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28/08/2011The New Zealand Winter Games Men’s event has wrapped up with the Medal games now complete. At the completion of the 7 team Round Robin, the top four countries qualified for the playoffs. 1) China 6 wins : 0 losses 2) Korea 5 wins : 1 loss 3) Australia 4 wins : 2 losses 4) New Zealand 3 wins : 3 losses This left Semi-final games of China vs New Zealand; and Korea vs Australia. China beat New Zealand on last rock. Korea played exceptionally well and beat Australia. 
Australian Curling Team Members Jay Merchant, Ian Palangio and Hugh Millikin The Australian’s played New Zealand in a Trans Tasman classic for the Bronze Medal at 8am on Sunday morning. It was a close game with scoring going back and forth the entire game. It was tied 5-5 into the final end when Australian 4th rock thrower Ian Palangio delivered the last stone of the game, proving to the be winner with a draw to the full button beating out a New Zealand rock half in the side of the button. Full results found at http://www.curling.co.nz/Naseby-Indoor-Curling-Rink/Day-9-Round-1_IDL=1_IDT=3275_ID=24883_.html 
In the Gold medal game Korea continued their strong play and beat China in 9 ends with a final score of 9-5. 
12/06/2011Quick update.
The team of Hugh Millikin, Ian Palangio, Jay Merchant and Steve Johns went undefeated to win the 2011 Men's Curling National Championship.
The team qualifies to represent Australia at two events. The Pacific Curling Championships in November held in China, and the New Zealand Winter Games in August
10/06/2011Team Millikin: Ian Palangio, Hugh Millikin (skip), Jay Merchant, Steve Johns
Team Young: Angus Young, Dean Hewitt, Steve Hewitt, Brian Lees
Team Panoussi: Gerald Chick, Matt Panoussi, Vaughan Rosier, Tim McMahon
Team Cameron: Ali Cameron, Nick Sheard , Gareth Sheard, Phil Goschnick
Draw #4 – Saturday June 11 - 1:00pm
Sheet B
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total | Panoussi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | X | 2 | Millikin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | X | X | 9 |
Sheet C
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total | Young | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 10 | Cameron | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | X | 4 |
Draw #3 – Saturday June 11 - 9:00am
Sheet B
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total | Panoussi | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | X | X | 10 | Young | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 1 |
Draw #2 – Friday June 10 - 7:00pm
Sheet B
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total | Cameron | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | Young | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Sheet C
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Extra End | Total | Millikin | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | Panoussi | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Draw #1 – Friday June 10 - 3:00pm
Sheet B
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total | Millikin | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 5 | X | X | 15 | Cameron | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | X | 1 |
Sheet C
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total | Panoussi | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | Young | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
The Australian Men's National Curling Championships for 2011 will be held in Naseby, New Zealand at the Maniototo Curling Rink in Naseby from June 10 to June 12th.
Four teams are competing in the Triple Knockout tournament are:
- Team Millikin
- Team Cameron
- Team Panoussi
- Team Young
I'll try to keep the blog updated with results as the tournament progresses.
Cheers
<Ian Palangio> 30/05/2011Ok – Historic might be a bit dramatic. The video is from November 2004. The video focuses on the last shot of the game we made versus China in the Semi-Final of the 2004 Pacific Championships to qualify the 2005 Men’s World Curling Championships. A simple takeout… but it’s hard to keep focused on process and not outcome with a ticket to Victoria 2005 on the line. Interestingly in this video at the same time Japan is attempting a draw shot against New Zealand, which they missed. That qualified NZ for the Victoria World’s at exactly the same time. Hand shakes all around. And as it played out, NZ then qualified for the Torino Olympics in Victoria… so in a round about way that shot in the foreground was on the critical path for NZ to get to Torino. Thanks to Steve Hewitt who thought to grab this moment on camera! Watch YouTube Video or click the picture below to launch the video in a new window. 
Cheers
Ian 28/04/2011 Congrats again to the Senior Men who brought home the Bronze medal from St. Paul. 
 
Photos: World Curling Federation/Leslie Ingram-Brown 24/04/2011Congrats to the team in St. Paul, USA who took an extra end to secure the win. 3 points in the last end – sounds a little messy Hugh  . Well done to the entire team: - Hugh Millikin
- John Theriault
- Jim Allan
- Dave Thomas
- Tom Kidd
- Jay Merchant
And a snip from the UStream video feed of the medal presentation. Thanks UStream for the great coverage to allow us from afar to see what’s happening. http://www.ustream.tv 
13/03/2011A guest post from Angus Young from the Junior Men’s team Recently the National junior men’s and women’s teams competed in the Pacific Junior Curling Championships held in Naseby, New Zealand. For both tams this has become a familiar venue after having already been involved in high performance camps and numerous national events held at the facility. While the results weren’t on the winning side of the ledger, both teams pushed their pacific counterparts at various points through the week and represented our country with pride. The eventual winners of the two events were China in the Men’s draw and Japan narrowly winning an enthralling final against Korea in the Women’s, with the Japanese skip making a 15ft, angle raise and stick on her last shot to claim the title. Both these teams as a result qualified for the World Junior Championships held in Scotland. An Impressive effort also by the Kiwi girls to overcome highly experienced China to take bronze. A big thank you goes out to everyone involved behind the scenes to get both juniors teams to the event. The Next Pacific Junior Championships will be held in South Korea in January 2012. 
30/01/2011Annual General Meeting - Jan 30th, 2011 On January 30th, 2011 the Australian Curling Federation held it's Annual General Meeting. The first order of  business was a Special General Meeting to propose a new Constitution which now forms the updated rules of the ACF. This document was voted upon, and passed. You can find copies of the Constitution in the Public Documents folder in both Microsoft Word format (97KB) or in PDF format (851KB). After the Special General Meeting, we had our first Annual General Meeting under the new constitution. The Executive Committee now comprises the following: President: John Anderson Vice-President: Jen Thomas NSW Representative: Ian Palangio VIC Representative: Kim Forge QLD Representative: Jay Merchant |
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