Rocque’s Win’s Gold

Alberta’s Kelsey Rocque’s grabbed Gold over the weekend scoring a nearly wide-open in-turn direct hit in the 10th end to narrowly defeat BC’s Kalia Van Osch 7-6 in the Women’s final at the 2014 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.

The win was Alberta’s seventh (7th) Canadian Junior Women’s title since Jocelyn Peterman of Red Deer won which dates back to 2012.

Alberta’s or Rocque’s rink will now represent Canada at the World Junior Curling Championships that start Feb. 26 in Flims, Switzerland.

Rocque told the media “We’re really excited and it’s a dream come true, for sure. It honestly hasn’t hit me, and it probably won’t for a couple days. It’s just so surreal right now.”

Alberta never did trail and managed to open the scoring with a deuce in the third end, holding BC to one in the fourth and then padding its lead with a fifth-end deuce.

Van Osch got a double takeout to score a game-tying three in the sixth end, then they restored its lead with a deuce in the seventh.

BC came back to tie the match with two in the eighth, and easily could have been three but Kalia Van Osch was heavy with her last draw.

Alberta blanked the ninth end to carry hammer into the 10th.

A double peel from Alberta’s second Taylor McDonald kept things wide open, but Rocque missed on her first delivery, which was a peel attempt that left a BC rock in the top 12-foot.

Van Osch was perfect on the draw weight, but couldn’t land her in-turn draw, giving Rocque a wide-open in-turn hit for the title and the Championship.