The Brayden Snow rink from the host Silver Fox Curling Club, and the Rachel MacLean team from the Cornwall Curling Club both went undefeated with 5-0 win-loss records this weekend to win the provincial Under 16 Curling Championships. Snow, backed up by third Cruz Pineau, second stone Brock Rochford, and lead Anderson MacDougall, with coach Shelley MacFadyen, was trailing 5-3 after four ends of play in the Sunday afternoon boy’s final, after the Chase MacMillan team from the Charlottetown Curling Complex stole three points in the fourth end. The teams traded deuces in the next two ends, with Snow tying the game with another pair in the seventh end, and pulling out an 8-7 win with a stolen single in the final end. The Chase MacMillan finalist team, who finished with a 2-2 win-loss record, also includes third Jack MacFadyen, second Liam Barbrick, and lead Davis Nicholson, and is coached by David MacFadyen. The third team in the boy’s event, the Samuel Shaw foursome from the Montague Curling rink finished without a win, but came within two points of the winning team in one of their matches.

Winning Boy’s team photo (L-R): Anderson MacDougall, Brock Rochford, Cruz Pineau, Brayden Snow, coach Shelley MacFadyen

Boy’s Finalist Team MacMillan rink (L-R): Chase MacMillan, Jack MacFadyen, Liam Barbrick, Davis Nicholson, and coach David MacFadyen

MacLean finished the girl’s round robin with a 4-0 record, followed closely by clubmate Clara Jack at 3-1, and by Montague’s Sydney Carver team at 2-2. Cornwall’s Ella Lenentine team went 1-3, while Mallory Rochford and her host club team got off to a great start, losing their opener by a single point, but didn’t manage to pick up a win.

Jack and Carver then squared off in an exciting  Sunday morning semi-final, with Carver up 3-1 after four ends. Jack took a 5-3 lead with a deuce in five and single steals in 6 and seven, but Carver tied it up with a deuce in the eighth. Jack had hammer in the extra end, and recorded a single to punch her ticket to the championship game. 

Girl’s winning MacLean rink (L-R): Rachel MacLean, Sierra Clyke, Avery Nicholson, Izzy  Tatlock, and coach Carl Nicholson. 

Girl’s Finalist Clara Jack rink (L-R):  Clara Jack, Beth Walsh, Grace Bulger, Aurora Ulvstal, and coach Aleya Quilty 

In the championship game. MacLean had a narrow 5-4 lead after seven ends, and a single point in the eighth gave MacLean a 6-4 win. Playing with MacLean were third Sierra Clyke, second stone Avery Nicholson, and lead Izzy Tatlock, with coach Carl Nicholson. Rounding out the Jack finalist team are third Beth Walsh, second Grace Bulger, and lead stone Aurora Ulvstal, with coach Aleya Quilty.

During the closing ceremonies, awards for sportsmanship, as voted on by the other players, and coaching, as voted on by their coaching peers, were handed out. 

Winning boy’s skip Brayden Snow took the boy’s sportsmanship honours.

Photo: Curl PEI Executive member Anson Carmody (left) with boy’s sportsmanship award winner Brayden Snow

The girl’s Sportsmanship honours went to Silver Fox skip Mallory Rochford.

Photo: Curl PEI Executive member Anson Carmody (left) with girl’s sportsmanship award winner Mallory Rochford

The coaching award went to Aleya Quilty, coach of the Clara Jack finalist rink from Cornwall.

Photo: Curl PEI Executive member Anson Carmody (left) with coaching award winner Aleya Quilty

There are two games left, at 10 am and 2 pm Sunday in both the Boys’ and Girls’ events, as the PEI Under 16 Curling Championships wrap up at the Silver Fox Curling Club in Summerside.

File photo: Team Snow

There is one round robin game left in the three-team Boy’s section, and the first place team, the Brayden Snow foursome from the host club, has already been determined, as they have finished the double round-robin with a perfect 4-0 win-loss record and can’t be caught by either of the other teams.

Team MacMillan puts a rock in the four-foot in action at the U16 (Photo from Twitter @CurlMacMillan)

The Chase MacMillan team from the Charlottetown Curling Complex has a 1-2 win-loss record, while the Samuel Shaw foursome from Montague sits at 0-3, so if MacMillan wins their game at 10 am, he will advance to the 2 pm final against Snow. If Shaw wins, they will both have 1-3 records, so tiebreaking rules would come into effect. They would each have won one game and lost one against the other team, so head to head records cannot be used, and cumulative last stone draw results would come into play to determine who advances to the final.

File photo: Team MacLean 

Meanwhile, the single round robin has concluded in the Girl’s event, with Cornwall’s Rachel MacLean winning all four of her games by at least nine points, and advancing directly to the 2 pm Sunday final. She now awaits the winner of the 10 am semi-final where Clara Jack, who is also from Cornwall and has a 3-1 win-loss record, takes on the Sydney Carver foursome from Montague, who finished round-robin play at an even 2-2.

The Provincial Under 16 Curling Championships, with three boy’s rinks and five girl’s teams taking part, got underway Friday at the Silver Fox Curling Club in Summerside, with two draws completed.

File photo: Brayden Snow

The host club’s Brayden Snow team is undefeated at 2-0 on the double round robin boy’s side, stealing an extra-end single in a 6-5 shading of the Chase MacMillan rink from Charlottetown, and leading 11-0 after 4 ends in a 14-5 victory over the Samuel Shaw team from Montague.

File photo: Rachel MacLean

In the single-round robin girl’s championship, Cornwall’s Rachel MacLean rink, with Sierra Clyke subbing for her usual teammate Amy Spence to meet the age category, sits at 2-0 after cruising to a pair of high-scoring wins – 13-1 over clubmate Ella Lenentine, and 13-4 over the Clara Jack team, also from Cornwall. Jack, and Sydney Carver from Montague are at 1-1, while Lenentine and the Mallory Rochford rink from the host club are 0-1.

Single and double round-robin play continues Saturday with draws at 10 am, and 2 and 6 pm, and wraps up with a 10 am Sunday boy’s game between MacMillan and Shaw. The top two boy’s teams then advance to their 2 pm championship final, while the second and third place girl’s teams will play a semi-final at 10 am Sunday, with the winning team advancing to the 2 pm championship game against the first place rink.