The PEI Under 16 Curling Championships, sponsored by Advantage Communications, take place Friday through Sunday at the Charlottetown Curling Complex, with the opening draw at 2 pm Friday, taking place at the Cornwall Curling Club. Admission is $2 at Charlottetown. Free admission for the opening draw at Cornwall, but they will be conducting a 50X50 draw, with proceeds to help cover expenses for their Junior program’s closing party.

Only one boy’s team, the Mitchell Schut team from Cornwall, who were third place finishers at the recently completed Under 18 championship, entered the competition. They will be awarded the boy’s championship title by default. Other members of the Schut foursome are third Colin MacKenzie, second stone Michael MacEwen, and lead Liam Kelly, with coach Nancy Yeo. Three members of the team are reigning U13 champs, with Schut and Kelly entered in that event again this year.

Third Sydney Howatt from Cornwall’s Alexis Burris rink delivers a rock as second Meghan Sherren follows it down the ice. Photo from the recent U18 Ch’ships, by David O’Connor.

Seven girl’s teams – four from Cornwall, one from the Silver Fox and Crapaud clubs, one from the host Charlottetown Curling Complex, and one from Montague are entered, and will play a round robin.

The first draw, at 2 pm Friday, will be played at the Cornwall Curling Club, with all others played at the Charlottetown Curling Complex. Closing ceremonies, with both the boy’s and girl’s winners and the girl’s runners-up, will take place on Sunday, following the 2 pm final round robin game.

Live end by end results will be available at PEICurling.com

Event website: PEICurling.com/under1620152016

Last year’s boy’s winners were the Donald DeWolfe team from Cornwall, who repeated as champs in the three team boy’s division, and were runners-up in this year’s U18 competition, while the Maria Doyle rink from the Silver Fox club in Summerside was the winning girl’s rink last year in a four team field. Neither team is entered this year.  Click for previous years.

Games are eight ends in length. Time clocks are not used. There is no championship round – winners will be determined by  round robin wins/losses, head to head results, and last stone draw results (see below).

Teams will be ranked following the round robin.

Rankings will be determined:

1. By wins and losses of a team;
2. If teams are tied, the head to head results of tied teams will be used;
3. If teams are still tied, the cumulative last stone draw measurements (minus the highest draw) will break the tie.

Draw and Schedule

Team Rosters:
Boys (won by default)

Girls