The M&M Meat Shops Provincial Mixed Curling Championship gets underway this afternoon at the Crapaud Community Curling Club, with fourteen teams taking part.
Entrants include the defending champion Kyle Stevenson foursome from Charlottetown, last year’s runner-up and 2005 winner Larry Dewar of Montague, and 2008 champion Bill Hope from Charlottetown. Other Charlottetown teams entered include 1989 Canadian Mixed champion Robert Campbell, with veteran skip Rebecca Jean MacPhee at third, and a rink which includes former Canadian Junior champions and World Junior silver medallists Adam Casey and Anson Carmody, along with Erin Carmody and Geri-Lynn Ramsay, runners-up at this year’s Canadian Scotties. Rounding out the Charlottetown entries are teams skipped by Don Sheidow, Jody Jackson, and Eddie MacKenzie. Kim Dolan plays third for MacKenzie. Sean Clarey and Jeff Nelson have entered combined Montague/Charlottetown teams.
Entered from the host Crapaud club are teams skipped by Tony Quigley, Dario Zannier, and Alan Inman. The nearby Cornwall Curling Club’s one entry, skipped by Lorianne Davies, who throws third, with Rob Young throwing fourth stones, were runners-up in 2008.
Teams will play a double-knockout format, with today’s draws at 4 and 8 pm, Friday and Saturday play at 9 am and 2 and 7 pm, and Sunday action at 10 am and, if needed, 3 pm. The A section final is Saturday at 2, with the B final Sunday morning at 10. If the same team wins both A and B sections, they will win the event without having to play the championship game, scheduled for 3 pm Sunday. The M&M Meat Shops PEI Mixed winners will advance to the “2011? Canadian Mixed at the Morris Curling Club in Morris, Manitoba, November 20-27, 2010,

Here are the opening draws for the PEI Mixed:
Thurday March 4 at 4 pm
Bill Hope vs Dario Zannier, Larry Dewar vs Adam Casey, Lorianne Davies vs Jeff Nelson
Thurday March 4 at 8 pm
Robert Campbell vs Alan Inman, Eddie MacKenzie vs Sean Clarey, Jody Jackson vs Kyle Stevenson
Friday, March 5 at 9 am
Tony Quigley vs winner Hope/Zannier game, Don Sheidow vs winner Jackson/Stevenson game

Complete draw and end by end results available at peicurling.com/mixed.

Here are the team rosters (skip to lead, fifth, club)
Tony Quigley, Marie Ford, John Holm, Julie Mutch,   Crapaud
Don Sheidow, Carol Kennedy, Ralph MacPherson, Kim Flanagan, David Murphy, Charlottetown
Larry Dewar, Tammy Dewar, Larry Richards, Gail Greene,  Montague
Dario Zannier, Angie DesRoches, Frank MacDonald, Tracy Craig, Heather MacRae, Crapaud
Kyle Stevenson, Donna Butler, Doug MacGregor, Tricia Affleck, Charlottetown
Lorianne Davies (throws 3rd), Rob Young (throws 4th), Mark MacDonald, Melody Beck,  Cornwall
Jody Jackson, Lisa Jackson, Jamie Jackson, Jodi Murphy,   Charlottetown
Bill Hope, Sandy Hope, David Murphy, Shelley Ebbett,   Charlottetown
Robert Campbell, Rebecca Jean MacPhee, Robbie Doherty, Jackie Reid,   Charlottetown
Sean Clarey, Kathy Clarey, Donald Clarey, Becky Newson,   Montague/ Charlottetown
Alan Inman, Vanessa Hamming, Steven Thomson, Lindsay Moore,   Crapaud
Jeff Nelson, June Moyaert, Pat Birtwistle, Darlene London,   Montague/ Charlottetown
Eddie MacKenzie, Kim Dolan, Steve Burgess, Sinead Dolan,   Charlottetown
Adam Casey, Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Anson Carmody, Erin Carmody,   Charlottetown