Cool McNamee mixed champ
Steady Hamiota skip survives close calls against Hamblin
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STONEWALL — Terry McNamee is a pretty cool customer when it comes to making the big shot when it counts.
On Monday at the Stonewall Curling Club, the Hamiota skip came through under pressure twice, both times beating David Hamblin of Morris — 11-9 in the Page playoff, and 7-6 in the final to win the Meyers Norris Penny Provincial Mixed Curling Championship. Both teams had gone 6-1 in their respective round-robins.
That doesn’t mean McNamee and his team of third Lana Hunter, second Alan Lawn and lead Tanya Enns didn’t have to work hard in the final, which saw McNamee draw to the button with his last rock of the game. The championship victory means McNamee will represent Manitoba at the Canadian Mixed Championship, Nov. 13-20, in Morris.
It was the fourth provincial mixed title for McNamee, who also won it in 2004, ’05 and ’07. Hamblin was looking for his second mixed title. He won it in 2006.
Stealing two
In the final, McNamee jumped out to a 5-2 lead, stealing two in the second end and scoring three in the fourth. Then things began to fall apart for him as Hamblin and his foursome of third Kendra Georges, second Ryan Thomson and lead Shannon Gillis scored one in the fifth and stole one in each of the sixth and seventh as McNamee appeared to be coming unravelled.
"Our last three games have been like that," McNamee said. "We’d get up (on them) early and they’d come back and we’d end up tied in each of those games coming home, but we were lucky enough to win them."
In the Page playoff, McNamee was up 5-2 over Hamblin after four ends, and with a four in the sixth, led 9-5 before the Morris skip came back to tie it in the ninth, only to lose 11-9 in the 10th.
The Page loss forced Hamblin into a semifinal against Travis Taylor of Brandon, which he won 7-3 for another shot at McNamee in the final.
"It’s nice to get up (on your opponent) early," McNamee said, adding that he never let up on his game. "You still have to score a deuce if you can, and we tried to do that, but Dave’s team played very well. In our earlier game (Page playoff), we were four up after six and he came back to tie it up in that one too."
"We just started making some more shots there," Hamblin said of his comeback in the middle ends. "We had a few chances early to hold them down a bit, and we just kept fighting back. We got a really lucky shot there in seven instead of (him) stealing two."
"Yeah, we’re tired," he added. "It just wasn’t going our way today."
allan.besson@freepress.mb.ca