03/24/2026
Paul Scinocca and his Charleswood team Congratulations 🥌 🎉
Paul Scinocca and his Charleswood team (Ed Barr – 4th, Paul Armstrong, Joel Newbury, Gregg Melnyk – 5th, Coach Don Nelson) have won CurlManitoba’s 2026 Strathcona Senior Championships at Assiniboine Memorial.
In the final of the Strathcona Senior Men’s championship, the Scinocca team came from behind to defeat former champion Murray Warren – Deloraine (Jim Renwick, Ray Tomiak, Terry Warren) for the second day in a row. The final saw Team Scinocca trailing 5-2 after five ends. They scored a single on the sixth, stole three on the seventh and watched Warren slide by their shot stone with his last stone hit for the win coming home.
On Sunday, in their Page 1-1 Playoff game, they were trailing Warren by the same 5-2 score after six ends. A deuce followed by a steal of one on the home end and on the extra end, gave the Charleswood team their berth in the final. At the same time, former champions Dave Boehmer (Petersfield) and Randy Neufeld (La Salle) faced off in the Page 2-2 game. Boehmer trailed by three after four ends but the game was tied 3-3 coming home when Neufeld made a last stone hit to win.
Neufeld was then eliminated by Warren in their semi-final game.
Scinocca and his team will represent Manitoba at the Canadian Seniors next fall.
