The Point Optical Curling Classic at the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon made for a good showing for Humboldt and area curlers with four local men competing for the $41000 grand prize.
Kirk and Dallan Muyres from St. Gregor competed with Team Laycock. The Nutana club toted the Saskatoon based team as their hometown rink.
Dustin Kalthoff of Humboldt competed with Team Jacobson out of Saskatoon. Team Jacobson and Team Korte with Muenster native Bruce Korte were also noted as local favourites by Nutana.
Both Team Jacobson and Team Korte lost their first games sending them to the B side.
Team Jacobson lost their next game to fellow Saskatchewan rink, Team Ackerman, which sent them to the C side but they were still playing for a chance for Sunday’s qualifers. Winning the next game led them to knock out fellow Saskatoon rink, Team Joyce. They would lose the next one which would end their weekend with a record of 1 win, 3 losses.
Team Korte would go on to win their next three games. A loss against Team McEwen out of Winnipeg would send them the C side to go up against Team Thomas out of Alberta. They lost that one and would not advance to the qualifers, finishing the tournament with a 3 win-3 loss record.
Team Laycock started off with a bye into round two of the A side pool and continued to win all the way to Sundays qualifiers.
They would go on to beat Team Thomas in the first round and then lost out to Team Carruthers out of Manitoba, finishing off their weekend with a 4 win-1 loss recond.
