Vernon rink vying for national title at club curling championships in Winnipeg

Nov 20, 2023 | 11:30 AM Pete McIntyre

A Vernon team has opened play at the Everest Canadian Curling Club Championships in Winnipeg.

Tyler Orme is skipping British Columbia’s team with Trevor Perepolkin at third, Rob Nobert at second and Jamie Austin at lead.

The B.C. reps were taking on Peter Van Strien of Nunavut in both teams opening match on Monday morning.

UPDATE: Nunavut won the game over B.C. 9-8.
B.C. next plays Quebec on Tuesday morning. Click here for score updates.

Orme and his team qualified for the event back in April after winning the provincial club curling championship in Abbotsford.

Perepolkin won four B.C. junior men’s curling titles between 1993 and 1997 when he was known as TJ, while Orme was a teammate of Perepolkin’s for his provincial junior title in 1997.

Fourteen men’s teams and 14 women’s teams are competing in the national club championship put on by Curling Canada. It runs from Nov. 19-25 at the Assiniboine Curling Club in Winnipeg.

The fields are divided into two pools of seven teams.

After the round robin, the top three teams in each pool will make a modified double-knockout playoffs, which begin Thursday, Nov. 23, and conclude with the gold- and bronze-medal games on Saturday, Nov. 25.

The Canadian Curling Club Championships began in 2009 in Toronto. Since then, Ontario teams have won the men’s title four times, while Alberta has three, B.C. and Saskatchewan have each claimed two titles and Newfoundland & Labrador and Nova Scotia each have one.

On the women’s side, Manitoba leads the way with four championships, followed by Ontario and Alberta with three apiece, and Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Northern Ontario with single championships.

Live-streaming coverage of selected games at the 2023 Everest Canadian Curling Club Championships will be available on Curling Canada’s streaming platform, Curling Canada + as well as on TSN+.

Scores and standings from the event will be available here.

For draw times, team lineups and other event info, click here.