, you’re on your own.

The names of the winners of the 2010 Canada Cup will not be recorded for posterity in the Morning Cup. At least, not before the initial issue of the 2011 competition in Cranbrook.

Meantime, it has been a chunk of heaven, folks. We at the Cup would like to thank you for your interest. We’d like to thank all the competitors for their time and courtesy. We’d like to

thank our supporters for theirs. And we’d especially, also specifi cally, like to thank Tom Peterson and Jo Schafer at the Medicine Hat News for the jobs they’ve performed on our behalf.

Then there are all those fi ne organizers — Terry Morris, Dixie Lorentz, Marv Woefl e, Des Grant, Gail Frandsen and Vicki Sjolie, among many other classy operators, not to mention all those wonderful (?) people who kept us company in one of the noisiest media offi ce in captivity.

Yeah, wonderful!What else is there to say?

Have a good fi nal day and don’t forget to reserve early for the 2011 Canada Cup in the east Kootenays. This one promises to be a blast!

Cheers.

Morning Cup staff

Sites for the next three renewals of the Scotties Tournament Of Hearts have been announced by the Ca-nadian Curling Association.

The 2011 event is slated for Charlottetown, P.E.I., Feb. 19 to 27 at the Civic Centre.

Red Deer’s Centrium will be the site of the 2012 Scot-ties (Feb. 18 to 26) while Kingston, Ont., will host the 2013 competition, Feb. 16-24.

Kingston has not hosted

a Canadian curling cham-pionship since 1957, when Alberta’s Matt Baldwin won the Macdonald Brier.

Red Deer, on the other hands, hosted the 2004 Scotties and the 1994 Lab-att Brier.

Veteran curling adminis-trator Ken Thompson will be the committee chair from the Kingston event.

Kingstongets ready

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face Photographer Michael Burns Jr.captures the people and

personalities of the Canada Cup

Why so glum, chum? Above, top: Derek Samagalski, left, and Richard Daneault of Rob Fowler’s crew have a reflective moment.

Above, middle: Marc Kennedy, left, and Ben Hebert of Kevin Martin’s team take a moment to regroup.

Above: Bronwen Webster, left, and Amy Nixonof Shannon Kleibrink’s squad follow the action.

Kevin Koe, top, bellows for the brushes at The Arena. Jennifer Jones, left, calls out instructions. Kevin Martin, above, dispensesa few secrets.

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Aberle, KevinAdie, ChrisAllison, SharonAman, DarleneAman, RayAnderson, CorrineArnott, ValBailey, GloriaBaker, KatherineBalaricia, MarissaBarbier, PatriciaBarnard, RonBartlett, ShelleyBecker, MillieBell, CarolBell, MurrayBell, SandyBellamy, ShawnBender, MarvinBender, RonBenson, StellaBerger, SarahBernard, JeanBernard, RayBerreth, CliffBertsch, LaraBlaquiere, JuneBockman, AndrewBockman, BarbBockman, MarleneBockman, RayBodin, JeffBohnet, DennisBohnet, DixieBonneau, MoniqueBorrowman, DonBos, ClayBos, SheilaBouchard, RogerBower, BrendaBrandt, NaomiBrilz, LindaBrilz, ToddBrilz, TomBrost, JanetBrown, ChrisBrown, LarryBruins-Jacober, JuliaBurghardt, CarolineBurniston, RichardBymoen, HeatherBymoen, ManfredBymoen, ShirleyChampagne, LynnChampagne, MichelChapman, WilliamChartrand, DonaldChartrand, SheilaChristie, AlisonChristie, GraceCiona, SylviaClements, MaryClose, RamonaCongram, GlennCormier, SherryCowan, DeeCranston, JuliaCrozier, CatherineCrozier, WilliamCuts, ElaineDarr, GizelleDavis, RolandeDeKelver, Avicedela Cruz, LoryDelaurier, BarbDelaurier, GilDerbyshire, MargDerzaph, MelvinDonahue, LorettaDrefs, DaleDrefs, ShirleyDulle, DianeDurda, DianneDurda, HerbDutchak, GwenDyck, BonnieDyer, Ralph

