Nelson Haynes rink rallies to capture Junior Men's Zone title with 9-2 win over Beaver Valley's Umpherville
By The Nelson Daily Sports
The Chris Haynes rink likes to do things the hard way.
The Nelson skip overcame a one-game deficit to edge the Justin Umpherville rink of Beaver Valley 2-1 in the Kootenay Junior Men’s Curling Playdowns Sunday at the Castlegar Curling Club.
Haynes, third Cameron Opperman of Castlegar, second Andrew VanHooft of Creston, and lead Alex Breen, won the third and deciding game 9-2 — once again overcoming a deficit to win the zone title.
Breen is from Nelson.
Trailing 2-0 after two ends, Haynes scored a single in the third before going on a stealing spree — accumulating points in the next seven ends.
The Umpherville rink, consisting of third Kelvin Harper, second Spencer Soukeroff and lead Dakota Ravenstein, opened the best-of-three final on fire.
The Fruitvale based team scored three in the second and four in the fifth en route to a 9-5 victory Saturday morning.
During the afternoon draw, Umpherville thought to have the momentum on his side after scoring four in the tenth end to tie the game up at 9-9.
However, Haynes regained his composure to score a single in the extra end to force the sudden-death game Sunday.
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