The only thing better than eights ends is nine ends.
Gerry Adam and his team returned to their home rink over the weekend and for eight ends it was clearly anyone's game.
Then in the ninth end, he did what he needed to do and walked out of the Yorkton Curling Club with the men's title in his hand.
Adam knocked off team Hartung in a very close match at the Gallagher Centre rink, bringing a fairly solid showing to an end during the 2010 LDM Foods Men's Cash bonspiel as Adam went five draws and lost only once all weekend long.
The victory also marked a little sweet revenge from two days earlier when the two went at in earlier in the tournament; Hartung won that battle, said Adam.
The 2010 edition of the Cornerstone Credit Union Women's bonspiel and the LDM Foods Men's cash bonspiel ran simultaneously at the Yorkton Curling Club in a three-day tournament that saw 16 teams of both sexes take part.
Teams came to Yorkton from as far away as Saskatoon, Moose Jaw and Meadow Lake, including the winners on the female side who are from the Meadow Lake club.
Adam won the men's side, posting a final record of 6-1, their lone loss of the three days coming against the same Hartung team they beat in the men's final.
"It's good to win in your hometown," he told media upon completion of the game which was decided in nine.
"You never know (when it goes that far)," he said. "A week ago, we played horrible."
Adam said he assembled this team that competed in Yorkton not long ago.
He said that in the eighth end, he was just trying to keep his stone as close to his opponents with the score tied at 3-3.
Then in the ninth end, he said he "was set up pretty good".
They overcurled about half a stone, he said, adding that "I threw that one really good" when it was his turn to shoot.
