Thunder Bay’s Chris Silver led 5-0 by three ends, however wound up on the mistaken aspect of a 9-7 defeat.
THUNDER BAY – Brian Adams Jr. dug himself an enormous gap in Draw 4 play on the Northern Ontario Males’s Curling championship.
After three ends, he discovered himself down 5-0 to fellow Thunder Bay skip Chris Silver, going through the true chance of being relegated to the last-chance, lose-and-you’re-out C-side within the triple-knockout format occasion, being contested this week on the Port Arthur Curling Centre.
Cue the comeback.
Adams rallied with three within the third, slicing the hole to 5-3, then stole a single within the fifth that left the foursome down only one with half a match to play.
After Silver was compelled to 1 within the sixth, Adams evened issues up with a deuce within the seventh, then took the lead within the eight with a steal of 1.
Silver tied it up, however with hammer, Adams Jr. took the sport 9-7 to stay on B-side.
Silver dropped to C with the loss, and can’t afford one other defeat the remainder of the week or else his workforce will likely be eradicated.
Adams, whose workforce consists of lead Joel Adams, second Mark Koivula and third Colin Koivula, takes on Thunder Bay’s Gary Weiss on Thursday afternoon.
Weiss wanted simply six ends to safe his second win in three video games, downing Thunder Bay’s Frank Morissette 10-2, scoring three within the first and fourth ends and 4 extra within the sixth to ship the wily veteran to the C-side bracket.
In the one different Draw 4 match, Thunder Bay’s Zach Warkentin scored three within the fifth and three within the seventh to down Kenora’s Dustin Kroeker, who joins Morissette within the C-side.
Warkentin tackles North Bay’s Jeff Brown on Thursday afternoon.
In A-side play on Thursday within the males’s occasion, defending champion Trevor Bonot tangles with Sandy MacEwan and John Epping will tackle Thunder Bay’s Dylan Johnston.
In C-side, Morissette will play Sault St. Marie’s Matthew Hunt and Silver and Kroeker will even match up.
In girls’s motion on Thursday morning, Thunder Bay’s Krista McCarville (1-0) performs Laura Johnston and Claire Dubinsky performs Robyn Despins in an all-Thunder Bay match.
