Charlottetown’s Spencer Pitre rink, which includes Connor MacPhee, Matthew Nabuurs, and Eric Pidgeon, with coach Peter Pidgeon, won all three section finals in the triple-knockout Pepsi Bottling Group junior men’s curling championship in Montague, to advance directly to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, January 29-February 5 in Calgary Alberta, without the need for the two game championship round. They won the A final on Monday, 9-4 over Samuel Ramsay and his combined Charlottetown/Montague/Silver Fox team, and beat Cornwall’s Jeffrey Taylor foursome in the B and C finals on Tuesday, both by 8-2 scores.
Meanwhile, Cornwall’s Sarah Fullerton rink will have two chances to repeat as Pepsi Bottling Group junior women’s curling champion on Wednesday at the Montague Curling Club, after winning the A section of the triple knockout championship on Monday, and the C on Tuesday evening. Fullerton, with teammates Michelle McQuaid, Sara MacRae, and Whitney Young, and coach Angela Hodgson, beat their Cornwall clubmates, the Veronica Smith team, 9-2 in the C final, stealing doubles in ends six and seven on the way to the win.
The Smith rink, which includes Sarah’s sister Katie Fullerton at third, Sabrina Smith at second, and lead Chloe McCloskey, with coach Angela Hodgson, are last season’s 15 and Under champions, and won the B section earlier on Tuesday, beating the Fullerton fourrsome in the B semi-final, and Montague’s Carolyn Rose rink in the final, both by 10-7 scores. Smith will have to win both Wednesday championship round games, at 11:30 am and 3 pm, against Fullerton to take the championship, while a Fullerton win in either game will offer a repeat visit to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Championships, January 29-February 5 in Calgary Alberta.