Ealey, RegEisenbarth, CarolEisenbarth, RobertElder, RitaElder, VanceElke, MarieEnglot, DebbieEnslen, RoyErrington, GeorgeErrington, IreneFelesky, FayFieldberg, HaroldFieldberg, Patricia (Tish)Flaig, LynneFlaig, NatFoley, MaureenForan, LaverneForsyth, JillForsyth, RodFoster, BlakeFrame, AlveraFrandsen, GailFriedt, KentFunk, TravisFunk, Trevor

Ganden, TedGanden, WallieGehl, MyrnaGirling, MonaGlacier, LindaGlass, RitaGood, CindyGottselig, GeorgiaGould, DarrylGraham, JimGrant, DesmondGrant, PatGrassing, ChrisGutfriend, AlmaHagel, BobHaidenger, DelbertHaland, JimHale, KenHambley, MalHamblin, MervHannah, AliciaHartman, JoleineHaubrich, GarretHeller, LloydHeller, PauletteHenchel, PattyHenderson, Delmond

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McCarter, RuthMcKinney, SandraMcKinstry, DavidMcLennan, ArchieMcLennan, SheilaMcMorran, MarjMedwid, DoreenMedwid, NickMeidinger, TerryMerkl, FrankMilroy, MarilynMiskolczi, RogerMoat, BrianMoch, DelvinMoch, HarveyMoch, LeonMoch, MillieMoch, VernaMoch, VivianMoldon, LenoraMorrice, AnnieMorrice, George (Sandy)Moss, MaureenMoyes, EdieMulder, TammyMullin, Blair

Munro, GerryNeigum, DarleneNeigum, TonyNeil, Betty AnneNelson, TracyNemeth, LeslieNeubauer, JanetNewton Palmer, GlendaNitchke, JeanObrigewitch, MarleneOdland, BradOdland, DorisOwsjanikow, JohnPaccagnan, CarloPage, WaynePalahniuk, MichailPalahniuk, NormaParahoniak, SuzettePatience, ShelleyPaulson, RussellPhaff, DebraPlante, MichellePoberznick, JanicePreston, JonQuartermain, May

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The 2010 Canada Cup committee would liketo thank everyone who worked so hardto make the first event on the CanadianCurling Association’s 2010-11 Seasonof Champions tour such a success!

A hearty ’Hat thanksto all our volunteers!

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2010 CANADA CUP RESULTS

WomenSaturday’s Semifi nal

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TKleibrink* 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 x 4Lawton 1 2 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 x 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamKleibrink 80 89 88 57 79Lawton 86 86 84 88 86

Saturday’s Page One-One Crossover Game 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TBernard 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 6Kleibrink* 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamBernard 91 73 79 89 83Kleibrink 78 70 71 53 68

Saturday’s Page Two-Two Crossover Game 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TMcCarville 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 x x 2Lawton* 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 3 x x 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamMcCarville 81 78 70 67 74Lawton 78 89 73 81 80

MenSaturday’s Semifi nal

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TKoe 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 7Howard* 2 0 0 4 0 1 0 2 0 0 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamKoe 95 91 76 76 85Howard 82 73 94 93 85

Saturday’s Page One-One Crossover Game 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 THoward 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 4Martin* 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 7%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamHoward 76 53 75 72 69Martin 98 88 90 88 91

Saturday’s Page Two-Two Crossover Game 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TMcEwen* 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 x 7Koe 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 2 0 x 10%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamMcEwen 92 83 68 82 81Koe 81 90 85 92 87

* — started game with last rock

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MenChampions

2003 — Randy Ferbey, Dave Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer, Marcel Rocque, Edmon-ton.2004 — Randy Ferbey, Dave Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer, Marcel Rocque, Edmon-ton.2005 — Kevin Martin, Don Walchuk, Carter Rycroft, Don Bartlett, Edmonton.2006 — Kevin Martin, Don Walchuk, Carter Rycroft, Don Bartlett, Edmonton.2007 — Randy Ferbey, Dave Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer, Marcel Rocque, Edmon-ton2008 — Kevin Koe, Blake MacDonald (fourth), Carter Rycroft, Nolan Thies-sen, Edmonton2009 — Kevin Martin, John Morris, Marc Kennedy, Ben Hebert, Edmonton.

