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www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver, Friday January 2, 2009 - 25 SWISS CHEESE: The Oakville Curling Club junior women's rink of Katie Lindsay, Lauren Wasylkiw, Gen Bernier and Stephanie Thompson won the Dominion TCA Junior Bonspiel this week in Toronto, earning an all-expenses-paid trip to Switzerland to compete in another bonspiel. Junior bonspiel championship earns local curlers trip to Switzerland By Tim Gall Steele, and Rob Fry fell in the semi-final of the main event in the junior men's portion of the bonspiel. A victory in that game would have put Four junior curlers representing the Oakville the team in the final with the trip to Switzerland Curling Club earned a lot more than cash this on the line. week by winning a major bonspiel in Toronto. Instead, the team played in the consolation As the main event winners at the Dominion championship and defeated a Swiss rink. The TCA Junior Bonspiel, Katie Lindsay and her team Oakville foursome collected a prize of $860 as have won an all-expenses-paid trip to Switzerland consolation champions. to compete in another bonspiel later The Parker rink won four of its this winter. Typical junior bonspiels "It feels amazing. five games during the event, includprovide modest amounts of cash as We worked really ing a quarter-final victory against an prizes, but the TCA event has offered hard this season Ottawa team which will be considthe trip as part of an exchange pro- and it's kind of the ered one of the favourites at provingram that began with Swiss teams in next step forward cials. into provincials." the 1970s. A team from Palmerston defeated Lindsay, a graduate of Oakville's Oakville skip a Kitchener-Waterloo team in the White Oaks Secondary School now Katie Lindsay junior men's main event final, earnattending the University of Waterloo, ing the trip to Switzerland. said winning the trip is great and the victory proThere was a total of 28 teams entered in the vides a stepping stone to the provincial champi- junior men's competition. onships that begin Jan. 7. Lindsay and her rink competed in a field of 24 "It feels amazing," she said following a 9-4 win teams, winning all five of its games to capture in the championship game Tuesday night in the junior women's championship. Scarborough. "We worked really hard this season and it's kind of the next step forward into provincials." Lindsay and her rink -- which includes Lauren Wasylkiw, Gen Bernier, Stephanie Thompson and alternate Spencer Anderson -- locked up a berth in the provincial championships by winning a regional competition one month ago. Adding the TCA championship, and the trip to Switzerland, is a great boost to the team for its final practice this weekend in preparation for the Ontario event. "We knew if we played our best, we would have a chance (to win the TCA event) and we played amazing all weekend," said Lindsay. "We played really well, so we'll take this and keep going forward into provincials." A junior men's team from the Oakville Curling Club, which has also earned the right to play at the provincial championships, was one game short of joining the Lindsay team in Switzerland. The rink of Jake Walker, Jamie Parker, Kyle SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER