Koe prevails in Prairie Classic’s all-Alberta final
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IT was the battle of Alberta in the championship final of 2012 Canad Inns Prairie Classic men’s curling bonspiel at Portage la Prairie on Monday night.
Kevin Koe of Calgary defeated Kevin Martin of Edmonton 9-4 to win the championship and the $18,000 top prize while Martin, the 2010 Olympic men’s curling gold medallist, won $10,000 for his second-place finish. The event carried a total prize purse of $58,000 as a premier event on the World Curling Tour.
“We haven’t won a big event in a while and especially with the field here, I think there were the top 10 teams in the world here, it was a great win for us,” Koe said in a telephone interview. “They are a very good team. Kevin had a couple of key misses so instead of shooting for one, we’re shooting for three and that left it open for us.”
The Jeff Stoughton team from Winnipeg was the last local team standing but lost 5-3 to Koe in the semifinals on Monday afternoon after thumping the William Lyburn team from Winnipeg 9-1 in just four ends in the Monday morning quarter-final round.
Stoughton and his team of Jon Mead, Reid Carruthers and Mark Nichols earned $6,000.
“It was a good game for us but we got in a couple of tough spots, a little heavy in a couple of spots,” said Stoughton. “In the last end, we had an angle-raise takeout to get a deuce but just didn’t quite get there.”
Stoughton said his team will play in the next men’s World Curling Tour event, the $70,000 Cactus Pheasant Classic in Brooks, Alta., from Thursday-Sunday. Koe said his team will be heading to Brooks as well.
— Prest