RecordsLongest game — Seventeen at 11 ends.High game score (one team) — 11. Brian Humble (2003), Pat Ryan (2003), Randy Ferbey (2004), Kerry Burtnyk (2004), Mark Johnson (2006), John Morris (2006), Brad Gushue (2009).Low game score (one team) — 0. Jean-Michel Menard (2007).High game score (combined) — 19. Kevin Martin over Jean-Michel Menard 10-9 (2007), John Base over Kerry Burtnyk 10-9 (2007), Brad Gushue 11-8 over Russ Howard (2009). Low game score (combined) — 5. Kevin Martin over Jeff Stoughton 4-1 (2007).High single end — 5. Glen Despins vs. Brad Heidt (2006), John Morris vs. Wayne Tuck (2005), John Morris vs. Mike Harris (2005), Randy Ferbey vs. Wayne Middaugh (2004), Jeff Stough-ton vs. Jean-Michel Menard (2007), Mark Johnson vs. John Base (2007), Kevin Martin vs. Mike McEwen (2008), Kevin Martin vs. Pat Simmons (2008), Bred Gushe vs. Kerry Burtnyk (2009)

Most extra-end games — 5 (2005).Undefeated record — 6-0. Randy Ferbey. (2003).Most wins by a skip — 33. Randy Ferbey, 31. Kevin Martin, 18, John Morris, 17. Jeff Stoughton, 15. Kevin Koe, 13. Brad Gushue, 10. Kerry Burt-nyk, 8. Glenn Howard.Most losses by a skip — 19. Kerry Burtnyk, 16. Brad Gushue, 13. Jeff Stoughton, 11. Randy Ferbey, Kevin Martin, 10. John Morris, Kevin Koe, Pat Simmons, 9. Russ Howard, 8. Pat Ryan.Back-to-back winner — 2003-04. Randy Ferbey (Dave Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer, Marcel Rocque); 2005-06. Kevin Martin (Don Walchuk, Carter Rycroft, Don Bartlett).Win-loss percentage (minimum six games) — .750 Randy Ferbey (33-11); .738 Kevin Martin (31-11); .715 Joel Jordison (5-2); .692 Glenn Howard (9-4); .666 Kevin Koe (12-6), Shawn Adams (4-2), Bob Ursel (4-2); .643 John Morris (18-10); .600 Kevin Koe (15-10); .567 Jeff Stoughton (17-13); .500 Wayne Middaugh (6-6); .448 Brad Gushue (13-16); .345 Kerry Burtnyk (10-19).

Most individual appearances — 7. Randy Ferbey, Kevin Koe, Dave Nedo-hin, Scott Pfeifer, Marcel Rocque.Team Appearances — Randy Ferbey 7, Jeff Stoughton Brad Gushue, Kerry Burtnyk, Kevin Martin 5, John Morris, Kevin Koe 4, Pat Simmons, Russ How-ard 3, Pat Ryan, Mark Dacey, Glenn Howard, Mike McEwen, Wayne Mid-daugh, Mark Johnson, Mark Dacey 2.

WomenChampions

2003 — Sherry Middaugh, Kirsten Wall, Andrea Lawes, Sheri Cordina, Coldwater, Ont.2004 — Colleen Jones, Kim Kelly, Mary-Anne Arsenault, Nancy Delahunt, Halifax.2005 — Shannon Kleibrink, Amy Nixon, Glenys Bakker, Christine Keshen, Calgary. 2006 — Cathy King, Lori Armitstead, Raylene Rocque, Tracy Bush, Edmon-ton.2007 — Jennifer Jones, Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Offi cer, Dawn Askin, Winnipeg.

