Defending world champs finally give Sask boys their first loss
It took the defending world men’s champion British Columbia squad to put a blemish on Team Saskatchewan’s perfect record at the 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships in Prince Albert Sunday.
Team Saskatchewan of Rylan Kleiter, Trevor Johnson, Joshua Mattern and Matthieu Taillon had a 3-0 record heading into the matchup against the B.C. behemoths, but now sit at 3-1 after a 5-3 victory. With the win, B.C.’s Tyler Tardi, Sterling Middleton, Matthew Hall and Alex Horvath are 3-0 to start their tournament. For Tardi and Middleton, they can become the first players to win three junior men’s national championships.
B.C. barely missed a shot all game, as Tardi actually shot at 99 per cent, and his team was at 90 per cent.
Saskatchewan was able to get a point in the first end, but B.C. answered with two in the second and then stole singles in the third, fifth and sixth ends to go ahead 5-1. Saskatchewan got a pair in the eight, but eventually ran out of rocks in the 10th end.