PEI Curling Association - Labatt Tankard 
2008 Men's Provincial Championships
Open Playdowns: Montague Curling Club, Jan. 25-Jan. 28
Final Eight: Crapaud Community Curling Club, Feb. 5-10

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Final Eight Championship Round

Shaw and MacKenzie complete the Final Eight

Jan. 28-The Final Eight competitors have now been determined for the Labatt Tankard provincial men's curling championships, Feb. 5-10 at the Crapaud Community Curling Club. This evening in Montague, the final two qualifiers were determined.

Qualifier number seven went to the Charlottetown Curling Club rink of Robert Shaw, Sandy MacPhee, Robbie Younker and Tom Fetterly, who beat the Blair Jay foursome from the Silver Fox 8-7 in an extra end. The Eddie MacKenzie rink, also from Charlottetown, beat clubmate and 2000 Tankard winner Andrew Robinson by an 8-3 score to grab the final qualifying spot. Playing with MacKenzie are Dennis Watts, Doug MacGregor and Sean Clarey.

Seven of the eight qualifiers are from Charlottetown, with the Rod MacDonald foursome from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside the only exception.

Here are the Final Eight (skip to lead) (see Teams page for team photos) :

Q1: Tim Cullen, Mitch O'Shea, Robbie Doherty, Patrick Callback, Brent Campbell (5th), Robbie Roberts (Coach)  Charlottetown
Q2:  Rod MacDonald, Jamie Newson, Mike Gaudet, Peter MacDonald  Silver Fox
Q3:  Peter Gallant, Kevin Champion, Mark O'Rourke, John Desrosiers  Charlottetown
Q4:  Ted MacFadyen, Craig Mackie, Sandy Foy, Mike Coady, Al Ledgerwood (coach)  Charlottetown
Q5:  Kyle Stevenson, Pat Lynch, Kyle MacDonald, Andrew MacDougall  Charlottetown
Q6: John Likely, Phil Gorveatt, Mark Butler, Mike Dillon, Robert Campbell (5th)  Charlottetown
Q7:  Robert Shaw, Sandy MacPhee, Robbie Younker, Tom Fetterly  Charlottetown
Q8:  Eddie MacKenzie, Dennis Watts, Doug MacGregor, Sean Clarey  Charlottetown

The Final Eight competition in Crapaud will be a round robin with a Page playoff, and gets underway at 8 pm on Tuesday February 5th. The complete draw is now available, and end by end results will be available, at peicurling.com/tankard. The championship game will take place at 3 pm on Sunday the 10th.

The PEI champion will advance to the Tim Horton's Brier, March 8-16 in Winnipeg Manitoba.

MacFadyen, Stevenson, Likely are next three qualifiers

Jan. 27- Qualifiers four through six for the Final Eight were decided this afternoon as the Playdowns wrap up in Montague for the Labatt Tankard Provincial Men's Curling Championships.  All of today's contenders were from the Charlottetown Curling Club.

Five-time Tankard and five-time Seniors champ Ted MacFadyen grabbed spot number four, with a 10-7 win over Eddie MacKenzie. MacFadyen is playing with Craig Mackie and longtime teammates Mike Coady and Sandy Foy.

Mixed champion Kyle Stevenson doubled 2000 Tankard skip Andrew Robinson 8-4 for the fifth qualifying position in the Final Eight. Rounding out the Stevenson foursome are Pat Lynch, Kyle MacDonald, and Andrew MacDougall.

Top seed John Likely, who lost out to the unseeded Tim Cullen junior rink in the A qualifiers, was tied with Robert Shaw coming home, but scored three points in the tenth end to win his game 7-4 and grab the sixth qualifying spot. Playing with Likely are Phil Gorveatt, Mark Butler and Mike Dillon.

The final draw goes Monday at 3 pm, with Summerside's Blair Jay playing Robert Shaw of Charlottetown for Qualifier #7, and Andrew Robinson meeting Charlottetown clubmate Eddie MacKenzie for the eighth and final spot. In the Sunday evening draw, Robinson beat Kevin Ellsworth of the Silver Fox 9-5, Jay downed Charlottetown's Charlie Wilkinson rink 10-1, and MacKenzie edged Larry Dewar of Montague 6-5.

The round-robin Final Eight championship round goes Feb. 5-10 at the Crapaud Community Curling Club.

The winner of that event will advance to the Tim Horton's Brier, March 8-16 in Winnipeg.  

