PEI’s Suzanne Birt rink, which includes third Shelly Bradley, second Leslie MacDougall and lead Stefanie Clark, lost a close 5-4 decision Sunday evening to Eve Bélisle of Montreal in the quarter-final round at the $97,000 Sun Life Financial Invitational Curling Classic in Brantford Ont. On Sunday afternoon the Birt foursome edged the Kathy Brown rink from Guelph Ont. by a 4-3 score to advance to the money round.

The Birt rink will go home with $4000 for their quarter-final finish.

In the other quarter-final matchups,  Erika Brown of Madison Wisconsin edged Karen Bell of Stoney Creek 5-4,  Marie-France LaRouche of Quebec got by Bingyu Wang of China by an 8-7 score, and Jacqueline Harrison of Ottawa edged Heather Strong of St. John’s 6-5.

On the men’s side, defending champion Glenn Howard downed Darryl Prebble of Toronto 6-2, Mike McEwen of Winnipeg lost to Andreas Schwaller of Switzerland by a 5-4 score, Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie doubled Brad Gushue of St. John’s 6-3, and Jean-Michel Ménard of Quebec beat Wayne Middaugh of Toronto by an 8-3 score.

The semi-finals go Monday morning at 9, with the finals at 12:30 pm Eastern.