The fifth annual Dominion Curling Club Championships are underway for the St. Albert rink skipped by Lauren Jenkyns at the Fort William Curling Club in Thunder Bay, Ont.
In Monday’s opening draw Team Alberta counted three with the hammer and stole three in the second end, en route to a convincing 9-2 win in seven ends over Paulette Girvan of the Rexton Curling Club in New Brunswick.
Tuesday the Jenkyns’ foursome of third Kathy Piper, second Laurie Schreiner and lead Diana Backer played Nicole Baldwin of the Whitehorse Curling Club and Northern Ontario’s Kathie Jackson of the Fort Francis Curling Club. Scores were unavailable at press time.
Today’s match is against Amy Gibson of the Vancouver Curling Club.
The Northwest Territories and Manitoba are also grouped with Alberta in the grey pool.
The Dominions features women’s and men’s rinks that won their respective club championships. A playdown format produces champions from all 10 provinces and three territories, plus a separate entry for Northern Ontario.
The semifinals are Friday and the finals are Saturday.
Visit www.curling.ca/thedominioncurls/ for results.
The St. Albert Merchants wrap up their four-game homestand this weekend in the Capital Junior B Hockey League.
The first-place Merchants (14-2-1) host the Beverly Warriors (10-7) Friday and the Spruce Grove Regals (6-11) Sunday at 8 p.m. at Akinsdale Arena.
The Money Men are undefeated in three games after Sunday’s 10-0 drubbing of the Stony Plain Flyers (8-8-1).
Max Cathcart (4-2, 2.31 GAA) made 17 saves for his second shutout of the season.
The Merchants registered 51 shots and in the third period outshot the visitors 20-2 while pumping in five goals.
Taylor Wiebe was the top marksman with four goals while sniping two of the team’s five power-play tallies.
Jordan MacPhee and Liam McNamara also struck short-handed against the Flyers, who were penalized 16 times for 56 minutes.
Stefan Meunier, Josh Jewell, Sandan Hunter and Jed Groenenboom also scored. Dan Rombough picked up three assists and twins Liam and Mitch McNamara had two helpers apiece.
The Merchants opened the homestand Friday with a decisive 7-1 victory over the Regals.
Brent McGugan posted three goals and two assists and Jewell chipped in with one goal and three assists.
Casey Reid, Blair Macuch and captain Kurtis Watts also scored and Justin Pawlenchuk (10-1, 2.54 GAA) stopped a game-high 34 shots.
