There’s one game remaining in the Sylvan Learning Provincial 17 and Under Curling Championships at the Silver Fox in Summerside. On Sunday, the Tiffany Sweet rink from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary took the Junior Women’s title, after going undefeated to win all three section finals of the triple knockout draw, all against the Veronica Smith rink from Cornwall.
In the Junior Men’s section, Matthew MacLean of the Maple Leaf captured the C division final on Sunday morning, beating A final winner Kyle Hughes and his combined Montague/Charlottetown team by a 6-4 score. MacLean then took on B section winner Jeff Taylor of Cornwall in the first championship round game. Taylor lead 3-2 after four ends, when MacLean grabbed the lead with a triple in the fifth. Taylor took a deuce in six, and stole another pair in the sixth to tie the game, MacLean had hammer in the final end, and picked up a single for a 7-6 win. The MacLean team now face A finalist Hughes in the championship game, Monday at 3 pm. Playing with MacLean are Marshall Smallman, Kevin Gallant, and Alan MacLean, with coaches Glen MacLean and Shannon Smallman. Tony Nabuurs, Taylor McInnis and Chandler Matheson, with coach Arnold Nabuurs, round out the Hughes team.
Following the Sunday draw, the Fairplay and Coaching awards were presented, with skip Jenny McLean from the Silver Fox winning the women’s Fairplay award, and Alex Matters from Charlottetown taking the men’s.
Pat Quilty, coach of the Tricia Sanderson rink from Cornwall, took the Coaching award for the women’s teams, while Arnold Nabuurs, coachc of the Kyle Hughes rink, took the award for the men’s teams.
The winning teams will advance to the Atlantic 17 and Under Championships, April 2-4 at the Riverside Golf and Curling Club in Rothesay NB.