Mark Lecocq beat Rick Perron 7-5 this afternoon to win the final of the Best Western TSA Curling Classic at the Thistle St. Andrews Curling Club in Saint John New Brunswick. Lecocq defeated Dave Konefal 6-4, while Perron downed Paul Dobson 9-4 to advance to the final match.  All four teams in the semifinal were from New Brunswick.

In the quarter-finals,  Dobson doubled Charlie Sullivan Jr., also of NB,  4-2,  Konefal got by Chris Sutherland of Nova Scotia 9-7,  Perron edged Brent MacDougall of NS 9-8, and Lecocq bombed Mark Kehoe of NS 12-3.

The five PEI rinks in the 24 team competition were shut out of the money round, with John Likely and Suzanne (Gaudet) Birt both finishing round robin play with a 3 and 2 win-loss record, while Kevin Champion ended at 2-3, Mike Gaudet, better known at the event as “Suzanne’s Brother”, went 1-4, and Bill Hope failed to pick up a win.