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:

Junior Women

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.