Round robin play wrapped up this evening in the junior men’s section of the Pepsi Provincial Juniors at the Charlottetown Curling Club, with three teams, skipped by Sam Ramsay and Alex Matters of the host club, and Matthew MacLean of O’Leary’s Maple Leaf Curling Club all finishing with 4-1 win-loss records. Ramsay was awarded first place after tiebreaking rules were used, while Matters and MacLean will face off in a 10 am Saturday tiebreaker to determine second place. Ramsay and the winner of the tiebreaker will then play a best of three championship round, with the first game Saturday at 2:30 pm, game two on Monday at Jan. 2 at 10 am, and game three, if needed, following at 2:30 pm Monday.
In the Friday evening draw, Matters downed Alex MacFadyen (0-5) of the Silver Fox in Summerside by a 14-2 score in only six ends, getting off to a flying start with a six point opening end. MacLean also needed only six ends to score an 8-3 victory over Cornwall’s Jeffery Taylor (2-3), while Ramsay beat Cody Dixon (1-4) of Montague 8-5.
Photo (L-R): Kassinda Bulger, Amanda MacLean, Emily Gray
One draw remains, at 10 am Saturday, in the junior women’s double-round robin. Two- time defending champion Sarah Fullerton of the Charlottetown and Cornwall clubs is in the lead with a 4-1 win-loss record, with Amanda MacLean of the Cornwall and Maple Leaf clubs and Veronica Smith of Cornwall both at 3-2. Emily Keen from Charlottetown is 0-5.
In action tonight, Fullerton beat MacLean 11-3, scoring a six-ender (the third one scored at the event today) in the process. The two teams also met in the morning draw, with an identical 11-3 result. The Smith team blanked the Keen rink 12-0 in only six ends.
In the final double round robin draw tomorrow at 10 am, the Fullerton foursome will face the Smith team, the only one to beat them in the competition, while MacLean takes on Keen.
The top two junior women’s teams from the double round robin will play in a sudden death final, Monday January 2 at 10 am.
Complete draw and live end-by-end results are available at peicurling.com/juniors and at livecurling.com.
The junior men’s and women’s champions will advance to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, February 4-12, 2012, in Napanee Ontario.