Press Coverage
Twenty-one teams of two are set to compete for the national title in the fifth year of this event. The winning team will earn the privilege to play for the U.S. at the 2012 World Mixed Doubles Championship April 23-29 in Erzurum, Turkey.
Live scoring will be available in the Scoreboard section on the USA Curling website (www.usacurl.org/curlingrocks) through its partnership with CurlingZone. Webstreaming will be provided by the 12th End Sports Network, a USA Curling partner for this event (http://12thendsportsnetwork.weebly.com/2012-usa-curling-mixed-doubles-na...).
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Teams skipped by Ian Journeaux (Plover, Wis.), Craig Disher (Rolla, N.D.), Paul Pustovar (Hibbing, Minn.), Ross Litman (Duluth, Minn.), Ken Neidhart (Lodi, Wis.) and David Russell (La Crosse, Wis.) have advanced to the playoffs, which will start at 9 a.m. CT Sunday.
The top two seeds - Journeaux (5-0) and Disher (4-1) - earned byes and advance directly to the semifinals. Journeaux will play the winner of the game between Neidhart and Litman while Disher awaits the winner of the Pustovar-Russell game in a battle of two former senior champions. Disher, the winner of Pool B, earned the first-round bye based on a better draw shot challenge score than Pustovar, the winner of Pool A. Since Journeaux's team is still undefeated - win or lose in tomorrow's semifinal they still have at least one more shot than the other teams to win the title due to the double knockout provision.
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Teams skipped by Sharon Vukich (Seattle), who won U.S. senior titles in 2010 and 2009, and Pam Oleinik (Brookfield, Wis.), the winner in 2008 and 2007, each posted wins this morning to finish with identical 5-1 records. They'll face off in a winner-take-all tiebreaker match at 2 today to crown the champion of the 2012 USA Curling Senior Women's National Championship.
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Defending champion Margie Smith (St. Paul, Minn.) and former champions Sharon Vukich (Seattle) and Pam Oleinik (Wauwatosa, Wis.) all have their teams in position to make another appearance for the U.S. at the upcoming Senior World Championships. Tied at 3-1 in the round robin standings, Vukich and Smith square off in the final draw tomorrow morning in the double knockout event.
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Margie Smith (St. Paul, Minn.) and teammates Debbie Dexter (St. Paul, Minn.), Shelly Kosal (Edgerton, Wis.) and Rachel Orvik (St. Paul, Minn.) defeated Debra Horn's Ohio squad, 12-1, fueled by a steal of five in the second end. Leading 7-0 after that, Horn's team was limited to a single and then the defending champs put five more points on the scoreboard en route to the win.
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Pustovar (Hibbing, Minn.) and teammates Brian Simonson (Hibbing, Minn.), John Kokotovich (Hibbing, Minn.) and Don Mohawk (Nashwauk, Minn.) posted a 12-0 rout of Bismarck's John Kram rink after getting off to a hot start. Dale Gibbs led his Minnesota team to an 8-5 win over two-time U.S. senior champion and 2002 world senior champion George Godfrey (Cambridge, Wis.). Ross Litman completed the sweep for Minnesota rinks in the morning action with a defensive 4-2 win over Jeffrey Erikson's team.
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