Broomstones, Granite clubs represented well at 2012 Mixed Doubles

As action kicked off at the 2012 USA Curling Mixed Doubles National Championship tonight at the Broomstones Curling Club in Wayland, Mass., the odds seem relatively high that either a team from the home club or Seattle's Granite Curling Club could become Team USA.

Of the competing 21 teams of two, 13 athletes made the cross-country journey from Seattle while a dozen or so call Broomstones their home club. Teams are competing in a five-day tournament to determine Team USA for the 2012 World Mixed Doubles Championship in Turkey in April. This is the fifth installment of curling's newest discipline, which features a lot of stones in play but not as much sweeping.

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