Tyler Smith & Lauren Lenentine rinks could wrap up U18 Ch’ships Sunday afternoon

Posted on by February 20, 2016

The Tyler Smith rink from the Crapaud, Montague, and Silver Fox rinks, and the Lauren Lenentine team from the host Cornwall Curling Club both captured their second of three section finals today, and could wrap up their respective Under 18 championships with a win in the “C” final Sunday at 3 pm. If they don’t win on Sunday, a win in either game of the two game championship round, scheduled for Monday, would give them the championship, while their respective opponents, the winners of the C flights in the modified triple knockout, would have to win both games.

smith1Photo: Tyler Smith

Smith won his B final today by a 9-3 score against the Mitchell Schut rink, three members of which were last year’s Under 13 champions, while the other member is 14. The young Schut squad defeated their Cornwall clubmates the Donald DeWolfe foursome 8-5 to advance to the B final, leading 7-0 after three ends. In the B final, a pair of triples gave Smith a 6-1 lead after 3 ends, and single and double Smith steals in ends four and five put the game out of reach for Team Schut.

Smith now faces the winner of an 11 am Sunday rematch between Schut and DeWolfe, in the C final at 3 pm Sunday. DeWolfe advanced to the C semi against Schut with a 7-2 win over Alex Gallant and his Western Community Curling Club team on Saturday afternoon.

lenentine1Photo: Lenentine rink

In the U18 women’s event, Cornwall’s Lenentine rink beat the Danielle Collings team from Charlottetown, Montague and the Silver Fox 4-1 in the Saturday evening B section final, stealing singles in ends four and five. Collings beat Emma Coffin of Cornwall 10-5 and Lauren Moerike 10-7 earlier on Saturday to advance to the section final. Collings fought back from a 5-1 deficit in the game against Moerike.

Moerike beat Maria Doyle from the Silver Fox 7-4, while Coffin beat clubmate Alexis Burris 8-3 in the Saturday evening draw. Lenentine takes on Moerike, while Collings faces Coffin in the “C” semi-finals at 11 am Sunday, with the winners playing in the 3 pm “C” final.

The eventual U18 men’s and women’s winners advance to the Atlantic Under 18 Curling Championships, from March 25-27, 2016 at CFB Halifax.

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