Meakin moves into playoff position

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CALGARY — Manitoba’s Breanne Meakin won a Draw 13 showdown for the final playoff spot in the M&M Meat Shops Canadian junior women’s curling championship.

Meakin opened her final round-robin game with a three spot against British Columbia’s Dailene Sivertson and never looked back. She went on to win 7-3 to finish at 8-4.

Meakin will face Saskatchewan’s Trish Paulson in Saturday’s semifinal with the winner meeting Alberta’s Nadine Chyz in the final.

Paulson had a chance to earn a bye to the final, but fell 9-3 to Chyz Thursday night. Paulson took a 3-2 lead into the fifth-end break, but Chyz came back with a score of two and three consecutive steals to secure the win and lock up first place with an 11-1 record. Paulson finished with a 9-3 record.

Earlier Thursday, Sivertson handed Chyz her one and only round-robin loss, scoring a 9-7 win. But her loss to Meakin dropped the defending silver medallist to 7-5 and out of the playoffs.

On the men’s side, Braeden Moskowy has clinched a berth in the final.

Moskowy and his Saskatchewan team came back from a 6-3 deficit after six ends to beat Ontario’s Mat Camm 9-7 in Thursday’s afternoon draw. The Regina skip then hammered Alberta 6-2 in the evening draw to finish the round robin 12-0.

Camm, who needed to beat Moskowy to keep his hopes of a bye to the final alive, stole two in the fourth to build a 5-3 lead. The teams then traded singles, before Moskowy evened the score with three in the seventh. He followed that with a steal of two in eighth.

Later Thursday, Ontario upended the Territories 7-3 to finish all alone in second place at 9-3.

Manitoba’s Sam Good beat B.C. 7-4 in his final round-robin game and finished 6-6 and out of the playoff hunt.

Three East Coast teams were in the running for the final playoff spot heading into Thursday. Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick each finished at 8-4 and will play in a tiebreaker today.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colin Thomas punctuated a 10-4 win over Colin Miller of the Northwest Territories with a steal of four in the seventh. Meanwhile, New Brunswick’s Jon Rennie scored a deuce with the hammer in the 10th and defeated Quebec’s Vincent Bourget 8-7.

Nova Scotia’s Kendal Thompson lost a key came against Northern Ontario’s Cody Johnston to fall to 6-5 and out of contention for a tiebreaker berth. Thompson nearly got out of an early mess — he trailed 7-2 after just four ends, but came back to lead 10-9 — but lost 11-10 after Johnston scored two in the 10th.

The women’s semifinal and final are Saturday while the men’s semifinal and final are slated for Sunday.

— Postmedia News