The 1 pm finals are now set at the 7th annual Fall Fling Junior Cashspiel at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, which attracted 24 teams from the three Maritime provinces.
In this morning’s semi-finals, defending PEI junior men’s champion Tyler Smith, and his Montague Curling Club rink sustained their first loss in the event, 7-4 to the Graham Weagle team from the Chester NS Curling Club, and will not advance to the finals, while Matthew MacLean and his Cornwall Curling Club team.beat Summerside’s Alex MacFadyen rink by a 7-2 score. MacLean, Weagle and MacFadyen all finished round robin play on Saturday with 4-1 win-loss records.
In the junior women’s section, there will be a new champion this year, as the defending event and PEI junior women’s champion Veronica Smith rink from Cornwall also had their first loss of the event in the semis. Their Cornwall clubmates, the Amanda MacLean foursome, were down two with hammer coming home, and tied the game with a deuce. They then stole the extra end for the win. In the other semi, Justine Comeau from Fredericton NB’s Capital Winter Club beat Cornwall’s Rachel O’Connor foursome by an 8-5 score to advance to the final. MacLean and Comeau went 4-1 in the round robin, while O’Connor had a 3-2 record.
The winner of the 1 pm men’s final between the Graham Weagle and Matthew MacLean rinks, and the women’s winner, between the Amanda MacLean and Justine Comeau foursomes will each go home with $600, with $300 going to the runners-up. The remaining semi-finalists – Tyler Smith, Alex MacFadyen, Veronica Smith, and Rachel O’Connor, will pocket $125 per team.
Live results are available at http://www.silverfox-pei.com/curling/results.php?id=45, or come out to the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club to see some of the Maritimes’ best junior curlers in action.
