There are now no undefeated junior women’s teams remaining going into the final round robin draw of the New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Shawinigan Quebec. It took an extra end for Team Newfoundland and Labrador, skipped by MacKenzie Glynn, to edge PEI’s Lauren Lenentine rink 7-6 this afternoon. PEI got off to a bad start giving up a triple in the first end, but fought back with singles to trail 4-3 at the fifth end break, and tie the game with a stolen sixth-end single. NL took one in the eighth, with PEI grabbing a one-point lead with a deuce in nine. NL forced the extra with a single in the 10th, and the winning single in the extra.

Lauren Lenentine (Curling Canada)

PEI and Ontario have both finished round robin play with 5-1 records in their pool, while NL, at 4-1 has one game left, against BC (2-3) at 7:30. Four teams from each round robin pool advance to the Championship Pool, so all three of these teams will be advancing, regardless of whether NL wins or loses their next game. The final spot in the pool will go to either BC or Northern Ontario, both at 2-3.

On the junior men’s side, PEI’s Alex MacFadyen rink finished round robin play with a 2-4 win-loss record, following a 9-4 win over the Northwest Territories last evening, and an 8-7 loss to Newfoundland and Labrador this morning. That win gave NL the last Championship Pool spot, with a 3-3 record, while PEI, at 2-4 finishes just out of the Pool with a 2-4 record, and would go to the Seeding Pool.

 The top team out of the junior women’s and men’s Championship  pools advance to their respective final on Sunday, Jan. 21, while the second- and third-place teams meet in a semifinal on Saturday, Jan. 20, to determine the other finalist.

TSN/RDS2 will carry complete live coverage of the semifinals (women at 1 p.m. [all times ET], men at 6 p.m.) on Jan. 20 and finals (women at 1 p.m., men at 6 p.m.), held at the Aréna de Grand Mère.

The winning teams will then represent Canada in the 2018 VolP Defender World Juniors, March 3-11 at Aberdeen, Scotland. Canada has won a leading 18 world junior men’s titles since 1975 and 11 women’s crowns since 1988.