Cornwall’s Sarah Fullerton rink will have two chances to repeat as Pepsi Bottling Group junior women’s curling champion on Wednesday at the Montague Curling Club, after winning the A section of the triple knockout championship on Monday, and the C on Tuesday evening. Fullerton, with teammates Michelle McQuaid, Sara MacRae, and Whitney Young, and coach Angela Hodgson, beat their Cornwall clubmates, the Veronica Smith team, 9-2 in the C final, stealing doubles in ends six and seven on the way to the win.
The Smith rink, which includes Sarah’s sister Katie Fullerton at third, Sabrina Smith at second, and lead Chloe McCloskey, with coach Angela Hodgson, are last season’s 15 and Under champions, and won the B section earlier on Tuesday, beating the Fullerton fourrsomee in the B semi-final, and Montague’s Carolyn Rose rink in the final, both by 10-7 scores. Smith will have to win both Wednesday championship round games, at 11:30 am and 3 pm, against Fullerton to take the championship, while a Fullerton win in either game will offer a repeat visit to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Championships, January 29-February 5 in Calgary Alberta.