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Team Heather Smith Ends Season Early
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Heather Smith rink shuts down for season ahead of provincial curling qualifier.
Fourteen teams are in Shelburne on Friday as the provincial women’s curling playdowns open.
But one Nova Scotia team will be notably absent.
The Heather Smith rink out of Halifax won three of the past four Nova Scotia championships.
However, despite starting the season on the ice, the team of Smith, Jill Brothers, Bliss Joyce and Teri Lake has shut it down.
“This is a life-comes-first year for us and, after careful deliberations, we decided to end our season early,” Smith said Wednesday.
“We know what it takes to compete at the Scotties and it’s something we take very seriously. Without being able to give it our all this year, we have decided to focus on the future. We wish the very best of luck to all teams competing for the absolute privilege of representing Nova Scotia.”
Six teams will qualify for the Nova Scotia championship set for Jan. 20-25 in Dartmouth.
Colleen Jones, Theresa Breen, Marlee Powers, Mary-Anne Arsenault, Emily Dwyer, Margaret Cutcliffe, Sarah Rhyno and Mary Myketyn-Driscoll will represent Mayflower in the draw.
Dartmouth’s Kelly MacIntosh, Lakeshore’s Jocelyn Nix and Hayley McCabe, Glooscap’s Gillian Alcoe-Holland, CFB Halifax’s Nancy McConnery and Truro’s Colleen Pinkney are the others entered.
Arsenault, the 2013 champion, and MacIntosh are the top two seeds and a get a bye to the second round.
Jones, a two-time world champion with 21 appearances in the nationals, opens Friday morning against McConnery, a three-time winner.
The final draw is Sunday afternoon.
The Nova Scotia champ will play in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts beginning Feb. 14 in Moose Jaw, Sask.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/sports...rling-qualifier
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