Glooscap crew denied Canada Games berth

BY JOHN DECOSTE

The Advertiser

NovaNewsNow.com



It was close, but there will be no return trip to the Canada Games for a curling team from Kentville’s Glooscap Curling Club.

Skip Will Haggerty and his teammates Brandon Copeland, Ben Crouse, Ian Roberts and alternate Drew Redden were the runners-up in the boys’ competition behind Paul Dexter of Mayflower at the four-day Canada Games final selection competition in Chester.

Eight boys’ and eight girls’ teams, all of which had qualified previously, began the competition Saturday, Dec. 2. By Tuesday afternoon, Dexter’s and Haggerty’s were the final two boys’ teams left in contention.

Haggerty and his teammates pushed Dexter to the brink, leading 5-3 after six ends and forcing Dexter to steal two points in an extra end for a come-from-behind 8-6 win.

Haggerty started the competition with three straight wins: 11-5 over Matthew Davidson of Chester; 10-2 over Travis Stone of Sydney; and 8-6 over Dexter before suffering his first loss, 10-5 to Josh Grant of Liverpool, Sunday evening.

The Haggerty quartet moved to 4-1 with a 9-7 win over Ben Parker of Chester before running into a Dexter rink that was just beginning to hit its stride.



Wouldn’t taste defeat again

After their loss to Haggerty, Dexter and his teammates Ken Houk, Alexander Moriarty and Benjamin Mayhew, who opened the competition with two straight wins, wouldn’t taste defeat again, topping MacRae 4-2 and Grant 8-6 to set up the final showdown.

Dexter won 7-3 Monday evening, meaning that Haggerty needed to win Tuesday afternoon and again Wednesday morning to claim the competition.

Dexter’s 8-6 win in the first sudden-death match Tuesday sealed the victory and a trip to the Yukon for the Canada Games in February for him and his team.



Mayflower rink dominant

On the girls’ side, it was no contest as the Mayflower rink of skip Katherine Lines, Danielle Parsons, Courtney Heustis and Emily MacRae went through the competition undefeated at 7-0, the final a 7-4 win over Marlee Powers of Bridgewater Tuesday.

The Glooscap rink of skip Corrine Levy, Heather Dyke, Katherine Dugas and Rebekah Wheadon finished with a record of two wins and three losses.

The Levy foursome drew the Lines rink in the opening draw and ended up on the short end of 9-1 decision.

Levy rebounded with a decisive 11-1 win over Kayla Boyd of Shelburne then dropped a 7-6, extra-end contest to Erin Porter of Truro.

In that match, Levy and her teammates scored two in the tenth end to tie the game at six, only to have Porter score the winner with the hammer in the 11th.

The Kentville girls improved to 2-2 with a 10-6 win over Heidi Collicut of Chester Sunday afternoon, but were eliminated with a 12-4 loss to Samantha Adams of Bridgewater Monday morning.

Jane Snyder of Wolfville, the third on the Adams rink, was the only other Kings County curler in the competition. Snyder and her teammates finished with three wins and three losses, made the semi-finals but were eliminated with a 9-2 loss to Lines.