Chyz crew can slake Alberta’s title thirst

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CALGARY — Braeden Moskowy was not especially surprised to see Calgary’s Nadine Chyz reach today’s women’s final of the Canadian junior curling championships.

Moskowy, the skip of the unbeaten Saskatchewan rink that will play in Sunday’s men’s final, saw first-hand how effective Chyz’s Alberta crew — third Rebecca Pattison, second Jessie Scheidegger and lead Kimberly Anderson — can be. In October, at the Whitney Field junior bonspiel in Lloydminster, Sask., Moskowy and Chyz won their round-robin pools, and were matched in an exhibition skins game for a $500 purse.

“They laid the beating on us,” Moskowy said Friday as he watched Chyz and Co. practise.

More of the same today against the winner of the semifinal between Saskatchewan’s Trish Paulsen and Manitoba’s Breanne Meakin would come in handy as Chyz takes aim at giving Alberta its first Canadian junior women’s title since Heather Nedohin in 1996.

“We’re trying to keep it in perspective, but, yeah, it’s a little bit unreal,” said Pattison, whose team carries an 11-1 round-robin record into the final.

Chyz’s team, which lost a playoff tiebreaker at last year’s national juniors in Sorel-Tracy, Que., entered the 2011 event as one of the favourites and has lived up to that status over and over.

The Canadian champion goes to Perth, Scotland, for the world junior championship next month.

The men’s playoff picture was completed Friday as Newfoundland’s Colin Thomas beat Jon Rennie of New Brunswick 7-5 in a third-place tiebreaker. Newfoundland will play Ontario’s Mat Camm in the semifinal Sunday, with the winner taking on Saskatchewan in the final.

— Postmedia News