The 2004 Continental Cup of Curling

Continental Cup of Curling

The Continental Cup of Curling is a curling tournament held annually between teams from North America against teams from the rest of the world. Each side is represented by six teams , and compete using a unique points system. The tournament is modeled after golf's Ryder Cup...

was held in Medicine Hat, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

 from November 25 to 28. North America won its second title, defeating Team Europe 228-172.

Europe

Sebastian Stock

Sebastian Stock

Sebastian Stock is a German curler living in Burgdorf, Switzerland.Stock's junior career included a silver medal at the 1995 World Junior Curling Championships and a bronze medal the following year. In 1995 he played third for Daniel Herberg and they lost to Tom Brewster, Jr.'s Scotland team in...

, Daniel Herberg

Daniel Herberg

Daniel Herberg is an internationally elite curler from Germany.Daniel Herberg was born in Oberstdorf, Germany. He has been selected as the Alternate for Team Germany at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada....

, Stephan Knoll, Patrick Hoffman; EC Oberstdorf David Murdoch

David Murdoch

David Murdoch is a Scottish curler from Lockerbie. Murdoch and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith were the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions.-Background:...

, Craig Wilson

Craig Wilson (curler)

Craig Wilson is a Scottish curler from Dunblane. In 1993, Wilson won the World Junior Curling Championships for his Scotland team over Michel Ferland of Canada...

, Neil Murdoch

Neil Murdoch

Neil Murdoch is a Scottish curler from nearby Lockerbie. Murdoch is a former European curling champion.-Background:...

, Euan Byers

Euan Byers

Euan Byers is a Scottish curler.Byers started playing curling in 1983. He plays in first position and is right-handed...

; Lockerbie CC Peja Lindholm

Peja Lindholm

Peter "Peja" Rutger Lindholm is a Swedish curler. He is a three-time world champion skip, winning in 1997, 2001 and 2004. He is also a two-time European champion and a former world junior champion .Lindholm announced his retirement from curling following the 2007 European Curling Championships...

, Tomas Nordin

Tomas Nordin

Tomas Nordin is a Swedish curler and world champion.He won a gold medal in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 World Curling Championships, all three times with skip Peja Lindholm, and received silver medal in 1998 and 2000.He is European champion from 1998 and 2001 , and has received a total of seven...

, Magnus Swartling

Magnus Swartling

Magnus Swartling is a Swedish curler and world champion.He won a gold medal in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 World Curling Championships, all three times with skip Peja Lindholm, and received silver medals in 1998 and 2000.Swartling is European champion from 1998 and 2001 , and has received a total of...

, Peter Narup

Peter Narup

Peter Narup is a Swedish curler and world champion.He won gold medals in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 World Curling Championships, and received silver medals in 1998 and 2000, all times with skip Peja Lindholm....

; Östersunds CK Dordi Nordby

Dordi Nordby

Dordi Agate Nordby, , is a Norwegian right-handed curler from Snarøya. Nordby has amassed an array of medals in major international competitions over a career spanning three decades, including two world championship gold medals and two European championship gold medals.Having made her international...

, Linn Githmark

Linn Githmark

Linn Githmark is a Norwegian curler who has skipped her country to a world junior title, and also played on the Norwegian team that won a silver medal at the world championships....

, Marianne Haslum

Marianne Haslum

Marianne Haslum is a Norwegian curler.At major championships, she won bronze medals in 1993, 1995, 1996, 2000 and 2002, and silver in 1997 and 2004...

, Camilla Holth

Camilla Holth

Camilla Holth is a Norwegian curler. She won a silver medal at the 2004 World Curling Championships.-References:...

; Snarøen CC Anette Norberg

Anette Norberg

Anette Norberg is a Swedish curler from Nacka. She and her team are the current Olympic women's curling champions, having won the 2010 Women's Curling tournament in Vancouver...

, Eva Lund

Eva Lund

Eva Lund is a Swedish curler. , .Born in Stockholm, Sweden, as Eva Eriksson, she lives in Upplands Väsby, Stockholm, with her husband and Swedish national curling coach Stefan Lund and her son Adam and daughter Anna...

, Cathrine Lindahl

Cathrine Lindahl

Cathrine Lindahl is a Swedish curler from Östersund.Lindahl plays second for her sister Anette Norberg's team...

, Anna Bergström; Härnösands CK Luzia Ebnöther

Luzia Ebnöther

Luzia Ebnöther, born , is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...

, Carmen Küng

Carmen Küng

Carmen Küng is an internationally elite curler from Solothurn, Switzerland.Carmen Küng began her senior elite career as the Third for 2002 Olympic Silver medalist Luzia Ebnöther during the 2006-2007 season...

, Yvonne Schlunegger, Laurence Bidaud

Laurence Bidaud

Laurence Bidaud is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...

; CC Bern

North America

Mark Dacey

Mark Dacey

Mark Dacey is a Canadian curler from the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but originally from Saskatchewan....

, Bruce Lohnes

Bruce Lohnes

Bruce Lohnes is a Canadian curler from Fall River, Nova Scotia. He plays third for Mark Dacey's team.Lohnes joined Dacey prior to the 2003 season. The team would go on to win the 2004 Nokia Brier and a bronze at the 2004 Ford World Curling Championships. The team has been to three Briers together...

, Rob Harris

Rob Harris (curler)

Robert "Rob" Harris is a Canadian curler.Harris played second for Mark Dacey's men's team from 2002 to 2007 and from 1998 to 1999. Harris also played Mixed with Dacey around this time...

, Andrew Gibson

Andrew Gibson

Andrew Gibson is a Canadian curler from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He currently plays second for Shawn Adams.Gibson was a member of Mark Dacey's rink from 2003 to 2010. He has been to the Brier three times with Dacey winning the Brier in 2004. In 2004 he won a bronze medal at the World Curling...

