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Team sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ gets off to winning start at junior curling

Tyler Klymchuk’s sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ rink got off to the start everyone expected Saturday at the M&M Meat Shops Junior Curling Championship in Fort McMurray, Alta.

Tyler Klymchuk’s sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ rink got off to the start everyone expected Saturday at the M&M Meat Shops Junior Curling Championship in Fort McMurray, Alta.

Opening against Nunavet, the first time the territory has been represented at a Canadian championship, Team sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ went on to a decisive 11-2 win in eight ends over David Kakuktining.

Klymchuk, of the Langley Curling Club, is joined on the split sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ rink by third Corey Chester and second Sanjay Bowry of the Victoria Curling Centre and lead Rhys Gamache of Tswwassen. Coach Todd Troyer also hails from the Victoria centre.

The foursome opened with one in the first end before stealing a deuce in the second and allowing Kakuktining a single in the third.

Klymchuk came back with a deuce in the fourth and a steal of two more in the fifth to pull away to a 7-1 lead at the break.

Allowing a single in the sixth, Klymchuk took two in the seventh and stole two more in the eighth as the teams shook hands.

Kakuktining was defeated 14-2 by Saskatchewan’s Brady Scharback — one of the favourites in the field — in the opening afternoon draw.

Corryn Brown’s junior women’s team, from Kamloops, won its opener 7-5 over Saskatchewan’s Jessica Hanson.

The Klymchuk rink faces Ontario today at noon and the Yukon/Northwest Territories at 5 p.m. and on Monday takes on Saskatchewan in the afternoon draw and P.E.I. in the nightcap.

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