The annual Fall Fling Junior Cashspiel wrapped up this afternoon with two close finals at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, with the Spencer Pitre team from Charlottetown edging the Alex Matters rink, also from Charlottetown, by a 10-9 score in the junior men’s final, and the Lindsay Doucet rink from Chester Nova Scotia getting by the Sarah Fullerton team from Cornwall 7-6 in the junior women’s championship game.
Pitre was trailing 9-4 after eight ends in his ten end final, but made an incredible recovery, taking four points in the ninth, and stealing a deuce in the tenth for the win. Other members of the Pitre team are Matthew Nabuurs, Eric Pidgeon, and Connor MacPhee, with coach Peter Pidgeon. Playing with runner-up Matters were Chris Gallant, Kyle Holland, and Andrew Cameron, with coach Derrick Cameron.
Doucet and her team of Sarah Spafford, Meryn Avery, and Ellen Graham, with coach John Atherton, were trailing by one coming home, after Fullerton scored a deuce in end eight, and stole a single in the ninth, but Doucet took the win with a deuce in the final frame. Fullerton’s teammates are Michelle McQuaid, Sara MacRae, and Whitney Young, with coach Angela Hodgson.
In the junior men’s semi-finals, Pitre downed Cornwall’s Jeff Taylor team by a 9-2 score, while the Matters rink got by the Sam Ramsay team by a 6-5 score. The junior women’s semis saw Doucet score a triple in the 10th to tie her game, and steal a single in the extra end to win 8-7 over the Mary Myketyn Driscoll of CFB Halifax. In the other semi-final, Fullerton edged Tara LeGay of the Halifax Mayflower club 9-8.
Twelve junior women’s and ten junior men’s teams took part in the annual cashspiel. The winning Pitre and Doucet teams each went home with $550, with $275 going to the runner-up Matters and Fullerton rinks. The remaining semi-finalists, Taylor, Ramsay, Driscoll, and LeGay, won $125 each.