1985 Canadian Junior Men's Curling Championship

The 1985 Pepsi Canadian Junior Men's Curling Championship was held February 17-24 in St. John's, Newfoundland. Team Alberta, skipped by 2010 Olympic champion skip Kevin Martin won the event, defeating Prince Edward Island (skipped by Kent Scales) in the finals. It was the first major championship win for Martin, one of the most decorated curlers in history. His win earned Martin a spot as the alternate for Canada at the 1985 World Junior Curling Championships, and his team (which also included Mike Berger, Dan Petryk and Rick Feeny) a spot representing Canada at the 1986 World Junior Curling Championships, where they would win a silver medal.

Martin was a petroleum technologies student at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology at the time.[1]

Round Robin Standings
Key
Teams to Playoffs
Teams to Tiebreakers
Team Skip Locale W L
 Prince Edward IslandKent ScalesCharlottetown101
 AlbertaKevin MartinEdmonton74
 NewfoundlandAlex SmithSt. John's65
 OntarioFred HackelLondon65
 QuebecSteve GagnonJonquière65
 SaskatchewanSteven LeippiKronau65
 ManitobaLarry KnowlesWinnipeg56
 British ColumbiaDean MackneyKelowna47
 New BrunswickGilles VerretMoncton47
 Northern OntarioCurtis CassidyNipigon47
 Northwest Territories / YukonRichard RobertsonYellowknife47
 Nova ScotiaDanny BentleyTruro47

Playoffs
  Semifinal     Final
                 
    1  Prince Edward Island 3
  2  Alberta 5     2  Alberta 6
  3  Quebec 4  

Semifinal
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final
 Alberta (Martin) 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5
 Quebec (Gagnon) 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 4

Final
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Alberta (Martin) 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 X 6
 Prince Edward Island (Scales) 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 X 3

References
  1. Ottawa Citizen, February 25, 1985, pg B6, "Skip may lose school year after winning title"
  • Ottawa Citizen, February 18, 1985, pg B5
  • Ottawa Citizen, February 23, 1985
  • Ottawa Citizen, February 25, 1985, pg B4
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