After two days of play at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts provincial women’s curling championship at the Silver Fox, defending champion and Summerside native Suzanne Birt, now playing out of the Charlottetown Curling Club, is now the only undefeated rink in the five-team field.

This afternoon, she handed clubmate Kim Dolan her first loss, by a narrow 9-8 margin, to move to a 2 and 0 win-loss record, while Dolan, who has not yet had a bye, is 2-1.  Dolan was leading the game 3-0 after two ends, when Birt grabbed the lead with a four-pointer, and stole singles in the next two ends for a 6-3 lead after five ends of play. Dolan opened the second half with a triple to tie things up, but Birt scored a deuce in the next end, with the teams trading singles through the final end, giving Birt the one-point victory. In other 3 pm game, Robyn MacPhee of Charlottetown downed Karen Currie of Cornwall by a 13-3 score, taking six points in the fifth end en route to the win.

In the morning draw, Currie lost 10-3 to clubmate Donna Butler, while Dolan beat MacPhee 9-3.

Butler and MacPhee are both 1-1, while Currie is 0-3.

Round robin play wraps up on Saturday with Currie facing Birt and Butler meeting MacPhee in the 1 pm draw, while Birt takes on MacPhee and  Dolan plays Butler at 6 pm.

If tiebreakers are needed, they’ll go Sunday at 2 pm. The Page playoffs with the first vs second place teams squaring off, and the third place rink meeting the fourth place, take place Sunday evening at 7. The semi-final, between the loser of the first vs second game, and the winner of the third vs fourth place, goes Monday at 2, with the semi-final winner playing the winner of the 1st vs 2nd place game, in the 7 pm final.

The PEI Scotties winner advances to the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts, February 21 to March 1st 2009 in Victoria BC.