Play got underway at 8:30 this morning in the semi-final round of the 14th annual Pizza Delight/Howard Johnson Dutch Inn Junior Cashspiel at the Cornwall Curling Club.

The Junior women’s semis see the Veronica Smith team from the host club taking on the Anita Casey foursome from the Silver Fox, and Cornwall’s Sarah Fullerton rink playing the Amanda MacLean team from O’Leary’s Maple Leaf club.  Smith finished round robin play with a perfect 4-0 record, while the other three teams each had one loss.

In the junior men’s semi-finals,  Cornwall’s own Jeff Taylor team are battling the Jon Rennie rink from Rothsay NB, while the Sam Ramsay squad  from Summerside is playing Shawn Pitre and his team from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. Rennie went 3-0 in the round robin, while Taylor and Pitre were 2-1, and Ramsay was 1-2 in his pool, tied with Spencer Pitre’s Charlottetown team and with the Matthew MacLean rink from O’Leary, until tiebreaking rules came into play.

The junior men’s consolation round begins at 11, with the junior men’s and women’s finals set for noon.

The 15th annual event next year will go earlier in the season, October 29-31, because of contention with Cornwall’s co-hosting of The Dominion National Curling Club Championship.