It took three games for Cathy King’s 2012 Canadian senior women’s curling championship team to finally hit the win column.
King defeated Calgary’s Karen Morrison 9-4 on Thursday afternoon for her first win at the Alberta seniors championships at the Granite Curling Club. Her Saville Centre team of Carolyn Morris, Lesley McEwan and Doreen Gares later defeated Jodi Busche of Fort St. John, B.C., 6-4 to improve to 2-2 and tie Calgary’s Karen Morrison for third place.
St. Albert’s Deb Santos (Jackie Rae Greening, Diana Backer and Glenna Rubin) and Calgary’s Diane Foster, a former world senior champion, continue to lead the pack at 4-0, with a head-to-head matchup set for noon Friday. Foster then plays King in the 7 p.m. draw.
In the provincial senior men’s championship, Brad Hannah of the Saville Centre defeated Jeff Henricks of Grande Prairie 8-1 and Lloyd Hill of Calgary 7-0 to sit all alone in first place with a perfect 4-0 record. Third Gary Greening, second Don McKenzie and lead Lance Dealy are the other members of the Hannah rink.
Wade White of St. Albert doubled up Terry Meek of Calgary 10-5 and downed Darrel Veiner of Dawson Creek, B.C., 9-3 to join Calgary’s Mickey Pendergast in a second-place tie at 3-1. Marc Pouliot of the Avonair is 2-2 after dropping a 7-6 decision to Pendergast and knocking off Meeks 9-7.
All of the teams will be back on the ice for the fourth draw at 7 p.m. Thursday.
