Sault Ste. Marie rink stays unbeaten at Northern Ontario Males’s Curling Championship.
THUNDER BAY – John Epping has his squad proper the place he desires to be.
The Toronto skip, who has taken over throwing fourth stones for the previous Crew Horgan, on Wednesday cruised to his second straight win on the Northern Ontario Males’s Curling Championship, overcoming a gradual begin to knock Thunder Bay’s Dylan Johnston from the A-side bracket with a lopsided 11-4 win.
Epping, who scored a pair within the second to tie the match at two apiece, jammed up the rings within the third and stole 4, then stole two extra within the fourth to leap in entrance 8-2.
It was tutorial after that, the Sault Ste. Marie foursome slamming the door shut with one other three within the sixth, the 2 groups shaking palms at that time.
“It was a little bit of a slow start. Then we made a good hit-and-roll, got a miss out of them in the second end and we were able to get the deuce. From there, we were able to control the game,” Epping stated.
“That’s just how it goes sometimes. I got a little fooled in the first end with a spot on the ice, but overall we’re pretty happy with it.”
The excellent news for Crew Epping, which additionally contains lead Ian McMillan, second Tanner Morgan and Jacob Horgan, is that they’re simply getting a really feel for the ice.
That may be dangerous information for the remainder of the 13-team area.
“We’ll take every win we can get, but mainly we’re just happy with the play so far,” Epping stated.
The third finish was the distinction maker, he stated.
“We really controlled the rock position there. (Dylan) actually got a little unlucky on his last one. I thought it might have caught something. But for the most part we really controlled rock placement. He was definitely in a world of hurt. Obviously when you take four, you really take control,” Epping stated.
Johnston, nursing his first lack of the occasion, being performed on the Port Arthur Curling Centre, dropped to the B-side bracket and can tackle North Bay’s Jeff Brown, whose workforce contains Thunder Bay’s Bryan Burgess, on Friday afternoon.
It’s one thing to construct on, Johnston stated.
“It was a tough loss. We started out strong, had a good first end, a good second end. We just should have bailed on the third end sooner,” Johnston stated.
“It was just a couple of missed shots and that was the game.”
The restoration course of? That’s easy, Johnston stated.
“We’ll go have a couple of beers and come back tomorrow and play like we can.”
It was a greater consequence for Thunder Bay’s Brian Adams Jr., who dropped one other Thunder Bay rink, skipped by Gary Weiss, to the last-chance C-side bracket with a 10-3 win, scoring 5 within the sixth to ice his opponent.
“We had a nice comeback last night against (Chris) Silver. That was a good boost for our team and we rolled right into today with that momentum,” Adams Jr. stated.
The aim is to remain proper the place they’re so long as attainable.
“It’s good to keep rolling in B. We had a tough loss in Game 2, so it was our goal to bounce back and … we want to keep going with that.”
Brown and his opponent, Thunder Bay’s Zach Warkentin, have been locked in a 1-0 recreation via three ends, however the North Bay skip managed to snag three within the fourth and stole one earlier than the break to leap in entrance 5-1. Warkentin received one again within the sixth, however after giving up a deuce within the sixth, the writing was on the wall.
Warkentin will play the winner of the Frank Morissette/Brad Minogue match.
Defending champion Trevor Bonot misplaced 9-6 toSandy MacEwan, and can drop to B-side. .
