1985 Canadian Junior Men's Curling Championship

The 1985 Pepsi Canadian Junior Men's Curling Championship was held February 17–24 in St. John's, Newfoundland. Team Alberta, skipped by 2010 Olympic champion skip Kevin Martin won the event, defeating Prince Edward Island (skipped by Kent Scales) in the finals. It was the first major championship win for Martin, one of the most decorated curlers in history. His win earned Martin a spot as the alternate for Canada at the 1985 World Junior Curling Championships, and his team (which also included Mike Berger, Dan Petryk and Rick Feeny) a spot representing Canada at the 1986 World Junior Curling Championships, where they would win a silver medal.

Martin was a petroleum technologies student at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology at the time.[1]

Round-robin standings

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Key
Teams to Playoffs
Teams to Tiebreakers
Team Skip Locale W L
  Prince Edward Island Kent Scales Charlottetown 10 1
  Alberta Kevin Martin Edmonton 7 4
  Newfoundland Alex Smith St. John's 6 5
  Ontario Fred Hackel London 6 5
  Quebec Steve Gagnon Jonquière 6 5
  Saskatchewan Steven Leippi Kronau 6 5
  Manitoba Larry Knowles Winnipeg 5 6
  British Columbia Dean Mackney Kelowna 4 7
  New Brunswick Gilles Verret Moncton 4 7
  Northern Ontario Curtis Cassidy Nipigon 4 7
  Northwest Territories / Yukon Richard Robertson Yellowknife 4 7
  Nova Scotia Danny Bentley Truro 4 7

Playoffs

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Semifinal Final
1   Prince Edward Island 3
2   Alberta 5 2   Alberta 6
3   Quebec 4

Semifinal

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Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final
  Alberta (Martin) 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5
  Quebec (Gagnon) 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 4

Final

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Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
  Alberta (Martin) 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 X 6
  Prince Edward Island (Scales) 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 X 3

References

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  1. ^ Ottawa Citizen, February 25, 1985, pg B6, "Skip may lose school year after winning title"
  • Ottawa Citizen, February 18, 1985, pg B5
  • Ottawa Citizen, February 23, 1985
  • Ottawa Citizen, February 25, 1985, pg B4