Paris loses tough game to North Park in high school curling

Paris Panthers Report with George Le Gresley

The Panthers ending their season in third place, faced the North Park Trojans in the semi final game on February 23 Paris had the hammer in the first end and got into trouble having 3 points stolen by the North Park team. The second end, Paris maintain their last rock advantage, weren’t able to place any guards to curl around and turned into hitting open rocks with North Park missing their hits The end result saw the Panthers score 3 to tie it up. The third end North Park had three rocks lined up on the right side of the rings and the Paris skip attempted a hit and roll behind his guards but rolled to far to the left. North Park in the end scored 2 to take a 5-3 lead. The fourth end Paris got themselves in big trouble with 3 Trojan rocks in the house guarded by a guard.. In the end with 4 rocks in the house, skipper Henwood had a chance to draw to a North Park sitting in the back half of the button to either cut down the score or to take one point. Unfortunately, the draw came up short and the Trojans score 4 to trail 10-3

The Paris District High School Curling team faced a tough North Park Trojans in a semi-final game on February 23. Paris lost 13-4. Pictured left to right are From left to right Coach Don Lewis, Coach Tim Risebrough, Ian Henwood, Lauren Markle, Kathryn Wight , Max Wood , Isaac Halsey and Coach Sarah Purdy

Photo by George Le Gresley

The fifth end with North Park having two stones hidden behind guards, the Panther skip calls for second Isaac Halsey to tap his on guard for shot, with success. In the end the Panthers score 1 and trail 104

With three ends to go, the Paris Panthers have to become bandits, stealing as many points as they can. Unfortunately, North Park took advantage of their last rock advantage and scored 1, leading 11-4 after 6 ends.

The seventh end has to be an aggressive end to make up for the scoring deficit that Paris was facing, unfortunately the plan to score didn’t happen and North Park scored 1

The final end was about the Trojans taking one rock to clinch the game, which they were able to do and end Paris’year of curling.