Mathew Camm’s rink from the Ottawa Curling Club in Centretown won the 2011 Pepsi Ontario junior men’s curling championship on Sunday in Sarnia.
Camm and teammates Scott Howard, Dave Mathers, and Andrew Hamilton won another banner for the club with a 7-5 victory over Michael Bryson’s Annandale Country Club rink.
They finished with an 8-0 record.
“It’s wonderful news,” said Joe Pavia, owner of the club’s Hogline proshop. “Those guys have worked very hard this season to win. Last year they lost in the final and this time they went undefeated all the way through.”
“We’re overwhelmed with banners,” says Charlene Johnston, a club employee. “We’ve got to find another space on our wall . . . It’s very prestigious for the curling club.”
Shannon Harrington’s junior women’s rink from the same club lost in a tiebreaker to Oakville’s rink on Saturday, falling just short of the semifinal.
However, Ottawa Curling Club members Lynn and Cheryl Kreviazuk played in the women’s final on Sunday for the two different Kitchener-Waterloo rinks.
The rink skipped by Clancy Grandy which included Lynn Kreviazuk won 6-5 in an extra end.
The junior men’s and women’s champions advance to the M&M Meat Shops Canadian junior championships, which will take place Jan. 26 to Feb. 6 in Calgary.