Defending champ Tyler Smith wins 1st game in boys best of 3 championship round

The Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club rink of Jenny McLean, Rachael Gardiner, Lauren MacFadyen and Jessica Stewart, with assistant coach Meaghan MacDonald, and coach Don Vickerson, defeated the Maddy MacDonald foursome from the Montague Curling Club 4-3 and 10-0 to win the best-of-three finals two games straight in the girls section of the KFC Provincial 12 and Under Curling Championship at the Montague Curling Club. Other members of the MacDonald rink are Danika Chapman, Gracyn MacLean, and Danielle Collings, with coaches Coady Dixon and Valerie Collings.

In the boys division, defending champion Tyler Smith of the Cornwall Curling Club has won the first game of the best of three, beating Brooks Roche of Montague 5-0. The second game is set for 1 pm on Monday, with the third, if needed, Monday at 4. Playing with Smith are Tony Nabuurs, Noah O’Connor, and Tyson Smith, with coach Kevin Smith.  Dylan Lowery, Tristan Chatman, and John Ployer, with coaches Coady Dixon and Valerie Collings round out the Roche squad.

Smith finished round robin play with a 4-1 win-loss record. Three rinks were tied for second with 3-2 records, necessitating two tiebreaker rounds. Roche edged Owen Newson of Cornwall 5-4 in an extra end to win the first tiebreaker game, and, aided by a five-ender, beat Cameron Jenkins of Charlottetown by a 5-2 score in the second. Owen Collier of Montague and Devon Schut of Crapaud finished play with 1-4 records.

McLean went undefeated in the girls round-robin, while MacDonald’s record was 3-2. Charlottetown’s Kailey Koughan, Fallon Arsenault of the Silver Fox, and Kayla Schut of Crapaud all had 2 – 3 records, while Rachel O’Connor was 1-4.

Six boys teams and an equal number of girls rinks began play on Friday in this annual event.