Shailynn Snow, Isabella Weist, Jenna Dooley and Kathy Senior each scored twice as Newfoundland and Labrador opened the female hockey competition with a 15-1 win over the Yukon on Sunday at the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alta.
Shae-Lynn Clarke, Mackenzie Cahill, Brooklyn Childs, Emily Hawco, Kendra John, Abby Newhook and Grace Smith had the other goals for Newfoundland.
Weist and Dooley each added an assist to join Newhook and John, who both had two helpers, with three-point games.
Rachel Dean faced just eight shots in the N.L. goal. At the other end, Dean’s teammates were busy launching 69 shots on the Yukon netminder..
Newfoundland is a preliminary pool that also includes Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Prince Edward Island. The top two finishers in the pool will earn spots in qualification games, where berths in the playoff quarter-finals will be on the line.
Newfoundland’s next game is this afternoon versus NWT.
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Newfoundland and Labrador’s men’s curling team also found success on Sunday, the opening day of competition of the second week of the Red Deer Games.
The rink, skipped by Nathan Young of Torbay and including Ben Stringer (C.B.S.), Nathan Locke (C.B.S.) and Sam Follett (Paradise), scored a big 5-3 win over Manitoba, always seen as a curling medal favourite at the Canada Games.
Newfoundland’s female curling team almost came up with a similar upset Sunday, but Manitoba scored the winning point on its last shot of the final end for a 5-4 victory over the Corner Brook-based team of skip Mackenzie Mitchell, Sarah McNeil Lamswood, Mikayla O’Reilly and Ainsleigh Piercey.
Both N.L. teams faced Prince Edward Island on Sunday night. They’ll each have New Brunswick and Alberta on their schedules today.
In squash, Newfoundland’s Ashley Stringer and John Peyton each lost their preliminary matches in individual competition.
Action in alpine skiing, badminton, cross-country skiing, figure skating, gymnastics and snowboard begins today at the Games.
The province did not win a medal during the first week of the Games.
