The Mary Fay rink from the Chester Curling Club in Nova Scotia, and the Alex MacFadyen team from the host Silver Fox Curling Club are the women’s and men’s winners, respectively, of the 9th annual Fall Fling junior cashspiel, which wrapped up this afternoon in Summerside, and go home with the $600 first prizes. The Fay foursome, who went undefeated in the event, beat Cornwall’s Lauren Lenentine rink by a 9-3 score in 8 ends in the final, while the MacFadyen squad, down 4-1 after five ends, fought back to get by the previously-undefeated Tyler Smith team from the Montague Curling Club 6-4, running the Smith team out of rocks in the 10th end. Smith had beaten MacFadyen 7-5 in their round robin encounter.
Mary Fay (right) throws a rock during round robin draw 2. (Photo by Journal Pioneer sports editor Jason Simmonds. Click for draw 2 photo gallery in the Journal Pioneer)
Fay had a narrow 4-3 lead after 6 ends, but pulled ahead with a 4 point seventh end and stole 1 in the eighth to put the game out of reach. The MacFadyen team took a deuce in the sixth, and then stole the next three ends for the come-from-behind win.
Other members of the winning Fay team are third Krista Clarke, second stone Karlee Burgess, and lead Janique LeBlanc, with coach Andrew Atherton, while Kaleigh Mackay, Breanne Burgoyne, and Rachel O’Connor round out the runner-up Lenentine rink, coached by Pat Quilty.
File photo (L-R): Alex MacFadyen, Matthew MacDonald, Parker MacFadyen
Completing the MacFadyen rink are third Kyle Holland, second Matthew MacDonald, and lead Parker MacFadyen. The team is coached by Dave MacFadyen. Brooks Roche, Dylan and Ryan Lowery, and coach Kevin Smith round out Team Smith, who are the reigning PEI junior men’s champs.
The Lenentine and Smith rinks each go home with $300 for their second-place finishes.
In semi-final play this morning, Smith beat Jack Smeltzer and his Fredericton Capital Winter Club squad 10-4, while MacFadyen got by the Leslie Noye foursome from Alberton’s Western Community Curling Club 7-5. On the women’s side, Fay stole a pair of triples in a 10-3 game win over Cornwall’s Lauren Moerike, while Lenentine beat Samantha Crook and her team from the Gage Curling Club in New Brunswick by an 8-6 score. The Smeltzer, Noye, Moerike, and Crook rinks each pocket $125 for their semi-final finishes.
Linescores for this event are available on Curling Canada’s CurlCast system, at PEICurling.com/scoreboard
12 men’s and an equal number of women’s teams from across the Maritimes took part in this annual event, organized by Sheila Compton, with assistance from Cliff Poirier, and end by end score updating by Amanda Bulger.