2004 CANADA CUP OF CURLING SPORT MART PLACE, KAMLOOPS BC JANUARY 6-11, 2004 All Times Eastern Linescores & Statistics For Draw 15 Sunday, January 11; 1:30 PM * - last rock advantage in first end Men's Final: Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOTAL Morris 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 X X 3 15:31 Ferbey * 2 0 1 0 3 2 0 2 X X 10 18:01 Morris #SH PTS PCT Ferbey #SH PTS PCT 1 Paul Moffatt 16 60 94 1 Marcel Rocque 15 58 97 2 Marc Kennedy 16 42 66 2 Scott Pfeifer 16 58 91 3 Kevin Koe 16 47 73 3 Randy Ferbey (S) 16 44 69 4 John Morris 16 47 73 4 David Nedohin 16 54 84 Team Totals 64 196 77 Team Totals 63 214 85 ATTENDANCE: DRAW 15: 2,293 TOTAL: 27,138 CCA Press Release: Ferbey successfully defends Strauss Canada Cup title January 11, 2004; 6:09 PM EST January 11, Kamloops, BC Randy Ferbey and his Edmonton Avonair Curling Club team of Dave Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer and Marcel Rocque successfully defended their Strauss Canada Cup title Sunday at Sport Mart Place, whacking John Morris and his Calgary Winter Club foursome, 10-3 in the final which was called after eight ends. Ferbey, a record five-time Brier winner and consecutive two-time Ford Worlds champion, was only seeded third (by fellow players) for this event, behind Wayne Middaugh and Jeff Stoughton. But in the end, Ferbey’s team displayed the championship form they’ve flashed the past few years and proved unbeatable once the playoffs began. As it turns out, the toughest challenge for the Ferbey team this week was getting to Kamloops. Flashback to Tuesday, when their connecting flight to Kamloops was cancelled out of Vancouver (after they’d flown from Edmonton to Vancouver) because of snow conditions here. That prompted Rocque and Nedohin to take a bus, arriving in early evening, while Ferbey and Pfeifer, after waiting longer at the airport hoping to board, finally jumped a train to Kamloops, arriving in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Ferbey and Morris had clashed in big ones before. Ferbey had beaten Morris’ Ontario team at the 2002 Nokia Brier final in Calgary, then again last year in the Canada Cup, 7-5, a string of seven straight wins. This year, Morris had a new team (third Kevin Koe, second Marc Kennedy and lead Paul Moffatt) in a new province (Alberta) and had finally beaten Ferbey in a cashspiel in Lloydminster in November, ironically the last time they’d met until today. But while the Ferbey foursome were not quite as hot as they were last year coming into this year's edition of the Strauss Canada Cup, they still appear to have Morris’ number. There was no shortage of rocks in play in the final, right from the get-go. In the first end, Nedohin raised a ‘conga-line of rocks’ to score a deuce. Then in the third, facing two Morris counters, Nedohin’s draw rubbed off one of his own stones in the eight-foot and wound up in the four-foot for a single. "Now I guess we're back on track," said Ferbey. "That was an unbelievable shot on this ice. He had to throw it just perfect and he did. But again, nothing Dave does surprises me. That was one of the turning points of the game. I was off today for some reason, but that happens. Dave bailed me out, and I'm glad he's on our side." Ferbey fired only 69%, but Nedohin outcurled Morris, 84-73%. The winners also held an 85-77 team percentage advantage. "We thought it was possible, but more than anything, I was trying to keep them to one," added Nedohin, about his draw in the third. "I would have been happy with that, but in the hack, I was trying to draw the four-foot. I just feel like we got another win and that's big. To us, it was a fantastic field." In the fourth, Morris had a chance for two, but his final draw appeared to pick and wound up outside the rings, so he still trailed 3-2. And of course, after missing that opportunity, Ferbey’s team made him pay, when Nedohin hit and stayed for three in the fifth for an almost insurmountable 6-2 lead. A steal of two by Ferbey in the sixth when Morris failed on a runback double for a deuce, sealed his fate. Another pick in the seventh foiled Morris in taking a pair, making the score 8-3. Then, a Ferbey deuce in eight signalled the end. Like the women’s final yesterday, there was a $30,000 pot on the line to the winner, along with berths into the Continental Cup, November 25-28 in Medicine Hat and next year’s Canada Cup, March 15-20. Along with three round robin wins, worth $1,000 each, Ferbey's haul totalled $33,000. Since Ferbey had already earned a berth into the 2005 Canadian Curling Trials, by virtue of his win here last year in the inaugural Canada Cup, Morris became the beneficiary of the coveted spot. Morris's team also earned $22,000 for the week. Ferbey qualified for the final by hammering Wayne Middaugh on Saturday, 11-3, in a battle of the Section A and B leaders. Morris, meanwhile, had defeated Stoughton in one of the 2 vs 3 games on Friday, then Kerry Burtnyk in a Page Playoff game yesterday afternoon, before eliminating Middaugh in the semi-final Saturday night, 7-6 in an extra end. Ferbey’s team now heads to Alberta playdowns, trying to qualify for a fourth consecutive Nokia Brier, which will be held March 6-14 in Saskatoon. Morris’s team is also alive to qualify for the provincial championship, so it’s quite possible they’ll meet again - sooner rather than later. "You play a couple good ends, and then it's like, dude, what do you do," said Morris. "We played a pretty good first end and they get a deuce. Sometimes, I don't know what it is, but if someone up there doesn't want you to win, then you won't be winning. Oh, yeah. I want to play Ferbey in the provincial final because I still have a lot of shots left in me against these guys. There's nothing more that I'd like than to play Ferbey in the provincial final and have a great battle."