Robbi Kuhn’s North Enderby Timber rallied from an early deficit to ice Sherry Heath’s DeVine Vintners 8-3 in Baron Insurance Super League action Wednesday night at the Vernon Curling Club.
Heath, now 1-11, was near perfect in the opening ends, recording steals in one and two. The 10-2 Kuhn rink, with Doug Smith subbing at skip, responded with a big three-ender in three, followed by a steal in four.
Heath made a nice draw against a bunch of NET stones in five, but Smith put the game away with back-to-back deuces in six and seven.
Brad Wood’s Nufloors kept pace with the super league frontrunners after an 8-2 win over Jenn Gerow’s CanHealth/A&G Supply.
Wood, now 10-3, opened with a deuce in one, followed by a single in three and triple in four to lead 6-1 at the midway point.
Gerow, whose brother Darin plays for Wood, delivered a nice run-back in five to prevent Nufloors from stealing three points.
Wood forced handshakes with two points in six, dropping Gerow to 5-7.
After a few month’s hiatus, the Kyllo clan (Armstrong Optometry) reunited for a 7-4 win over Jim Cotter’s Woodland Equipment.
The two teams traded singles in one and two before Scott Kyllo made a nice tap for two in the third end. Some finesse play saw them add two more in five.
Cotter (5-7) threw a rocket at two frozen rocks to collected two in the sixth end, but the optometry crew came right back with two in seven and ran Cotter out of rocks in eight.
Mark Longworth’s Sladen Moore rink cracked a three-ender in the seventh end to cap a 7-2 win over TJ Perepolkin’s Canaccord Capital.
Longworth (7-5) drew eight-foot for a single in two, and then made a nice angle-tap resulting in a steal of two in three.
Perepolkin (5-8) had singles in four and six.
Longworth, Perepolkin and Wood will be among 16 teams competing this weekend in Kelowna for the final four spots in the Canadian Direct Insurance B.C. Men’s Curling Championships, which go Feb. 8-12, in Parksville.
In other curling action, the 2012 Vernon Men’s Bonspiel, which wrapped up last weekend, was another overwhelming success.
A total of 46 teams, including fourteen from out of town, competed for the title and more than $9,000 in prizes. Vernon band Mace played Saturday night.
Team Hay of Winnipeg, featuring Vernon’s Garry Van Den Berghe, won the A event as they defeated Marc Fillion’s Vernon/Salmon Arm rink.
The B and C events were both all-Vernon affairs, with Team Lapointe edging Team Bittroff in the B final, and Team Heuman needing extra ends to ground Team Icton in the C.
In the D event, it was Vernon’s Team Lee outlasting the Renwick team from Chilliwack.
The Vernon Curling Club thanked sponsors Advertising Works, Baron Insurance, De Vine Vintners, Fisher’s Hardware, Okanagan Spring Brewery, Canwest Propane and Future Shop for their generous support.
