Teams from Altona, Carman, and Morden, the heart of Manitoba’s Pembina Valley region, will represent Manitoba at the national U-18 championships in February.

Carman’s Shaela Hayward team won the Asham U-18 Women’s provincial curling championship Sunday afternoon in Selkirk to win a trip to the nationals. The U-18 Men’s final was won by Altona’s Rylan Campbell team over Morden’s Nash Sugden – both will be going to the national championship in Ottawa.

Hayward (Keira Krahn, India Young, Rylie Cox, Coach Diane Hayward) was the only unbeaten team through the weekend competition in Selkirk. They posted a 5W-0L round-robin record and defeated Cassidy Dundas – Heather (Lauren Evason, Eryn Czirfusz, Tessa Terrick, Coach Craig Terrick) in the Page 1 vs 1 Playoff game Saturday evening.

The Dundas foursome defeated clubmate Bethany Allan (Emily Ostrowsky, Amelie Le Heiget, Taylor Letham, Coach Deb Popovic) in the Sunday morning semi-final to set up a rematch. The result was the same, however, as the Hayward foursome won 6-3 to complete a perfect 7W-0L weekend.

The Asham U-18 Men’s final game also featured a re-match of the Page 1-1 Playoff game but with a different result.

Nash Sugden – Morden (Tyler Fehr, Tanner Treichel, Ryan Thiessen, Coach Gord Titchkosky) were extra end winners over Rylan Campbell – Altona (Logan Zacharias, Nick Senff, Rylan Graham, Coach Sheldon Zacharias) Saturday evening.

The Campbell team fought back to the final with a semi-final win over the Colin Desaulniers-skipped Kieran Callewaert team – AMCC (Luc Cormier, Desaulniers, Quinn Legace, Justin Arbez, Coach Rej Lagace). That semi-final win created the momentum needed for a dominant final game performance which saw them put three three’s and a five on the scoreboard.

Over the weekend, the Team Campbell record was 6W-1L while Team Sugden had a 5W-1L record.

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As provincial champions, the Hayward and Campbell team records at the national championship in Ottawa will be the records which count in the tally to determine whether Manitoba will have one or two entries at the nationals a year from now. As the formula includes the provincial champion’s record across two years, this year’s record and the record from a year ago will be taken into account.