The Matthew MacLean rink from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary and the Cornwall Curling Club, and the Veronica Smith team from Cornwall played each other in a 10 am Sunday consolation round quarter-final at the 21st annual JSI-OVCA Junior Superspiel, with the MacLean squad winning 7-2, helped out by a triple in the fourth end and a single steal in the 5th. The MacLean team lost the semi-final 7-4 to the Molly Greenworld rink from Kitchener Waterloo, who lost in the consolation final to last year’s men’s championship division winner Rene Comeau of Fredericton New Brunswick by a 5-4 score.

Smith lost her first three games, but picked up a 9-4 win in her fourth, by a 9-4 score, to earn the consolation quarter-final berth. MacLean also went 3-1, with a 7-4 victory in draw 2.

This year’s men’s champion is Korey Dropkin from the United States, who doubled Jack Lindsay of Oakville ON 6-4. Lauren Horton of Ottawa won the women’s division, edging Rachel Burtnyk of Winnipeg 6-5 in the final.

2013 Canadian Junior champ Matt Dunstone from Winnipeg won the “Battle of the Sexes” game, beating Cathlia Ward of Fredericton NB 12-8 in a high-scoring shootout, with Ward picking up a 5 pointer followed by a triple steal in ends five and six, and Dunstone finishing the game with two four point ends.