It pays to practice and Doug Belyk proved it on the first end when they counted four against Peter Pauls.The second end was blanked by Pauls, but they could only get one in the third end. That was matched by Belyk in the forth and again in the fifth.The sixth and seventh were Pauls' ends. But in the eighth, with Belyk laying three and only one rock to come, the practice paid off.
Dick Horrell and Alexander Scott had a close game, each scoring a couple in the first two ends. The teams exchanged ones until the sixth when Scott stole a big four to go up three for the win.
Allan Rogers came to play. Not only did he count three in the first end, but then showed that they were serious by making a long raise take-out to lay two buried in the second. They then gave up one, but came back to score three against Bryan Peever.A big four in the second last end put the Peever group down two without last rock.The draw to the button by Allan Rogers on his final rock clinched the win.
Rod Forrester showed his experience when playing Eugene Korpach by scoring in the first three ends to go six up. It just wasn't a contest.
It took a lot of looking at the end of the second end to see if it was two or three for Ralph Hall.The rocks were all cluttered in the four foot circle, but they settled for two.That put Hall one up on Gordon Munn.Hall's lead did not last as Munn got the two back and was laying three in the fourth end when Ralph made a draw to the inner circle to count one.Hall kept counting the next two ends, gave up one in the seventh, but went in smiling.
The first end wasn't kind to Ed Kjargaard and his group. This time, they only gave up three. Kjargaard scored one in the second, blanked the third and fourth and gave up another in the fifth to the Bob Krismer gang.It just wasn't Ed's day.
