A total of five Anthracite Curling Club members are participating at the Harvest bonspiel at Philadelphia Curling Club. This is a traditional Mixed bonspiel, with teams comprised of two women and two men.
There are 18 teams competing in the tournament with clubs from Philadelphia, Bucks County, Broomstones (Mass.), Plainfield (N.J.), Potomac (Md.), Chesapeake (Md.), Long Beach Island (N.J.), Nutmeg (Conn.) and Dallas/Fort Worth in addition to the two teams featuring Anthracite curlers.
Club President Alison Piatt is Vice of the Ardsley Ducks (Ardsley Curling Club). The team comprised of Anthracite curlers features Maria Maas (Lead), Kimm Montone (Second), Dana Griesback (Vice) and Joshua Sophy (Skip).
The Anthracite team won its First Event First Round draw against a team from Philadelphia/Broomstones Curling clubs, 9-8, stealing a point in the 8th end for the win. A loss in the Second Round to a team from Broomstones dropped the team to the Third Event.
Ardsley lost its first two draws, running into incredibly difficult teams (including a former champion of this event) but had their luck turn around in the Third Event First Round, defeating Anthracite, 8-3, taking 3 points in the 7th end to break open a tie game after six ends.
Team Anthracite at Blazing Leaves 2011: (from L-R) Lyle Kerrick, Al Winter (Nutmeg sub), Michael Detweiler, Monica Lynn.
LIVE UPDATES at the bottom of this post …
The Anthracite Curling team of Lyle Kerrick, Monica Lynn and Michael Detweiler is competing this weekend at the Blazing Leaves bonspiel held at Nutmeg Curling Club in Bridgeport, Conn.
Only three members were able to make the trip so they have enlisted the help of a local Nutmeg substitute. Continue reading →
The team of Fat Daddy & the Pussycats has reunited this year to participate in the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Curling Club Summerspiel.
FDP roster is comprised of Russell Keeler, Monica Lynn, Alison Piatt and Barb Parzych.
MOST UP-TO-DATE UPDATE: FDP finishes round robin play and its time at Fort Wayne Summerspiel with a 2-2 record.
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2011 Fort Wayne Curling Summerspiel
Here are updates from the team via the Club’s Facebook page:
Friday, Aug. 19 Continue reading →
Anthracite Curling Club is pleased to announce it is sending two teams to the second annual GNCC Arena Curling Club Championships from June 10-12, 2011. This year’s event is hosted at
Triangle Curling Club in Raleigh, N.C.
Club President Alison Piatt is one of two curlers with Anthracite Curling Club making a second trip to this bonspiel. She will be Skip of Anthracite 1 this year. Joining her will be her league teammate Dana Griesback and two members of Schuylkill Squirrels, Kimm Montone and Joshua Sophy.
Thom Kivler also attended last year’s GNCC Arena Championships at Woodstock Curling Club in Vermont. Kivler (Happy Hour) be returning this year along with fellow Clubbers Lyle Kerrick and Erica Snarski (both of Bitter End) and Michael Detweiler (MLC). Together, they comprise the roster of Anthracite 2.
The Arena Club Championships are an Open format, 4-event, 3-game guarantee event.
Anthracite Curling Club President Alison Piatt is going it alone this weekend in Washington, D.C., at the Kayser 2011 bonspiel.
Alison is playing with Team Atkinson this weekend as the team’s Vice. Best of all, to watch her draws you needn’t drive 3 or 4 hours to get there. Potomac Curling Club is streaming the bonspiel action live on the Web. Continue reading →
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WOODSTOCK, Vt. –Schoolhouse Rocks! awaits a 3 p.m. draw and a chance to stay alive in the GNCC Arena Club Championship Bonspiel.
The team representing Anthracite Curling Club lost its second draw last night to Ocean State CC #1, 13-3, but remains hopeful of securing a win this afternoon in an elimination draw. Continue reading →
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Anthracite Curling Club will be represented at this year’s Inaugural GNCC Arena Club Championship Bonspiel by the 2010 Summer League team Schoolhouse Rocks!
Fresh off its first win of the season, the team is hoping for more good fortunes when it takes the ice at Union Arena in Woodstock, Vt. The team’s first draw is Friday at 1 p.m. vs. Rutland Rocks CC #2. 
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