2008 — Stefanie Lawton, Marliese Kasner, Sherri Singler, Lana Vey, Saskatoon.2009 — Shannon Kleibrink, Amy Nixon, Bronwen Webster, Chelsea Bell, Calgary.Longest game — 32 at 11 ends.High game score (one team) — 13. Jan Betker (2006).Low game score (one team) — 1. Barb Spencer (2003), Colleen Jones (2005), Kristie Moore (2008).High game score (combined) — 21. Marie-France Larouche over Cheryl Bernard 12-9 (2009).Low game score (combined) — 7. Jo-Ann Rizzo over Kelly Scott 4-3 (2005); Kelly Scott over Heather Strong 5-2 (2006).High single end — 6. Kelly Scott vs. Sherry Middaugh (2009).Most extra-end games — 8 (2009).Most wins by a skip — 23 Shannon Kleibrink.Most losses by a skip — 18 Kelly Scott.Win-loss percentage (minimum seven games) —.750 Jan Betker (9-3); .714 Kelley Law (5-2); .647 Stefanie Lawton (11-6); .630 Jennifer Jones (17-10); .622 Shannon Kleibrink (23-14); .588 Colleen Jones (10-7); .583 Cathy King (14-10); .571 Anne Merklinger (4-3); .565 Sherry Anderson (13-10); .514 Kelly Scott (19-18); .500 Michelle En-glot (6-6); .462 Marie-France Larouche (6-7); .455 Renee Sonnenberg (5-6); .417 Cheryl Bernard (10-14); .409 Sherry Middaugh (9-13). Most individual appearances — 6. Sasha (Bergner) Carter, Shannon Kleibrink, Amy Nixon, Jeanna (Richard) Schraeder, Kelly Scott.Team appearances — Shannon Kleibrink, Kelly Scott 6; Sherry Ander-son, Jennifer Jones, Sherry Middaugh, Cheryl Bernard, Cathy King 4; Col-leen Jones, Marie-France Larouche, Michelle Englot, Stefanie Lawton 3; Heather Rankin, Janet Harvey, Renee Sonnenberg, Jan Betker 2.

CANADA CUP RECORDS

Blake MacDonald and Kevin Koe won the 2008 Canada Cup title.

PREVIOUS FINALS

2003 — Randy Ferbey, Edmonton, defeated John Morris, Calgary, 7-5; Sherry Middaugh, Coldwater de-feated Kelley Law, New Westminster, 8-7.

2004 — Randy Ferbey, Edmonton defeated John Morris, Calgary, 10-3; Colleen Jones, Halifax, defeated Sherry Anderson, Delisle, Sask., 8-7.

2005 — Kevin Martin, Ed-monton defeated Randy Fer-bey, Edmonton, 6-5; Shannon Kleibrink, Calgary defeated Jan Betker, Regina, 7-6.

2006 — Kevin Martin, Edmonton defeated Glenn Howard, Coldwater, Ont., 5-4; Cathy King, Edmonton defeated Jennifer Jones, Winnipeg, 10-9.

2007 — Randy Ferbey, Edmonton, defeated Kevin Martin, Edmonton, 9-8 (extra-end); Jennifer Jones, Win-nipeg defeated Cathy King, Edmonton, 10-7.

2008 — Kevin Koe, Edmon-ton defeated Kevin Martin, Edmonton, 6-5; Stefanie Lawton, Saskatoon, defeated Kelly Scott, Kelowna, B.C., 7-4.

2009 — Kevin Martin, Ed-monton, defeated Randy Fer-bey, Edmonton 8-5; Shannon Kleibrink, Calgary, defeated Marie-France Larouche, St-Romuald, Que., 6-4.