LANGLEY, B.C. — Lauren Lenentine is going back to the world junior curling championships.
The 19-year-old New Dominion native was part of the Manitoba squad that won the New Holland Canadian junior women’s championship Sunday in Langley, B.C.
Lenentine, a student at the University of Manitoba, threw leads stones for the Mackenzie Zacharias-skipped rink that defeated Alberta 10-3 in nine ends.
Manitoba scored a deuce in the first end with hammer before the teams traded singles the next two ends. Alberta counted one in the fourth to cut the deficit to one. The teams traded singles in the sixth and seventh ends before Manitoba counted four in the eighth and stole two in the ninth to end it.
Manitoba went 10-0 in the preliminary and championship round to earn a berth in Sunday’s final. Alberta beat Nova Scotia 6-5 in 11 ends in Saturday’s semifinal.
The world championships will be played Krasnoyarsk, Russia, from Feb. 15-22.
Lenetine was named to the all-star team at Friday’s awards banquet after curling 86 per cent during the championship. Zacharias was the all-star skipped while their teammate Karlee Burgess, a Truro, N.S., native studying kinesiology at the University of Manitoba, was the top third. Northern Ontario’s Calissa Daly was the all-star second.
Kristie Rogers from Lauren Ferguson-skipped rink from the Cornwall Curling Club was the second team all-star second.
Lenentine was the alternate with the Nova Scotia-based Team Canada that won gold at the 2018 worlds in Scotland. Burgess played second on the Kaitlyn Jones squad. Lenentine represented Prince Edward Island twice at the Canadian juniors, finishing 5-5 in 2018 and 4-6 in 2017, and won bronze with Nova Scotia at the 2019 event.
Suzanne (Gaudet) Birt’s rink represented Prince Edward Island at the world juniors twice in 2001 and 2002. Robyn MacPhee, Kelly Higgins and coach Paul Power were part of both winning teams while Stefanie Richard played in 2001 and Carol Webb in 2002.
Bill Jenkins was the first skip to lead an Island team to the world juniors. His men’s team of John Scales, Sandy Stewart and Alan Mayhew went to the 1977 championship.
Brett Gallant skipped the Island to the 2009 world junior men’s competition. His rink included Adam Casey, Anson Carmody, Jamie Danbrook and coach Peter Gallant.
