The Charlottetown Curling Club is holding a “Haunted Spiel”, open to all, on Friday, Oct. 30th, beginning at 6 pm.  $1o gets dinner and curling. Bar tabs for best-costumed curlers.

Fair Isle Ford’s Sweep into Montague Mixed Funspiel takes place Nov. 6-8 at the Montague Curling Club.

$120 entry fee per mixed team includes curling, prizes, meal voucher, munchies, and drinks, along with  music trivia on Friday nigbt, and entertainment/dance Saturday night.

Teams are guaranteed three games. Entry deadline is Nov.  2nd.

For more info, call club manager Ron Whittaker at 838-2513 or montaguecurlingclub@pei.aibn.com.

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Truro’s Colleen Pinkney rink, who won the Canadian Senior Women’s Curling Championships last March in Summerside, doubled the Melissa Adams foursome from New Brunswick by a 6-3 score to win this afternoon’s final at the Lady Monctonian invitational women’s cashspiel at Club Beausejour in Moncton. Other members of the Pinkney team are Wendy Currie, Karen Hennigar, and Susan Creelman, while Sandy Comeau,  Stacey Leger, and Pamela Nicol round out the runner-up Adams squad. The Pinkney rink will be representing Canada at the 2010 World Senior Curling Championships in Chelyabinsk, Russia  in April.

Adams edged Ashley Howard of Moncton 7-6 in the semi-final, while Pinkney got by Andrea Kelly of NB 5-4.

PEI’s Suzanne Birt rink, last year’s champions, lost their quarter-final 7-4 to Pinkney. The Birt team, which includes third Shelly Bradley, second Leslie MacDougall, and lead Stefanie Clark, with coach Charlie Sullivan, finished round-robin play with a 3-2 win-loss record, and were the only Island rink to advance to the quarter-final round.

The Rebecca Jean MacPhee rink also went 3-2, while the other PEI teams, skipped by Donna Butler, Kathy O’Rourke, and Anita Casey, did not manage to pick up a win.

In the other quarter-finals, Adams doubled Mary Ann Arsenault of Halifax 10-5,  Kelly  edged Jill Mouzar of Halifax 4-3, and Howard beat Sylvie Robichaud from the host Beausejour club by a 5-3 count.

The finals got underway at 2:30 in the Lady Monctonian invitational women’s cashspiel at Club Beausejour in Moncton, with Truro’s Colleen Pinkney playing Melissa Adams of  New Brunswick.

Adams edged Ashley Howard of Moncton 7-6 in the semi-final, while Pinkney got by Andrea Kelly of NB 5-4.

PEI’s Suzanne Birt rink, last year’s champions, lost their quarter-final 7-4 to Pinkney. The Birt team, which includes third Shelly Bradley, second Leslie MacDougall, and lead Stefanie Clark, with coach Charlie Sullivan, finished round-robin play with a 3-2 win-loss record, and were the only Island rink to advance to the quarter-final round.

The Rebecca Jean MacPhee rink also went 3-2, while the other PEI teams, skipped by Donna Butler, Kathy O’Rourke, and Anita Casey, did not manage to pick up a win.

In the other quarter-finals, Melissa Adams of New Brunswick doubled Mary Ann Arsenault of Halifax 10-5,  Andrea Kelly of NB  edged Jill Mouzar of Halifax 4-3, and Moncton’s Ashley Howard, beat Sylvie Robichaud from the host Beausejour club by a 5-3 count.

Three Island teams, skipped by Brett Gallant, Rod MacDonald, and Eddie MacKenzie, advanced to the quarter-finals  at the Fifth Annual Fall Cash Spiel, hosted by CFB Halifax.

Two of the three rinks, skipped by MacDonald and Gallant, have made it through to the noon semi-finals, with the Eddie MacKenzie team being eliminated from further play. In the quarters, MacDonald beat the Sterling/Palmer team, while MacKenzie lost to Paul Dobson of Saint John, and Gallant defeated Jamie Christianson of Halifax. The other game saw while Haligonian Jamie Murphy beat  Mark Kehoe of Windsor. Scores were not available. In the semi-finals, MacDonald faces Dobson, while Gallant plays Murphy.

All three Island rinks won their respective round robin pools, with 4-1 win-loss records.

 The winning rink from the 3 pm final will pocket $1400, with $1000 going to the runner-up. The other semi-finalists will take home $600, while the losing quarter-finalists, including MacKenzie, will go home with $400.

PEI’s Suzanne Birt rink are the defending champions at the Lady Monctonian, which wraps up today at Curling Beausejour in Moncton. The team, which includes third Shelly Bradley, second Leslie MacDougall, and lead Stefanie Clark, with coach Charlie Sullivan, finished round-robin play with a 3-2 win-loss record, and are the only Island rink to advance to the quarter-final round, which gets underway at 8:30 this morning.

The Rebecca Jean MacPhee rink also went 3-2, while the other PEI teams, skipped by Donna Butler, Kathy O’Rourke, and Anita Casey, did not manage to pick up a win.

In the quarter-finals, Mary Ann Arsenault of Halifax plays Melissa Adams of New Brunswick, Andrea Kelly of NB  faces Jill Mouzar of Halifax, Birt takes on Colleen Pinkney of Truro, and Sylvie Robichaud from the host club faces Ashley Howard, also from Moncton. The semi-final round is at 11:30, with the final being played at 2:30 this afternoon.

The 2009/2010 Senior Men’s Curling Tour gets underway on October 30, and takes place on four weekends, at three Island clubs. All teams play each Friday night at 5:45 and 8:30, and on Saturday at 9:30 am and 12:30 pm. Entry fee is $120 per weekend. Priority is given to teams from last year’s events. Email your entry to mesmith@gov.pe.ca or phone Matt Smith at 892-8129. Teams have until November 1st to confirm their events for this season.

Here is the schedule:

Oct. 30-31 at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club. 12 teams.
Nov. 20-21 at the Cornwall Curling Club. 8 teams.
Jan. 8-9 at the Cornwall Curling Club. 8 teams.
Feb. 5-6 at the Charlottetown Curling Club. 10 teams.

As well, a Senior Tour event with both a men’s and a women’s division is planned for Dec. 4-6 at the Silver Fox. Details on this event will be available later.