The elusive eight-ender.

It’s a feat so rare, the odds of scoring one are nearly impossible to know.

But it did happen on Wednesday at the Carman Curling Club when skip Barry Friesen, third Richard Dyck, second Brian Maxwell and lead Robert Anderson, who was sparing that night, recorded an eight in league play.

“We were playing pretty defensive, just trying to space our shots out,” said Dyck when asked to describe how that memorable fourth end developed. “I particularly wasn’t paying attention to how many were in there until the very last shot. That’s when we realized we got something special possibly happening here.”

Friesen played a take-out with his first stone and then another with his last that sent the oppositions rock through a hole between all their blue rocks scattered in the back of the house.

That last hit by Friesen stuck around for eight.

“We were pretty happy,” Dyck said. “Curlers had stopped to watch the last shot and we were able to make it and then there were a lot of congratulations going on. We were pretty happy. Smiles all around.”

From a Wednesday night club game to a Wednesday afternoon draw at the Provincial Scotties.

Kerri Einarson got the 2015 Provincial Scotties Tournament of Hearts off to a rousing start when she hung an eight-ender on the board in the seventh end of her opening round robin game at the Winkler Centennial Arena.


photo courtesy Carman Curling Club