Connor rink handed silver at provincials
On the way to provincial silver, Carly Connor and her rinkmates beat a team skipped by one of the best young curlers in Canada.
The Connor crew – including Lorelei Guidos, Hannah Lindner and Jordan Henson – competed at the first-ever B.C. under-18 championship last weekend in Nanaimo. After going through pool play with a 2-1 record, Connor and company took on a Delta rink led by Sarah Daniels, a 2016 B.C. junior (under-21) champion who went on to a silver-medal finish at that year’s junior national tournament. In a semifinal clash between Connor and Daniels, an extra end was needed to decide the winner and that turned out to be Connor by a 4-3 count.
In the final, Team Connor stepped onto the ice against the Heather Drexel foursome (players from Coquitlam, Cloverdale and Chilliwack) and lost 5-2. While falling short of victory was disappointing, it did little to take away from the satisfaction of playing at such a high level in the eight-team event.
“It’s an amazing feeling,” said the 16-year-old Connor, who got her start in the sport 12 years ago in the Prince George Golf and Curling Club’s Little Rock program.
“We played really well. We went in just wanting to win games. We hadn’t really played together very much because Hannah’s from Fort St. John and Lorelei’s from Salmon Arm so we just wanted to really gel and bond and try and win games and it turned out really well.”
Beating Daniels, who won all three of her round-robin games, was a highlight. She and her teammates – Catera Park, Kim Bonneau and Sarah Loken – held a 2-0 advantage after five ends but Connor came back with two points in the sixth and a steal of one in the seventh.
— ‘IT WAS KIND OF, page 10