To advance to provincials, Michael Dahms will need some home-ice magic.
Dahms and his Prince George Golf and Curling Club rink posted a 1-2 record at an interior playdown in Kamloops on the weekend. The 16-team event was the first of two qualifiers for the men's curling provincial championship, Feb. 7-13 in Vernon. The next interior playdown is Jan. 14-16 in Prince George.
In Kamloops, Dahms fell well short of taking one of the two provincial berths. Two more spots will be available at the January gathering in P.G.
Dahms and his crew of J.T. Blanchett, Chris Calder and Matt Gyorfi got off to a great start at the weekend playdown. In a Friday game, they beat Lance McGinn of Kelowna 8-7, a welcome result considering the game was the first they had played together all season.
"We were pretty happy to come out of the gates like that," said Dahms, who has been working in Edmonton and had therefore been unable to practice and play with his rinkmates. "We were hoping we'd get on a roll but it just didn't happen."
In their next two games, both on Saturday, Dahms and company lost 11-4 to Vernon's Aron Herrick and 9-3 to Creston's Josh Firman. In the setbacks, Dahms said he and his teammates had trouble adjusting to the ice conditions.
