Curling Notebook

  Tickets for the Safeway Championship Provincial Men’s Curling Championship are now on sale.
 
  A pass for the week will cost you 100 dollars while day passes are 25 dollars and evening draw tickets are ten dollars.
 
  Seating is general admission.
 
  The Safeway Championship takes place at Westman Communications Group place from February 4th to 8th.
 
  Passes are available by calling the box office at 726-3555 or online at www.keystonecentre.com.
 
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  Manitoba’s Jared Kolomaya run his winning streak to four games Wednesday at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in North Bay, Ontario.
 
  A steal of four in the fifth end led Kolomaya to a 10-3 win over the Yukon Wednesday morning while a deuce in the sixth and a steal of two in the seventh gave the Manitoba champ a 7-3 win over British Columbia in the afternoon.
 
  Kolomaya is now 4-and-2 and is part of a three-way tie for first-place in Pool A with the Northwest Territories and Quebec.
 
  Manitoba concludes their round-robin by facing Nova Scotia on Thursday morning, but they’ve already secured a spot into the championship round.
 
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  The 2014 Sun Life Financial Junior Challenge Curling Bonspiel gets underway at the Brandon Curling Club Thursday night.
 
  32 of the top junior men’s and women’s teams from Manitoba, Ontario and the United States are taking part.
 
  The 16-team junior men’s field is highlighted by defending Canadian junior men’s champion Braden Calvert, 2012 Canadian junior men’s champ Matt Dunstone and 2013 American champion Korey Dropkin.
 
  The junior women’s field includes defending bonspiel champ and two-time American champion Cory Christensen and 2012 and 2013 Canadian runner-up Shannon Birchard of Winnipeg.
 
  Teams are split in four pools for round-robin play, with the playoffs taking place Saturday night and Sunday.
 
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  Defending champion Terry McNamee improved to 6-and-0 Wednesday night in the Brandon Sun Westman Super League of Curling.
 
  McNamee picked up the winning point in an extra end in a 5-4 win over Curtis McCannell to remain perfect on the season.
 
  Jerry Chudley is alone in second-place at 5-and-1 after a 5-4 win over Tyler Waterhouse while Jim Renwick fell to 4-and-2 after a 6-3 loss to Kelly Marnoch.
 
  Other games saw Kale Dunbar defeat Duane Lang 7-6, Kortney Teale edged Shawn Taylor 5-4 and Perry Fisher doubled Kelly McMechan 6-3.