In a fabulous final, Sean Geall breaks through to win his first provincial championship with a 8-7 win over Jay Peachey in the final. Geall’s team of Brent Pierce at third, Kevin Recksiedler at second and Mark Olson at lead will represent British Columbia at the Brier in Calgary.

Peachey had won six in a row to get to the final but seemed to run out of gas in the latter ends. Robbie Gallaugher at lead, Kevin Mackenzie at second and Grant Dezura at third were outstanding in the latter half of the week needing to win a tie-breaker to get into the playoff.

The first end was a wide-open end until Peachey opts to draw around the corner gaurd with his first rock that he was previously peeling but crashes and doesn’t make the rings. Geall chooses to draw but goes deep and Peachy freezes to the face with his last. Geall must draw for 1 but comes up light and Peachey steals one in the first end.

Geall was playing aggressive to get two the whole second end. Peachey made a hit with his last to lie four and put the pressure on Geall to draw full four foot against four Peachey counters. Peachey could have thrown a draw to cut off the four-foot, but chose to hit instead. Geall put it on the button to get his one. A much needed shot for Geall’s confidence after a shakey start in the final.

Geall’s lead, Mark Olsen, crashed on a guard with an attempted wrap around in the third end which caused a wide open end. Peachy spent the whole end freezing to a rock in the back twelve-foot barely in, and Geall’s team keep picking it off the face. On Geall’s last pick attempt, he jammed it and gave Peachy a blank opportunity which he made without mistake.

In the fourth end, Geall went from looking at giving up a three to stealing one with run back and roll to button behind cover. Peachey had to draw to the button for one with his last shot, but it needed to curl about another inch to get shot leaving Geall with a steal of one and a 2-1 lead.

The fifth end was a fantastic aggressive end. With lots of rocks on the four foot, Geall opts to play a freeze on a rock in the back of the four foot. Peachey third, Grant Dezura, makes a great hit and roll to the button. Geall has no choice but to make a fantastic freeze on the Peachey shot rock. Peachy runs a rock in the side eight-foot into the rock frozen, and picks it off the face of the rock. Geall makes the same freeze with his last and Peachey plays a similar run-back. Peachey throws it a bit wide, and he doesn’t make it the way they were expecting, but Peachey is fortunate and manages to get two out of it anyways and takes a 3-2 lead

Peachey needed to freeze to force Geall into drawing for one in the sixth end. His last rock rubbed his own stone in the twelve-foot. Geall was left with a run-back double for two and made it scoring two and taking back the lead 4-3.

In the seventh end, Geall was lying first and second shot at the back of the house while Jay had third shot on the other side of the house. The Geall rocks at the back of the house were about a foot apart and Peachey made the double to score two and bounces back into the lead 5-4.

Peachey’s team played the eighth end magnificently. Geall attempted to freeze to shot stone in the eight-foot on the t-line but came up a tad short and second shot. Peachey had the opportunity to pick the stone Geall just threw to lie two and force Geall to draw for one. He threw big weight but slid a little wide of the broom and missed the Geall stone completely giving Geall an chance to take the lead again in an end where the really didn’t deserve two. Sean’s final stone looked heavy as the brushers watched it all the way down the ice and Geall’s third, Brent Pierce, even put his broom on his shoulder in disgust. Somehow the rock stopped in time in the back eight-foot in a spot on the ice that was likely flat. Geall takes two and moves back into the lead in this see-saw battle 6-5.

Early in the ninth end, Peachey gets a rock around a centre-line guard, but it slides too deep into the back four-foot. The angles of the stones looked really good for Geall, he plays a tap to a freeze on the back four foot stone. Peachey has to peels for most of the end while Geall keeps replacing the guard. Eventually, Peachey attempts a run-back, but only gets one of the rocks angled poorly for him. Geall guards again, and Peachey plays an angle run-back this time but gets it too thin. Steal of one for Geall to go up 7-5 after the ninth end.

Peachey needed to get two in the tenth end to force an extra-end. He played the whole end guarding his stone in the four-foot. Geall peeled with first skip-stone and Peachey hit and rolled off of Geall’s lone counter to lie two on the t-line and no opportunity for a double. Geall and Peachey exchange stones with hits and Peachey scores two to force an extra end tied at seven.

Jay Peachey played two guards with Robbie Gallaugher’s two stones. Geall gets Mark Olson to come around and puts it on the four-foot as Peachey freezes. Geall keeps peeling and Peachey keeps replacing the guard the whole end. Peachey doesn’t have too much of a shot to get at shot stone the whole end. Finally, Geall decides to guard his shot stone biting the button leaving Peachey without much of a choice in shots. Peachey tries to draw to as much of the button as he can get around the guard that Geall just threw. His draw is too heavy and Geall doesn’t need to throw his last rock. Geall scores one and wins the 2009 British Columbia Men’s Championship.