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Andrew Stopera Is Heading to Junior Nationals Club Reopens After Hurricane Sandy Iceman to Retire Official Newsletter of the Ardsley Curling Club December 2012/January 2013 “All the News That Fits” Andrew Stopera is Heading to Junior Nationals Bill Stopera and Jeff Casper Andrew Stopera, and his team, Team Dunnam won the GNCC Junior Championship last week at the Potomac Curling Club, and are headed to the US Junior National Championships at Broomstones from Jan 26-Feb 2. The other North Mountain Drive Ardsley, NY 10502 members of his team are Scott Dunnam (Skip - Philadelphia), second Steven Szemple (Plainfield), and lead Andy Dunnam (From left to right) Andrew Stopera, Scott Dunnam, calendar notes (Philadelphia). Steven Szemple, Andy Dunnam Team Dunnam went undefeated in Potomac Upcoming GNCC events: After the game Stopera said “it feels great, I competing against 9 teams from all over the didn’t really think I would be going to Nationals USCA Senior Men’s Nationals northeast. In the final they beat Team McMakin this soon, but I am really excited.” USCA Senior Women’s Nationals 12-5. Team Dunnam got a great start by scoring Fairbanks Alaska 3 in the first end. After giving up 1 in the 2nd Will Pryor played second with Team Suslavich. Wed. Jan. 23 - Sun. Jan. 27 they put the game away, scoring 6 in the third Their skip is from Nutmeg, with representation end to go up 9-1. Stopera set up the big end GNCC Senior Men’s from Schenectady and Nashua, They ended the with a take out through a small port to lie 4 Championship round robin in a three way tie for the last spot behind cover. Stopera said “They tried to put up Nashua Country Club in the playoffs. The Suslavich Rink was forced to a guard but it just didn’t curl enough and they Thur. Jan. 24 - Sun. Jan. 27 play three matches in the same day to qualify, left us an opening. Fortunately I was able to get but dropped the last of three to fall just short of GNCC Women’s Club the rock through the port.” the playoff round. Championship Petersham Curling Club Thur. Jan. 24 - Sun. Jan. 27 Governor’s Bowl (men’s) Club Reopens after Hurricane Sandy Albany Curling Club Thu Jan 24 - Sun Jan 27 Iceman to Retire Schenectady Open Bonspiel The hurricane and the ensuing power outage and Schenectady Curling Club surrounding damage caused our club to be closed for several Fri. Feb. 01 - Sun. Feb. 03 weeks. As reported in the last Duck Soup, the day after damage was palpable. Suffice it to say, Dave Schrull and the A complete calendar of events is ice team really had a tall order to get the club back on its available at www.gncc.org feet. Countless hours were spent clearing the mess, removing the remnants of the old ice, repainting, and trying to make INSIDE THIS ISSUE new ice. There were a few false starts. A saving grace came Schenectady 10 and Under .....................2 in the form of special sheets that come ready made and can The New Satellite Is Here ..........................2 be rolled out and laid on the floor. This new product was Cool Duck 2012 .......................................3 New Apparel .............................................3 continued on page 2 Bloodies and Brooms ................................4 The Monctonian .......................................4 Women’s Challenge Round is Set to Begin Jan. 17th Jeff Casper Club Reopens after Ardsley Curlers are asked to root for Team Cucchiarelli as Joyance Meechai is the Vice. Her team is part of the draw for the Women’s Hurricane Sandy Challenge Round, held at Seattle’s Granite Curling Club January Iceman to Retire 17th-21st. Six out of the fourteen teams entered will move on to Nationals. It sure would be nice to have Joyance join Bill Stopera and continued from page 1 Martin Sather at USA Curling’s biggest events this year. purchased by ACC and arranged and cut by Mark and Julie Everett. This new floor will save a lot of time in the future by us Schenectady 10 and Under no longer having to paint the rings, and if cared for properly could last a few years. Matt Gallegos and Mike Spensieri Dave and his crew were able to get us Ardsley sent a men’s 10-and- all up and running. The Board has voted under team to compete that the season will continue an extra two in the Knights of Curling weeks, with the Pull the Plug happening Bonspiel at the Schenectady mid-April. Curling Club. Held on December 7-9 the team We owe Dave, the Everetts, Tom of Matt Gallegos (s), Mike Doherty, Geoff Broadhurst and the Spensieri (V), Joe Panella House Committee, the ice crew, and (2nd) and Nick Beaton (Lead) countless others a debt of gratitude for took the runner up in he D event. They made the A Event semi finals before falling to a pulling together and getting our