The Charlottetown Curling Club rink of Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Anson Carmody and Jamie Danbrook doubled Summerside’s Sam Ramsay foursome 6-3 on Wednesday morning to capture their fourth straight provincial juniors title. Danbrook, a member of last year’s British Columbia junior championship rink, who is attending school on PEI, replaced Alex MacFadyen this year. MacFadyen is attending school in Nova Scotia, and is a member of the Paul Dexter rink, who won the Nova Scotia junior title yesterday. The Gallant rink is coached by Brett’s parents, Peter and Kathie Gallant. Other members of the runner-up Ramsay rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club are Justin Richard, Eric Pidgeon, and Corey Miller, with coach Peter Pidgeon. Gallant won the B and C finals in the triple-knockout competition, while Ramsay took the A division. By winning two of the three sections, Gallant needed to win only one of the two championships games on Wednesday, and got the job done the first game, and will now compete in the M&M Canadian Juniors, January 31-February 8th in Salmon Arm BC.In today’s game, Ramsay lead 2-1 after four ends. Gallant took a double in the fifth, and stole a single in the sixth to grab a 4-2 lead. They stole another pair in the eighth. Ramsay picked up only one in the ninth, and the game ended at 6-3.
Meanwhile, there will be a deciding game between the Erin Carmody and Anita Casey rinks at 2:30 pm in the junior women’s section. In this morning’s game, the Casey beat Silver Fox clubmate and two-time defending champion Carmody by a 7-4 score to force the afternoon contest. Like Gallant, Carmody had won two of the three sections in the triple-knockout round, and a win this morning would have given her a third-straight title. This morning’s game was tied at two-all at half-time. Casey grabbed a pair in the sixth, and the teams traded singles until the tenth end, when Casey took another deuce, for the win.
Playing with Carmody are Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Jessica van Ouwerkerk, and Darcee Birch, with coach Al Ledgerwood. Madeline Campbell, Dannielle Chiasson, and Bethany MacDonald, coached by Leo Stewart, round out the Casey foursome.