Cornwall’s Jeffrey Taylor rink, which includes Alex Sutherland, Alex Jenkins, and Jonathan Schut defeated the Alex Matters rink by a 4-1 score this afternoon, to force a sudden death game later this afternoon in the men’s section of the Sylvan Learning 17 and Under curling championships at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary.  As the Matters team, from the Charlottetown Curling Club, won two of the three triple knockout sections in the event, a win would have given them the title, but it now comes down to a sudden death game for the championship. Other members of the Matters rink are  Chris Gallant, Kyle Holland, and Andrew Cameron.

PEI’s Canada Games women’s team of Amanda MacLean, Kassinda Bulger, Emily Gray, and Aleya Quilty, from the host Maple Leaf Curling Club, who had already won the A and B sections, beat Cornwall’s Veronica Smith team this morning by a 10-3 score, aided by a 5 point fourth end, to capture the C final, and become the Sylvan Learning 17 and Under women’s champions, without the need to play the two game championship round.

The men’s and women’s 17 and Under champions will advance to the Sylvan Learning Atlantic 17 and Under. April 15-17 at the Charlottetown Curling Club. As PEI is hosting this year, it is expected that the runners-up will also be invited, as the host team.