![]() For decades they did as many as 200 one-nighters a year, and along the way rubbed shoulders with Neil Diamond, B.J. The pair have travelled all around the world and criss-crossed Canada countless time together as The HUBCAPS, as well as for STRATUS and the show band STRATUSFACTION. We have the material for that age group.”Ĭameron, 75, and Smith, 73, brought their talents as The HUBCAPS to the Innisfail Royal Canadian Legion on Feb. “We are retired now and we do things like this, like the legions, which are local and fun and we know the people. We lived on the same street since we were about five years old and knew each other,” said Cameron, who has been an Innisfail resident for the past nine years. “We started in high school in Calgary in 1966 playing kind of a folky thing for the pep rallies at Crescent Heights High School. They have been playing music together for as long as they can remember, and over the past half century it has been their lives. They are partners in their two-man band The HUBCAPS. Jones skipped Team Canada to a fourth-place finish at the 2009 World Women’s Curling Championship there, while Laing was a member of Kevin Koe’s Canadian Olympic men’s team that finished fourth at the 2018 Winter Olympics.INNISFAIL – They’ve known each other since their elementary school days in Calgary and 54 years later Murray Cameron and Brock Smith are still pals and partners. Jones and Laing will now start planning their return trips to the Gangneung Curling Centre, a building both have played in. The semifinal losers each pocketed $12,500. Jones and Laing reached the final with a 6-5 semifinal win Sunday morning over Rachel Homan of Beaumont, Alta., and Tyler Tardi of Peachland, B.C., while Peterman and Gallant were 7-6 winners over Brittany Tran of Calgary and Aaron Sluchinski of Airdrie, Alta. Jones and Laing collected $40,000 for their victory, while Peterman and Gallant earned $20,000. ![]() “It was a well-played game Brett and Jocelyn didn’t miss for a while, and in the second half it was kind of back and forth. “I know if has a shot for two, we’re probably going to get two,” added Laing. It was a really good game the score wasn’t indicative of the amount of rocks in play, that’s for sure.” “But we said before the fifth end whoever gets the first deuce is likely going to win, and we managed to get the first deuce. “It was disappointing to give up the steal (in the fifth) because I missed my first shot that end and it got us in a bit of trouble,” said Jones. The teams scored nothing but single points for five ends - the fifth being a steal for Peterman and Gallant.īut in the sixth, the door opened for Jones to make an open hit with a small roll to score the game’s first, and ultimately game-changing, deuce. “Even winning this felt great, to give Brent a hug right after the game instead of waiting those five minutes to get down to the ice through the crowd.” “We are getting towards the tail end of our careers, so it’s going to be a special memory that we’ll cherish forever, to be Team Canada together, to share these moments together,” said Jones, a six-time Scotties Tournament of Hearts winner to go along her two world championships, her 2014 Olympic gold medal and a Canadian junior championship. I think it will really sink in when we get home with the kids they’ll be excited. And we ended up winning, so that’s pretty cool. We had a great attitude this week of just play our best, take every end one end at a time and see where we end up. “It’s pretty cool,” said Laing, who adds the Canadian mixed doubles crown to his three Brier victories, three world men’s titles, two Canadian junior wins and two world junior titles. The Horseshoe Valley, Ont., tandem defeated two-time national mixed doubles champs Jocelyn Peterman, of Red Deer, and husband Brett Gallant, now both living in Chestermere, Alta., in the gold-medal game to represent Canada at the 2023 World Mixed Doubles Championship next month in Gangneung, South Korea. With a combined 12 Canadian curling championships, seven world titles and an Olympic gold medal between them, it’s hard to believe that something was missing from the trophy cabinet at the household of Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing.īut on Sunday, before a thoroughly packed house at the Gerry McCrory Countryside Sports Complex in Sudbury, Ontario, Jones and Laing added yet another national gold medal, and their first as teammates, at the 2023 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.
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