The teams have now been determined for the Pepsi Provincial Junior Women’s sudden death final game, scheduled for 10 am on Monday at the Charlottetown Curling Club, following the completion of double round play Saturday morning, with the top two teams advancing to the final. The Amanda MacLean rink, who curl out of the Cornwall and Maple Leaf clubs, defeated the Emily Keen team from Charlottetown to finish the round robin in second place, with a 4-2 win-loss record, while the two-time defending champion Sarah Fullerton rink from Charlottetown and Cornwall stole a triple in the extra end in an exciting 8-5 come-from-behind victory over Cornwall’s Veronica Smith rink, to grab first place with a 5-1 record.
Photo (L-R) Hillary Thompson, Sarah Fullerton, Sara MacRae
Photo (L-R): Kassinda Bulger, Amanda MacLean, Emily Gray
The Smith rink, which includes Fullerton’s sister Katie at third, had beaten the Fullerton foursome earlier in the competition, and led this game 5-3 after eight ends of play. Fullerton took a single in the 9th, and forced the extra by stealing a point in ten.
The winner of Monday’s final between Fullerton and MacLean will advance to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, February 4-12, 2012, in Napanee Ontario.
Meanwhile, the host club rink of skip Alex Matters, who calls the game but throws third stones, Chris Gallant, who throws fourth stones, second Kyle Holland, and lead Andrew Cameron, with coaches Peter Gallant and Derrick Cameron, edged their clubmates, the Sam Ramsay rink by a 7-6 extra end score Saturday afternoon in the first game of the best of three final between these two teams in the Pepsi Provincial Junior Men’s Curling Championships at the Charlottetown Curling Club. Other members of the Ramsay rink are Matthew Nabuurs, Connor MacPhee, and Shawn Pitre, with coach Rob Roberts. Cornwall’s Jeffrey Taylor rink finished the round robin with a 2-3 win-loss record.
The second men’s final, along with the sudden death junior women’s championship game between Sarah Fullerton of the Charlottetown and Cornwall clubs, and Amanda MacLean of the Cornwall and Maple Leaf clubs, go Monday at 10 am, with the third men’s final, if needed, going Monday at 2:30 pm. The winning teams will advance to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, February 4-12, 2012, in Napanee Ontario.