Harvest mixed at Philadelphia CC

It was a very exciting, stressful, fun bonspiel at the Harvest mixed. Three teams of mostly Nutmeg made the trip down to Paoli for one of the best mixed events in the GNCC.

Maura and Lee Cocky curled with Pam Moan and Roland (Philly). Maura was skipping and made a good showing. They had a lot of fun and held their own against more experienced teams. Pam and Roland also where a huge help with the stressful part, more on that later.

Elly and Karl Bockley played with Ken and Teresa (both Philly) and had a great showing. Two wins to start put them into the first event semis. They ran into the McKinley team (Philly) there and lost a close one to drop to the fourth event. Sunday morning was not better and they lost to team DeJong (Plainfield).

Team Hannon had the big adventure of the weekend. Jeff and Sally had Rob Riehl and Nancy (Philly and Roland's wife). A loss in the first game dropped them into the second event and then things went South from there. Sally suffered an atrial fibrillation on Friday around noon. Roland is a doctor and checked her pulse and a trip to the local hospital was ordered. Short version - ER, IV drip, heart monitor, admitted, overnight stay, ALL IS WELL.

Some able subs were found for Jeff and Sally and the team somehow managed to win the second game while calling and texting to check on Sally. Saturday Sally was back at the club to cheer on the team and they won again. Sunday saw another win in the second event final.

Thanks to everyone in attendance for all the support and help.

Jeff

Season is underway

All the leagues have started and there are lots of new faces at the club. About 60 new curlers have joined this year from the Olympic crush. They are very keen and want to learn everything as soon as possible.

On the bonspiel side, Elly B. went to Plainfield for the Mid-Atlantic and came home with a second event winners pin. Not sure if there were others there as well.

If you want to post your road stories here just email Jeff and let him know.

Weekend update

Team Purkey loses out in the 2nd event at Schenectady. Team Muldowney plays later tonight. This is the USWCA National Bonspiel.

At the Dykes in Broomstones, Team Mayne advances to the 2nd event semi finals on Sunday Morning. Teams Aulenti, Leneker and Bertonica all playing late tonight in the 3rd event quarter finals. All three are in separate games so all could get to the semis.

GO NUTMEG!

Dykes Update

Nutmeg I ended up losing this evening so they play Sat morning @ 7am in the third event draw, Nutmeg IV with their win today play Sat @ 9:15am still in the second event draw, Nutmeg II with their loss today play Sat @ 1:45pm still in the third event draw, Nutmeg III remains alive in the third event draw winning their game tonight with a shake after 6 ends to play again Sat @ 4:00pm.

All games Sat onward are loser out so wish wins for each of our teams or even come on up to see them play.

Teams: Nutmeg I = Frank, Alph, Jack, & Lee; Nutmeg II = Joel, Chris, Karl, & Don; Nutmeg III = Matt, Mark, Nigel, & Kyle; Nutmeg IV = Sean, Mike, Dave, & Jon

Nutmeg weekend

Nutmeg at the USWCA National bonspiel in Schenectady. Both teams are in the second event with a chance to meet in the final. Good luck to them.

The Dykes is more complicated. Four teams are there. All are still alive. Frank Aulenti still in the first event. Sean Mayne in the second event. Joel and Matt are in the third event.

First Olympic related curling experience goes off tomorrow. The website generated about 50 people signed up to attend. If we can grab 10 of those people as members that would be great.

Nutmeg everywhere

A very busy weekend for Nutmeg curlers. Four teams are at Broomstones for the Dykes 5 & under bonspiel. Two teams are in Schenectady for the USWCA National Bonspiel. Derek and Charrissa are off to Vancouver and the Olympics. Derek will be working with the NBC broadcast team doing stats and such.

Those left in CT will be busy with the first of the Olympic open houses which will be this Saturday at Noon.

Both Broomstones and Schenectady are posting results on their websites.

Busy Nutmeg weekend

Results from all over the country on this snowy? Saturday morning.

Crystal Snowflake Women's started last night with lots of good games and an enthusiastic crowd. Multiple games today for all teams will determine the finalists for Sunday.

Derek and Charrissa continue to roll at the Mixed Doubles Nationals in Seattle. Into the playoffs with a 4-0 record. Big game today against a Plainfield team to win their pool. Winner of the game advances directly to semi-finals.

Donna Purky and Nancy Brautigam are at the USWCA Senior Nationals. They are enjoying the hospitality as they lost out in the second event.

The Smith and Smith (not brothers) will be fighting it out for a spot in the second event final at Norfolk. Terry and Joseph play each other this afternoon.

So much curling, so little time.
JH

Busy week for Nutmeg

It is a busy week for Nutmeg and Nutmeggers. The Women's Crystal Snowflake starts on Friday with lots of good teams heading in for the spiel. The draw is up on the website here and will be updated as the event progresses. Stop in and see some great curling if you get a chance.

