Junior Super Leagues Update - Atkins League Shifts to Skins, Birchard Leads at Victoria

 A switch to Skins Format competition for the third and final round of Atkins Curling Supplies Junior Super League play was unkind to several teams including league leader Alex Forrest. Of a total of 13 poimnts available, Forrest could muster only 2 in an 11-2 loss at the hands of Daniel Birchard. Alyssa Vandepoele scored the same 11-2 victory over Matt Dunstone as did Sam Good over Riley Smith. The Good win and Forrest loss means the last two provincial junior men's champions are tied in the league lead with 14-3 records.

Kate Cameron out-pointed Dylan Gousseau 9-4. Joel Hildebrand scored all 13 available points in a win over Steen Sigurdson. Breanne Meakin trailed Shannon Birchard 7 points to two and did not play the final end as there were only 4 points available and a win was not possible.

ATKINS JUNIOR SUPER LEAGUE
STANDINGS AFTER WEEK #17
14-3 Alex Forrest
14-3 Sam Good
12-5 Daniel Birchard
10-7 Kate Cameron
9-8 Riley Smith
9-8 Alyssa Vandepoele
6-11 Matt Dunstone
6-11 Dylan Gousseau
6-11 Shannon Birchard
5-12 Breanne Meakin
5-12 Steen Sigurdson
5-12 Joel Hildebrand
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A 6-3 Shannon Birchard win over Alyssa Vandepoele this week moved Birchard ahead of Vandepoele at the top of the standings
 in the Victoria Junior Women's Super League. Birchard and Vandepoele both have 11 wins but Vandepoele has one more win than Birchard at this point in the season. A win by Kate Cameron (7-6 over Ashley Jahns) and a 7-2 loss for Kelsey Boettcher, to Breanne Meakin, mean that Cameron is in third at 10-7 while Boettcher is at 9-7.

Erika Sigurdson was a 5-2 winner over Meghan Armit. Sigurdson's 6-10 record is that win better than Armit's 5-10 record.
VICTORIA JUNIOR WOMEN'S SUPERLEAGUE
STANDINGS AFTER WEEK #16:
11-5 Shannon Birchard
11-6 Alyssa Vandepoele 
10-7 Kate Cameron
9-7 Kelsey Boettcher
9-7 Ashley Resler
7-8 Ashley Jahns
8-7 Breanne Meakin
6-10 Erika Sigurdson
5-10 Meghan Armit
3-12 Mallory Miller

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With wins in the last two weeks of competition, Alyssa Vandepoele and Shannon Birchard have retained the top two spots in the standings of the Victoria Junior Women's Super League. After Week #16 of play Monday, Vandepole's record is 11-4 while Birchard is at 10-5. Vandepoele's most recent wins came at the expense of Ashley Jahns (5-4) and Erika Sigurdson (8-0)  while Birchard defeated Breanne Meakin (7-5) and Mallory Miller (6-3). Kelsey Boettcher also won a pair in the last two weeks, over  Meghan Armit (7-3) and Kate Cameron (10-3), to improve to a record of 9-6.

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Forrest Leads Atkins Junior Super League: Alex Forrest and his provincial Junior Men's champions continue to lead the Atkins Curling Supplies Junior Super League with a 14-1 record. In Week 15 games, Forrest defeated Alyssa Vandepoele 11-4 but lost a make-up of an earlier game (6-5 to Joel Hildeebrand). Forrest's record is four wins ahead of second place Sam Good and Daniel Birchard.  Good improved to 10-3 with a 6-1 win over Kate Cameron while Birchard's record stayed at at 10-4 when his game with sisster Shannon was postponed. Breanne Meakin (6-5 over Steen Sigurdson), Matt Dunstone (8-3 over Hildebrand), and Riley Smith (6-4 over Dylan Gousseau) were the other winners in last week's play.