sENIOR NATIONAls 2011 U.s. senior Nationals Feb. 2-6 • Broomstones Curling Club & The Country Club, Boston area
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isconsin’s Geoff Goodland led his team to victory at the 2011 USA Curling Senior Men’s National Championships (age 50 and over) held at the Broomstones Curling Club in Wayland, Mass., and The Country Club in Brookline, Mass. This marked the second World Seniors appearance for Goodland, who won the U.S. senior title in 2007, but first for teammates Pete Westberg (Naperville, Ill.), Tim Solin (Mahtomedi, Minn.) and Ken Olson (Plymouth, Minn.). The men’s division featured 27 teams at the start of the competition on Feb. 2. Playing in a bracketed triple knockout, Goodland’s team captured both the “B” event and the “C1” event to punch an automatic berth in the championship final. Phil DeVore’s team from Minnesota won the “A” event after defeating Goodland but had to play Ross Litman’s Minnesota team in a semifinal matchup after Litman’s Duluth Curling Club team won the other “C” bracket. In the semifinal game, DeVore got past Litman, 6-4, paving the way to the championship final match-up with Goodland’s team. In the final, Goodland struck first with a deuce in the first end. DeVore (Superior, Wis.) and teammates Larry Sharp (Rice Lake, Wis.), Seppo Sormunen (Duluth, Minn.) and Doug Cameron (Duluth, Minn.) were forced to a single in the second end but tied the game at 3-3 in the fifth. That’s when the momentum swung back in the favor of Goodland’s team as they scored four points in the sixth and held DeVore to a single in the seventh and ran them out of rocks to seal up the 7-4 victory.
U.s. senior Men’s Champions Year 2011 2010* 2009 2008
site Wayland, MA Portage, WI Rice Lake, WI Highland Park, IL
Winning Club Eau Claire, WI Hibbing, MN Hibbing, MN Centerville, WI
skip Geoff Goodland Paul Pustovar Paul Pustovar David Russell
2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
Milwaukee, WI Medford, WI Portage, WI Grafton, ND Bemidji, MN
Eau Claire, WI Hibbing, MN Centerville, WI Madison, WI Bemidji, MN
Geoff Goodland Brian Simonson **David Russell **George Godfrey Scott Baird
2002* Superior, WI *Won world title
Grand Forks, ND Larry Johnson **Skipped but threw third rocks
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