Also, this week starting on Thursday is the National Mixed Doubles Championship in Seattle. Attending and trying to advance to the Worlds will be Derek and Charrissa. You can follow the action on the Granite curling club website.

Best of luck to all the competitors, near and far.

JH

Nutmeg at the Harvest in Philly

Nutmeggers are on the road again this weekend with a trip to the Harvest Bonspiel at the Philadelphia CC. Located in Paoli, PA this is a great event with lots of fun to be had. Attending will be Elly and Karl Bockly playing with folks from Plainfield and Philly. Sally and Jeff and Rob will also be there playing with Nancy from Philly. New to the party this year is Pam Moan and Terry and Pam Smith playing with Roland from Philly.

Curling starts on Thursday night for Jeff and Terry with Elly starting on Friday. Sixteen teams make up the draw and there is always a good party on Saturday night.

Jeff

Nutmeg at the Bog Spiel

The "we" in the following is Charrissa with Derek, Matt and Chris. (editor)

We were sorry communicators this weekend. I'll tell you - we were so tired all the time - pretty much we played our games, hung out and socialized (and ate meals) and then took a nap, and then came back and played. We did manage to squeeze in a little sightseeing on Saturday - checked out the Cranberry Harvest Festival (as far as we could see, it was just one room of booths, not much), tasted wines at the Cape Cod Winery, and checked out some cranberry bogs (no harvesting going on though).

We had a very tight game - but pulled off the win in the 1st event final! Very exciting. We played great teams all the way through. The first event final was against the junior boys team - Team Hoge (they were at Nutmeg for the Blazing Leaves). As a team, it wasn't our best game, but we got some breaks. We went into the 8th, tied with hammer, Derek had an open takeout to win the game.

We played great teams all the way through - it turns out that all of the other event finals were won by teams that we beat - and I think we may have been each of their only losses. We played Bob DeVine of Broomstones in the semi-final - that was a good match. His last shot was a kinda of crazy double angle runback to remove our counter, try to stick around to take two and tie the game. Didn't make it.

We also played a team from Border (a Canadian club on the border, not surprisingly) and Ed and Candice Clark from Nashua - they were playing with Mark and Debbie Kanakis - Mark threw third.

Border CC is a fantastic club to visit for a bonspiel . Two sheets attached to a giant old house, 3 floors with upstairs viewing. (editor)

One other personal highlight - I was very proud to note that I was the only female of all 16 players in the semi-finals. Well - I guess I'm sad to say that, because it still indicates that men are stronger at curling - but I was proud to at least be representing!

Food was good, hospitality was good, the bar was excellent (they made me cosmos all weekend!).

JH for Charrissa

Nutmeg at the Bog spiel in Cape Cod

A quick update without a lot of details.

Derek and Charrissa with Matt B. and Chris C. are in the semi finals of the first event Saturday night against a Broomstones team. So, they should be playing on Sunday.

David A. was playing with an Ardsley team and they are into the "drinking" event at this point as they lost three in a row.

JH

Elly B and team in Philly

Elly and her team on ice at Philly. Not sure if this was prior to winning the fourth event or after.

No pictures of Team Smith from Potomac. The Potomac website had their photo gallery removed by the website provider. Really too bad.

Nutmeg on the road

Curling season has started and Nutmeggers are out on the road playing in Bonspiels.

Elly B. is in Philly for a Women's event and Joseph S. has a team at Potomac for the Inaugural.

Potomac is posting results and updating the draw so you can follow the action here.

Cape cod update

Rob Chebetar and David Asano finished runner-up in the third event in the mixed.

Kathy Morley, Naida, Karen and Pam won the third event in the women's.

Pittsburgh Tropicurl recap

Jeff and Sally returned from Pittsburgh sans hardware. Jeff's team went 1-3 and was voted off the island late on Saturday night. They did however close the bar at the hotel 3 nights in a row so something was earned.

A great event for anyone who is interested for next year. The ice is not too bad and the hospitality is great. Everyone is welcoming and the competition is actually really good. Lots of Canadians who seem to take it a little too seriously for Jeff's taste.

Next up is the Cape with a bunch of Nutmeggers headed there. Hopefully someone will have a report or two.

Summer spieling

Jeff and Sally Hannon are off to Pittsburgh next week for Tropicurl. Jeff is skipping a team from Plainfield and Sally will be spectating and taking photos.

Anyone who is headed to the Cape later in July and wants to post here, let Jeff know and he can set it up.

More from the land of Steel next week.

Jeff

Nutmeggers still curling

Donna Purkey, Bobbie Stoll, Nadia Leslie and Jayne Beattie are off to Arizona for the Desert Spiel. Well Donna is already there. Held at the Coyotes curling club in Scottsdale. More info can be found HERE. Good luck to them.

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.

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