Finals set for Th ursday

Six women’s, four men’s teams vying to represent P. E. I. at national junior curling championships

The Alex MacFadyen rink from the Silver Fox Curling Club will meet Cornwall’s Mitchell Schut rink, while defending women’s champion Lauren Lenintine will take on the Annika Kelly foursome here Th ursday at 9: 30 a. m. in men’s and women’s ‘ A” qualifi ers at the P. E. I. Pepsi Junior Curling championships.

Th e modifi ed triple knockout championships got underway at the Maple Leaf Curling Club Wednesday afternoon.

Th ere are four men’s and six women’s teams vying for the opportunity to represent P. E. I. at the 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships Jan. 21- 28 in Shawinigan, Que. The MacFadyen and Schut rinks needed just one win each to punch their ticket to the men’s “A” qualifi er, while Lenentine and Kelly needed two wins to reach that pivotal stop along the route.

Schut got there with a 7- 5 win over Devin Schut, also form Cornwall, stealing a deuce in the fi rst end and fi nishing the game taking two points with hammer in the tenth. MacFadyen stole six points en route to a 12- 1 win over Charlottetown’s Chase MacMillan rink.

To make it to the “A” Event qualifi er, Lenentine downed a fellow Cornwall rink skipped by Rachel MacLean 8- 4 in the afternoon draw and followed that up with a 9- 3 win in eight ends over the Lexie Ferguson rink which has team members from the Charlottetown, Crapaud and Cornwall Curling Clubs.

Kelly keeps her appointment with Lenentine on the basis of her 9- 4 afternoon victory over Cornwall’s Sydney Howatt and her 12- 4 evening win over Emily Sanderson, also from Cornwall. Th e Ferguson and Sanderson rinks drew the afternoon byes. Also in the evening draw on Wednesday, Devin Schut edged Chase MacMillan 8- 5. Schut took three with the hammer in the tenth to even his record at 1- 1. MacMillan drops into the “C” event with a 0- 2 record.

ERIC MCCARTHY/ JOURNAL PIONEER Skip Mitchell Schut delivers a stone during his Schut- versus- Schut game against Devin Schut in the opening draw of the 2018 P. E. I. Pepsi Junior Curling Championship Wednesday afternoon at Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. Mitchell Schut stole a...

ERIC MCCARTHY/ JOURNAL PIONEER Sweepers Rachel O’Connor, left, and Breanne Burgoyne take charge of a stone just released by their skip, Lauren Lenentine. Team Lenentine enters the Pepsi P. E. I. provincial junior women’s triple knock- out curling championship at the Maple Leaf...

ERIC MCCARTHY/ JOURNAL PIONEER Breanne Burgoyne, second stone on the defending champion Lauren Lenentine rink, prepares to turn her stone over to sweepers Rachel O’Connor, left and the team’s mate, Kristie Rogers. Lenentine won here opening draw 8- 4 over a fellow Cornwall rink...