Kalamazoo Curling Club Summer News

Posted by Jason on Monday, June 21, 2010   |   Link to this post

Blog posts have been a bit few and far between now that curling season has slipped into history, and the first day of summer has officially arrived… but there are a few things worth letting you all know about.

First, Wings Stadium will be hosting open curling on the LAST Monday in June, July and August. The time and price are the same as always: 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. with a cost of $10 per person (12 and under are free). Let us know that you’re planning on going by E-mail or on the Facebook event page.

Also, our friends at the Fort Wayne Curling Club, down Indiana way, are hosting a summer bonspiel on the 21st and 22nd of August. We would love to send some ambassadors from the Kalamazoo area down to their first attempt at a bonspiel — it may offer some inspiration and ideas for a future Kalamazoo Curling Club event! If you are interested in helping to form a team, send an E-mail and we’ll help get you in touch with other people who express an interest. We have offered to loan them two sets of rocks for their bonspiel (they plan on having 8 sheets available for play), so we really would like to send a group down there to accompany our rocks.

Fall and Winter league information will be available here very soon. We want to get you signed up for 2010-11 curling fun. We have tentative plans for continued curling on Friday nights (broken up into two sessions, as before) and an expanded “Super League” on Monday nights (longer season that covers the entire curling season). Our Beginners’ Leagues were very successful, and we are planning on incorporating those into our 2010-11 season as well.

We have officially be designated as a non-profit organization, so we will also be ramping up the fundraising for our coming season. We’re hoping to get our rock sponsorship program going very soon, too.

So that’s what’s going on this summer… we’ll keep you posted as we have more developments in the next few weeks.

2010 Club Champions — Chris Gleaton Rink

Posted by Jason on Saturday, April 17, 2010   |   Link to this post

The 2010 curling season is coming to a close… what a great season it’s been! Our Friday night league wrapped up with inter-divisional matches that led to an inter-divisional championship match between Division One’s Thompson rink and the Chris Gleaton rink from Division Two. While the final match held pretty close in the early portion of the 7 end match, when the last stone came to rest, it was the Chris Gleaton rink (Chris Gleaton not present!) that had earned the Winter 2010 Club Championship. Congratulations to Sarah Perkins, Pam Nelson, Ryan Gleaton and Chris Gleaton on a great season.

Friday League Tournament 2010

Posted by Jason on Wednesday, April 14, 2010   |   Link to this post

Well, we’ve finally worked out how we’re going to work out our club championship this year. Things were complicated because we had so many teams! This is a good problem to have… So we’re going to play from 7 p.m. to Midnight, with a total of 3 draws. The first draw will match the #7 teams from each division against the #8 teams, and the #5 teams against the #6 teams. The second draw will match the #3 and #4 teams against each other and the #1 and #2 teams. The winners of the #1 vs #2 matches will play against each other at 10 p.m. for the club championship.

The first and second draws will take place at 7 and 8:30 p.m. These will be 5 end matches, with NO NEW ENDS starting after 8:15 for the first draw and 9:45 for the second draw. The third draw will be 7 end matches, and will start at 10 p.m.

The non-winners (there are no losers here!) in the first two draws will be eliminated from the tournament. We encourage EVERYONE to hang out and be social for the evening. It would be great to have a good crowd watching the 10 o’clock draw and cheering on the championship game. The Icehouse is scheduled to be open on Friday night, so people should be able to get some foodstuffs and libations to bring over to the cube viewing area.

7 PM DRAW
Teams Thomas, MSU Green, Hall, MSU White, Elliott, Schmitt, M Gleaton and Cook

8:30 PM DRAW
Teams Eckstrand, MSU Sparty, Brezinsky, Chase, Thomspon, Deater, C Gleaton and Kinkade

2010 Club Championship Brackets – Full Schedule

Big Day for Team Fenson!

Posted by Jason on Wednesday, April 7, 2010   |   Link to this post

Team Fenson came up with two big wins today to improve their record to 6-3 in the tournament — good enough for 4th place heading into the last day of round-robin play (as this is written, there is still one more draw to be played today). In the first draw of the day, the US defeated Team Italy 8-5. In the mid-day draw, the US defeated the Scottish team 7-5!

Latest Scores & Schedule

Men’s World Curling Championships

Posted by Jason on Saturday, April 3, 2010   |   Link to this post

The 2010 Men’s World Championships get underway today. Here in the States, the best place to see the action is going to be on NBC’s Universal Sports network (not carried by many providers around here). You’ll be able to see some matches during the week, and the championships next week.

2010 WMCC web site

Facebook fan page for Team Fenson

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