Sometimes it only takes one bad end to bring a curling team’s tournament to a screeching halt.
That was the case Moose Jaw’s Pat Simmons at the Grey Power Player’s Championship, the last World Curling Tour event of the season that ended on Sunday in Dawson Creek, B.C.
Simmons and his Davidson-based rink of Gerry Adam, Jeff Sharp and Steve Laycock were rolling along with a 3-1 round robin record when they met Winnipeg’s Jeff Stoughton in the quarterfinals.
After four ends, the game was 2-1 in favour of Stoughton, but it was the fifth end that not only was a game killer, but essentially ended the tournament for Simmons.
Stoughton scored five points with the hammer in the end.
“In the fifth it just was, I don’t know, it was a weird end,” said Simmons. “It looked like we could force them to one to all of a sudden really scrambling.”
See more in Wednesday's Times-Herald.
