Shawn Adams and Andrea Kelly rinks win 2009 Rodd Classic

(PEICurling.com) Nov. 8/2009: The Shawn Adams rink from the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, and the Andrea Kelly foursome from Fredericton New Brunswick are this year’s winners of the Rodd Curling Classic, which wrapped up this afternoon at the Charlottetown Curling Club.

Adams, along with third Paul Flemming, second Jeff Hopkins, and lead Kelly Mittelstadt, recovered from a 6-3 deficit by taking a triple in the eighth end, and stealing a single in the extra end for a 7-6 men’s section final win  over the Ryan Sherrard team from Saint John. This is Adams’ second win on the Atlantic Curling Tour this year, with a victory a month ago at the Swinamer’s TimbrMart Curling Cashspiel in Windsor NS.

It wasn’t as close in the women’s division, with Kelly picking up a point in the opening end. Opposition skip Sarah Rhyno of the CFB Halifax club blanked the next two ends to keep last rock advantage until she could score more than a single point,  but  Kelly stole a triple in the fourth to build up a 4-0 lead. Rhyno took singles in the next two ends, but Kelly took a point in the seventh,  and ran Rhyno out of rocks in the final end to finish the game with a 5-2 score. Other members of the Andrea Kelly rink are Denise Nowlan at third, Jillian Babin playing second stone, and Lianne Sobey in the lead position.

 In semi-final women’s play this morning, Rhyno edged the Nancy McConnery rink of the Halifax Mayflower club 4-3, while Kelly, aided by a four point sixth end, beat Newfoundland and Labrador’s Heather Strong foursome by a 6-4 score.

In the men’s section, Adams stole four points in the fourth end to bring his game against Chad Stevens of Chester to a speedy finish and a 7-2 score. Ryan Sherrard’s game against Haligonian Jamie Murphy also ended early, with an 8-3 score in six ends, after Sherrard followed a second end triple with a stolen deuce in end three, and another three-pointer in the sixth.

Round robin play wrapped up Saturday, with no tiebreakers required, so the men’s quarter-finals were played Saturday night, with Sherrard stealing three points in the final end to beat PEI’s Rod MacDonald rink by a 7-3 score, and Stevens edging Chris Sutherland of Halifax 8-7.

PEI teams round robin win-loss records: Erin Carmody 2-3, Suzanne Birt 2-3, Rebecca Jean/Robyn MacPhee 1-4.
Rod MacDonald 4-1, Brett Gallant 3-2, Ted MacFadyen 2-3, Eddie MacKenzie 2-3, Tyler MacKenzie 1-4, John Likely 1-3 (did not play last game), Robert Campbell 0-4.

The Shawn Adams rink will take home $5000, with $3500 going to the runner-up Ryan Sherrard foursome, $2500 to third and fourth place finishers Stevens and Murphy, and $1600 to quarter-finalists MacDonald and Sutherland. 

The Kelly squad’s top prize in the women’s section is worth $3100, with $2100 going to  the Rhyno team for second place. Third and fourth place finishers McConnery and Strong will each take home $1250. There is also a payout of $40 per round robin win in the women’s section.

Eighteen men’s, and 12 women’s teams from all four Atlantic provinces took part in this annual event.

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(Round-Robin format, eight end games)