LINESCORES + STANDINGS
Men's final
Sandy MacEwan 230 3xx xx — 8
Scott Foster 001 0xx xx — 1
Women's final
Chelsea Principi 001 002 00 — 3
Sherry Middaugh 000 110 11 — 4
Men's semifinal
Sandy MacEwan 220 102 01 — 8
Jacob Lamb 003 020 10 — 6
Men's semifinal
Michael Fournier 001 020 20 — 5
Scott Foster 020 102 01 — 6
Women's semifinal
Chelsea Principi 202 13x xx — 8
Hollie Duncan 010 00x xx — 1
Women's semifinal
Sherry Middaugh 302 002 1x — 9
Katelyn Wasylkiw 020 100 0x — 3
Men's quarterfinal
Christopher Inglis 100 000 xx — 1
Jacob Lamb 021 211 xx — 7
Women's quarterfinal
Hollie Duncan 201 001 02 — 6
Heather Heggestad 010 120 10 — 5
Women's quarterfinal
Katelyn Wasylkiw 000 202 02 — 6
Jaimee Gardner 103 020 00 — 5
MEN'S POOL A
Team W L
x-Michael Fournier 3 1
x-Jacob Lamb 2 2
Ryan Mayville 2 2
Weston Oryniak 2 2
Cory Heggestad 1 3
MEN'S POOL B
Team W L
x-Sandy MacEwan 4 0
x-Scott Foster 2 2
x-Christopher Inglis 2 2
Jason Chang 1 3
Ryan Thompson-Brown 1 3
x-clinched playoff berth
t-played tiebreaker
Sunday's men's and women's finals at the Stroud Cash Spiel played out very differently, but ended with Sandy MacEwan and Sherry Middaugh victorious.
It took MacEwan just four ends to secure the 8-1 victory over Scott Foster in the men's final, while Middaugh played a tightly contested game against defending champion Chelsea Principi on the women's side, escaping with a 4-3 win.
With third Dustin Montpellier, second Olivier Bonin-Ducharme and lead Luc Ouimet of the Sudbury Curling Club, MacEwan went undefeated throughout the tournament, reaching the final with an 8-6 win over Jacob Lamb in the semifinal after stealing two in the sixth end.
His run included a 6-5 win over Foster in pool play before facing him in the final.
MacEwan romped through the final, scoring two in the first end, taking advantage of a missed takeout by Foster that removed two of his own stones and left MacEwan's shot rock.
He then wrecked on a guard on his last stone in the second end, which gave MacEwan a steal of four and a 6-0 lead after two ends.
Foster scored once in the third before MacEwan pulled off a runback double at the top of the rings with his last stone of the fourth to score two and then handshakes.
Foster, who usually plays third for a senior men's team out of the Brant Curling Club in Brantford skipped by Michael Harris, led his team through this tournament along with brothers Jay and Chad Allen.
Their team upset defending champion Michael Fournier in the semifinal round 6-5.
It's the second win in as many events this season for MacEwan. His team also won the Capital Curling Fall Open in Ottawa in September.
For winning, the defending Northern Ontario champions will add 8.25 Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS) points to their total, while Foster earned 6.05 points.
Meanwhile, Middaugh's team playing out of the Niagara Falls Curling Club stole a 4-3 victory from clubmate Chelsea Principi in the women's final.
Principi, with third Lauren Peskett, second Brenda Chapman, and lead Keira McLaughlin, forced blanks in the first and second before opening the scoring with a single in the third. She also picked up a deuce in the sixth, making a double takeout in a packed house.
Middaugh, playing with her daughters Emily and Kelly at second and lead, respectively, and third Megan Smith, equalized with a single in the fourth took the lead with a steal in the fifth, and drew even again with one in the seventh.
It all came down to the eighth end when both teams took timeouts between the fifth and eighth stones.
Eventually, Middaugh used her final stone to draw within five feet of the button underneath a high guard, which Principi wrecked on as she tried to make her takeout for the win.
The win for Middaugh comes after she fell to Principi in the semifinals of the 2025 tournament.
Middaugh's team earned 16.5 CTRS points with the win, while Principi picked up 12.1.
The Innisfil husband-and-wife duo of Cory and Heather Heggestad each skipped teams in the tournament, earning 0.4125 and 2.475 points, respectively. Cory won one game in the round robin, while Heather won three games before being eliminated in the quarterfinals by Hollie Duncan.
UP NEXT
The next stop on the Ontario Curling Tour for the men is at the Henderson Metal
Fall Classic in Sault Ste. Marie, beginning Wednesday.
For the women, the next event is the Rose Dolan Women's Fall Classic in Kemptville, starting on Oct. 29.
