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Keffer, Warkentin win junior curling crowns

Skips Tirzah Keffer and Zach Warkentin are off to the national junior curling championships. Keffer defeated Sudbury’s Krysta Burns 7-4 in nine ends on Sunday to take the junior women’s title in Sault Ste. Marie.
Leith Dunick
Leith Dunick

Skips Tirzah Keffer and Zach Warkentin are off to the national junior curling championships.

Keffer defeated Sudbury’s Krysta Burns 7-4 in nine ends on Sunday to take the junior women’s title in Sault Ste. Marie.

Meanwhile Warkentin captured the junior men’s crown in an all-Thunder Bay battle in Kapuskasing, defeating  fellow Port Arthur Curling Club skip Kurtis Byrd 7-6.

The national juniors are slated for Feb. 2-10 in Fort McMurray, Alta.

Leith Dunick

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A proud Nova Scotian who has called Thunder Bay home since 2002, Leith is Dougall Media's director of news, but still likes to tell your stories too. Wants his Expos back and to see Neil Young at least one more time. Twitter: @LeithDunick
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