B.C. upsets world champions to head to junior curling finals
Sarah Daniels and Team B.C. will be heading into the Sunday finals of the 2019 New Holland Canadian Junior Women’s Curling Championships with two huge playoff wins under their belts.
On Saturday, Daniels and her North Delta-based rink of third Kayla MacMillan, second Jessica Humphries and lead Sarah Loken defeated last year’s world and national champions in Kaitlyn Jones and Nova Scotia 9-7 Saturday at the Art Hauser Centre.
And before that on Friday, Daniels beat Laurie St-Georges and Team Quebec 8-6 in the tiebreaker match. Last year, Quebec were the junior national finalists, picking up the silver medal.
“We feel pretty good, but no different than we have all season,” Daniels said, who has won junior national silver medals in 2016 as a skip and 2014 as a second. “We worked really hard to get here, so we’ll let our preparation carry us forward.”