Megan Smith may be only 17 but Saturday's nail-biting game at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club was enough to give her some grey hair.
Smith and her rink from Ontario edged Nova Scotia 6-5 in an extra end to win the gold medal in women's curling at the 2015 Canada Winter Games.
"It was pretty stressful, I think I may have some grey hairs," said Smith. "You could feel that the game was really tight and you knew that everyone respected each other and how everyone was playing. It was a really good battle.
"It was back and forth, that's for sure with a lot of ones on the board, and you know what it was great game played by both teams back and forth."
Smith and her rink from Sudbury was backed by third Kira Brunton, second Mikaela Cheslock, and lead Emma Johnson.
Mary Fay's Nova Scotia team from Chester was comprised of third Jennifer Smith, second Karlee Burgess and lead Janique LeBlanc.
In a tight see-saw battle where both teams traded single points in the first half of the game, Fay stole a point in the eighth end in to take a narrow 4-3 lead.
Smith scored the only deuce of the game in the ninth when she was already lying two on her last rock and her attempted draw for three came up light to grab a 5-4 lead.
In the 10th end, with Ontario lying three without hammer, Fay's draw to the back of the button stops just in time to earn the single point to tie the game at 5-5 and send the game into extra ends.
"It was so close, I don't think it could have been any closer," said 16-year-old Fay as she fought back tears. "I'm so proud of my teammates. We did everything we could have and at the end of the day they just played really well. We'll look back on the silver medal and we'll be proud about it."
Saskatchewan defeated New Brunswick 9-8 earlier Saturday in extra ends for the bronze medal.
Both Ontario and Nova Scotia were the top-two teams all week, going undefeated in their round-robin pools to earn byes straight to the semifinals.
Ontario defeated Saskatchewan 8-3 in one semifinal, while Nova Scotia edged New Brunswick 7-6 in the other.
Smith said to cap it the week off by standing atop the podium was icing on the cake.
"It's really special, we've been working towards this goal for the last three years so to undefeated is not what we had in mind but still it's a really great accomplishment," said Smith, adding winning the Games is a stepping stone for her team.
"Our goal was junior nationals this year and we missed out by one rock so I think this is a stepping stone and hopefully we can have more success in years to come."
Fay and her Nova Scotia crew competed at the Canadian Junior Curling championship in January in Corner Brook, Nfld. and finished with a 6-4 record in the championship pool.
"This is great experience but we hope to be back at Canadian juniors and we hope to win that some day," she said.
Saturday's bronze medal contest was a bounce-back game for Kaitlyn Jones and her Regina-based Saskatchewan rink after losing Friday's semifinal to Ontario Friday night.
"We knew New Brunswick was a drawing team and we knew we had to play a clean game and we pulled it off in the end," said Jones. "It's an unbelievable feeling. A medal game was our goal, it didn't matter what colour it was as long as at the end of the day we had a medal. We pushed through and never gave up."
