Williams Lake has representation at the B.C. Scotties Tournament of Hearts provincial curling championship.
Simone Groundwater (skip), Laura Ball (third), Surrey’s Mallory Sandhu (second) and Cindy Brady (lead) qualified after successfully competing in the second of three women’s qualification events at the North Shore Winter Club in North Vancouver Nov. 30 to Dec. 2.
The team is now in the midst of the competition — which began Jan. 14 and wraps up Jan. 20 at the Cloverdale Curling Club.
Groundwater’s rink began play Monday, dropping a heartbreaking 8-7 loss — giving up one in the final end — to New Westminster’s Kirsten Fox rink.
Groundwater’s second match was against Juan de Fuca’s Sarah Wark rink. The Williams Lake rink played right alongside Wark for the first seven ends, however, gave up five in the eighth to drop the draw.
Tuesday, Groundwater’s rink bounced back with an impressive 10-5 win over Vernon’s Roberta Kuhn rink. Groundwater stuck three in the first and four in the seventh to walk away with its first win of the competition.
Later, Groundwater’s rink fell to New Westminster’s Lori Olsen rink, 7-5, in a tightly contested draw. Olsen scored three in the third, but Groundwater answered back with two of her own in the sixth, before Olsen, again, sat two in the seventh to take the victory.
The Williams Lake rink, coming into Wednesday, was scheduled to meet tournament favourite Kelly Scott of Kelowna, before playing four more draws following that to wrap up its round-robin Friday.
For complete B.C. Scotties Tournament of Hearts results visit http://www.playdowns.com/curlbc/draw-sched.php?id_cmp=485 or check a future Tribune for story.