Nutmeg little rockers at Ardsley

When most kids have vision of sugar plums dancing in their heads, these kids had visions of drawing to the button and making double takeouts.

Olympic Trials schedule finalized

The USCA has posted the schedule for all the playdowns HERE.

For those interested in making the short trip down to Ardsley, Charrissa will be playing:

Wed. 4:30 Thur. 9am, 2pm Fri. 9am, 2pm Sat. 9am, 7pm Sun. 1pm

I will try to say this as gently as possible. This is serious competition. Decorum in the warm room while watching is most important. Do not cheer misses or bang on the glass. Cheering a great shot is appropriate.

Jeff

Olympic Trials

Nutmeggers Derek Surka and Charrissa Lin are both playing in the Olympic Trials. Derek and his team will be at The Country Club in Brookline, MA and Charrissa and crew (with Joseph Smith coaching) will be just down the road at Ardsley.

The playdowns start on Wednesday January 7th for both. There are games all day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

If you have all recovered from New Years, take a short drive to Ardsley to support Charrissa, Tanya, Karen and Nicole. The schedule is not quite set but will be available HERE soon.

Or if you are looking for a road trip, take the longer drive to Brookline to support Derek, Tim, Sean and Ron.

Both sites feature prior US national champions so the curling will be great.

JH

Competitive League week 7

A shake up at the top as Team Hannon handed Team Surka their first loss of the season. In the battle of the Smiths, team J Smith kept pace with a win over team T Smith. Three teams tied at the top right now with one loss each.

In the upset of the season so far, Team Purkey dropped Team Mannick into second place by winning their first game. Team Purkey dropped a five on team Mannick in the second end and never looked back.

The after game festivities ran late as most games started late. The Merritt was closed and 95 was a parking lot. Much discussion about the Golden Handle, Olympic playdowns and Club National playdowns.

Two more games to go spread over four weeks with a two week break for Christmas and New Years. Then the serious season starts with the next round robin to determine the jewelry winners.

JH

Nutmeg at the Calder Cup final results

Back from the Great White North were it was still snowing when we left today. A great time was had by all and the Saturday steak dinner was typically wonderful.

Team Haggis with Terry Smith, Star Childs (Norfolk), Jason Sethi and Jeremy Vanderhouton (both Potomac) lost out in the third event on Saturday. They won their first game with Terry absent due to jury duty, then lost the second to NY Caledonian who went to the first event final. Then a loss on Saturday afternoon freed them up to enjoy dinner and a evening of watching curling.

Team Hannon with Jeff, Rob Reihl, Alan Alward and Dave Hirx lost the first two to also hit the third event. A well played third game got them to the semi final on Saturday night as the evening entertainment. A very well played game on both side saw neither team score more than one per end. Team Hannon stole the sixth to take a two point lead into seven and held the Norfolk team to one. Up one with the hammer coming home all looked good until the last skip rock overcurled just a bit and Norfolk stole two for the win.

A great men's spiel with wonderful food and fun for all. Very competitive curling this year as seven of the sixteen teams are part of the GNCC Men's Curling Tour.

Norfolk also host a very nice mixed bonspiel in February. Get a team together and take the short drive up RT 8 to play.

JH

Derek in Madison

Hi everyone -
Derek is indeed in Madison with his men's team. I'm not sure what link Jeff put in his message, but I've been able to follow line scores from the curlingzone website. You have to look up the Madison spiel (may be called Madison International). They just finished a really tight game against Pozihun from Thunder Bay, Ontario. They lost in an extra end unfortunately. I haven't heard from Derek to get the scoop - but from the line score, it looks like they played well but just couldn't figure out how to score more than one with hammer.

More Nutmeg on the road

I just discovered that Derek Surka is also on the road this weekend. He and his playdown team are in Madison, WI playing in a cashspiel. It may be possible to follow the results HERE. Not sure if this will be updated or not.

Otherwise, hopefully Charrissa can update this site (if Derek calls her).

JH

Nutmeg on the road

The Norfolk Men's bonspiel will be held 12/4 to 12/7. Nutmeg will be in attendence.

Jeff Hannon, Rob Reihl, Alan Alward and David Hirx will be carrying the Nutmeg banner. Terry Smith will also be in attendence with his GNCC Curling Tour team.

Games start on Thursday night. Since Norfolk is still "frontier territory" there won't be any blog entries until the teams return on Sunday. Even cell phones don't work very well in the Great White North.

JH