Dave Boehmer and his Petersfield team (Dale Lott, Sean Bracken, George Hacking, Alternate Scott Szydlik) have won CurlManitoba’s Strathcona Senior Men’s championship. It is the second championship in three years for the team and the win moves Boehmer and Hacking into a tie with the Neufeld team with their now-record five Manitoba Senior championships.
In a re-match of the 2024 final against Randy Neufeld and his La Salle team (Dean Moxham, Peter Nicholls, Dale Michie, Alternate Larry Borus), Neufeld led 2-1 after a conservative first half when Boehmer blanked the third and fourth ends. The Petersfield skip stuck on an attempted blank on the fifth end to tie the game at 2-2 and give Neufeld last stone advantage.
The last three ends of the game turned into a chess match which Boehmer won, stealing two on the sixth end to lead 4-2 and giving back a deuce to come home tied 4-4 with last stone.
On the final end, lying two already, Boehmer executed a near perfect freeze to his shot stone on the button. Facing three and with his clock ticking down, Neufeld’s desperation hit attempt almost worked but he left the new champions a pair of counters without them having to throw their final rock.
The final game was also a re-match of this year’s Page 1-1 Playoff game which was won 6-2 by Neufeld.
Boehmer trailed in the Monday morning semi-final but stole singles on the home end and the extra end to defeat Paul Scinocca (Charleswood) 6-5. Scinocca had beaten Dean Dunstone (Granite) 5-4 in the Page 2-2 Playoff game.
In the playoff quarterfinal games, which serve as qualifiers for the Page 2-2 Playoff game, Scinocca stole single points on ends 6, 7, and 8 to beat Mike Mahon (Granite) 5-4. Dunstone scored two coming home to defeat Butch Mouck (Minnedosa) 5-3.
