Manitoba runs out of steam
Birchard falls in junior women's final, Doering advances to semi
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NAPANEE, Ont. — Manitoba had to settle for silver Saturday night at the Canadian Junior Women’s Curling Championship, but still has a chance to win on the junior men’s side of the event.
The squad of Shannon Birchard, Selena Kaatz, Kristin MacCuish and Moriah Mondor fell 12-6 at the hands of the Alberta team of Jocelyn Peterman, Brittany Tran, Rebecca Konschuh, and Kristine Anderson.
The championship match was settled in a hurry when Alberta scored four in the fourth end and stole five in the fifth.
“I’m really proud, we came so far, and a silver medal is still awesome,” said St. Vital skip Birchard, moments after the loss.
“We had a tough fourth and fifth end,” she added. “Things weren’t working out for us. We had trouble executing, I think, and we gave up those big ends and that’s where we got in trouble. It’s unfortunate that it was on national television, but getting to the final is an amazing position to be in.
“We’re still happy that we made it this far. We can’t really say anything bad because Alberta is going to represent Canada very well.”
There was far less drama in the final than there had been in the afternoon semifinal, when the Albertans scored an exciting 8-7 victory over Kesa Van Osch’s British Columbia foursome.
“It has been our goal all year,” Peterman said after securing the national championship with two points in the ninth.
“It felt good. We all played really well,” she added. “We felt a lot more comfortable with the ice (after the semifinal).”
Peterman and her Red Deer teammates Brittany Tran, Rebecca Konschuh and Kristine Anderson earned tickets to Sweden as Canadian champions. The world junior championships are at Ostersund from March 3-11.
“It would have been amazing (to go),” Birchard said. “But they are a great team and they are going to do well.”
Earlier in the day, on the junior men’s side, Manitoba’s Kyle Doering and his team of Colton Lott, Derek Oryniak and Lucas Van Den Bosch won a tiebreaker 9-4 over Nova Scotia. The Manitoba rink will play a semifinal this afternoon against Brennan Wark of Northern Ontario.
“We really regrouped in the third end and made every shot (to score five),” Doering said. “It feels awesome (to advance). Words can’t describe what if feels like. Our goal coming in to the event was to go .500, so getting to the semifinal is great.”
“I think it will be a really good game (against Northern Ontario), and I like our chances. I really do,” Doering said.
Brandon Bottcher of Alberta, with an 11-1 round robin record, awaits the winner of that game to play for the championship tonight.
— with files from Postmedia
