Sherry Anderson, Patty Hersikorn, Brenda Goertzen and Anita Silvernagle celebrate another national championship. (Curling Canada/Clifton Saulnier)

By Nigel Maxwell

Curling champions

Anderson wins fifth straight national seniors curling title

Dec 12, 2022 | 1:37 PM

Sherry Anderson will be heading to South Korea in March for the world senior curling championships, following her team’s dominant performance this past weekend at nationals.

The team finished first at Everest Canadian Seniors Curling Championship in Nova Scotia, beating out Quebec 7-3 in the gold medal game.The victory marked the team’s fifth consecutive win at the tournament.

Anderson, who now calls Delisle home, but who previously lived in the Prince Albert and Christopher Lake areas, told paNOW the latest win is just as special as the first. She also noted the long grind it took to get to nationals, and just the feeling of getting back on the ice after the pandemic forced play to stop.

“Winning never really gets old. It’s exciting and we get a trip to South Korea [for world’s] which is not a place you get to go to every day so that makes it all that more exciting,” she said.

The team consists of skip Sherry Anderson, third Patty Hersikorn, second Brenda Goertzen and lead Anita Silvernagle.

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Over the course of the past six tournaments, Team Saskatchewan has been in the final every year, only losing out in the first year to Colleen Jones.

After going 6-0 during the round robin and 7-3 in the championship pool, Anderson said the team knew they were in the hunt.

“We were defending champions and we were playing well so you know you have a good chance but I mean every year gets tougher because you have a bull’s-eye on your back when you are the defending champion and they have really no pressure on them to come out and play well against you,” she said.

After sliding past Nova Scotia 7-4 in the semifinals, Saskatchewan faced off against Quebec in the final and after four ends was leading 4-1. Heading into the seventh and final end, the lead was cut to 5-3 but added two more to seal the win. Anderson acknowledged the team had to keep their emotions at bay.

“I know before in the past when you are in control playing the last end, it can get very easy to get kind of emotional and get too far ahead of yourself and then it becomes trouble,” she explained.

With the victory at Nationals, Anderson will now represent Canada at the 2023 World Senior Curling Championships in Gangneung, Korea. The tournament starts the week of April 22.

Anderson joined Prince Albert’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2013, has appeared in 10 Scotties tournaments, and has been to world’s three times. She won gold there in 2018 and in 2019.

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by Nigel Maxwell

Anderson wins fifth straight national seniors curling title

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