Tim Cullen defeats top seed as 1st 3 Tankard Qualifiers determined

Jan 26-The young Tim Cullen rink continued their impressive PEI Labatt Tankard Playdowns debut today in Montague, trouncing number one seed John Likely by a 10-4 score in just seven ends to grab the first qualifying spot for the Final Eight championship round. The Cullen rink, who also competed in the Pepsi Juniors earlier this season, and weren't born when Likely won his first Tankard (as a second) in 1985, includes Mitch O'Shea at third, Robbie Doherty at second, and lead Patrick Callbeck, with 5th player Brent Campbell, and coach Robbie Roberts. To advance to the qualifier, the unseeded Cullen team, who curl out of the Charlottetown Curling Club, clobbered Calvin Smith of Crapaud 13-4, and  Blair Jay of Summerside by a 10-1 score.

Qualifier number 2 went to the number two seed. last year's runner-up and 2005 and 2006 champion Rod MacDonald of Summerside, whose team includes Jamie Newson, and former Tankard winning skips Mike Gaudet and Peter MacDonald. They defeated the Kyle Stevenson rink of Charlottetown by a 7-4 score in today's qualifying match.

Two Tankard veterans squared off for the third qualifying position, with defending champion Peter Gallant, who has been on eight winning Tankard teams, defeating 5-time Tankard and 5-time Seniors champion Ted MacFadyen by a 10-3 score, taking four points in the first end, and stealing a single in the second to grab an early 5-0 lead. Playing with Gallant are Kevin Champion, Mark O'Rourke, and John Desrosiers.

Open Playdowns Game Results
Qualifier games have red scoreboard header.
=last rock advantage in 1st end #=seedings

Draw 1: Friday, January 25th, 9:30 am
 ICE 1 Game 1
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 Jeff Nelson (Montague)  1  0  0     6  
 Eddie MacKenzie (Charlottetown)
 0 0  x     9  
 ICE 2 Game 2  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Calvin Smith (Crapaud)      
Tim Cullen (Charlottetown)  2  2     13   
 ICE 3 Game 3  1   2   3   4   5   ..6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Larry Dewar (Montague)  0  3     4  
Kevin Ellsworth (Silver Fox)  1  2     8  
 ICE 4 Game 4  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Charlie Wilkinson (Charlottetown)  0  0  x     4  
Robert Shaw (Charlottetown) #7     10   
Draw 2: Friday, January 25th, 1 pm
 ICE 2 Game 5  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Angus Kennedy (Cornwall)  1  1  3  0  0   6   
Nick Fraser (Charlottetown)  1  0  0 0 1   7   
 ICE 3 Game 6  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total Notes
Ted MacFadyen (Charlottetown) #8  2  4 0  x  x  x     8   
Blair Trowbridge (Charlottetown)  0 1  x  x       
Opening Ceremonies - 4 pm
Draw 3: Friday, January 25th, 4:30 pm
 ICE 1 Game 10 KS vs W4  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Kyle Stevenson (Ch'town) #5  0  2  0     9   
Robert Shaw (Charlottetown) #7  2  2     6   
 ICE 2 Game 9 RM vs W3  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Rod MacDonald (Silver Fox) #2     9   
Kevin Ellsworth (Silver Fox)  0  0  0     4   
 ICE 3 Game 8 BJ vs W2  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Blair Jay (Silver Fox) #6  0  x  x     1   
Tim Cullen (Charlottetown)  2  2  3  2  x  x     10   
 ICE 4 Game 7 JL vs W1  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
John Likely (Charlottetown) #1 0     7   
Eddie MacKenzie (Charlottetown)  0  0  0 2     3   
Draw 4: Friday, January 25th, 7:30 pm
 ICE 2 Game 12 AR vs W6  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Andrew Robinson (Charlottetown) #4  x     1   
Ted MacFadyen (Charlottetown) #8  0  1     8   
 ICE 3 Game 11 PG vs W5  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Peter Gallant (Charlottetown) #3  4     10   
Nick Fraser (Charlottetown)  0  0     5   

