The Erin Carmody and Lisa Jackson rinks from the Charlottetown Curling Club are both 2-0 after opening day play at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts provincial women’s curling championships, being played at the Montague Curling Club.
Carmody, and her rink of Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Kathy O’Rourke, and Trisha Affleck, recorded a 10-4 win over their clubmates, the defending champions Rebecca Jean MacPhee rink, in draw two, stealing a deuce, a single, and another pair in the first three ends to quickly build up a 5-0 lead. MacPhee had the bye in the opening draw, while Carmody had recorded an 8-5 win over Cornwall’s Donna Butler.
Jackson, with her team of Jaclyn Read, Jodi Murphy, and Heather Mader, stole three points in the final end to beat the Charlottetown/Cornwall rink skipped by Shirley Berry by a 6-4 score, after doubling the host Montague club’s Tammy Dewar foursome by an 8-4 score in draw one.
In her second game, Dewar came from behind to hand five-time Scotties winner Suzanne Birt her second loss in this triple-knockout event, with an 8-7 extra-end decision. Birt lead 5-3 after seven, but Dewar took a triple in the eighth and stole a single in the ninth to pull ahead. Birt tied the game with a deuce in the tenth, but Dewar had the hammer in the extra and pulled out the win. Birt, who also lost her first game in an extra end, 6-5 to Shirley Berry, now drops to the sudden-death C division.
Sunday draws are at 10 am, and 3 and 8 pm, with Jackson and Carmody squaring off in the A division final in the morning draw. The B division final goes at 8 pm. Monday draws are at 2 and 7 pm, with the two game championship round, if required, going Tuesday, also at 2 and 7. In the event that a team wins all three sections, the championship round would not be needed. If a team wins two sections, they would win the championship if they took either championship game.
The eventual winner will advance to the national Scotties, January 30 to February 7 in Sault Ste. Marie Ont.