PEI Credit Unions Senior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships 2014-2015

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Provincial Senior Men’s & Women’s Curling Championships

February 21-25, 2015
Montague Curling Club

Rod MacDonald rink wins PEI Credit Unions Senior Men’s title in Extra End

The Rod MacDonald rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside and the Charlottetown Curling Complex went undefeated in this year’s PEI Credit Unions Senior Men’s Curling Championship at the Montague Curling Club, sweeping all three modified triple knockout section finals, all against the Peter Gallant team from Charlottetown, to win the title without having to play a championship. The last game, the C final, took an extra end, with MacDonald scoring a single point for the 6-5 win.

MacDonald stole a deuce in the 1st end of the C final, but Gallant pulled ahead with a deuce and a stolen single. MacDonald responded with a deuce to lead 4-3 at the 4th end break. The fifth was blanked, and they traded singles in the next two ends to leave MacDonald one up coming home with hammer. gallant stole a single to force the extra, but couldn’t pull off another steal in the extra.

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File photo: Rod MacDonald

Other members of the MacDonald squad are Kevin Champion, Blair Weeks, and Mark Victor, while John Likely, Mark O’Rourke, and Mark Butler round out the runner-up Gallant team. MacDonald was runner-up in the event last year.

The Rod MacDonald rink, along with the women’s winner, the Shirley Berry team from Cornwall and Charlottetown, who won by default as they were the only entry in the women’s event, will advance to the 2015 Canadian Senior Curling Championships, March 21-28, 2015, in Edmonton, AB. Berry’s teammates are Sandy Hope, Shelley Ebbett and Arleen Harris, with coaches Butch McGee and Bill Hope. Six teams took part in the Senior Men’s event.

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MacDonald to face Gallant again, in 3rd section final at Seniors. MacDonald could win title this afternoon

The Rod MacDonald rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside and the Charlottetown Curling Complex are just one win away from winning the PEI Credit Unions Provincial Senior Men’s Curling Championship at the Montague Curling Club.  As they have in the A and B section finals of the modified triple knockout draw, the MacDonald rink will take on Charlottetown’s Peter Gallant foursome in the C final, at 2 this afternoon. If MacDonald wins, he will take the title, as he would have won all three sections, making a championship round unnecessary. If Gallant wins, the teams will advance to the two game championship round at 10 am, and, if needed, 2 pm on Wednesday. MacDonald would take the title if he won either game, while Gallant would have to win both.

Other members of the MacDonald squad are Kevin Champion, Blair Weeks, and Mark Victor, while John Likely, Mark O’Rourke, and Mark Butler round out the Gallant team.

Gallant advanced to the C final with a 9-3 win over Bill Hope of Charlottetown in today’s 10 am draw, leading 5-3 after six ends, and taking four points in the seventh.

The Senior men’s champions, along with the women’s winner, the Shirley Berry team from Cornwall and Charlottetown, who won by default as they were the only entry in the women’s event, will advance to the 2015 Canadian Senior Curling Championships, March 21-28, 2015, in Edmonton, AB.

End by end Curlcast results from the PEI Credit Unions Senior Men’s  at CurlAtlantic.com/scoreboard

Rod MacDonald rink wins both A and B qualifiers at the PEI Seniors

The Rod MacDonald rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club and the Charlottetown Curling Complex have now captured both the A and the B section finals of the modified triple knockout PEI Credit Unions Provincial Senior Men’s championships in Montague, winning both games against the same team, Peter Gallant of Charlottetown, and by the same score — 6-5. This will give the MacDonald rink, who were runners-up in the event, for curlers age 50 and over, last year, a “double life” in the two game championship round on Wednesday, as they will play in both championship games, taking the title if they win either game, while their opponent would have to win both games. If the MacDonald rink also wins the “C” final on Tuesday at 2 pm, they will become the Senior Men’s champs, and the championship round will not be played.

File photo: Rod MacDonald directs a rock into the house at the 2014 Seniors

Gallant took points in the first two ends in today’s game, but MacDonald tied it up with a deuce in four. Gallant took a single in five to lead 3-2, but MacDonald scored a triple in six for the lead. Gallant came up with a tying deuce in seven, but MacDonald took the win with a single in eight. Gallant advanced to the B final with a 5-3 win this morning over the Mel Bernard rink from Summerside, which includes three members of last year’s winning team.