Saturday

Draw 5: Saturday, January 26th, 9 am
 ICE 1 Game 17 L2 vs L7
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 Calvin Smith (Crapaud)  0  0  1  1     4  
 Eddie MacKenzie (Charlottetown)  x     7  
 ICE 2 Game 19 L6 vs L11  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Blair Trowbridge (Charlottetown)  0  0  x     7  
 Nick Fraser (Charlottetown)      
 ICE 3 Game 21 L4 vs L9  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Charlie Wilkinson (Charlottetown)   7  
 Kevin Ellsworth (Silver Fox)   10  
Draw 6: Saturday, January 26th, 12:30 pm
 ICE 2 Game 16 L1 vs L8  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Jeff Nelson (Montague)  0       
 Blair Jay (Silver Fox)     6   
 ICE 3 Game 18 L5 vs L12  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Angus Kennedy (Cornwall)  0  x     5   
 Andrew Robinson (Charlottetown)  3  x     10   
 ICE 4 Game 20 L3 vs L10  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Larry Dewar (Montague)  1 0     6   
 Robert Shaw (Charlottetown) #7  0     7   
Draw 7: Saturday, January 26th, 4 pm
 ICE 2 Game 13 W7 vs W8 Q1  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 John Likely (Charlottetown) #1  0  2  1  0  1       
 Tim Cullen (Charlottetown)  2  0  3  x     10   
 ICE 3 Game 14 W9 vs W10 Q2  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Rod MacDonald (Silver Fox)  0  1  1     7   
 Kyle Stevenson (Ch'town)  0  1  0  1  x     4   
 ICE 4 Game 15 W11 vs W12 Q3  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Peter Gallant (Charlottetown)  1  2     10    
 Ted MacFadyen (Charlottetown)  1       
Draw 8: Saturday, January 26th, 7:30 pm
 ICE 1 Game 28 L19 vs L21  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total Notes
 Nick Fraser (Charlottetown) 1  3     5   
 Charlie Wilkinson (Charlottetown)  0     9   
 ICE 2 Game 24 W20 vs W21  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Robert Shaw (Charlottetown)  0     6   
Kevin Ellsworth (Silver Fox)  0       
 ICE 3 Game 22 W16 vs W17  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Blair Jay (Silver Fox)  0       
Eddie MacKenzie (Charlottetown)      
 ICE 4 Game 23 W18 vs W19  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total Notes
 Andrew Robinson (Charlottetown)  1  x  x     7  
Blair Trowbridge (Charlottetown)  x      

Sunday

Draw 9: Sunday, January 27th, 10:30 am
 ICE 1 Game 29 L22 vs L18
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 Blair Jay (Silver Fox)  0     9  
Angus Kennedy (Cornwall)  1  0     2  
 ICE 2 Game 32 L20 vs L23  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Larry Dewar (Montague)  0  1  0     9  
 Blair Trowbridge (Charlottetown)  0  0  0     8  
 ICE 3 Game 30 L16 vs W28  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Jeff Nelson (Montague)  0  0   6  
 Charlie Wilkinson (Charlottetown)  1  0   7  
 ICE 4 Game 31 L17 vs L24  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Calvin Smith (Crapaud)  0      2  
 Kevin Ellsworth (Silver Fox)  1     10   
Draw 10: Sunday, January 27th, 2 pm
 ICE 1 Game 25 L15 vs W22 Q4  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Ted MacFadyen (Charlottetown)  1     10   
 Eddie MacKenzie (Charlottetown)  0  2  0     7   
 ICE 2 Game 26 L14 vs W23 Q5  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Kyle Stevenson (Ch'town)  0  0  1     8   
 Andrew Robinson (Charlottetown)  0  0  2  x     4   
 ICE 3 Game 27 L13 vs W24 Q6  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 John Likely (Charlottetown)  0     7   
 Robert Shaw (Charlottetown)  0  0       
Draw 11: Sunday, January 27th, 6 pm
 ICE 1 Game 34 L26 vs W31  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Andrew Robinson (Charlottetown)  1  0  1  1  0  3  0  3  x  x      9   
Kevin Ellsworth (Silver Fox)  0  2  0  0  2  0  1  0  x  x      5   
 ICE 2 Game 33 W29 vs W30  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
Blair Jay (Silver Fox)  0  3  2  1  0  4  x  x  x  x      10   
Charlie Wilkinson (Charlottetown)  0  0  0  0  1  x  x  x  x      1  
 ICE 3 Game 35 L25 vs W32  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total Notes
 Eddie MacKenzie (Charlottetown)  1  0  0  0  1  2  1  0  0  1      6  
Larry Dewar (Montague)  0  0  1  2  0  0  0  1  1  0      5  

Monday

Draw 12: Monday, January 28th, 3 pm
 ICE 2 Game 37 W34 vs W35 Q8  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Andrew Robinson (Charlottetown)  1  0      
 Eddie MacKenzie (Charlottetown)  0     8  
 ICE 3 Game 36 W33 vs L27 Q7  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12  Total  Notes
 Blair Jay (Silver Fox) 0  0    
 Robert Shaw (Charlottetown)  2  1   8  

 

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