Coquitlam curler Zachary Curtis and his teammates on Team Tardi will curl for the world junior championship on Saturday in Aberdeen, Scotland.
The Langley/Royal City-based team defeated the United States 8-5 in one of Friday’s semi-finals.
Their opponent will be their hosts from Scotland. Ross Whyte’s Scottish rink beat Switzerland 5-4 in their semi-final game and have yet to lose. When the two teams met in the tournament’s round-robin, Scotland defeated Tardi’s Canadian rink, 6-5, after scoring a deuce in the 10th end.
“We’re going to go into the last game and just play how we’ve been playing, and just give it all we got,” said skip Tyler Tardi after his team had built a 3-0 lead early in their game against the U.S.
Curtis, a Gleneagle secondary school grad who started curling at the Coquitlam Curling Club eight years ago, joined Tardi’s team earlier this season when former lead Nick Meister aged out of the junior ranks.
The championship game will begin at 6 a.m. Pacific time Saturday morning and it will be broadcast online at http://www.youtube.com/worldcurlingtv
