The Provincial Under 18 Curling Championships, sponsored by PEI Credit Unions, with male and female divisions for curlers a maximum of 17 years of age on June 30, 2017, take place February 23-26, 2018 at the Silver Fox curling club in Summerside.
Last year’s winners were the Donald DeWolfe rink from the Cornwall, Silver Fox, and Western Community clubs, and the Lauren Lenentine team from Cornwall. These skips are not back this year, so there will be two new championship rinks. Last year’s runner-up rinks, skipped by Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut and Rachel MacLean, are among this year’s entrants of four boy’s and five girl’s teams.
Both the boy’s and girl’s sections play modified triple knockout draws, with the girl’s teams starting Friday at 2 pm, and the boys hitting the ice at 6 pm. The winners from each of the three sections will advance to the two-game championship round on Monday at 10 am and 2 pm. With the modified format, section winners drop down to compete in the next section. If a team wins all three sections, they will win the event without a championship round. A double section winner will have a “double life” in the championship round, winning the event if they take either game, while their opponent would have to win both.
This year’s winning teams advance to the 2018 Canadian Under-18 Boys and Girls Curling Championship, April 9-14 in St. Andrews NB.
Live, end by end results from the provincial event will be available at PEICurling.com.
Draw Tree
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 have game number/letter highlighted in yellow on the schedule.
Schedule
Boys
Girls
| Date | Time | Draw | Ice 1 | Ice 2 | Ice 3 | Ice 4 | Ice 5 | Ice 6 |
| Fri. Feb. 23 |
2pm | 1 | B (Ferguson vs MacLean) | A (Sanderson vs Howatt) | ||||
| 6pm | 2 | D | C (Jack vs winner game A) | 2 (Pineau vs M. Schut) |
1 (MacMillan vs D. Schut) | |||
| Sat. Feb. 24 |
10am | 3 | 3 | E | F | |||
| 2pm | 4 | G | H | 5 | 4 | |||
| 6pm | 5 | 6 | I | J | ||||
| Sun. Feb. 25 |
10am | 6 | 8 | K | 7 | |||
| 2pm | 7 | L | 9 | |||||
| Mon. Feb. 26 |
10am | 8 | MA | WA | ||||
| 2pm | 9 | WB | MB |
Team Rosters
M=Boy’s teams, W=Girl’s teams
Click team name for players.
| Team | Coach | Affiliation | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| M-Team Devin Schut | Roger Gavin | Cornwall Curling Club | Cornwall, PE |
| M-Team MacMillan | Rob Roberts | Charlottetown Curling Complex | Charlottetown, PE |
| M-Team Mitchell Schut | Bill Hope | Cornwall Curling Club | Cornwall, PE |
| M-Team Pineau | Shelley MacFadyen | Silver Fox Curling Club | Summerside, PE |
| W-Team Ferguson | David Murphy | Cornwall, Crapaud, Ch’town clubs | Cornwall, Crapaud, Ch’town PE |
| W-Team Howatt | A.J. Campbell | Cornwall Curling Club | Cornwall, PE |
| W-Team Jack | Aleya Quilty | Cornwall Curling Club | Cornwall, PE |
| W-Team MacLean | Carl Nicholson | Cornwall Curling Club | Cornwall, PE |
| W-Team Sanderson | Edgar Coffin | Cornwall Curling Club | Cornwall, PE |
U18 rules:
1. Competitors will be a maximum of 17 years of age on June 30 of the year prior to the
National competition.
2. Games will be eight (8) ends, if tied at that point will continue for extra end(s) until a winner
is declared.
3. Teams require a coach who is Club Coach Trained; Intro Comp Coach Trained; or old Level 1
Certified on their registration form to participate in the event and on-site for each game.
a. The Head Event Umpire, under special circumstances, may allow a game to begin
without a certified coach present.
4. Time clocks will be used.
5. Winners eligible to curl in the National U18 Championships do so at their own expense.