Kris and Derek Blonski have really been taking care of business on and off the ice.

What had started off as a small temporary sideline curling supply business for the two Ancaster High School brothers has blossomed into an thriving venture for them.

Kris, 18, an OAC student, and Derek, 16, a Grade 11 student, run Clean Sheet Curling Supplies out of their house and have fielded requests through their Web site from eastern Canada, the U.S. and one from Scotland. They are this week's Spectator Athletes of the Week

However, since they prefer to deliver supplies personally, they are trying to keep this business centred around southern Ontario and keep their prices down in a very competitive market. The business started five years ago when Kris wanted to help the Little Rocks curling program at Dundas Valley Golf and Country Club obtain some needed supplies.

"I phoned up a couple of suppliers and they suggested they needed a middleman," Kris said. "I said I'll be it for just this year and get the things I need. It ended up that people started coming to me for more of their goods and spiralled from there.

"Now I'm one of the biggest accounts in southern Ontario."

Derek came on board shortly after the start to help his brother.

They began ordering more and more bigger things and realized they had a good thing going.

"We clued in that we might as well start stocking bigger and bigger stuff," said Kris. "Since the last Olympics, curling has exploded everywhere."

"We've got a fairly active Web site now," said Derek.

Derek, who also plays baseball, said that may be on hold this summer the way the business has been picking up.

Kris said their business isn't hurt when their customers know they're dealing with high school students.

Personally, they have had success in high school curling this year and qualified for the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations curling tournament in March in London.

Kris is the skip of the Ancaster rink, while Derek is the vice-skip, Adam Irvine is the second and Graeme Reed is the lead.

They had lifted Ancaster to a decent 3-1 record for a three-way tie for first in their pool at OFSAA.

They just missed making the OFSAA playoffs on a technicality, though.

In case there would be a tie in the standings, the tournament organizers had the teams play a tiebreaker shootout earlier on and unfortunately, Ancaster didn't do too well.

"After our first game, there was a shootout where everyone had to try to draw to the button," Derek said. "At that time, we didn't realize its importance, so we really didn't try as hard as we could have.

"The other two teams had higher shootout scores, so they moved on."

He said Ancaster played the best they had all year and won three of its games by large margins. Their only loss was a 3-2 setback to Markham Markville.

"It had come down to the last shot," Derek said.

Ancaster reached OFSAA after knocking off Sherwood in the city playdowns and then went on to surprise Niagara Falls Westlane in the Southern Ontario Secondary Schools Association championship.

The brothers joined the Ancaster curling team three years ago when it was revived. Both are seven-year members of the Dundas Valley after both started out as part of the Little Rocks program. Their parents were avid curlers who passed on their love for the sport to the brothers.

Here are the other school's athletes of the week as chosen by the schools: HWIAC

Ancaster: Jacky Ng, badminton; Derek Blonski, curling, Kris Blonski, curling

Delta: Kayla Helt, Sam King, Allana Casperson, gymnastics

Westdale: Nicoler Sterling, badminton; Lagitha Sivakumaran, badminton

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