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Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Jessica Daigle and Josh Barry came into Wednesday’s final day at the Lounsbury Provincial Junior Curling Championships needing two wins for the title. Both teams then took the ice and won their games and the championships – Daigle by beating Capital Winter Club sides Cathlia Ward 10-7 and Ashley Howard 4-3, and Barry by beating [...]
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

The Lounsbury Provincial Junior Curling Championship comes to a climax Wednesday evening with two final games. In the ladies’ draw, defending champion Ashley Howard (Capital Winter Club) faces Jessica Daigle (Thistle-St. Andrews), while the mens’ game features 2007 champion Jon Rennie (Riverside) against Josh Barry(Riverside/Fredericton). The live blog follows below: Lounsbury Provincial Junior Curling Championships [...]
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Jon Rennie can lock up the mens’ championship with a win against the all-star Josh Barry team, who’ve only lost once to Rennie this year. On the ladies’ side, Cathlia Ward looks to continue her impressive run in the semifinal against Jessica Daigle. Follow along on the live blog below: Lounsbury Junior Provincial Curling Championships: [...]
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Will Ashley Howard and Jon Rennie knock their opposition out of the event? Or will Cathlia Ward and Dmitri Makrides pull off imporessive upsets? Find out below. Lounsbury Provincial Junior Championships, 9:00 AM Draw
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

A day of upsets and high drama at the Lounsbury Provincial Junior Curling Championships ended with both defending champions clinching spots in the finals. Despite suffering their first losses, Ashley Howard and Jon Rennie both came back to win later on Tuesday to secure their finals berths. Howard, from Fredericton’s Capital Winter Club, lost 5-3 [...]
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Jon Rennie and Ashley Howard remained unbeaten Monday at the Lounsbury Provincial Junior Curling Championships – but they had to survive tough challenges to do so. Rennie downed Josh Barry of the Riverside and Fredericton Curling Clubs 9-7 in the afternoon draw at Moncton’s Curling Beausejour before cruising past Riverside’s Josh Pye 10-4 in the [...]
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Monday, December 28th, 2009

Former champions on the mens’ and ladies’ sides opened Sunday’s play strongly at the Lounsbury Junior Provincial Curling Championship at Moncton’s Curling Beausejour. Two-time mens’ champion Jon Rennie had little trouble winning his two games today, beating Josh Pye 9-6 and Evan MacKnight 11-2, while defending ladies’ champion Ashley Howard thrashed Jennifer Armstrong 10-2. In [...]
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Off the ice, Jon Rennie is a relaxed guy, a guy you`d likely find in the headhouse chatting it up with friends, gossipping, and having a good time. When he steps on to the ice, though, his attitude changes. His focus narrows to the painted circles on the other end of the surface. And if [...]
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Best of the Beacon, Opinion, This Week's Edition
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Walking through the campus of Boston College on an October Saturday afternoon, the first thing you notice is the tailgate parties. Seemingly every parking spot, every bit of front lawn, and any free piece of asphalt is filled with cars, barbecues, team flags, beanbag tosses, and people proud to be at the game, supporting their [...]
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009

The University of New Brunswick saw its first football game in nearly thirty years recently in Fredericton. The resurrected Red Bombers took on rival UNBSJ in the team’s first game in the Atlantic Football League. Here’s a report from Sean Thompson