Team Tardi will get the chance to defend their Canadian Junior Men鈥檚 Curling title when they head to Quebec next month for the national championship.
The 黑马磁力/Royal City team secured their trip to nationals after beating Team Ballard 3-1 in Saturday鈥檚 2018 Boston Pizza in 黑马磁力.
Team Tardi were looking to improve on their record in this competition against Team Ballard, which was the only team to beat Team Tardi in round-robin play ahead of the final. Team Ballard were the third-place team after round robin play and were looking for their first BC championship.
Skip Tyler Tardi, third Sterling Middleton, second Jordan Tardi and coach Paul Tardi were on last year鈥檚 team that travelled to the nationals, but this will be the first trip to nationals for lead Zachary Curtis. The Tardis live in Cloverdale, while Middleton lives in New Westminster and Curtis lives in Burnaby.
Team Ballard, representing Coquitlam and Royal City, features skip Dawson Ballard (Cloverdale), third Hayato Sato (New Westminster), second Joshua Miki (Port Coquitlam) and lead Troy Chong (Burnaby). They are coached by world champion curler Bryan Miki.
Speaking after the final, Tyler Tardi said he knew it was going to be a tough game. 鈥淚t was pretty stressful. I have a lot of respect for Team Ballard, they鈥檝e been working hard for as long as I can remember. They鈥檙e good throwers, they have a good sense of strategy. Bryan (Miki) has been doing a really good job with the team. I expect them to do really well at U18s.鈥�
Tardi is looking forward to Canadians, and hopefully, another trip to worlds. 鈥淚t鈥檚 always fun to just go there. There鈥檚 a lot of friends that go to that event and it鈥檚 great to see them. I鈥檓 excited to hopefully defend the national title first and then do better at worlds.鈥�
The 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Men鈥檚 and Women鈥檚 Curling Championships run from Jan. 13-21 in Quebec. That event will be staged at the Centre municipal de curling de Shawinigan and the Ar茅na Grand-M猫re.
The championship saw eight U21 junior men鈥檚 teams and eight U21 junior women鈥檚 teams play against each other in an eight-team round robin.
Team Reese-Hansen from Victoria had earlier won the 2018 Boston Pizza BC Junior Women鈥檚 competition.
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