Ladies A Event winner – trophy sponsored by Oliver Super Valu – (l to r) Joanne Bensted, Betty Steinbart, Pat Wycherley (skip), and Monique McLeod – team from Osoyoos

 

The Eastlink Curling Centre Annual Combined Bonspiel was held this past weekend and was a very fun and exciting affair.  There was a lot of good curling, some very tight games resolved by a draw to the button, and some final games resolved by an extra end of play.

In the end, the Ladies A Event winner was the Pat Wycherley rink from Osoyoos.  The Cathy Pidduck team from Oliver was the highest finishing local team, finishing as runner up in the B Event.

Men’s A Event winners – trophy sponsored by Crucetti’s Family Restaurant – (l to r) – Al Pratt, Shaun Everest, John Surovy, Leo Rivera (skip) – team from Oliver

The Men’s side A Event was won by the Oliver rink skipped by Leo Rivera, with John Surovy, Shaun Everest and Al Pratt helping out.  A notable thing about this rink was that both Leo and John are stick curlers.  Even though they cannot easily get up and down from the hack any longer, they can still play a very competitive game, and this weekend it showed.  The C event was also won by an Oliver rink – Bruce Schroter skipped his team to a thrilling last end victory over Cornie Zacharias, also of Oliver.

Thanks to Dale Dodge