(CCA) Canada’s Youth Olympics curling team came out swinging in their second day of competition at the John Shea Insurance OVCA Junior Superspiel taking place in Ottawa, Ontario, November 4-6.
Youth Olympic Team third Corryn Brown delivers her rock at the John Shea Insurance OVCA Junior Superspiel in Ottawa (Photo Brennan Schnell)
Junior curlers Thomas Scoffin, Corryn Brown, Derek Oryniak and Emily Gray, playing in their first competitive event since being named to Team Canada last April, emerged from day one with three losses after three close games.
Coach Helen Radford says that the team – still new to each other in a game situation – continues to improve and develop.
“Team chemistry has been excellent,” she says, “and they are really starting to work together.”
Today, a determined Team Canada hit the ice at Carleton Heights against P.E.I.’s Team Fullerton, scoring one in the first end and a big three in the fourth to take a one-point lead into the second half.
Relying on good draw weight and the excellent sweeping of front end Oryniak and Gray, Team Canada held Fullerton to one in the fifth, took two in six and stole another two in seven, earning an 8-4 victory – and a match Sunday morning at 9 a.m. against Navy’s Team Gannon at Carleton Heights.
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(PEICA) PEI’s Sam Ramsay rink, which includes Matthew Nabuurs, Connor MacPhee, and Shawn Pitre, with coach Rob Robert, is still in the event, in the consolation round, where they play the Jennifer Armstrong rink from New Brunswick (the consolation round has both men’s and women’s rinks) at 10 am PEI time on Sunday, with the loser being eliminated from further play.
The Fullerton foursome were eliminated with their 8-4 consolation round loss to the Youth Olympics team on Saturday afternoon.
Seven Mile Bay’s Anita Casey, now living in Halifax, and skipping a Mayflower Curling Club team, was also eliminated in that consolation round draw, when the Jeffrey Stewart team from Valleyfield Quebec stole a deuce in the final end for a 7-5 win.
Teams qualifying for the championship round are (men) Brennan Wark of Northern Ontario and (women) Lynn Kreviazuk from Ontario out of the A side of the triple knockout, along with Stuart Thompson of Nova Scotia (men) and Hannah Fleming from Scotland (women) out of the B side. The C-event qualifiers (two men’s and two women’s teams) will be decided with the 10 am AST draw on Sunday.
The semis go at 1 pm PEI time, with the finals at 5.
Wark beat Kreviazuk $275 to $225 in Saturday afternoon’s Battle of the Sexes skins event.