Cornwall’s Fullerton, Smith, and Taylor rinks begin play Sunday in Pepsi Jrs.

Pepsi Juniors

The first provincial curling championship of the season, the Pepsi Bottling Group Juniors, for curlers age 20 and Under, gets underway on Sunday January 2, and wraps up on Wednesday the 5th at the Montague Curling Club. Eight junior men’s and five junior women’s teams are entered. This year’s champions will advance to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, January 29-February 5, 2011, in Calgary Alberta. The defending PEI junior women’s team, skipped by Sarah Fullerton of Cornwall, is back to defend their title this year, but there will be a new junior men’s winner, as five-time provincial and 2009 Canadian champ Brett Gallant has elected to move up to the Labatt Tankard Men’s competition. Other Cornwall entries are the Veronica Smith team, and the Jeffrey Taylor foursome.

Here are the team rosters:

Junior Men:

Skip Throws Vice-skip/Mate/Third Throws Second Throws Lead Throws Alternate Coach #1 Coach #2 Club
Owen Collier 4th Dawson Chatman 3rd Milo Ryan 2nd John Campbell 1st   Steve Ryan   Montague Curling Club
Cody Dixon 4th Brooks Roche 3rd Jonathan MacDonald 2nd Dylan Lowery 1st   Barry MacDonald   Montague Curling Club
Matthew MacLean 4th Marshall Smallman 3rd Kevin Gallant 2nd Alan MacLean 1st   Glen MacLean Shannon Smallman Maple Leaf Curling Club
Alex Matters 3rd Chris Gallant 4th Kyle Holland 2nd Andrew Cameron 1st   Peter Gallant Derrick Cameron Charlottetown Curling Club
Spencer Pitre 4th Connor MacPhee 1st Matthew Nabuurs 3rd Eric Pidgeon 2nd   Peter Pidgeon   Charlottetown Curling Club
Samuel Ramsay 4th Kevin Rice 3rd Corey Miller 2nd Keagan Matheson 1st   Gerry van Ouwerkerk   Charlottetown/ Montague/ Silver Fox
Tyler Smith 1st Shawn Pitre 3rd Noah O’ Connor 2nd Parker O’ Connor 4th   Kevin Smith   Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club
Jeffrey Taylor 4th Alex Sutherland 3rd Alex Jenkins 2nd Jonathan Schut 1st Taylor McInnis Allan (AJ) Campbell Bryan Sutherland Cornwall Curling Club

Click here for a list of previous PEI Junior Men’s winners

Junior Women

Skip Throws Vice-skip/Mate/Third Throws Second Throws Lead Throws Coach #1 Coach #2 Club
Megan Davies 4th Kellie-Lynn Younker 3rd Chelsea Warren 2nd Ann Younker 1st David Younker   Charlottetown Curling Club
Sarah Fullerton 4th Michelle McQuaid 3rd Sara MacRae 2nd Whitney Young 1st Angela Hodgson   Cornwall Curling Club
Amanda MacLean 4th Kassinda Bulger 3rd Emily Gray 2nd Aleya Quilty 1st Glen MacLean Shelley Gray Maple Leaf Curling Club
Carolyn Rose 4th Sarah MacPhee 3rd Leah Deveau 2nd Jessica Chapman 1st Carolyn MacPhee Rhonda MacPhee Montague Curling Club
Veronica Smith 4th Katie Fullerton 3rd Sabrina Smith 2nd Chloe McCloskey 1st Paul Smith   Cornwall Curling Club
 
Here are the opening draws (triple knockout format):
Women’s
Sunday January 2 at 9 am:
Megan Davies (Ch’town) vs Veronica Smith (Cornwall)
Sunday January 2 at 4 pm:
Carolyn Rose (Montague) vs Sarah Fullerton (Cornwall)
Amanda MacLean (Maple Leaf-O’Leary) vs winner Davies/Smith game.
 
Men’s
Sunday January 2nd at 12:30 pm
Jeffrey Taylor (Cornwall) vs Alex Matters (Ch’town)
Samuel Ramsay (Ch’town/Montague/Silver Fox) vs Owen Collier (Montague)
Cody Dixon (Montague) vs Spencer Pitre (Ch’town)
Tyler Smith (Silver Fox) vs Matthew MacLean (Maple Leaf-O’Leary)
Sunday draws are at 9:30 am (women), 12:30 pm (men), 4 pm (women) and 8 pm (men)
Monday games are at 9:30 am (women), 1 pm (men), 4:30  pm (women), and 8 pm (men)
Tuesday play is at 10 am (women), 1 pm (men), 6 pm (men and women), and 1 pm (men and women)
The two game championship round in both men’s and women’s sections, goes Wednesday at 11:30 am and 3 pm.
If the same team wins all three triple knockout divisions, the championship round will not be necessary.
If a team wins two divisions, they will play in both championship games, and win the title if they take either game.

The complete triple knockout draw, schedule and team rosters are now available at peicurling.com/juniors. End-by-end results will be available at the same site.

Meanwhile, entries have now closed for the second championship of the season, the Marco Polo Land Masters, for curlers age 60 and over.  The Masters goes from January 24-27 at the Charlottetown Curling Club, with 16 men’s teams, the largest field in many years for this event, along with four women’s rinks, signed up. Defending champions the Carol Sweetapple rink from the Cornwall Curling Club, and the Clair Sweet foursome from O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club are both back to defend their titles. Complete team rosters, draw and  end by end results will be available at peicurling.com/masters.

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