Blair Jay and his Summerside rink were eliminated this morning, thanks to a 9-2 win by Bill Hope of Charlottetown in just four ends, with Hope breaking a 2-2 tie with five points in the third end, and then stealing a deuce in the next end to bring the game to a quick close. Hope then knocked out the other Summerside rink in the six-team field, Bernard, with a 7-2 win in six ends in the afternoon draw, following a fourth end triple with single steals in ends five and six.

This leaves only MacDonald, Gallant and Hope in the competition going into Tuesday’s final two knockout round games, with Hope taking on Gallant at 10 am, and the winner facing MacDonald in the C final at 2 pm. The championship round, if required, goes Wednesday at 10 am and, if needed, 2 pm. The Senior men’s champions, along with the women’s winner, the Shirley Berry team from Cornwall and Charlottetown, who won by default as they were the only entry, will advance to the 2015 Canadian Senior Curling Championships, March 21-28, 2015, in Edmonton, AB.

Provincial Senior Men’s Curling Ch’ship start delayed to Saturday. Shirley Berry rink wins women’s title by default

The PEI Credit Unions Provincial Senior Men’s Curling Championship, for curlers age 50 and over, will be held at the Montague Curling Club February 21-25, 2015. Six men’s teams are entered, and will play a modified triple knockout format with a two game championship round, unless a team wins all three knockout sections, in which case they would be awarded the title without the final games being played. The  Ted MacFadyen team from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside won the event last year. MacFadyen is not back, but the other three members of his team – Lou Nowlan, Earle Proude, and Pat Aylward, are, with Mel Bernard stepping in as skip. Bernard, Nowlan, and Proude won the Provincial Masters title, for curlers age 60 and over this year, with Alan Montgomery as lead stone.

Other teams in the experienced field are the Rod MacDonald team from the Silver Fox and Charlottetown curling facilities, the Peter Gallant and Bill Hope rinks from Charlottetown, the Blair Jay foursome from the Silver Fox, and the Donald Clarey squad from the host club. MacDonald is 2013 champ and last year’s runner-up. Hope is 2011 champ. Gallant and MacDonald played together on the 2010 winning team. Bernard skipped with Jay at third  on the 2007 and 2009 winning teams, and won at third in 2006. Bernard skip Lou Nowlan won the event back in 1997 at third, and 1999 at skip. Clarey has national experience at The Dominion Curling Club Championship in 2010 and 2011.

End by end Curlcast results from the Senior Men’s will be available at CurlAtlantic.com/scoreboard

Event website is PEICurling.com/seniors20142015

The PEI Credit Unions Senior Women’s title will be awarded to the rink of Shirley Berry, Sandy Hope, Shelley Ebbett, and Arleen Harris, with coaches Bill Hope and Butch McGee, from the Cornwall Curling Club and the Charlottetown Curling Complex. The team, who also won the PEI Masters (age 60+) women’s championship in January, were the only women’s entry in the Seniors. Berry is a five time Seniors champ. The defending champion Jennifer Scott rink from the Montague club did not enter this year.

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Photo (L-R): Butch McGee (coach), Shirley Berry, Sandy Hope, Shelley Ebbett, Arleen Harris

 

 

Senior Men’s Draw

(modified triple knockout)

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Note: Draw Tree will not be updated during event.
Refer to Curlcast for updated Draw tree.

Championship round (Games Ch1, Ch2) scenarios:

(1) If  a team wins all three knockout sections, they will be the winners, without the championship round.

(2) If a team wins any two knockout sections, they will play in both championship round games Ch1 and Ch2 and win the title if they take either game, while their opponent, the winner of the other section, would have to win both.

(3) If there are three separate section winners, the one that played in the most section qualifier games (5, 12, 15) gets the bye to Ch2, while the other two would square off in Ch1, with the winner advancing to Ch2. If there is a tie in number of qualifier games played, the team who qualifies earliest gets the bye to Ch2.

 

Senior Men’s Schedule

SCHEDULE (Revised)
Date Time Draw Ice 1 Ice 2 Ice 3 Ice 4
Sat. Feb. 21 11am One 1 2
3pm Two 3 4
Sun. Feb. 22 11am Three 5 6 7
3pm Four 8 9
Mon. Feb. 23 10am Five 10 11
2pm Six 12 13
Tue. Feb. 24 10am Seven 14
2pm Eight 15
Wed. Feb, 25 10am Nine CH1
2pm Ten CH2

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