The combined Cornwall/Charlottetown rink of Shirley Berry, Sandy Hope, Shelley Ebbett, and Arleen Harris, with coach Butch McGee, beat the Karen MacDonald foursome from the Charlottetown Curling Club by a 9-1 score this morning to win the Credit Unions of PEI Senior Women’s Curling Championship at the Charlottetown Curling Club. As Berry had won two of the three sections of the triple knockout draw, she could win the championship by taking either Monday game, and she did with the first one, following a triple in the second end with a stolen deuce, and four consecutive stolen singles. Playing with runner-up MacDonald were Paula Creamer, Kay Atkinson, and Karen Hardy.

On the men’s side, Peter MacDonald and his Charlottetown Curling Club team had also won two triple-knockout sections, and also won with the first championship game, against defending champion Mel Bernard of Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club, by a 7-5 score.
MacDonald opened with a deuce in end one. Bernard blanked the second, and took a single point in the third end. MacDonald recorded a deuce in end four, and Bernard settled for a single in five to give MacDonald a 4-2 lead at half time. Bernard stole a deuce in the sixth end. MacDonald took one in the seventh, and stole another in the eighth. Bernard took one in the ninth, giving MacDonald a 6-5 lead and last rock advantage in the final end, where he picked up a single for the win. Other members of the winning MacDonald rink are Peter Gallant, Rod MacDonald, and Doug MacGregor, with Blair Jay, Douglas Simmons, and Earle Proude rounding out the runner-up Bernard foursome.

The winning Shirley Berry and Peter MacDonald rinks will now advance to the Canadian Seniors, March 19-28 at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club.

Eleven men’s and seven women’s teams took part in the PEI Seniors championships, for curlers age 50 and over.