The Aberdeen Curling Club's Blues Brothers team of Mark Becking, Steve Gascoigne, Bryan Rau and Mark Tolvstad finished second last weekend at the Big Sky Bonspiel in Mizzoula, Mont. The team won four straight games to advance to the championship before losing on the last shot. Congratuiations!

Congratulations to Aber-Dabber-Doo for winning the B Event at the 5-Club Bonspiel at the FM Curling Club March 25-27 in Fargo. Team members are, from left, Matthew Perreault, Scott Waltman, Ann Podoll and Matthew Klundt. Thank you to all of the Aberdeen teams that attended and all of the curlers who helped make the bonspiel a success by pitching in with duties. Our club made more than $2,300 over the weekend. Thanks again to everybody who volunteered and to our hosts at the FM Curling Club.
As a reminder, we will need 10 vounteers on Friday, April 14 to help at the Ducks Unlimited Spring Banquet. This is another chance to raise funds for our club. If you enjoy curling and the people you meet and are interested in playing again next season, please make time to help out. All Aberdeen Curling Club teams should be able to provide at least one volunteer. If you're interested, call Scott Waltman at 605-228-2617.
The next board meeting is at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, April 3 at K.O. Lee Aberdeen Public Library.
Wednesday is the final night of the curling season and our playdown bracket. The games, times and sheets are listed below.
Championship: TFI vs. Curling Cobras, 8 p.m., Sheet C
Third place: Danger von Dempsey's vs. Team Rau, 8 p.m. Sheet D
Fifth place: Major Docs vs. Curling With Wolves, 8 p.m., Sheet B
Seventh place: Engineer Guys vs. The Stone Cold, 6:30 p.m., Sheet C
Ninth place: Linda Shoup State Farm vs. Ready to Rock, 6:30 p.m., Sheet D
Eleventh place: Grimm Sweepers vs. Kelly's Heroes, 6:30 p.m., Sheet B
Thirteenth place: New Day vs. Rocks Off, 6:30 p.m., Sheet E
And don't forget the club banquet, which begins at 6 p.m. Feb. 22 at The Flame.
Please see the attached playdown bracket for the rest of the playdown. The consolation bracket was messed up, so games have been rejiggered. Make a note of game times and sheets of ice as some might have changed. We will be using four sheets for the last two weeks of the season. See the B and C playdown brackets below.
B Event Bracket:
The Aberdeen Curling Club successfully held the third annual "Broom Snapper" bonspiel January 6th through the 8th. The Club's spiel has traditionally been held the first weekend of the new year.
16 teams originally signed up with 15 teams ultimately participating in the weekend festivities. Teams came from all over the upper midwest to participate including Montana, Sioux Falls, Minnesota, Bismark, Yankton and more.
Winners were as follows:
Champions
Team St. Paul (left to right: John Hepola, Adam St. Paul, Matthew Perrault, Murdoch McNickle)
2nd place

Team Weber (Left to right: Nick Andrajock, Adam Craghead, Mike Johnson Austin Weber)
3rd place

Major Docs (left to right: Danny Wolfgram, John Hilton, Kris Kirkeide, Aaron Scholl)
4th Place

Those Dam Curlers (Ben Hausman, Lucio Godoy, Julianna Ford, Mike Ford)
6th Place

Team Sparky (Mark Tolvstad, Nate Bass, Sam Bass, Beckit Halvorson)
7th Place

Team Creiver (Kerwyn Lykken, Jerry Crevier, Sheryl Ziegler, Dale Ziegler)
8th Place

One Sweep Knockouts (Landon Jung, Travis Metzger, Chris Waltman, Justin Steiger)
The Aberdeen Curling Club was well represented at the U.S. Arena Nationals in Eveleth Minnesota November 3rd through the 6th.
Competing at the event included club members Mark Tolvstad, Bryan Rau, Steve Gascoign, and Mark Becking.
Competing in this national tournament included arena teams from California, Utah, and Dallas/Ft. Worth.
The team skipped by Mark Tolvstad finished in second place falling to Dallas/Ft. Worth in the final 8-2.


Wednesday night curling league scheduled for 11/09/22 has been canceled tonight due to weather. Please spread the word.
The Aberdeen Curling Club third annual "Broom Snapper" bonspiel registration is now open. The bonspiel will take place January 6th through the 8th.
In years past we've tried to hold this event outdoors. However, mother nature tends to be uncooperative so we have moved it inside the Holumn Expo Building. This way we can provide better ice for our curlers.
Cost is $240 per team. Register your team today by following this link.
Costumes encouraged for all divisions - prize for the top 2 teams.

Aberdeen Curlign Club members recently took part in the Drayton North Dakota "Summer Spiel." This is considered North Dakota's oldest curling club.
Those pictured include from left to right, Mark Tolvstad, Bryan Rau, Mark Becking and Steve Gascoigne 
Register you and your family today for the annual Aberdeen Curling Club Learn-to-Curl Saturday September 17th.
Price is $10 per person, but if you get on a team this coming season we will put that money towards your league fees. Register today by following the link below.
https://curlaberdeen.com/index.php/events/event-registrations
A Big thanks to all those who came out and enjoyed friendship and community at the Aberdeen Curling Club summer pot luck Sunday July 10th.
All were welcome to come play games, eat, chat and more! Hope to see you next year.








