2007 Bulba Cup Stay in Ottawa

The 13th Bulba Cup was contested on Saturday, April 14 at the Ottawa Curling Club and, for the third straight year, a team from Ottawa won the trophy symbolizing Ukrainian-Canadian Men’s Curling supremacy.

 Ottawa, skipped by Mychajlo Wysoczanskyj, took control of the championship game early by stealing a single point in each of the first two ends. The teams then traded single points through the next three ends, leaving Ottawa leading 3-2 with last rock in the last end. Montreal, skipped by Wasyl Wysoczanskyj, appeared on the way to getting the steal they needed to send the game to an extra end when they buried a rock in the four foot. However, with his second rock, Ottawa Third Zenon Woychyshyn executed a double angle raise takeout of the Montreal shot rock leading Ottawa to a 6-3 victory. The win not only avenged an earlier loss to Montreal in the round robin but was Mychajlo Wysoczanskyj’s first Bulba Cup title as Skip.

Two-time defending champion Brian Muzyka’s Ottawa rink struggled to find their form through the round robin, while John Hladky’s Montreal rink could not recover from the last minute withdrawal of their third.

 Named after Taras Bulba (the legendary kozak), The Bulba Cup was initiated in 1990 by a group of avid Ukrainian-Canadian curlers and, with a brief break in the mid-1990’s, has been held annually as a competition between curling rinks from Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.

The 14th Bulba Cup will be held in March 2008 at The Royal Montreal Curling Club in Montreal.