Marlene Lang and her St. Vital team (Pamela Kok, Jackie Hendrickson, Patti Ulrich) have won the Pharmasave Senior Women’s Championship with a Sunday afternoon victory at the East St. Paul Curling Club. Remarkably, it is the first Senior Women’s title for a St. Vital team in the 56-year history of the event.
The Lang foursome completed their four-game round robin with a 3W-1L record but were awarded a spot in the Page 1-1 Playoff game based on the tiebreaker formula. Joelle Brown’s Fort Rouge team had an identical record and tiebreaker advantage.
The Lang-Brown Page 1-1 Playoff game was won 10-1 by the St. Vital team, forcing the Fort Rouge team to the semi-final where they defeated Jennifer Clark-Rouire’s Fort Garry team in a close 5-4 match.
In the final game re-match, coming out of the mid-game break, the Lang foursome scored a four to lead 6-2 enroute to a 10-3 victory.
The CurlManitoba record book shows numerous St. Vital based junior champions, Karen Young and Jennifer Jones (several times) as women’s/Scotties champions, and three Masters Women champions; Elaine Jones, Sylvia Erickson, and Pat Malanchuk.
There has only been one St. Vital Men’s champion, Dave Smith, in the 100 year history of the Manitoba men’s championship. No St. Vital team has ever won the Mixed title.
