Inside Story – A Coach’s View

The Coach's View - Matt Sagle

The  week was one of serious practice as we prepared for the Junior zones, held at Prescott on the week-end. This is our first time in this event as a true junior team, and wanted to make a good showing against some strong competition.

Saturday morning at 9:00 we faced one of the strongest junior teams in the area, the Rob Bushield team  from  Brockville. We did not start out well, and while we would have been fortunate to beat them, our team was disappointed in not being able give them a better game than we did. Fortunately the team found its game later in the day, and was able to move through the 'B' side of the event with wins against two other very competitve Manotick teams, skipped by Neil Sinclair and David Lillico.

We will now join the Bushfield team, and six other top junior teams at the regional playdowns at the  Cataraqui Club in Kingston. Win or lose, we will do everything we can to represent the Manotick club well, and we thank the club and its membership for the support they provide to us, and to youth curling in general, througout the curling season.