season Schenectady team on skips rocks. They next fell to an Albany team in the D Finals in a very back in order. close match. On a sad note, Dave has informed us that he would like to retire from Iceman duties and wants to hand off the reins as quickly 77th McKay-Douglas as possible. It would be ideal if we could find our next Iceman or Icewoman by the The McKay Douglas Bonspiel is right around the corner! February 21st to the February flood. Dave, I think I speak for all 24th. This is the major fundraising opportunity for our club, so please volunteer. of us by saying thank you and well done. Contact Jeff Lesuk at [email protected] The New Satellite Is Here Geoff Broadhurst The new SHAW satellite dish and receiver has been installed and is operating very well. The TV curling schedule is shown on www.curling.ca/ championships/television-and-webcast- schedule/ and can be seen on TSN HD or TSN2 HD (SHAW Channel 310 or 311). The next TV coverage of curling is The Continental Cup (North America VS Europe) starting January 10 which will feature Team McCormick (Heath McCormick, Bill Stopera-ACC, Martin Sather-ACC and Dean Gemmell – Tuesday Night Rocks. Plainfield). Tuesday hopes we all had a great Holiday Season! 2 Duck Soup Congratulations go out to Yushi Third Event Runners Up: Yang (Skip), Ken Hsu (vice), Ellen Schoder (skip) Joe Panella (second), Barry Suki Miyamoto (vice) Rosenbloom (lead) and Sylvie Rich Windisch (second) Rosenbloom (alternate) for Robert O’Boyle (lead) winning the coveted Cool Duck Trophy. Other results follow: Fourth Event Winners: Long Island Curling Club First Event Runners Up: Matt Scheiner (skip) John Salmon (skip) Mike Spensieri (vice) Jim Borgia (vice) Nicole Mikoleski (second) Joe Hodgkinson (second) Demitri Muna (lead) Lynn Salmon (lead) Fourth Event Runners Up: Second Event Winners: Jim Duke (skip) South Shore Curling Club Jon Schuster (vice) Rob Costa (skip) Doug Hill (second) MaryBeth Cordeiro (vice) Laura Hill (lead) 5-and-Under Bonspiel Greg Costa (second) Jeff Klein (alternate) Matt Scheiner Chris Koska (lead) This is the first time the Cool Duck After Hurricane Sandy-related had by all, including some great Second Event Runners Up: has welcomed teams from other delays in early November, the Cool competition, delectable food, and Ray Ullmer (skip) clubs and it was very successful Duck 5-and-Under Bonspiel finally unrivaled camaraderie. Leeza Furman (vice) overall netting over $1000 for the came together on December Darrel Seife (second) club. We hope to continue the Cool 28-30, 2012. Thirteen teams of Some of the highlights of the Erin Durba (lead) Duck in this new tradition eve ry curlers with five years’ curling weekend included some riveting November. This way it can be ideally Third Event Winners: experience or less from as far matches, seeing the audience positioned as a practice spiel for other Cape Cod/LICC/Ardsley south as Bucks County, PA and seating full with spectators for a well-known 5 and under events like Shay Austin-Leary (skip) as far north as Boston, MA made 5-and-under event, a raffle with the Kayser and the Dykes. Alison Piatt (vice) the trek to Ardsley to play in a fun more than just alcohol in it, and Seth Altman (second) Editors Note: Special thanks goes and competitive event. Fun was all of our dice money leaving for Rhode Island. Matthew Leary (lead) to Matt Scheiner for organizing and hosting this great event ARDSLEY – 7 SOUTH SHORE – 1 MIXED – 1 1st Event Winner 2nd Event Winner 3rd Event Winner Yushi Yang (skip), Rob Costa (skip), Shay Austin-Leary (skip), Ken Hsu, Joe Panella, MaryBeth Cordeiro, Greg Costa, Alison Piatt, Seth Altman Barry Rosenbloom and and Chris Koska and Matthew Leary Sylvie Rosenbloom (alternate) Please take some time to read our revised History of the Ardsley Curling New Apparel Club 1932-1973. Special The special edition 80th anniversary Ardsley Curling thanks to Mark Everett, Club apparel has arrived. Hats and T-Shirts both long Sue Ferrenti, and Geoff and short sleeves. Hats and long sleeve Ts retail for Broadhurst for making this $25 while the short sleeve Ts go for $20. All of the available to the club. old inventory is still 50% off. ardsleycurling.org 3 Happy New Year with Bloodies and Brooms Dave Wagenheim 2013 was rung in by 33 curlers thus the name Shorty. For anyone this New Year’s Day at the Ardsley who hasn’t played, the strategy is Curling Club. This year’s Bloodies similar to playing the full sheet, but, and Brooms like previous years each team throws only 4 stones brought people together for per end in a 4 end game, stones what we hoped would be a have to be in the house to be in good balance of curling and play and you cannot knock stones socializing.
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