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Varsity Curling 2009-2010
Teams
Men's Division
Nick Katajamaki Skip
Stephane Beaulieu
Jordan Borneman
Paul Martin
Mixed Division
Craig Coventry
Lyra Dechaine-Renaud
Daniel Lee
Mindy King
Carolyn Kuiper
Keirstin Taylor
Coach: Pentti Tyynela
Contact: pentsirk@sympatico.ca
Where: Soo Curlers
Association
124 Anita Blvd.
Sault Ste. Marie, ON
When:
Monday and Thursday
Who: Sault
College
2009 - 2010 OCAA Curling Championship
February 18 - 21, 2010 @ Soo Curlers Club
Congratulations to the 2009 Men's Team!!
Bronze Medal Winners
l to r: Nick Katajamaki, Adam Knight,
Brett Punkari,
Paul Martin, Coach: Pentti Tyynela
Congratulations to the Mixed Team!
Fair Play Award
Mixed: Results
|
3rd Draw |
L |
Algoma - 7 |
Sault - 2 |
|
5th Draw |
L |
St. Clair - 7 |
Sault - 3 |
|
6th Draw |
L |
Niagara - 6 |
Sault - 2 |
|
8th Draw |
L |
Mohawk - 9 |
Sault - 2 |
Men’s: Results
|
1st Draw |
L |
Fleming (P)- 10 |
Sault - 1 |
|
2nd Draw |
W |
Sault - 3 |
Confederation - 2 |
|
3rd Draw |
W |
Sault - 6 |
St. Clair - 2 |
|
4th Draw |
W |
Sault - 8 |
Seneca - 5 |
|
6th Draw |
W |
Sault - 7 |
Niagara - 0 |
|
7th Draw |
W |
Sault - 11 |
Mohawk - 3 |
|
8th Draw |
W |
Sault - 8 |
Fleming - 3 |
|
Semi - Final |
L |
Niagara - 7 |
Sault – 3 (Bronze Medal) |
For full coverage, please visit http://www.mohawkcollege.ca/dept/stactiv/athletics/curling/
Curling News -2009
The first half of local curling has been completed.
In a very exciting game the men's team won an extra end game 6 to 5 to finish tied in 1st place in their B division play with a record of 5 wins & 2 losses.
Team: Nick Katajamaki
Adam Knight
Brett Punkari
Paul Martin
The mixed team got off to a slow start and lost their game 8 to 5. They finished in C division in 5th place with a record of 2 wins & 3 losses.
Team: Ken Harnden
Lisa
Ritchie
Jeff Mailloux
Carolyn
Kuiper
Keirstin Taylor
The next event starts on Monday Feb. 2. Come out and watch and cheer for our College teams. There is no charge to watch. It is an interesting place to visit.
"Curling Rocks"
History of Curling
Curling is a very old Scottish sport. It isn't known, when Scottish people began playing curling. But in the Smith Institute in Stirling is a rock with the engraved year 1511 exposed. The first report about a curling match between two monks stems from Paisley Abbey near Glasgow and is dated February 1541. Someone named Mr. James Gall had on his tombstone engrave in Perth, Scotland, that he was a big curling fan.
The ancient Scotland was a poor country. 
The cities hadn't a lot of citizens, no public traffic existed, the land was poor and only within some months useful. So, the only occupation of the Scots was to thrash the British or steal some sheep of the neighbor's clan. But at all times, they did sports. The hooligans were probably a scottish invention, because 1457, the scottish parliament prohibitted Soccer and Golf (!) because they aroused riots. Curling wasn't endangered by this prohibition although the rocks were great to hit an opponent..
The first curling rocks weighted only 2 or 3 kg. They had the design of a hand. And so they were called "loofies" (loof = hand in old english) With the help of the time, the rocks became like today ones. The people called them boulders, gave them a handle and rounded them like the modern rocks . At the beginning, everybody knew, that you must shoo the rock from A to B, but no precise rules were known. Especially the length or width of the rink or the size and the weight of the rock were unknown.. That's why some real boulders appeared in 18th Century. The biggest one, the "Jubilee Stone" had the weight of 58.5 kg. If this would be still so today, curling would be a sport for strong men. Fortunately, the evolution took another way.
The curlers took the "Round Stones" with the weight of approx. 20 kg, but the first stone which had the today usual hollow grinding was used in 1784 by Mr. Tam Pate. With this hollow grind, he was able to play a twist around a guard. Today we call this curl. Through this late invention, we know, that the word Curling isn't based on the verb to curl, but comes from the old verb to curr (to grumble).
The first Curling club was founded in Kinross, Loch Leven in 1668. The first national association was the Grand Caledonian Curling Club (founded in 1838). In 1843, the club got the privilege to be the Royal Caledonian Curling Club. This Club was the World Federation, till 1966, when the ICF (International Curling Federation) was founded. Since 1991 the ICF is called WCF (World Curling Federation).