; Mayflower CC

Mayflower Curling Club

The Mayflower Curling Club, which was founded in 1905, is located in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality in Halifax.The club is one of the premier curling rinks in Nova Scotia, being home to the teams headed by Colleen Jones, Mark Dacey, Shawn Adams, and Heather Smith-Dacey...

 David Nedohin

David Nedohin

David Nedohin is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. He throws fourth rocks for the Randy Ferbey rink.-Curling career:...

, Randy Ferbey

Randy Ferbey

Randy Ferbey is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion....

, Scott Pfeifer

Scott Pfeifer

Scott Pfeifer is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park who plays out of the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton....

, Marcel Rocque

Marcel Rocque

Marcel Rocque is a Canadian curler home to the city of Edmonton, Alberta. He is a four-time winner of The Brier, the annual Canadian men's curling championship and a three-time World Champion as the lead for the Randy Ferbey team...

; Avonair CC Jason Larway, Doug Pottinger, Joel Larway, Bill Todhunter; Granite CC (Seattle) Colleen Jones

Colleen Jones

Colleen P. Jones is a Canadian curler and television personality. She is best known as the skip of two women's world championship teams and six Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's championships, including an unprecedented four titles in a row...

, Kim Kelly

Kim Kelly (curler)

Kim Kelly is a Canadian curler, throwing second stones for Mary-Anne Arsenault's Nova Scotia rink...

, Mary-Anne Arsenault

Mary-Anne Arsenault

Mary-Anne Arsenault is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the long time second for Colleen Jones' team with whom she has won five Canadian championships, and two World Curling Championships...

, Nancy Delahunt

Nancy Delahunt

Nancy Delahunt is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Delahunt currently plays third for Colleen Jones. Delahunt was a longtime member of the Colleen Jones team which won five Scott Tournament of Hearts and two World Curling Championships...

; Mayflower CC Marie-France Larouche

Marie-France Larouche

Marie-France Larouche is a Canadian curler.Larouche is a former national junior curling champion, having won the title in 1999 with her team of Nancy Bélanger, Marie-Ève Létourneau, Valerie Grenier and Véronique Grégoire. Larouche won the championship after four previous unsuccessful attempts...

, Karo Gagnon, Anne Lemay, Veronique Grégoire; Etchemin CC, St-Romauld, Victoria CC Patti Lank

Patti Lank

Patti Lank is an American curler from Lewiston, New York.-Career:Patti Lank began curling at the age of eleven and competed at her first US National Championships in 1994 and her team placed fourth. She has since gone on to compete in fifteen National Championships. In March 2010 she will compete...

, Erika Brown

Erika Brown

Erika Brown is an American curler, currently residing in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She started curling in 1980 and throws right-handed....

, Nicole Joraanstad

Nicole Joraanstad

Nicole Joraanstad is an American curler from Madison, Wisconsin. She currently plays third for Allison Pottinger.At the 2000 World Junior Curling Championships, Joraanstad played third for Laura Delaney and won a bronze medal for team USA...

, Natalie Nicholson

Natalie Nicholson

Natalie Nicholson is an American curler. She currently plays second for Allison Pottinger....

; Madison CC

Mixed doubles

(Each game worth six points)

• Europe (Murdoch/Githmark) 10-5 North America (Jones/Lohnes)
• North America (Larway/Brown) 11-4 Europe (Lindholm/Lund)
• North America (Nedohin/Gagnon) 6-5 Europe (Stock/Ebnöther)
• North America (Dacey/Kelly) 9-4 Europe (Wilson/Nordby)
• Europe (Herberg/Küng) 7-7 North America (Pottinger/Larouche) (each team gets 3 points)
• Europe (Nordin/Norberg) 8-3 North America (Ferbey/Lank)

North America wins 21-15

Women's team

(Each game worth six points)

• North America (Jones) 4-3 Europe (Nordby)
• Europe (Norberg) 6-4 North America (Lank)
• Europe (Ebnöther) 10-3 North America (Larouche)
• North America (Larouche) 9-4 Europe (Nordby)
• Europe (Norberg) 8-2 North America (Jones)
• North America (Lank) 6-5 (Ebnöther)

Tie 18-18

Men's team

(Each game worth six points)

• Europe (Lindholm) 5-5 North America (Dacey) (each team gets 3 points)
• Europe (Stock) 5-4 North America (Larway)
• North America (Ferbey) 5-3 Europe (Murdoch)
• North America (Dacey) 6-5 Europe (Stock)
• North America (Ferbey) 7-6 Europe (Lindholm)
• North America (Larway) 5-3 Europe (Murdoch)

North America wins 27-9

Singles

(Each game worth four points, eight bonus points awarded to top aggregate score)

• Küng (Europe) 14-12 Larouche (North America)
• Jones (North America) 13-12 Bergström (Europe)
• Lank (North America) 20-15 Haslum (Europe)
• Larway (North America) 19-13 Narup (Europe)
• Ferbey (North America) 21-17 Murdoch (Europe)
• Dacey (North America) 17-15 Stock (Europe)

North America wins 28-4

Women's skins

(Each skin is worth one point)

• Europe (Nordby) 17-13 North America (Larouche)
• Europe (Ebnöther) 24-16 North America (Lank)
• Europe (Norberg) 41-19 North America (Jones)

Europe wins 82-48

Men's skins

(Each skin is worth one point)

• Europe (Murdoch) 21-9 North America (Larway)
• North America (Dacey) 30-10 Europe (Stock)
• North America (Ferbey) 47-13 Europe (Lindholm)

North America wins 86-44

North America wins aggregate 228-172