There will be no provincial appearance for the Michael Dahms rink.
Dahms and his Prince George Golf and Curling Club crew lost three consecutive Friday games and, in doing so, were eliminated from a Curl B.C. men's interior playdown. Home ice was no advantage for Dahms, who dropped his last-chance game 9-8 in an extra end to John Pierce of Smithers on Friday night.
With the winners staying alive for a provincial berth and the losers packing up their gear, Pierce broke open a 4-4 game with four points in the seventh end. Dahms fought back with two in the eighth end and steals of one in the ninth and 10th, but without the hammer in the 11th, couldn't complete what would have been a stunning comeback.
In Dahms's first game, played Friday morning, he fell 9-4 to Brent Giles of Kelowna. In the afternoon draw, Dahms slipped to 0-2 after a 7-1 loss to Michael Smith of Kamloops.
"We were making shots but we weren't making the right ones at the right time," Dahms said. "We'd play an end and we'd make the first seven shots and that was fine but then when it came down to that key shot we were missing it and giving them the end, or when it was our [hammer] we were missing it and taking the end away from ourselves. We were close, but we weren't at the level to compete."
