The Fall Fling Junior Cashspiel wrapped up this afternoon at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, with the Sarah Fullerton rink from Cornwall, and the Colten Steele team from the Dartmouth NS Curling Club winning the finals. Fullerton, with teammates Michelle McQuaid, Whitney Young, and Sara MacRae, doubled the Anita Casey foursome from the host club by a 6-3 score, while Steele edged out defending champion Sam Ramsay, also from the Fox, by an 8-7 count. Playing with Steele were Travis Colter, Michael Brophy, and Ben Creaser. Rounding out the Casey squad were Abby Burgess, Hillary Thompson and Jessica van Ouwerkerk, while Justin Richard, Eric Pidgeon, and Corey Miller are the other members of the Ramsay rink.
In semi-final play Sunday morning, Fullerton took two five-enders in her 13-6 win over the young Veronica Smith squad, also from Cornwall. Playing with Smith are Katie Fullerton (Sarah’s sister), Sabrina Smith, and Chloe McCloskey. In the other junior women’s semi, Casey beat Amanda MacLean of O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club by a 7-4 score. Rounding out the MacLean team are Kassinda Bulger, Emily Gray, and Aleya Quilty.
In junior men’s semi-final play, Steele edged out Spencer Pitre, who is playing out of the Charlottetown Curling Club, by a 5-4 score in an extra end, while Ramsay defeated Peter Doane of the Halifax Mayflower club 7-2. Playing with Pitre were Matthew Nabuurs, Connor MacPhee, and Shawn Noonan, while Kris Slater, Mitchell Young, and Mitchell Boone complete the Doane team.
Round robin play wrapped up on Saturday, with Fullerton and Casey finishing with unblemished 5-0 win-loss records in the Junior Women’s section, while MacLean and Smith went 4-1. In the Junior Men’s division, Steele and Ramsay were undefeated at 5-0, while Doane ended at 4-1, with Pitre going 3-2.
12 teams took part in each division. Ten PEI teams from this event will be back in Summerside this coming weekend for the Canada Games pre-trials, which get underway on Friday. As well, many of the teams from the Fall Fling will be competing in the Pizza Delight/Subway/Howard Johnson junior cashspiel, the following weekend in Cornwall.