While the undefeated Alberta and Quebec men and Alberta women enjoyed a Monday morning bye at the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Napanee, the Nova Scotia teams closed some ground on the leaders in Draw 7.
On the women’s side, Emily Dwyer of Halifax beat Saskatchewan’s Kristen Streifel of Saskatoon, 7-2 to move into a four-way tie for second with a 3-1 mark, joining New Brunswick (Jennifer Armstrong of Rothesay), a 13-5 winner over Northwest Territories, Manitoba (Shannon Birchard of Winnipeg), who defeated Prince Edward Island, 5-3 and idle British Columbia (Kesa Van Osch of Nanaimo). Alberta’s Jocelyn Peterman of Red Deer is 4-0.
On the men’s side, Stuart Thompson’s Halifax Mayflower team won a wild one, 10-6 over Saskatchewan’s Brady Scharback, stealing two in the eighth end and four in the ninth for a shocking 10-6 decision.
The victory also moved the Nova Scotia men to 3-1, now tied with Manitoba (Kyle Doering of Winnipeg) and Northern Ontario (Brennan Wark of Thunder Bay), a game back of Alberta (Brendan Bottcher of Edmonton) and Quebec (Félix Asselin of Montreal), both at 4-0.
Northern Ontario suffered its first loss Monday morning, a 7-5 setback, after Yukon’s Thomas Scoffin of Whitehorse counted four in the 10th end, while Manitoba took three in the 10th end to beat Prince Edward Island, 8-5.