The team would then represent Ontario at the 1994 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, where they finished with a 7-4 record in 4th place.

[1] The same year Matchett skipped his Bradford District High School team to the Ontario Schoolboy Championship.

His first World Curling Tour event was the 1998 Shorty Jenkins Classic, where his team of Ryan Werenich, Tim Morrison and Brad Anderson finished 6th.

During this time frame, he only played in two provincial championships, the 2006 Kia Cup (finishing 4th) and the 2011 Dominion Tankard (7th).

Matchett, and his then-rink of Werenich, Jeff Gorda and Shawn Kaufman sneaked into the playoffs with a 3-2 record, but lost in the quarterfinal to Mike McEwen.