Eight proved an unlucky number for Team Daniels at the B.C. junior women’s curling championships.
Last year’s national silver medallist lost its only game of the provincials 8-2 to the Corryn Brown rink from Kamloops in the title game at the Parksville Curling Club on Jan. 3.
The combined Delta Thistle and Royal City clubs rink of skip Sarah Daniels, third Marika Van Osch, second Dezaray Hawes and lead Megan Daniels won seven straight games in the round robin, including a 10-3 victory over Team Brown in Draw 4 on Dec. 30.
But unlike the team’s earlier seven-end win over the Kamloops foursome, the final was all Brown.
The 2013 provincial and Canadian junior champs stole a single in each of the second, third, fourth and fifth ends, before claiming a game-breaking triple in the seventh.
With last rock in the ninth end, Brown made a successful double takeout to sit one.
In the junior men’s final, Royal City club’s Brayden Carpenter finished just short of a spot in the playdowns with a 4-3 record.
Victoria’s Paul Henderson won the provincial men’s title 9-8 over Cody Tanaka from Abbotsford.
The Canadian junior championships will be held Jan. 24 through Feb. 1 in Corner Brook, Nfld.
