Two Seaquam Secondary curlers came up one game short at the 2014 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Liverpool, Nova Scotia Jan. 20 to 25.
Sisters Sarah and Megan Daniels were members of the B.C. champion Kalia Van Osch rink that advanced to the championship final only to be edged out of the gold medal with a 7-6 loss to the Kelsey Rocque rink from Alberta.
Alberta never trailed in the final, opening the scoring with a deuce in the third end, holding B.C. to one in the fourth and then padding its lead with a fifth-end deuce.
Van Osch struck back with a lovely double takeout to score a game-tying three in the sixth, but Alberta restored its lead immediately with a deuce in the seventh.
B.C. came back to tie it again with two in the eighth, but Alberta carried the hammer into the decisive 10th end. A double peel from Alberta kept things wide open, but Rocque missed on her first delivery, a peel attempt that left a B.C. rock in the top 12-foot. Van Osch was perfect on her draw weight, but couldn't bury her in-turn draw, giving Rocque a nearly wide-open in-turn hit for the Canadian title.
Sarah Daniels, a Grade 9 student at Seaquam, was named to the tournament all-star team after hitting on 80 per cent of her shots in the national tournament.