Jennifer Jones has won her ninth Manitoba Women’s Championship and the defending champion team of Mackenzie Zacharias, Karlee Burgess, Emily Zacharias, and Lauren Lenentine have become the first repeat winner of the Manitoba title since Jones did it with her 2012 and 2013 team. The Zacharias team, augmented with the addition of Jennifer Jones as…
DetailsJordon McDonald (Deer Lodge) and Zoey Terrick (Heather) and their teams have won CurlManitoba’s TELUS Junior Men’s and Junior Women’s championships. The events wrapped up Saturday at the Portage Curling Club. In the Junior Men’s, McDonald with Reece Hamm, Elias Huminicki, Cam Olafson, and Coach Blaine Malo had been seeded #1 going into the championships.…
DetailsCurlManitoba has announced the top five seeds for the Scotties Tournament of Hearts presented by Rocky Mountain Equipment which will be played January 24-29 at East St. Paul. The seeding of the draw is done by the curlers with the some weighting for each team’s CTRS rankings. The host East St. Paul Curling Club has…
DetailsThe 2023 Manitoba Open Bonspiel wrapped up Monday evening with event finals at Fort Garry and Charleswood Curling Clubs. The ASHAM championship final game pitted Andrew Irving (Fort Rouge) against Justin Reynolds (Winnipeg Beach). It was all that could be asked for in the final game of the 133rd incarnation of the world’s oldest and…
DetailsThe CurlManitoba TELUS Junior Championships begin Tuesday evening at the Portage Curling Club with 11 Junior Women’s team and 10 Junior Men’s teams competing for the coveted Manitoba championship and a berth in the national championship. Based on recent past performance at the national championships, Manitoba will have two berths again in 2023 so the…
DetailsDayna Wahl and her team, playing at home in Altona, and Jace Freeman’s Virden team have won CurlManitoba’s Asham U18 Championships. The same two teams had, in November, also won CurlManitoba’s Canada Games Trials. Seeded #1 by the other teams before the event, Freeman’s team (Elias Huminicki, Jack Steski, Rylan Graham, Coach Graham Freeman) posted…
DetailsManitoba curling fans are in for a treat January 24-29, 2023 when 12 of Manitoba’s best Women’s curling teams compete in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts presented by RME in East St. Paul. Four former Scotties champions are skipping teams they hope can take them back to the national Scotties where they will challenge the…
DetailsRegional curling competitions across Manitoba on the past weekend have earned 18 teams an invitation to compete in the Manitoba Men’s Viterra Championship in Neepawa, February 7-12, 2023. The teams are from 15 different communities and curling clubs. Assiniboine Memorial (Brett Walter & JT Ryan), Fort Rouge (Tanner Lott & Jordan Peters), and Beausejour (Wayne…
DetailsMurray Warren’s Brandon team and Randy Neufeld’s La Salle team, reigning Manitoba’s Credit Unions Masters Men’s and Strathcona Trust Senior Men’s champions respectively, will play in both Manitoba championship events this season. With last year’s Manitoba title, both earned the champion’s invitation to compete again this year. Both teams have also won qualifying berths to…
DetailsBob Picken Legacy Fund grants to three Manitoba junior curling programs have been announced by organizers of the annual Bob Picken-Valour Road Masters Bonspiel. The grants of $500 each are being awarded to support a high school curling program in Carman, a junior curling program in Swan River, and a new Junior Development league in Western Manitoba. The Westman…
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