2017 U18 Provincial Champions

The Brett Walter’s team playing out of the Morris Curling Club won the U18 Men’s Curling Championship on March 5. The Championship was held at the Springfield Curling Club in Dugald. The Championship team of Brett Walter, Third Jordan Peters, second Zach Wasylik and lead Liam Tod and coached by Lorne Hamblin will compete at the first National Championship to be held in Moncton, NB April 18-22, 2017. Jordan, Zach and Liam play regularly in the Morris league and have been participants at Curl ’s Next Gen program running at the Cargill Curling Training Centre in Morris. The fourth on their team, Graeme Bergman, being too old for this competition was replaced with Brett Walter from . Brett has been training and competing with the team since early January. The team won the regionals in Plumas in early February defeating another Morris team and Cargill Curling Training Centre team, that being Josh Friesen. The final of the regionals was tightly contested and worthy of any provincial final.

On the women’s side, Morris’s team of Hayley Bergman, Olivia Bruneau, Payton Bergman and Stasia Ginters were defeated at the regionals by the defending U18 Provincial Champions, and her team from Altona, including Morgan Reimer, and Paige Beaudry. They went on to represent the Central region at the U18 Championship and won the gold medal as well and will accompany Brett’s team to the U18 Nationals.

On the same weekend, the Morris Curling Club/Cargill Curling Training Centre also had a team competing at the U18 mixed doubles. Hayley Bergman and Zach Wasylik earned a bronze medal at this event. Brett Walter and his sister, Meghan, won the gold medal defeating Klaudius Harsch and Bianca Dubois from the Rossmere Curling Club. There is no National event for this competition.

The Cargill Curling Training Centre congratulates all the teams competing in this event and acknowledges their accomplishments. The Centre also congratulates all the other curlers that have represented their schools and the club at various provincials. In all 13 teams/individuals involved in Cargill Curling Training Centre have qualified to play in 13 provincial competitions this season.

The Morris Curling Club will be hosting a send-off social on April 8 at the Morris Curling Club. We encourage everyone to come out and wish the team well at the National event in Moncton. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Lorne or Chris Hamblin 204-746-3330.

Players Left to right: Coach Lorne Hamblin, lead Liam Tod, second Zach Wasylik, third Jordan Peters and skip Brett Walter