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Veteran rinks favoured to bring home gold from Canadian junior curling championships

Experience tends to go a long way at a Canadian Junior Men's and Women's Curling Championship.

For that reason alone, teams skipped by Northern Ontario's Tanner Horgan and Nova Scotia's Kristin Clarke are among the favourites as the 2017 championships begin Saturday at Archie Browning Sports Centre fashion cheap hermes handbags and Esquimalt Curling Club.

Horgan's team of third Jacob Horgan, second Nicholas Bissonnette and lead Maxime Blais remains intact after last year's silver medal finish to Manitoba's Matt Dunstone. This is also Horgan's fourth trip to nationals.

Curling fans will recognize the name as the Horgans are younger brothers to Tracy Fleury and Jennifer Wylie (both nee Horgan), who have competed at two Scotties Tournament of Hearts and numerous Grand Slam events.

"We've been working hard for a while now and reaping rewards," imitiaton hermes bag Tanner, who is coached by his father Gerry, told CBC Radio. "With the defending champions not coming back this year, I would see us seeded first going in. It's pretty amazing that we can even call ourselves the first seed going in. That's an amazing accomplishment in itself."

The team has patterned itself after Brad Jacob's Olympic gold medal rink, also based out of Northern Ontario.

Clarke and her third Karlee Burgess and second Janique LeBlanc are also back from their 2016 Canadian and World gold medal finishes with former skip Mary Fay, who stepped away from the game to focus on university studies. The team has added Emily Lloyd at lead. "So it was more about building a new team dynamic this year, that was the hard part.

"As difficult as it was to move on and try to find another player, by changing our mindset a bit and looking at it as a new team for this season, we've really developed a new dynamic that's working really well for us," added Clarke who joined the team last season.

It was the first time Nova Scotia had won a provincial junior title since Jill Mouzar accomplished the feat in 2004, also in Victoria. skips Corryn Brown (with Nanaimo's Marka Van Osch at third) and Tyler Tardi should also battle for the top prizes and the right to advance to the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships in Gangneung, South Korea.

Brown is the 2013 Canadian champion along with her lead Samantha Fisher. team. team that finished second nationally to Fay last year.

Tardi and his crew of third Sterling Middleton, second Jordan Tardi and lead Nicholas Meister won bronze at last year's Canadian juniors, losing the semifinal to Dunstone.

There are many other capable teams among the 14 junior women's rinks and 13 junior men's foursomes (Yukon did not field a replica birkin handbags men's team for this U 21 championship, just for the U 18 event).

Ryan knocked off Calvert this season and for that reason alone should be considered a contender here. Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ontario are also traditionally strong provinces.

This is the third time the national junior championships visit Victoria; the last time was 2004 when both the men and women competed. It was also here in 1979 when the provincial capital played host to the junior fake hermes bag men's championship.

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