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Good News! 2nd World Deaf
Curling Championships has been awarded to
the city of Bern in Switzerland by ICSD
in February 2013.
A qualified curling team in each men and
women from CDG 2012 in Edmonton will be
competing at WDCC from February 23 to
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Rookie Skip
capitalized the playoff playdown.
Dimitri
Jean-Paul has deserved his well-performance on
ice to capitalize the championship game over
David's team 8 - 4. Dimitri Jean-Paul was along
with Michael McNulty, Bharat Madaparthi and Debra
Cote. The game was absolutely fantastic to watch.
David has told that he knew Dimitri's team woud
dominate David's rink. "Dimitri is a
respected and focus player", said David.
Either David and Dimitri have battled to capture
the cup for the first time as a skip, and yet
Dimitri is a winner. He (Dimitri) has
successfully gone through to Championship game,
and he has come back to the club last Fall and
has unexpectedly become a new skip since one year
absence after three years in curling. ODCC has
written that Dimitri has officially became the
first black and youngest skip in history to win
in championship game. He is well-deserved player.
Debra as Lead, has appeared in the Final game
twice in a row and has brought the cup home.
Bharat is a rookie curler that has performed
remarkably in the final game as well. Give
Dimitri's rink a round of wave-hands!
2012
Team Champion
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2012
Team Runner-Up
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ODCC
Semi-Final under the fire
Last Friday
(March 30th), all two ice sheets were under the
fire with four teams. Very heavy competition for
the best. Fans couldn't afford to miss to watch
the most exciting game ever. Team Jean-Paul
surprisedly stormed out the rink of Cyr by draw
the stone into the very centre of the house to
get a point over Team Cyr 5 - 4. Team Joseph
tried to get a point to tie on 8th end to extense
the game to 9th end, but his final stone was
overcurled to hit the guard that gave Morton team
a 2-points steal to win the game. Those games
were apparently much excited to watch than World
Men Curling Championship on TV.
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City
of Ottawa Men's Bonspiel for three deaf teams
From
March 14 through 18, City of Ottawa Men's
Bonspiel went wonderful, and Ian MacAulay of OCC
earned $8000 in combined two events: Alexander
Kieth's Grand Aggregate and BDO. Three deaf men
teams: Raby's rink, Morton's rink and Sicoli's
rink competed as they were hoping to capitalize,
but they failed. An interesting news for deaf
curling community in the National Capital for the
very first time since 1978 that two deaf teams
were head-to-head in that bonspiel that was
Raby's and Morton's teams. Team Raby easily
dominated Team Morton and eliminated them and
advanced to the next round which they got
eliminated. Les Sicoli's team competed in Seniors
category and their record was 1-5 and got
eliminated as well. They lost 4 streaks in 5
games.
Here as below of what happened with three teams
during bonspiel in order:
Wed
PM - Morton won, Sicoli lost
Thurs
PM - Morton won, Sicoli lost, Raby won two games
in a row.
Friday
AM - Both Raby and Morton lost, Sicoli lost
Friday PM - Both Raby and Morton won, Sicoli lost
Saturday
AM - Raby and Morton played at OCC separately.
Raby lost badly... Morton could have won but they
lost, so that means Raby played against Morton in
the next game on Saturday afternoon at RA Centre.
Team Raby won 12-2. Morton got eliminated. Sicoli
finally won and advanced to next round.
Saturday
evening Team Raby played hard but lost when they
could have stole one to froce EE, but the other
skip made an amazing shot! Sicoli lost and got
eliminated.
That
was all folks for all three teams.
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Valentine
Night for ODCC
Valentine Day
Party was extraordinary night for all the members
of ODCC. Theresa Ullett and Pierre Brisebois won
for wearing red. Mike McNulty got the prize with
wine bottle for putting the rock at the centre of
the house. Very fortune for Pierre that he won
the draw for spa at Le Nordik. A very warmhearted
gentleman, Dimitri distributed red flowers to
ladies. Cynda brought the money home from 50/50
draw. Wave-hands.
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Team
Morton Curled at Prescott Curling Club
ODCC men
foursome: David Morton, Dimitri Jean-Paul, Ryan
McGuire and Pierre Brisebois competed at Prescott
Curling Club, and their place was 8th with
cumulative points. They got nice prizes of men's
tools. It was a way to go for Pierre with his
very first experience of participating in
bonspiel that helped him to get mentally
preparation for CDG as well as for Dimitri to
perform as Vice. Basically, their record went 2 -
1 in Pool C. Their next bonspiel would be the
City of Ottawa Men's Bonspiel on March 14 - 18.
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Two
deaf teams played at OVCA Mixed Bonspiel
Michael Raby's
team with Cynda Bileski, Rosemaire Poirier and
Roch Cote who was replaced with Andre Guillemette
that they did through to Final in Event 3 of OVCA
Mixed Bonspiel last weekend, but they lost to
Team Walker of GCC 9-0 in 5 ends. They did have
good effort. Team Morton with David Morton, David
Joseph, Colleen Eramchuk and Erica Saniszlo ended
up at 4th game and did not go to the Final,
however they had a good experience. Check for
information here.
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Christmaspiel
Blast
On
December 16th, the Christmaspiel went fantastic
with 6 teams participating as well as the fans
appeared to celebrate the final day of 2011 at
the curling club. Lots of prizes including
turkies and certifications were awared almost to
most of them. Few fortunate curlers won Le Nordek
Spa, and Erica took $100 in cash home. The winner
for 50/50 draw went to Kimberley.
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Broome'en!
(28/10/11)
- 5 curling brooms covered with Halloween
decorations were brought to the club for the
contest to get the prize of 25 dollars each to
the 4 winners. The bartender as the judge decided
on which 4 out of 5 brooms coming with the most
decorative Halloween creation. The 4 winners went
to Rosemaire Poirier, Michel Cyr, Cynda Bileski
and David Morton. Congratulations to them with
good creativities.
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Team
Joseph Leads Rock-measurement at Opening League.
(24/09/11)
- Last Saturday, first game seemed fun as I had
seen most of curlers feeling confident in
curling. Wondering why was that? Of course, that
was because of having a warm-up exercise at 4 pm
for a hour before game begun. That was a way to
help their skills ready mentally. It was the
first time ever in ODCC history to have a warm-up
exercise AND rock-measurement. Cynda made a
PERFECT shot in rock-measurement while David
Joseph as skip was on absence, so she took over
his place to do the work. (Wave-hand) to Cynda -
aka formerly PinkSkip. David Morton, the skip of
Morton rink threw terribly in rock-measurement
that lead them to the last place unfortunately.
The photo of the opening league is here.
The
final standing for rock-measurement (distance
between a centre of a "House" zone and
a rock):
1st
place - Team Joseph (0" first shot)
2nd place - Team Ullett (33" first shot)
3rd place - Team Sicoli (59" first shot)
4th place - Team Cyr (Nil - 1st shot, 0" 2nd
shot)
5th place - Team Cote (Nil - 1st shot, 31"
2nd shot)
6th place - Team Jean-Paul (Nil - 1st & 2nd
shot, 57" - 3rd shot)
7th place - Team Morton (Nil - all 3 shots)
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