WMCI Warriors bring home silver medal
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- Published on Saturday, March 5, 2016
Photo by Donna Lach. MHSAA provincials silver medalists from WMCI: from left: Danielle Cadieux (alternate), Julia Son (lead), Lindsay Dayholos (second), Hayley McCaskill (third), Allison Trimble (skip) and Geoff Trimble (coach).
By Nicole Lehmann
WMCI
The curling rinks in Gladstone and Plumas were bustling during the MHSAA Provincial Curling Championships, held Feb. 25 to 27.
WMCI Warriors were playing host to 32 curling teams from around Manitoba. The WMCI boys were in action on Feb. 25 against Stonewall. Unfortunately, the boys were edged out in that game, and moved to the B side. Their next game, against Linden Christian School, was a win, moving them forward on the B side. The boys played their next game against W.C. Miller from Altona. They were able to secure a win, moving them on to their next opponent, Major Pratt (Russell). With this game, the boys’ hopes for a Provincial title came to an end in a heartbreaker. Tied up in the seventh end, the boys were playing without the hammer in the eighth end and were not able to bring about a steal.
The WMCI girls’ team began their quest for a Provincial title in their first game against Kelvin (Wpg). The girls won this game and moved on to their next opponent, Edward Schreyer School from Beausejour. This game was much tighter, but the female Warriors were able to secure a win. In their next game, they played a strong Lord Selkirk team and were able to get the win, giving them a place in the A-side final against W.C. Miller (Altona) on Friday evening. Unfortunately, the Warriors were not able to win this game.
However, they were still alive on the B-side. Saturday began with a game against Ashern in the B-side semi-finals. The girls were able to beat Ashern, and advanced to the B-side final, where they would face W.C. Miller one more time. The girls were now Provincial curling finalists! The game was exciting, and had the large crowd in Plumas on the edge of their seats. Unfortunately for local fans, WMCI was not able to win the B-side final, giving W.C. Miller the Provincial title for 2016.
An event of this magnitude cannot happen without many, many volunteers from both the school and community. Mrs. Smith and I would like to express our sincere thanks to everyone involved in hosting this year’s Provincial Curling Championships. How very fortunate we are to have community members, parents, students and staff who are willing to give many hours of their time to make an undertaking like this successful. Congratulations to both WMCI Warrior curling teams on their efforts during this event. We will proudly hang the girls’ Provincial Finalist banner in our Warrior gym, for the first time since the 1994-95 season!
WMCI Girls: Allison Trimble (skip), Hayley McCaskill (third), Lindsay Dayholos (second), Julia Son (lead), Danielle Cadieux (alternate), Geoff Trimble (coach), Kelsey Tonn (assistant coach).
WMCI Boys: Carter Schettler (skip), Chris Melnyk (third), Nolan Tonn (second), Pryce Sollner (lead), Dallas DeJaegher (alternate), Wayne Schettler (coach), Rob Melnyk (coach).
Teacher Advisors: Nancy Smith & Nicole Lehmann
Congratulations go out to Girls MHSAA Provincial winners from WC Miller in Altona: Hayley Bergman, Olivia Bruneau, Anastasia Ginters, Aleksandra Ginters, Haley Chartrand and coach Derek Wahl, and Boys MHSAA Provincial winners from Swan Valley Regional Secondary School in Swan River: Carter Watkins, Dustin Tibble, Brady Harris, Tynan Metcalfe, Mason Kujanpaa and coach Austen Anderson.
