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画像一覧 the bright side
"We played amazing gift & premium through these whole playoffs. We were the underdogs the whole way, we never had hammer and to come out and do what we did is just phenomenal," said Jacobs, who was supported by third Ryan Fry, second E.J. Harnden and lead Ryan Harnden.
So what’s the bright side in all this for Manitoba curling fans? Well, for starters, Manitoba wasn’t entirely shut out last night — Fry is a Winnipeg native with the tuckiest of all Manitoba tuck deliveries, and last night’s win adds a Brier Tankard to the family mantel to go with the one his old man, Barry, won for Manitoba back in 1979.
"It’s a dream come true," said Fry, who jumped into the stands after the game to hug his parents. "It’s been my dream since I was a little kid, watching him, and to actually fulfil it now is unreal."
There’s also some solace to be drawn from the fact Manitoba teams competed in all four major Canadian curling finals this year — junior men’s and men’s, junior women’s and women’s — although there’s also no escaping the fact only Matt Dunstone, who picked up bronze over the weekend at the world juniors, actually hoisted a Canadian trophy in triumph.
Aside from that? Well,executive gift it’s really more eastern Manitoba than Northern Ontario anyway, right
And that’s the thing about the Brier, isn’t it — there really is no second place. There’s a little cash for making the final — both teams get $40,000 — but that’s nothing compared to the $144,000 in tax-free Sport Canada funding over the next two years, another $40,000 for training and competition expenses and a $10,000 cresting fee the Jacobs team now picks up.
In the end, Stoughton and company — third Jon Mead, second Reid Carruthers and lead Mark Nichols — probably got what they earned last night.
They were good over the past week, but never great. They lost two of their last three round-robin games and almost lost a huge game Friday night to a B.C. team that had only one win all week. And they also got lucky in the 1 vs. 2 game on Saturday when Ontario’s Glenn Howard decided in the 10th end he absolutely, positively couldn’t live another moment without playing the only shot that could beat himself.
Good? Sure, Stoughton teams are always good. But great? Not this year — and especially not last night.
