Monday, March 30, 2009

Nutmeg bonspiel results

Reading the last hit n roll bulletin of the year made me curious about results for Nutmeg. What follows are results of a team identified as Nutmeg in the results. There may have been others who were involved with other teams.

Inaugural - Potomac
2nd event runner up

Mixed Doubles - Broomstones
1st and 2nd event winners

Harvest - Philadelphia
1st event runner up

USWCA 5 and under - Schenectady
3rd event winner

Mixed - Norfolk
1st event winner

Golden Handle - Nutmeg
1st and 5th event winners

Winter Wonderland - Norfolk
2nd event winner

GNCC Senior Men's - Nutmeg
4th event winner

McKay-Douglas - Ardsley
1st event runner up

Cherry Blossom - Potomac
2nd and 3rd event winners

A nice list for a club that started three years ago with 30 or so experienced curlers. Good job everyone. Get out on the bonspiel trail next year and we can do even better.

Nutmeg at the Cherry Blossom

Several Nutmeg curlers traveled down to Laurel MD to the Potomac curling club to compete in the Cherry Blossom. Three of the final events were contested by someone from Nutmeg.

Steve and Sil Mannik with Karl and Elly Bockley won the second event. Joseph Smith and Diane Muldowney playing with two Potomac curlers won the third event. David Asano playing with an Ardsley team finished runner up in the fourth event.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Hi from Medford

Hi everyone -
We're out here in Medford ready to get going. Opening ceremony starts at 11:15am CT and then the first game at 1pm CT. All the teams out here are strong - it's a tough field. Need to play our best every day. I'm writing more on my blog - if anyone is really interested they can go there - charrissa.blogspot.com I think does the trick. I can't promise I'll be a reliable poster - but I figured it was better than clogging up the Nutmeg blog

Where to Catch the Action For the Mixed Nationals and Women's Worlds

Mixed Nationals:
To follow the games for Derek and Charrissa at Mixed Nationals
Sun-2pm & 8pm Mon-4pm & 8pm Tues-12pm & 8pm Wed-12pm & 8pm Thurs-4pm

http://events.curlingzone.com/index.php?task=Event&eventid=2097
or
http://www.usacurl.org/curlingrocks/

To send them some fan email:
connecticut@usacurl.org

Women's Worlds
Selected Matches from the Women's Worlds will be shown on TV on the Universal Sports channel.

Universal Sports TV
March 28: USA vs. Canada, 7 p.m. ET
March 28: USA vs. Sweden, 11 p.m. ET
March 29: Bronze medal match, 7 p.m. ET
March 29: Gold medal match, 11 p.m. ET
To find the Universal Sports channel in your area :
http://www.universalsports.com/fls/23000/tv/where-to-find-on-tv.html

You can also watch the video stream on their website of more matches at
http://www.universalsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPID=11662&DB_OEM_ID=23000&ATCLID=3695394

Friday, March 20, 2009

Multimedia curling

For those who can't get enough curling.

There is curling on the satellite this weekend at the club. The Canada Cup semis and finals will be shown on TSN. The carrot is that the winning team(s) earn another step toward the Canadian Olympic trials.

The Women's Worlds will be on CurlTV with two games each draw. The US is represented by Team McCormick who will also be the US team at the Olympics.

And last but not least by any measure, our own Derek and Charrissa are heading to the Mixed Nationals. There will be online scoring available on the USCA site. And hopefully some twitters or maybe a post at this here blog.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

US Mixed Nationals

Derek and Charrissa wrap up their busy championship season starting Sunday at the Mixed Nationals in Medford, WI. Their games are Sun. 1 and 7, Mon. 3 and 7, Tue. 11 and 7, Wed. 11 and 7, Thu. at 7. All times are local, I think. Wednesday is the big day with the first game against the defending champions from Washington and the second against the other GNCC team from Maryland.

The USCA website should have a scoring link at some point. You can also email your support to Derek and Charrissa at connecticut@usacurl.org

Best of luck to Derek, Charrissa, Sean and Rachel.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Club Nationals wrap up

First, I would like to thank Derek, Angelo and Joel for the week.

It was a great experience. All the guys playing where nice and the atmosphere was much more social than was expected at a National competition. The ice was lightning fast at times and there was more than enough curl. Utica did a great job of hosting.

We lost a whole bunch of close games that could have gone either way. Wisconson was the best team all week and deserved the win.

All in all a great time with lots of good memories including playing 13 ends in one game.

Jeff

Golden Handle wrapup

Congrats to all the Nutmeggers who were part of the finals.

Rob Chebetar and Karl Bockley win the Handle. Now Rob needs to get a rock to put it on for display.

Terry and Pam Smith finalists in the fourth event.

Steve and Sil Mannik with Sean Mayne and Heather Mercik for winning the little Handle. Also, David Asano as a finalist in the same event.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Camera feed at Club Nationals

You can check this link from time to time as it is a live feed from one of the teams (Wisconsin) and if they have someone manning the camera they show other teams during the games live.

http://www.mogulus.com/2009clubnationals

Everyone Sweeping Skippy's rock


The boys infront of the standing board at Club Nationals


Club Nationals

The boys had a hell of a day today. They played 13 ends in their 1st game. How you ask??? Well they tied the game at 10 ends then an extra end (11) was blanked then they blanked the 12th end again and had to play the 13 end to lose the game. Thats OK they put that game behind them and went on to win their game this afternoon. They are now 1-4 and if they win the next 4 games they are in the hunt for playoffs. Every game has been really close down to last rock and they are all playing really well. The competition here is pretty stiff but these guys just don't give up and hang in their every game. They are having a great time and Utica is doing a nice job hosting the Nationals.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Nutmeg hanging in at the Club Nationals

Team Hannon is hanging tough. Two close losses but each game came down to the final rock. Lots more curling to go. Get a win and then get on a streak.

Team nap just about over and then back to the club for the 4pm game against Wisconson.

Jeff

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Nutmeg at the Club Nationals

Team Hannon is on the road Saturday and headed for Utica. Jeff, Derek, Angelo and Joel have practice on Saturday evening and first game is Sunday at 4pm.

Hopefully Utica will have some game scores. Check the Utica website.

This here blog will have some entries when possible.

Also, Derek will be posting tweets and Sally is coming for a couple of days so probably will be tweeting as well.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Nutmeg on the road

A further update from Norfolk for the Women's Winter Wonderland.

First event winner was Jennifer Stannard. Teammates unknown at this point.

Second event winner was Kathy Morley, Phelicia Howland, Karen Shane and Pam Moan.

Jeff

Nutmeg on the road

For the five teams containing Nutmeg members, two teams made final events on Sunday.

Team Hannon with Pete DeJong, Angelo Marasciulo and Joel Leneker finished runner up in the first event final. They lost to the defending champion.

Rob Reihl playing with a Broomstones team won the fifth event final for the third consecutive year.

At the Winter Wonderland Women's spiel in Norfolk, Pam Moan was in the second event final. Report to follow.

Jeff