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Evening Women's Executive 2010/2011

President – Gillian Shintani     To send a message to your president, please type this address    womens_president @ hotmail.com    without any spaces, into the "To:" box of your email message. 

Vice-President – Megen Husk

Past-President – Lori Brendel

Draw Chair – Judy MacLellan & Leah Smyth         To send a message to your draw chairs, please type this address    womensdrawchair @ hotmail.com    without any spaces, into the "To:" box of your email message. 

Social Committee – Jennifer Pitt

Prize Chair – Christine Martell

Treasurer – Janet Ellis

Secretary – Mary Morison        To send a message to your secretary, please type this address    womens_secretary @ hotmail.com    without any spaces, into the "To:" box of your email message. 

Bonspiel – Grace Bugg & Eva Pathak         To send a message to your bonspiel chairs, please type this address    womens_bonspielchair @ hotmail.com    without any spaces, into the "To:" box of your email message. 

Summer Social – Sheila Haaranen

Education Coordinator – Sharon Blemings

General Information

Mission Statement

The Women’s Evening Section (the Section) is open to female curlers of all skill levels.  Its mission is to provide a balance of competition, skill development and social camaraderie for all members of the section.

The Section curls on Wednesday evening, with games alternating between 7 and 9:00 p.m.  Curlers may register to join as a full or partial team, or as an individual (for individual entrants, the section will make every effort to place registrants on a team but placement is not guaranteed).  The Section can accommodate a maximum of 32 teams.

Teams will be allocated to flights (2 or more depending on the number of teams) so that teams at similar skill levels will play against each other.  Based on the results of each draw, teams will be moved as necessary to another flight for the next draw.

The Section is committed to providing instruction and support to all its members; as such, the section hosts several clinics throughout the year for both novices and those with more experience.

The Women’s Evening Section hosts a team entry bonspiel that is a TCA Mellita Bonspiel of Champions qualifier.  It also hosts a “Santa Spiel” which is open to members and their guests (including those with no prior curling experience). 

Section Rules, General Information and Reminders

Bell Rule:
Regular Season and First Round Playoffs:
The bell will ring 25 minutes before the end of the allotted time slot. When the bell rings, you may complete the end you are playing and play one more end. An end is considered complete when the last rock from the previous end comes to a stop or goes out of play. During the first round of playoffs, a tie will be broken by one member of each team throwing a draw to the button back towards the glass. No sweeping is allowed by the opposing team behind the tee-line.

Playoffs – Semi-Finals and Finals
The bell rule can be ignored. Should you decide to play the full eight ends and are tied, play an extra end. The exception to this is if both teams decide they would rather do a draw to the button. In this case, one member will draw to the button back towards the glass. No sweeping is allowed by the opposing team behind the tee-line.

Late Start:
If a team is unable to start a game after 10 minutes, they forfeit hammer and 1 point.
If they still cannot start after 20 minutes, they lose the game. Score that as a defaulted game.

Score Recording:
Scores are recorded by the vices in the Women’s Evening Section Score Binder. Vices should record the score, ends and initial beside their teams name so we know who has filled in the master. Please check you are using the sheet for the correct week, 7:00 pm games are at the top of the sheet, 9:00 pm games at the bottom. If you are playing a make-up game at some other time please complete the blank space on the sheet for the week in which the game was played and also email the scores and ends for the game to the draw chairs.

To score a default, mark “Win” and “Default” instead of a score.
If you intend to make up or reschedule a game, please indicate so in the score binder.

Conceding ends/the Game
The winning team scores an extra point and an extra end for every end not played which could have been played in the allotted time. Do not score one point and end for ends that could NOT have been played due to the bell rule. Also indicate the total number of ends actually played.

1. Spares must be a member of the Evening Women’s Section.

2. Spares must be from the missing player’s flight or lower.

3. Spares must play at the missing player’s position or lower. For example, if your regular lead is missing, the assigned spare must play lead. If your skip is missing, the spare can be substituted into the missing skip’s position or any lower position.

4. Any spare coming from the same flight must not play in any lower position than they play in regular season. For example, a vice from flight 2 sparing for another team in flight 2 may play as a vice or skip.

5. Any spare coming from a lower flight may play in any position up to two positions lower than they usually play for their own team.

Should you be in a position of needing a spare for the semi-final or final and want to ensure your spare fits the criteria contact the Draw Chair. Should you be unable to locate a spare that fits the criteria, contact the Draw Chair to get approval for another spare that may or may not fit the criteria. If you choose to play with a spare that does not meet the above rules and or does not meet the executive’s approval then your team will default the game. The other alternative is to play the game with 3 players.

Flight Systems:
In our section, teams are grouped in flights of 7 or 8 teams. Teams play within their flight until the end of the draw.
Points are awarded for each game played: Win = 5, Tie = 3, Loss = 1, Default = 0
At the end of each draw, two teams from each flight will move up or down based on the points accumulated in that draw.
For more details, please speak to an executive member.

Rules for tie breaking at the end of a draw
If there are teams tied at the end of the draw, these steps will be followed to determine the order of the teams for movement up and down within the flights:
When only two teams are tied:

1. The winner from the teams’ head-to-head game is first.

2. If that game ended in a tie, the team who won more ends in their head-to-head game is first.

3. If the number of ends from that game is equal, the scores and ends for both teams for the entire draw will be totaled. The team with the highest score is first.

4. If the score and ends total is equal, the team who beat the first placed team within their flight, within the selected draw, is first.

5. If both teams either beat or lost to the first place team, the first team will be determined by a coin toss completed by two members of the executive with no vested interest in the outcome of the toss.

When there are more than two teams tied:

1. The number of wins will be totaled for each of the “tied teams” for the games in the selected draw. The team with the most wins will be placed first, the team with the second most wins will be placed second and so on. If the total number of wins for the remaining teams is the same, follow this rule again until there are only two teams left. Then follow the rules above for a two-way tie.

2. If all teams won the same number of games, the scores and ends for the teams will be totaled for the entire draw. The teams will be ordered by the totals.

3. If there is a tie amongst teams with those totals, follow the rules for a two-way tie or start back at rule 1 for a multi-way tie.

Cancelled Games:
If you are cancelling a game, regardless if you are rescheduling or not, please notify the office so they can let someone else make up a game or practice.

Disputes:
If any disputes arise during the curling season, the Women's Evening Executive hold the discretion to review the game rules and determine an appropriate course of action.
 

Rules

The Women Section (evening) follows the Leaside Curling Rules and, of course, O.C.A. & C.C.A rules.  For further information, please click here.