Team Stoughton named Top Seed for 2010 Championship

Thursday Feb 04 2010
by CurlManitoba News Release

(LINKS to the SAFEWAY CHAMPIONSHIP draw and the Complete Personnell List are included at the end of the article) The defending champion, Team Stoughton from the Charleswood Curling Club has been named the top seed for the 2010 Safeway Championship, which will take place from Wednesday February 10 to Sunday, February 14 in Steinbach Manitoba at the TG Smith Centre.  The second seed is Team McEwen, Pre-Olympics Trial participant and CTRS point leader with the 2008 Safeway Championship winner Team Burtnyk, seeded third. Other notable participants include 2006 Finalist Team Carruthers seeded fourth and 2010 Olympic Trials participant Team Gunnlaugson seeded fifth.

The top 16 seeds are:
1- Jeff Stoughton, Charleswood
2- Mike McEwen, Assiniboine Memorial
3- Kerry Burtnyk, Assiniboine Memorial
4-Reid Carruthers, West Kildonan
5-Jason Gunnlaugson, Beausejour
6-David Bohn, Assiniboine Memorial
7-Allan Lyburn, Brandon
8-Brendan Taylor, West Kildonan
9-Randy Dutiaume, Stony Mountain
10-Terry McNamee, Hamiota
11-Dave Elias, West Kildonan
12-Dave Boehmer, Petersfield
13-Randy Neufeld, LaSalle
14-David Hamblin, Morris
15-William Lyburn, Brandon
16-Bob Sigurdson, Granite

The seeding for the Safeway Championship is done by the 32 teams competing in the Championship.

LINK HERE to the Safeway Championship Draw.
LINK HERE to a complete Personnell List

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