Top 10 finish for Team Acres at National U-18 Championship
NORTH DUNDAS – Competing on the high stage within the sport you’re keen on is the objective of any athlete. For North Dundas-based curling crew Crew Acres, it was the possibility to symbolize Ontario at highest stage doable, the nationwide championship.
The crew received the provincial U-18 championship on April 3 in Kingston and travelled to Oakville for the Curling Canada U18 Nationwide Ladies’s Curling Championship Could 1-7.
The crew began sturdy in round-robin play profitable their first three matches. Up first was a 10-3 victory in opposition to Crew Prince Edward Island, adopted by a more in-depth 6-4 win over Crew Manitoba, and a 7-6 win over Crew British Columbia 2.
“We obtained on to a dropping streak,” Skip Emma Acres advised The Chief. The crew conceded 8-4 to Nova Scotia 1 within the fourth sport of the round-robin. For Crew Acres’ fifth sport, it got here all the way down to officers measuring the rocks within the ninth finish to find out the winner.
“It was a matter of inches,” Acres described. “It was fairly intense.”
Conceding their sixth and remaining round-robin sport noticed the crew end fourth of their pool with a 3-3 document.
“It was disappointing to not make it into the playoff spherical,” she mentioned. “It’s such a excessive stage of competitors.”
The crew entered into the comfort spherical of the championship and completed tied for tenth place total out of the top-21 groups nationally. To win the comfort spherical, Crew Acres repeated a win in opposition to their Ontario rivals whom they beat to win the provincial championship in April.
“We’re nonetheless Ontario’s champions,” Acres mentioned with a chuckle including there’s plenty of camaraderie between groups within the sport.
“It’s an important accomplishment to play at this stage. It was an important expertise,” Acres mentioned of the competitors.
For Emma, that is the final 12 months for competing on the U-18 stage and she or he is already within the strategy of forming a brand new crew to compete on the U-21 stage this fall whereas attending Queen’s College in Kingston. Emma’s sister Ava, will take over as skip for the 2022-23 season.
The crew, hosted on the RCMP Curling Membership in Ottawa, this 12 months consisted of Emma – skip, Ava – third, Liana Flanagan – second, and Mya Sharpe – lead. Aila Thompson was the spare and can be a part of the crew full time within the fall.
