The senior curling championship in Canada is concluded at the Vernon rink.

The senior curling championship in Canada is concluded at the Vernon rink.

In the men’s division, Nova Scotia emerged victorious, and in the women’s division, Ontario triumphed.

The Vernon Curling Club hosted the final round of the 2023 Everest Canadian Senior Women’s and Men’s Curling Championships on Saturday, December 9. Team Ontario won the gold in the women’s category, while Nova Scotia won the gold in the men’s.

After defeating Saskatchewan 4-3 on Saturday morning, Nova Scotia became victorious in the men’s division. To win, Nova Scotia, led by Kris Granchelli, scored two points in the opening end, one in the fifth, and one in the eighth and final end.

On the men’s side, Manitoba defeated New Brunswick by a score of 8–5, with three points in the sixth end setting the tone for Manitoba’s victory.

The women’s competition took place on Saturday afternoon, with Julie McMullin’s Ontario team emerging victorious over Saskatchewan 10–4. With two goals in the fifth end and three in the sixth and seventh ends, Ontario had a strong finish to the match. In the end, neither team scored any points.

The British Columbia women’s team defeated Alberta to win the bronze medal while the gold medal match was taking place. After scoring three in the seventh end, B.C. emerged victorious, 7-3.

The men’s and women’s teams from Nova Scotia and Ontario, who won gold medals in the Everest championships, will now represent Canada in Sweden in 2024 in the World Senior Curling Championships.

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The senior men’s curling championship in Canada is won by Nova Scotia.

Paul Flemming’s team will compete in the international championship in Sweden.

In Vernon, British Columbia, a team led by Paul Flemming from Nova Scotia has won the Canadian senior men’s curling championship.

In the championship match on Saturday, Flemming and his companions Peter Burgess, Marty Gavin, and Kris Granchelli triumphed 4-3 over Bruce Korte of Saskatchewan.

Team Nova Scotia moves on to the international finals, which will take place in Sweden in April.

Only a team from Nova Scotia has won a senior men’s Canadian championship; this is the first since Alan O’Leary’s victory in Yellowknife in 2014.

Flemming tied the game 3-3 with an open hit for the win on his last stone, as Saskatchewan came back from a three-point deficit.

According to a press release issued by Curling Canada, Flemming never overstated his achievements.

Regarding the medals that were on show during the final, Flemming remarked, “I never even looked over at that table once out there.”

“Looking too far ahead and considering outcomes is the last thing you want to do. Try to maintain control of the curling game, one end at a time.”

During the week Flemming had to recover from a chest ailment that sent him to the hospital.

With mixed championships won in 1999 and 2003, this is his third Canadian title.

His team, Nova Scotia, has participated in eleven Briers, and in 2005, he nearly won. In the end, Randy Ferbey of Alberta defeated the Nova Scotia team led by Shawn Adams.

In the press release, Flemming stated, “Over many years and many decades, things tend to even out.” Throughout the years, we have also been on the losing end of these situations. To be on this side of it feels nice.

The gold-medal winning Ontario team, led by Susan Froud, will go to Sweden to play alongside the men’s team from Nova Scotia.