The quarter-finals get underway Sunday at 9 am at the annual Silver Fox Curling Club Cashspiel in Summerside. Two teams, skipped by New Brunswick’s Mark Armstrong and by Charlottetown’s Brett Gallant, have advanced directly to the noon semi-finals, as a result of their round robin results. Gallant will play the winner of a quarter-final between Rick Perron of Moncton and Charlottetown’s Kyle Stevenson, while Armstrong meets either Summerside’s Mike Gaudet, or Danny Christianson of Halifax.
Gallant went through round-robin play undefeated, while Armstrong, Stevenson, Perron and Christianson had 4-1 win-loss records, and Gaudet went 3-2.
The finals go at 3 pm, with $2000 going to the winning team, $1600 to the runner-up, $1200 for third and fourth place, and $800 going to the remaining quarter-finalists.
In play on Saturday, Perron scored five points in the third end for a 5-0 decision over Charlottetown’s Tim Cullen, and scored four points in the final end to win 7-4 over Robbie Shaw. He beat Ted MacFadyen 6-1 in four ends in another Saturday game.
Bill Hope of Charlottetown handed Christianson his only loss by a 5-1 score, aided by a four point steal in the second end, earlier in the day, Christianson doubled Charlottetown’s Tim Cullen 8-4, taking 4 in the fifth end, and stealing a 6th end single to end the game early.
Gaudet doubled Derek Ellard of Moncton 6-3, and beat Terry Piper 6-2. Gallant beat Charlottetown clubmate Kim Dolan 7-5 in an extra end, shaded Gaudet 7-6 by stealing two points in the final end, and beat Ellard 6-4, while Stevenson beat clubmate John Likely 8-3, taking four points in the 6th, and won 8-1 over Karen Currie of Cornwall.
Eighteen teams are taking part in this annual Atlantic Curling Tour event.