Schenectady Curling Club

Hitting the Road: 2013 5 and Unders

We would like to wish Good Curling to all of the SCC teams participating in this year’s GNCC 5 and Under events. These yearly bonspiels are for curlers with 5 or fewer years of active curling experience. These are highly attended, hotly contested events! The three 5 and Under spiels are divided into Mixed, Men’s and Women’s.

The Raymond Kayser Bonspiel

This year we have two Schenectady teams who will head to the Utica Curling club for the Raymond Kayser Bonspiel being held February 14th - 17th 2013. The Kayser is the GNCC's mixed 5 and Under. Participating this year from SCC are:

Team Ladopoulos: Nicole Ladopoulos, Jeff Brewster, Roberta Feiden, and Andy Maurer. (April Katz is playing 5th)
Team Klees: Rob Klees, Peggy O'Connor, Dan Muller, and Christina Hall.

Rob Klees (skip) and Dan Muller (second) were the A finalists in last year's Kayser and Peggy O'Connor (vice) was on the Brennan led B Event winning team.

You will find draw and other information by visiting the Utica Curling Club Kayser Page. UCC will also be streaming selected games live on their Utica Curling Club Channel on USTREAM, Thursday and Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday.

The Francis Dykes Memorial Bonspiel

Four teams will be taking the trip down to the Potomac Curling club to attend the 74th annual Francis Dykes Memorial Bonspiel which is the GNCC’s Men’s 5 and Under. This event takes place February 27th through March 3rd 2013. Participating this year from SCC are:

Team Brennan: Scott Brennan, Dan Muller, Jeff Howles, and Rob Klees
Team Alois: Brandon Alois, Jeff Brewster, Andy Maurer, and Nate Alois
Team Fields: Jacob Fields, Joe Perrotto, Mark Roberts, and David Genevich
Team Holbrook: Tom Holbrook, Joe Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dave Spengler

From Team Alois, Brandon (vice) and Nate (lead) were on last year’s B event winning team and from Team Holbrook, Tom (skip) and the two Joe’s (vice and second) were the 5th event winners.

Draw and other information can be found on the Potomac Curling Club Dykes Page.

The Elisabeth Childs Challenge

Eight of our ladies will be heading over to the Rochester Curling Club for this year’s Elisabeth Childs Challenge, taking place March 15th through 17th 2013. The ladies who hope the luck of the Irish is with them are:

Team Ladopoulos: Nicole Ladopoulos, Sara Marchand, Mary-Sue Reed, and Roberta Feiden
Team Hall: Christina Hall, Peggy O’Connor, Laura Dolins and Amy Machold

Peggy O’Connor (second) and Amy Machold (vice) were on the A event winning team from last year’s Childs!

Lancaster Takes the "Queen"

Congratulations to Team Lancaster for winning the Colton (A Event) of the Colton Bonspiel narrowly over Team Kelliher on skip rocks. Paula Lancaster led her team of Fay Navratil, April Katz, and Denise Cashmere (Fay Navratil was replaced by Meghan Muller on Sunday though Meghan played lead and everyone else moved up) to victory over Eileen Kelliher's rink of Nicole Ladopoulos, Amy Machold, and Jackie Donegan with a 6 point tie which was settled on skip rocks.

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Other event winners and finalists were:

The Kerr (B Event)
Winner: Alice Rubin, Sue Streeter, Michele Moffit, and Natalie McDonough - 8
Finalist: Bette Sovik, Carol Munro, Roberta Feiden, and Cathy Faulkner. - 4

The Szymaszek (C Event)
Winner: Dorothy Szymaszek, Lisa Filkins, Lisa Nieradka, and Kathy Clancy. (Joan Barnes and Linda Falcon subbed in as well) - 9
Finalist: Shirley Burgess, Andrea Warr, Mary-Sue Reed, and Lisa Daly. - 2

The Hilborn (D Event)
Winner: Lori Millet, Laura Knussman, Sara Marchand, and Lynn Momrow- Zielinski. - 9
Finalist: Charlene Fitzgerald, Becky Trousil, Laura Dolins, Nancy Gaines. - 7

The Colton is our in house Women's Club Championship that is held in honor of Charlotte Colton, Ruth Kerr, Dorothy Szymaszek and in memory of Ursula Hilborn. Charlotte and Dorothy were on hand to award their pins (and Dorothy helped us out with the Kerr and Hilborn as well!) to the winners at this year’s event. The prestigious Colton pin features an image of the Queen of Hearts playing card with a winking Queen to represent the fact that the ladies are all queens in this bonspiel but they don't take themselves too seriously!

Thanks to all who participated and helped make this event a success!!

To see all of the winners and finalists, check out our In House Bonspiel Photo Gallery!

Team Gaines Wins the C.R.U.E.

SCC is pleased to announce that Team Gaines has won this year's C.R.U.E. Bonspiel. Nancy Gaines led her team of Lisa Filkins, Nicole Ladopolous and Jackie Donegan (1st game) to a win this event with a total of 22 points. Team Hall came in a close second with a total of 19.25 points. Christina Hall led her team of Carol Munro, Suzanne Hartz and Jenn Wood in an impressive bid at the win.

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The C.R.U.E. is a one day event for women junior skips of SCC with two 6-end games. It is a “point spiel” so the winners are determined by the combined points for both games. The sponsors of the C.R.U.E. pin are Claire Brunkhorst, Ruth Kerr, Undine Fiedler, and Evelyn Holmblad. They were the first SCC women to win the Empire State Women's Bonspiel and have been long time supporters of women's curling at SCC. Claire and Evelyn were on hand to present the pin to Team Gaines.

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The other teams that competed in this event were: Team Dolins: Laura Dolins, Paula Lancaster, Becky Trousil and Julie Gaines, Team Feiden: Roberta Feiden, Fay Navratil, Lori Millet/April Katz and Cathy Faulkner, Team Reed: Mary Sue Reed, Sue Adair, Michelle Moffitt and Patty Piscitelli and Team Pearson: Joan Pearson, Sara Marchand, Laura Knussman and Denise Cashmere.

Thank you to all ladies who took part in this wonderful event and thank you to Meghan Muller (and husband Dan) for running the event this year and providing the ladies with an amazing lunch!

SCC Wins Governor’s Bowl

Congratulations to Team Stefanik in their A event win at this year's Governor's Bowl at the Albany Curling Club which was held January 24th -27th. Mike Stefanik led his team of David Rubin, Karl Anderson, and Nate Alois (Brian Damon replaced Nate Alois in the final) in the win over SCC's Dan Machold's rink of Tim Brooks, Pete Dreschler, and Joe Perrotto. This is the 3rd year in a row that an SCC team has won this event: (Pat Fitzgerald’s Rink – 2012 and Dennis Quinn’s Rink – 2011)

The B event was won by SCC's Team Quinn with skip Dennis Quinn, Dion Warr, Dave Hooper, and Fred Macintosh over Team Childs from Norfolk. Team P Fitzgerald with Pat Fitzgerald, Art Merkley, Jeff Mayott, and Brad Austin were the D event finalists.

Team J Fitzgerald with Jack Fitzgerald, Tom Lancaster, Dan Navratil and Ken Rice also represented SCC in this event.