SUMMERSIDE – It came down to the last rock and the defending women’s junior curling champion needed a draw to the four-foot to win and she did just that.

Veronica Smith of the Cornwall Curling Club needed the clutch shot and got it.

The Veronica Smith rink out of the Cornwall Curling Club was in tough against the Amanda MacLean foursome out of Cornwall.

“That last shot, I closed my eyes before I threw it and said it’s a do or die sort of thing,” Smith said. “Honestly, I didn’t know where it had stopped and then I say the claps in here so I knew I must have made it.”

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Cornwall skip Veronica Smith watches the rock as sweepers Katie Fullerton (center) and Chleo McCloskey guide it in during action in the Pepsi P.E.I. Junior Curling Championship at the Silver Fox Curling Club. Smith defeated the Amanda MacLean rink from Cornwall six to four to defend her junior curling championship. Mike Carson/Journal Pioneer

Smith and her team will go on to represent P.E.I. in the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championship in Liverpool, N.S. beginning Jan. 18.

The Veronica Smith rink from Cornwall is the Pepsi provincial junior women’s curling champions for the second year in a row. Team members are: skip, Veronica Smith (right); mate Chloe McCloskey; second Sabrina Smith; lead Katie Fullerton and coach Bill Hope. 

© TC media photo by Mike Carson