Playoff action is underway at the Asham Slam.
Sunday morning's quarterfinal action at the Tarentorus Curling Club saw eight teams remaining from the original field of 30.
The $13,000 Asham Slam is the second of six stops on the newly formed Northern Ontario Curling Tour.
In the quarterfinal draw at 9 a.m., Greg McLellan faces Al Gemmell, Mike Jakubo meets local product Al Belec, the Soo's Al Harnden meets Jordan Chandler and John Salo plays John McClelland.
The winners will advance into the semi-final draw at 12:30 p.m. The championship draw is scheduled for 4 p.m.
The eventual Asham Slam champion will pocket $4,000 while the runner-up nets $2,000. The semi-final losers collect $1,500 each while the quarterfinals losers earn $1,000 each.
The original 30 teams were grouped into five divisions with six teams each. Each division winner along with three wild card teams qualified for the playoff round.
Teams on the NOCT are battling to accumulate enough points to gain a spot into the 16-team Tour championship in April. Points are awarded based on earnings and round robin victories.
With a diverse field of men, women, mixed, juniors and seniors all competing against each other, a gender scale has been developed to even out the points amongst all competitive teams.
The men will remain even while senior men will multiply their points by 1.2, junior men by 1.4, ladies, senior ladies and mixed by 1.7 and the junior ladies by 1.8.
A round robin victory credits a team with 100 points while 1,000 points is gained for every $1,000 earned.
Joining the 20 men's teams in the Asham Slam field are mixed teams skipped by Matt Seabrook, Jeff Brown and Jim Lisk. Women's teams include Elaine Uhryn, Dawn Schwar, Nancy Houle, Brenda Johnston and Jan Pula. Junior teams are skipped by Brad Jacobs and Sandy MacEwan.
Sault Ste. Marie teams in the field are skipped by Kevin Rutledge, Seabrook, Larry Pallot, Al Harnden, Jacobs, Uhryn, Ken Graham, Houle, Al Belec, Greg McLellan and Les Fleming.
In the Labatt Classic, the first stop on the Tour in North Bay in October, Sudbury's Mike Jakubo defeated Harnden in the championship game.
The NOCT was formed by Sudbury's Tim Phillips, North Bay's Mark Brown and Englehart's Stephen Chenier.
To visit the NOCT website, click here.
*** SATURDAY'S RESULTS:
The following are results from Saturday's round robin draws.
DRAW 7 (8 a.m.):
Al Gemmell - 5 Nancy Houle - 1
Rob Gordon - 5 Dawn Schwar - 2
Jeff Brown - 4 Greg McLellan - 7
Daryl Rowlandson - 1 Les Fleming - 5
Tim Phillips - 6 Brenda Johnston - 2
Al Belec - 2 John Salo - 6
DRAW 8 (10 a.m.):
Glen Legassie - 7 Jan Pula - 6
John McClelland - 7 Jim Lisk - 6
Jordan Chandler - 5 Jeff Currie - 2
Matt Seabrook - 1 Larry Pallot - 8
Mike Jakubo - 5 Mike Assad - 4
Sandy MacEwan - 9 Kevin Rutledge - 4
DRAW 9 (12 p.m.):
Chris Johnson - 6 Ken Graham - 7
Al Harnden - 4 Mark Brown - 3
Brad Jacobs - 7 Elaine Uhryn - 6
Schwar - 5 McLellan - 6
Gordon - 6 Gemmell - 8
J. Brown - 7 Houle - 1
DRAW 10 (4 p.m.):
Johnston - 7 Salo - 8
Phillips - 5 Rowlandson - 0
Belec - 6 Fleming - 3
Lisk - 0 Currie - 5
McClelland - 8 Lagassie - 1
Chandler - 7 Pula - 3
DRAW 11 (6 p.m.):
Rutledge -4 Pallot - 5
Jakubo - 1 MacEwan - 6
Assad - 7 Seabrook - 3
M. Brown - 5 Johnson - 6
Harnden - 7 Jacobs - 0
Uhryn - 7 Graham - 1
DRAW 12 (8 p.m.)
Houle - 5 McLellan - 8
Gordon - 5 J. Brown - 3
Gemmell - 7 Schwar - 4
Rowlandson - 9 Johnston - 2
Phillips - 3 Belec - 8
Fleming - 5 Salo - 8
DRAW 13 (10 p.m.):
Legassie - 5 Lisk - 0
McClelland - 7 Chandler - 1
Pula - 1 Currie - 0
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