Sean Grassie (Deer Lodge) has won his fourth Manitoba Mixed Championship title. Grassie and his teammates Roxie Trembath, Jordan Johnson and Hilary Johnson (with alternates Tyler Drews & Shyla Johnson) won three games Sunday to win the Chicken Chef Mixed.
The Grassie foursome opened the Sunday afternoon final with a four in the first end against Jeff Stewart and his Carberry team (Alyssa Calvert, Trevor Calvert, Kylee Truscott) and put another three on the board on the forth end enroute to a six end victory.
The Grassie team had beaten Zach Wasylik (Stonewall) and #1 seed Brett Walter (Assiniboine Memorial) to advance to the final. The Stewart foursome had beaten Michael Siwicki (Granite) and #2 seed Daniel Birchard (Pembina) to reach the final game.
Grassie, with different teams, won the 2009, 2012, and 2014 Manitoba Mixed titles. In 2009, he and teammate Allison Nimik were the first Canadians to win a World Mixed Doubles medal, a bronze. He also won the 1999 Manitoba junior title, making this year’s Mixed his fifth Manitoba championship.
It was a second Manitoba title for Roxie Trembath, who won the 2004 Junior Women’s. It is a first Manitoba title for both.Jordan Johnson and Hilary Johnson.
The champions will represent Manitoba at the Canadian Mixed in Assiniboia, SK in the fall of 2025.
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In the concurrent Dynasty U20 Mixed Doubles Championship presented by Access Credit Union, Samantha Eagles and Jack Steski (West St. Paul & Granite) won a pair of games Sunday to add their names to the record book. It is a second Manitoba championship for Steski, who won the 2023 U-18 championship, and the first Manitoba championship for Eagles.
Eagles/Steski defeated Julie Magnusson & Tyler Fehr (Gimli & Morden) in the championship game, leading by three coming home and running them out of stones.
Earlier, Eagles & Steski had beaten #1 seeds Cassidy Dundas & Rylan Campbell in the Page 1-2 game to advance to the final. Magnusson & Fehr defeated the #2 seeds Tessa Terrick & Rylan Graham in the Page 3-4 game and then beat Dundas & Campbell in the semi-final.
The champions have earned entry into Curling Canada’s U-21 Mixed Doubles West Qualifier (Richmond, BC) or East Qualifier (Guelph, ON) in the fall of 2025.