Congratulations to Danny Wolfgram and Mindy Chatelle. Winners of our second annual Floor Curl "Floorspiel" at Anchors Away on Richmond Lake...

The Aberdeen Curling Club will host the second annual "Broom Snapper Floorspiel" floor curling event June 4th at 1:00 p.m. The event will be held at Anchors Away on Richmond Lake.
Teams are two people each, $20 per team, two games guaraneed and prizes awarded. No curling experience necessary and food and drink specials will be offered. Sign up at anchors away or online by following this link.

The Aberdeen Curling Club board of directors approved the calendar for the 2022 year. This calendar includes offseason and inseason activities and opportunities to volunteer. Some dates are subject to change.
Aberdeen Curling Club
2022-2023 Schedule
Date Event Time/Place
April 4 Board Meeting
April 8 Pheasants Forever Banquet
May 1-July 1 Meat Raffle Fundraiser
May 2 Board Meeting
June 4 Floor Curl Anchors Away 1pm
June 6 Board Meeting
June 16 Downtown Concert
July 9 (?) Potluck
July 11 Board Meeting
July 14 Downtown Concert
August 1 Board Meeting
August 2 National Night Out Melgaard Park
August 15-21 Brown County Fair
August 26 Downtown Concert
September 12 Board Meeting
September 17 Learn to Curl
October 3 Board Meeting
October 10-14 Painting Ice
October 12 Skips Meeting KO Lee Library
October 19 Hat games
October 26 League starts
November 2 League-Halloween
November 6 Scouts 1pm
November 7 Board Meeting
November 9 League
November 12 (?) Level 1 Instructors Course
November 13 Open Curl
November 16 League
November 23 Thanksgiving-no league
November 30 League
December 5 Board Meeting
December 7 League
December 11 Open Curl
December 14 League
December 21 League
December 28 League
January 2 Board Meeting
January USA & DTCA Dues are due
January 4 League
January 6-8 Broomsnapper Bonspiel
January 11 League
January 18 League
January 25 League
February 1 League
February 6 Board Meeting
February 8 League
February 15 League
February 18 Put Equipment Away
February 22 Banquet
March 6 Board Meeting
April 3 Board Meeting
May 1 Board Meeting
Aberdeen Curling Club members recently took part in the "Big Sky Bonspiel" in Missoula Montana. At the event "Blues Brothers and Penguin Too" won the "C" Division. The team consisted of Aberdeen Curling Club members Mark Tolvstad, Bryan Rau and Mark Becking.

The Aberdeen Curling Club welcomed Aberdeen Central high schoolers to come out and try curling for gym class. About 80 students in all came out Thursday Feb. 10th to throw some stones. A big thanks to Todd Sayler who donated money to cover the ice time for this event.



Members of the Aberdeen Curling Club made the trek up to Fargo January 28th through the 30th to take part in the annual "Greenspiel."
A Greenspiel is a bonspiel, but two members of your team can only be curling for less than two years.

1st Place Youth Division
Ain't No Bass in the Lake
Beckett Halvorson, Nate Bass, Sam Bass, Jaron Haven
2nd Place Youth Division
Troop 188
Dante Kohlman, Logan Gordan, Aiden Hahler, Grant Anderson
1st Place Green Division
Kelly's Heroes
Sub Nate Bass, Bernie Jark, Cormac Bloomfield, Kelly Erdmann, Robert Papazian
2nd Place Green Division
Team Steiger
Justin Steiger, Andrew Jerman, Chris Waltman, Landon Jung
3rd Plave Green Division
Yankton
Brady Clavel, Jen Clavel, Julianna Dick-Ford, Mike Ford
1st Place Open Division
Danger Von Dempsey
Bryan Rau, Mark Becking, Ethan Feist, Todd Sayler
2nd Place Open Division
Major Docs
Danny Wolfgram, John Hilton, Kris Kirkeide, Alan Shaw
3rd Place open Division
Cedar Rapids
Phil Burian, Greg Schmitt, Cale Tesch, Bryan Coster
Aberdeen Curling Club members Danny Wolfgram, John Hilton, Alex Wolfgram and John Peterson managed to accomplish what few curlers do as a team. Complete an eight ender or a "snowman" as they are sometimes called.
An eight ender is compared to a perfect game in baseball by some due to how rare and difficult they are. Also, the team from Aberdeen scored this eight ender without the hammer.

The Aberdeen Curling Club held its annual September learn to curl on Saturday September 18th. Several people came out to give curling a try as the league gears up fo the 2021-22 season.
If you want to try curling please keep an eye out for future learn to curls or if you want to schedule a corporate curling event for your business, club or organization reach out to us!





Aberdeen Curling Club members made the trip to Cedar Rapids Iowa to take part in the Cedar Rapids Curling Club "CedarSpiel" September 10th - 12th.
The team made it to Sunday but lost and returned home.
Pictured are "the Blues Brothers" Mark Tolvstad, Bryan Rau, Brian Dannen and Mark Becking.
