Brent Gedak has once again found success in Moose Jaw.
Gedak, formerly a provincial junior champion as a third on the Brock Montgomery rink in 2000 which was based in Moose Jaw, grabbed a whole bunch of Saskatchewan Men’s Curling Tour points Sunday with a 6-5 win over Saskatoon’s Rylan Kleiter.
Winning this particular event doesn’t quite give an automatic berth into the Tankard but it does get Gedak a lot closer with the 10 tour points that are awarded to the winner.
Gedak, whose rink includes third Jason Ackerman, second Derek Owens and lead Curtis Horwath, put up four in the fourth end to give him a 6-1 lead and then watched as Kleiter crept back into the match, taking one in the fifth and stealing a single point in the last three ends.
The team opened with an 8-4 win over Steven Howard and a 6-2 win over Shawn Meyer. They moved to the C side of the event with an 8-6 loss to Kleiter but then went undefeated the rest of the way.
They beat Jeff Hartung 10-2 and then in the quarterfinal, defeated Mike Armstrong 8-2. Gedak outdueled Carson Ackerman in the final 8-6 when he scored four in the eighth and final end, leading to the final against Kleiter.
Also in Moose Jaw, the Rae Williamson rink based out of Weyburn that also includes lead Leah Moriarty, went 3-1 in their four games at the Saskatchewan Women’s Curling Tour event.
The Williamson rink opened with a 7-5 win over Mandy Selzer and followed with an 8-4 win over Madison Kleiter. The Williamson rink then won 5-4 over former provincial Scotties champion ship Penny Barker before falling 6-2 to Selzer in the semifinal.
The next stop on the men’s tour will be Nov. 30-Dec. 2 at the Power Dodge Curling Centre while the women’s tour’s next event is that same weekend in Humboldt.
