Panthers Make Curling Semifinals

March 21, 2015

(The Gaurdian) - The UPEI Panthers curling team, from left, are skip Veronica Smith, third Jane DiCarlo, second Emily Gray, lead Aleya Quilty and coach Paul Smith.

The UPEI Panthers scored a deuce in the 10th for an 8-7 victory over St. F.X. Friday at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s curling championship in Waterloo, Ont.

The win improved the Panthers to 3-4 and qualified them for Saturday’s semifinals against undefeated Thompson Rivers (7-0) at 10:30 a.m. Atlantic.

The team includes skip Veronica Smith, third Jane DiCarlo, second Emily Gray, lead Aleya Quilty and coach Paul Smith. It is their trip to nationals, having finished 2-5 each of the previous trips.

On Friday, St. F.X. scored singles in the first two ends before the Panthers tied it in the fourth with a deuce. The teams traded singles the next two ends before the X-Women scored two in the seventh to take a 5-3 lead. UPEI responded with a triple to take a 6-5 advantage before giving up two in the ninth.

UPEI lost 5-4 to Alberta in an extra end in Friday’s earlier game.

(Story first appeard in The Gaurdian March 21, 2015)