The Cornwall Curling Club foursome of skip Sarah Fullerton, third Michelle McQuaid, second Alexis Wright, and lead Sara MacRae, with coach Brenda MacMillan, went undefeated this weekend to repeat as junior women’s winners at the Atlantic 17 and Under Curling Championships, which took place  in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. In the Sunday afternoon final, they shut out the Erica Trickett team from the host province by an 8-0 score, scoring a triple in the opening end, and then stealing singles in ends two through four and a deuce in the fifth to bring the game to a speedy conclusion.

The PEI junior men’s team, from the Montague Curling Club, was  skipped by Kevin Rice, and finished round robin play with a 1-3 win-loss record. Other members of the Rice rink are Matthew Nabuurs at third, second stone Mark Nabuurs, and lead Keaghan Matheson, with coach Arny Nabuurs. In the junior men’s final, the Josh Barry rink of New Brunswick edged the the Kyle Bonia team from  Newfoundland and Labrador by a 6-5 score.

MONCTON, N.B. April 12, 2009 (CCA) — Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud has won his third bronze medal at the 2009 Ford world men’s curling championship, and his first outside the United States.

Ulsrud’s team from the Snarøen Curling Club in Oslo — third Torger Nergård, second Christoffer Svae, lead Håvard Vad Petersson, alternate Thomas Løvold, coach Ole Ingvaldsen — defeated Markus Eggler of Switzerland 6-4 in the bronze-medal game on a snowy Sunday afternoon at the Moncton Coliseum.

The Norwegians, who also finished third in 2006 at Lowell, Mass., and two years later at Grand Forks, N.D., found themselves down 4-3 through seven ends, but Ulsrud took out a Swiss counter to put a go-ahead deuce on the board in the eighth.

And in the ninth, Norway stole an insurance point when Ulsrud made a perfect hit-and-roll behind a centre guard, and Switzerland’s last-rock thrower Ralph Stoeckli couldn’t execute an in-off for a point.

“People back home are going to be really happy now with us coming home with a medal,” said Ulsrud. “As long as you play the bronze-medal game, I hate to lose it. It’s a big boost for us; we can leave here and be happy and start working for next season, which is a big season.”