Day 2 of the 2023 BC Men’s and BC Scotties Women’s Curling Championships continued with Draw 5 and all 6 sheets ice in play at the World Class’ Chilliwack Curling and Community Centre.

The feature game was two of Canada’s top Next Gen team’s battling for a spot in the women’s 1v2 game. Team Grandy was able to take control early scoring 3 in the first end. The team from the Kamloops Curling Club answered back with a deuce in the second end followed up by a game changing steal of 3 in the 3^rd to give Team Brown at 5-3 advantage Grandy was able to bounce back and tie the game in the 4^th end by scoring 2. The game took a more conservative tone in the second half where the lead continued to see-saw with exchanges of single points in the 5^th and 6^th ends followed by a steal of 1 for Team brown in the 7 to take the lead 8-6 playing 9. Team Grandy was able to score their deuce in the 9^th to ensure this one was going to come down to the final end.  Lots of rocks were in play on the 10^th and Team Brown was able to score there single in the 10^th to earn the spot in the 1V2 game.

In men’s there were 4 B event games in action, two B quarter-finals featuring Joanisse VS Robillard and Cseke VS Cotter along with 2 B event round of 16 game featuring Team Geall vs Team Montgomery and Team de Jong vs Team Tanaka. The first B semi-final was a battle of the touring Team Robillard and the experienced Team Joanisse. Team Robillard defeated Team Joanisse 7-3 in 7 ends. In the Cseke/Cotter matchup it was a rematch of Draw 3 that saw Team Cotter defeat Team Cseke 10-4. Team Cseke who are known as “The Islanders” on the BC Curling Tour once again got off to a hot start leading 2-0 after two ends in thanks to a steal of 1 in the second. However, for the remainder of the first half it was all Team Cotter scoring 4 in the 3^rd end and another 3 in the 5^th end. Team Cseke was forced to one point in the 5^th and was able to pull within two by stealing in the 7^th. Another score of 2 in the 8^th end put the game in the favour of Team Cotter leading 9-5 playing the 9^th end. In the Geall Vs Montgomery game, it was all Team Geall early who were able to retain a sizeable 7-3 advantage after 7 end of the game. The Team from Vancouver Island showed their grit by scoring in 8 and steal two in 9 to pull with 1 point playing the 10^th end. Team Montgomery was able to steal 2 10 to make the final 8-7 in Team Montgomery’s favour. In the Tanaka vs de Jong it was all Team Tanaka winning the game 7-2 in 8 ends. Team Tanaka will wait to play Team ENTER here in their B event Quarterfinal at 7:00PM tonight.

Draw 6 will feature our Men’s A qualifier where Team Gauthier will battle the defending champions Team Pierce for a spot in the Men’s 1V2 Game.

Catch all of the action on www.youtube.com/@CurlBCTV/streams or come by the Chilliwack Curling and Community Centre to enjoy the action in person over a meal and beverage.

This event is supported in part by grants from the Province of British Columbia, Hosting BC, Tourism BC, and viaSport BC.