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
editKey | |
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Teams to Playoffs | |
Teams to Tiebreakers |
Team | Skip | Locale | W | L |
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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
editSemifinal | Final | ||||||||
1 | Prince Edward Island | 3 | |||||||
2 | Alberta | 5 | 2 | Alberta | 6 | ||||
3 | Quebec | 4 |
Semifinal
editTeam | 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
editTeam | 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
edit- ^ 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