Team Bond Girls had a fun weekend in Seattle vying for the MoPac Women's Team spot at the 2010 Curling Club Nationals. We were in best out of 5 tournament with the Beki and her team from Arizona. They were an awesome group of ladies and we had a lot of fun playing them and getting to know them better.
We had 3 games scheduled on Saturday, which is a whole lot of curling in one day.
First game was bright and early Saturday morning at 9:00 am. We dusted off the kilts and tried our best to remember what it was like to curl on actual, real dedicated curling ice together. Starting line-up for game #1 was Donna as lead, Jen G as second, Cindy as vice/mate, and me skipping. It took us a few ends to get back into the rhythm of curling on sweet real ice – but suddenly we got on a roll! Everyone was making some really nice shots – Donna quickly distinguished herself as the Bond Girl with perfect draw weight. Her weight was actually on for all three games! And man oh man can our front end (and vice) sweep well! They were on fire! They can definitely teach me a thing or two about how to use my broom. :) They really carried some rocks and kept them on line so well. We won the first game 14-4, which got us off to a big, exciting start.
Second game was at 1:00 pm. After the Team Zissou boys sweetly went and got us sandwiches for lunch - we had a quick bite to eat and went back onto the ice! Line up for game #2 - had Donna as lead, Jen L as second, Cindy as vice/mate, and me skipping. We were on Sheet #2 this go around and once again the whole team really came together and played great. And some more exceptionally good sweeping this game! We won this one 10-2.
Third game of the day was at 6:00 pm after having some time to relax at the club, sit and chat with the Arizona team and make a quick trip to Albertsons for some snacks. We were feeling a bit of soreness from the first two games, but we were excited to go out there and see if we could pull out one more win of the day.
Game #3 was on sheet #5. We got off to a bit of a slow start, but once we found our rhythm - we were good. We had an exciting 5 ender in the 4th end, which was very cool. Good shots from all the girls and they swept through the soreness. :) We ended up getting 3 more points in the 6th end and we ended up shaking after that. Final score was 10-3.
It felt great to have the team back together and real ice and it really felt like we've improved from where we were last year. We don't have a whole lot of access to practice time and no access to real, dedicated ice, but we make the most of what we get and we have a lot of fun doing it! We feel so fortunate to have a chance to go back to Nationals this year and give it another go! We know we'll learn a whole lot more and make some great new friends.
It was also a real treat to be up there with the Team Zissou boys. They didn't have quite as much luck as we did out on the ice - but they are getting so much great experience and you can see how much they are really coming together and developing as a team. Those other MoPac men's teams better watch out next year cause Hollywood will be unstoppable. We had lots of laughs and good times off the ice with the boys and will be sad not to have them in Madison with us. There will definitely be something missing.
Well - I guess that's all for now. You can find out info about Nationals at: www.2010clubnationals.com
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Go Team!
"Skip" Marissa
Great breakdown, Marissa!!
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