BELFAST, Maine — The University of Maine beat Bowdoin College of Brunswick to capture the sixth Maine College Curling Championship at the Belfast Curling Club on Saturday.
Members of the UMaine team were Katie Stone, lead position; Alex Becker, vice; Greg Kritzman, skip; and Katie Perry, second.
While UMaine claimed the state title, it will be the Bowdoin College team that will be moving on to the United States Curling Association’s college national championship March 11-13 in Chaska, Minnesota.
Bowdoin qualified by gaining points throughout the season, such as competing in bonspiels at several collegiate tournaments, at another in Belfast and one on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The team recorded two points for every game it won and one point for each loss.
Bowdoin is one of 16 teams to qualify for the national championship where Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, totaled the most qualifying points with 77, followed by the Rochester Institute of Technology and Bowdoin.
The teams will compete in four-team pools and then will be re-seeded for a single-elimination championship round based on pool-play standings.