Toba’s McNamee 5-0 and alone on top
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This article was published 16/11/2010 (5741 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
MORRIS — The local interest is giving the locals plenty to cheer about at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship.
Team Manitoba’s Terry McNamee rattled off a pair of wins Monday — 8-5 over Prince Edward Island in morning and 8-5 over B.C. Monday night — to improve to 5-0 and take over sole posession of first place. Manitoba is the last undefeated team remaining in the 12-team field.
Equally impressive was how Manitoba was winning. McNamee, by his own admission, had less than a stellar effort against P.E.I. but found the shots when he needed them to turn around a 5-3 eighth-end deficit with five unanswered points in the final two ends.
The reversal began in the ninth end when the Brandon skip made a perfect raise takeout with his first rock to lie two and set up what was ultimately a three-ender.
P.E.I. skip Robert Campbell had a chance to tie the game in the 10th end with a short tap to the four-foot with the last rock, but the 1989 Canadian Mixed champion elected instead to go for the win and attempt a triple takeout.
The attempt failed and Manitoba stole two more.
“I don’t think we were at our best and we still won,” McNamee said after the P.E.I. game. “That’s a good sign.”
It was a similar story Monday night against B.C. as the Manitobans shot just 74 per cent as a team, but still outlasted a team that saw skip Tom Buchy throw just 60 per cent.
Manitoba has been the class of the field through three days of competition, with the foursome leading the field in team shooting percentage (81) heading into Monday night’s draw and McNamee (83) and third Lana Hunter (84) both leading at their respective positions.
— Paul Wiecek
