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Â鶹´«Ã½AVeast teams win medals at high school curling provincials

Wawota defeats Langham in provincial final
Wawota High School curling
The Wawota Parkland School senior girls’ curling team has won the provincial title.

FOX VALLEY - Two teams from southeast Saskatchewan came home with medals from the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association female curling provincials in Fox Valley on Friday and Saturday.

The Wawota Parkland School Wildcats won the gold medal, while the Carnduff Education Complex Tigers brought home the bronze medal.

Wawota and Carnduff both went 2-1 in their respective round robin pools. Wawota opened the tournament with a 4-3 loss to host Fox Valley, but recovered with back to back wins, 5-3 over Aberdeen and 6-2 over St. Walburg, to finish first in their pool and advance to the medal round.

Wawota knocked off Carnduff 10-2 in the semifinal and defeated Langham 7-3 in the gold medal game.

Carnduff, meanwhile, also went 2-1 in its round robin pool, opening with an 8-4 win over Assiniboia. Then the school lost 7-6 to Langham but recovered to defeat Saskatoon Evan Hardy 6-5 to close out the round robin.

After the semifinal loss to Wawota, Carnduff recovered to win 10-6 over St. Walburg and win bronze.

The boys and mixed provincials were held in Swift Current on Friday and Saturday. The Lampman School Grizzlies were fourth at the mixed competition, held in Swift Current on Friday and Saturday.

Lampman went 2-1 in the round robin to reach the medal round. The Grizzlies opened with a 5-3 win over host Swift Current, then lost 7-2 to Tisdale but recovered to edge Dinsmore 9-8 in the final round robin contest.

Lampman dropped a 6-3 decision to Watrous in the semifinal and 7-5 to Tisdale in the bronze medal contest.

The next edition of the Observer will have more on this story. 

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