The PEI Pepsi Provincial Juniors Curling Championships, with male and female divisions for curlers under age 21, takes place at the Montague Curling Rink from Dec. 27-30 2016, with 5 junior men’s and 5 junior women’s teams, with members from five of the Island’s seven dedicated curling facilities entered. There will be new champions this year, as last year’s winning skips, Katie Fullerton and Matthew MacLean, are aged out of the event. This year’s winners advance to the 2017 Canadian Junior (Under 21) Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships,  Jan. 21-29 at the Archie Browning Sports Centre in Esquimalt (a suburb of Victoria) BC, using the facility’s hockey arena and six-sheet curling rink to decide which teams will represent Canada at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The junior men’s and junior women’s divisions will each play a modified triple knockout draw, where teams who win a section also drop down to compete in the next section. Section winners advance to a two-game championship round, unless a team wins all three sections, in which case they will immediately be declared the champion. A team who wins two of the three sections would play in both championship round games and win the event if they win either game, while the other section winner would have to win both games. Games are ten ends.

Live end-by-end results will be available at: peicurling.com/scoreboard/#!/competitions/2185 and on the main page of PEICurling.com.

Event website: PEICurling.com/juniors20162017.

Here are the opening day draws:

Draw 1: Tuesday December 27 at 11 am

Ice 1: Mitchell Schut (Cornwall) vs Leslie Noye (Western, Silver Fox, Cornwall)
Ice 2: Dylan Lowery (Montague, Silver Fox) vs Devin Schut (Cornwall, Montague)
Ice 3: Lauren Ferguson (Cornwall) vs Alexis Burris (Cornwall)
Ice 4: Meghan Ching (Cornwall) vs Lauren Lenentine (Cornwall)

Opening ceremonies at 2:45 pm

Draw 2: Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 3:30 pm

Ice 1: Kaleigh Mackay (Ch’town, Montague) vs winner Ferguson/Burris from Draw 1
Ice 2: Loser Ferguson/Burris and loser Ching/Lenentine from Draw 1
Ice 3: Tyler Smith (Charlottetown) vs winner M. Schut/Noye from Draw 1
Ice 4: Loser M. Schut/Noye vs loser Lowery/D. Schut from Draw 1

Modified Triple Knockout draws continue on Wed. Dec. 28 with three draws – at 9:30 am, 2 and 6:30 pm, and on Thursday the 29th at 11 am and 3:30 pm.

The two game championship round, if required, goes at 11 am on Friday the 30th and, if needed, at 3:30 the same day.

Modified Triple Knockout Draw and Schedule

Explanation for WA/WB & MA/MB:

1. One team wins all three qualifiers: Championship Round is not required.

2. One team wins two qualifiers. They play in both X and Z (and win the event if they win either game), the other winner plays in Y (and has to win both games).

3. Three separate winners: the team that played in the most qualifying games* plays in Z and the other winners play off in X and Y. If there is a tie in number of qualifying games played, then the team that qualified earliest goes to Z and the other two teams play off in X and Y.

*Qualifying games are in yellow on the schedule

Draw Trees

Junior Men’s Team Rosters

Junior Women’s Team Rosters

Click for previous winners and websites