The January Freeze Junior Cashspiel took place over the weekend at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside.
On the womens side, the Amanda MacLean team from the Cornwall Curling Club beat the host club team skipped by Jenny McLean in the final.
Photo (L-R): Emily Gray, Jane DiCarlo, Amanda MacLean, organizer Sheila Compton
MacLean, playing with just three players all weekend, went through round robin play with a 4 and 1 win-loss record, and then beat the Amber Hicks team from Sackville, who went 3-2 in the round robin, in the Sunday morning semi-final. The McLean team had a perfect 5 and 0 round robin record, and edged the Kaleigh MacKay rink, who curl out of the Silver Fox and Crapaud Community curling clubs in the semis to advance to the MacLean vs McLean final.
Other members of the winning Amanda MacLean threesome were Emily Gray, and Jane DiCarlo.
In the men’s division the 2012-2013, NB Provincial Junior Champion Josh Berry rink, who curl out of Fredericton’s Capital Winter Club beat the Evan MacKnight rink from Oromocto’s Gage Curling Club in the Sunday afternoon final.
Photo (L-R):organizer Sheila Compton, Josh Berry, Rene Comeau, Spencer Watts, Andrew O’DellEarlier that day, the Berry rink, who were perfect at 5-0 in round robin play, defeated the 4 and 1 Alex MacFadyen rink from the Silver Fox in the semi-finals.
The MacKnight team edged the Leslie Noye foursome from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton in the other semi, to advance to the final against Berry. Both MacKnight and Noye were 4-1 in round robin play.
Game scores were not recorded in the event.Twelve men’s and seven women’s teams took part.
The Silver Fox has seen four very successful Junior bonspiels this season – the Fall Fling, the December Cashspiel, the Christmas Classic, and now the January Freeze, providing some great junior curling. Sheila Compton is the main organizer of these spiels.