N.S. third at national junior championship

Hilden’s Burgess named first-team all-star

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – Kaitlyn Jones and her Nova Scotia rink had their championship hopes at the Canadian junior women’s curling championship come to an end on Saturday.

The Nova Scotia foursome – who won 2018 national and world titles – lost 9-7 to B.C.’S Sarah Daniels in a semifinal game.

After exchanging single points in the first two ends, Daniels opened the game in the third with a four-ender.

Nova Scotia, which included third Lauren Lenentine, second Karlee Burgess of Hilden and lead Lindsey Burgess of Truro, cut into that lead in the fourth end, scoring two to make it 5-3. In the fifth, Daniels was left with a freeze for one, lifting British Columbia to a 6-3 lead at the fifthend break.

Jones took one in the sixth end with hammer then produced a steal in the seventh to trail

6-5

aniels scored two points in the eighth, forcing Nova Scotia to produce at least a score of two in the ninth end and took advantage of a key miss to do so. British Columbia flashed its final hit attempt, leaving Nova Scotia with a draw for two to trail 8-7 heading into the final end.

In the 10th, Jones nearly made a difficult double tap, but her counting stone rolled too far to the open side, leaving Daniels with a hit for one and the 9-7 win.

Daniels lost Sunday’s final 9- 6 to Alberta’s Selena Sturmay.

With the victory, Alberta became the first women’s team to win the Canadian junior curling championship with a spotless record since Ottawa’s Rachel Homan completed the feat in 2010. Only six other women’s teams have run the table since the inaugural event in 1971.

Karlee Burgess was named a first-team all-star at second, while Lenentine was a secondteam all-star at third.

On the men’s side, Tyler Tardi won a record-setting third straight national title.

The B.C. skip downed Manitoba’s JT Ryan 7-5 in the men’s final on Sunday and became the first to win the event three times in a row.

Both winning teams will represent Canada at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships in Liverpool next month.