SUDBURY, Ont. — All three of Saskatchewan’s rinks will fall short of the playoffs at the Canadian U20 men’s and women’s curling championships.
Needing to win their final games to have a chance at the medal round, both Chloe Semeniuk and Rogan Snow suffered losses on Thursday and as a result will finish out of the top three and a playoff spot.
Semeniuk and her Saskatoon Nutana foursome of third Leah Beausoleil, second Kelsey Wall, lead Lindsay Miller and coach Nicole Beausoleil dropped a 6-5 heartbreaker to Quebec’s Jolianne Fortin in their lone game.
Fortin had taken a 3-0 lead out of the third end, but Semeniuk rallied with points the next four frames — one in the fourth, one in the fifth, two in the sixth, one in the seventh — to take a 5-3 lead coming home. Fortin came all the way back in the final end, though, scoring three to secure the comeback win.
The loss was the fourth straight for Semeniuk and sees them sitting at 3-4 heading into their final round robin game against Nova Scotia’s Cassidy Blades on Friday morning.
Snow and his Saskatoon Sutherland rink of third Nathan Roy, second Dominic Barlow and lead Cole Hilderman endured a tough loss of their own in their only game Thursday, as they dropped a 7-6 decision to Ontario’s Evan McDougall.
Snow got off to a good start, answering an Ontario deuce in the second end with three for a 4-2 lead. The teams then exchanged single points the next two ends before MacDougall scored two in the sixth and one in the seventh for a 6-5 lead. Snow would tie things up with one in the eighth, and Ontario would put the hammer to perfect use in the extra end to score one.
Snow finishes with a 5-3 record in Pool B and one win out of the playoffs.
Saskatoon Nutana’s Ethan Robinson, third Nathan Weiss, second Lewis MacDiarmid, lead Josh Kirilenko and coach Craig Robinson split their final round robin games, defeating Yukon’s Nolan Floyd 10-2 before falling 8-4 to Ontario’s Tyler MacTacvish.
Against Yukon, a deuce in the second end and four-spot in the fourth gave Robinson a 7-0 lead, and after the teams exchanged deuces the next two frames, they’d shake hands after six ends.
It was Ontario who used a four-ender to take control in Robinson’s final round robin game, with that big end coming in the second and seeing MacTavish leading 4-2 after five ends. The teams then exchanged deuces the next two ends before Ontario finished things off with two more in the eighth.
Robinson finishes eighth in Pool A with a 2-6 record.
