HAMILTON, Ont. - The OUA Championship is here for men's curling. McMaster will head to Peterborough to face some of the top curling talent in the province. With a very young team, the Marauders will look to gain some valuable Championship experience and secure wins against the Western Mustangs, Toronto Varsity Blues, Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks and York Lions - to advance to the quarterfinals. The maroon and grey will lean on the leadership of their skip, Daniel Van Veghel, who will play in his final OUA games as a Marauder this weekend. Entering his fifth and final OUA season, and his third as Skip of the team, the Oshawa local is looking to provide stable, 'veteran' leadership to the team. Outside of his OUA experience, Van Veghel has many years of competitive curling experience.
   
Sixteen teams will compete for the OUA Championship title  - the Algoma Thunderbirds, Brock Badgers, Carleton Ravens, Guelph Gryphons, Laurentian Voyageurs, McMaster Marauders, Ontario Tech Ridgebacks, Queen's Gaels, Toronto Varsity Blues, TMU Bold, Trent Excalibur, Waterloo Warriors, Western Mustangs, Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks, Windsor Lancers and York Lions. Wilfrid Laurier has claimed the last two titles, but the remaining competitors heading to Peterborough, Ont. are looking for a new conference to be crowned champions at the 2023 OUA Men's Curling Championship.

McMaster has faced many of these provincial competitors already this season's invitational tournaments and will be familiar with what they will face at this year's OUA Championship.

Draw 1 of the 2023 OUA Women's Curling Championship gets underway at 9am when the Marauders take on the Western Mustangs. The OUA Championship title will be awarded Sunday afternoon and the Marauders will need to perform at peak level in order to return home with some hardware.
 

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2023 OUA Men's Curling Championship Details

• The 16 teams will be divided into four pools. Each pool will play a round robin of eight end games. After the round robin, the top team from each pool will advance as well as the next four teams with the best record, leading to quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final games.
• In all round robin games, the first team named on the draw will play the stones on the top of the scoreboard, practice first and throw their draws to the button with a clockwise rotation. The second named team will play the stones on the bottom of the scoreboard, practice second and will throw their draws to the button with a counter clockwise rotation.
• Last stone advantage in the first end (hammer) will be decided by draws to the button following each team's pre-game practice. Within two (2) minutes of the completion of the pre-game practice, two positions from the team will each throw a stone (full sweeping allowed). The better distance of the total of the two draws between the two teams will receive last stone advantage in the first end. During the round robin portion of the draw, each position on each team will deliver a minimum of two (2) draw shots for last stone advantage. The two (2) draw shots can be taken anytime during the round robin. The draw to the button will be played towards the home end.
• Should the team throwing stones in the 1st practice session record a cumulative distance of 0.00cm or 370.8cm, a third player from this team will deliver a draw to the button (either turn). If the third player records a distance of 0.00cm or 185.4cm, a fourth player will deliver and so on until a number other than 0.00cm or 185.4cm is registered. Any individual stone that does not come to rest in the house will receive a distance of 185.4cm. Only the first two stones delivered by each team in each game will count towards accumulated distance. If the team throwing stones in the 2nd practice session records the same two-stone distance as their opposition, a third player from this team will draw to the button. This procedure will continue until last stone has been decided.

 

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Men's Curling Championship Schedule
 




 
 
 
 

 

*Saturday night and Sunday's schedule will be determined after the round robin competition on Friday and Saturday morning.
 

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Championship Coverage

Results: Updated live here

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