The Charlottetown Curling Club’s Robert Campbell rink beat their clubmates, the Bill Hope foursome by an 8-3 score this evening to win the M&M Meat Shops Provincial Mixed Curling Championship at the Crapaud Community Curling Club. Campbell, and his team of Rebecca Jean MacPhee, Robbie Doherty, and Jackie Reid, grabbed an early 5-1 lead with a triple in the second end, and a deuce in the fourth, and held on for the win.

The Campbell squad had won the A section of the double-knockout competition with an 11-5 victory over Hope, whose team includes his wife Sandy, along with David Murphy and Shelley Ebbett. Campbell then suffered his only loss in the event, losing a B section qualifier to the Eddie MacKenzie rink, also from Charlottetown, by a 6-4 score. Hope won his B qualifier 7-4 over clubmate Jody Jackson, who had advanced to that game by eliminating defending champion Kyle Stevenson, by an 8-5 score, on Saturday night. Hope then beat MacKenzie 8-3 in the B final to set up the championship game against Campbell.

Campbell is an eight-time provincial men’s winner, but his only other PEI Mixed title was in back in 1988, when he went on to win the 1989 Canadian championship. His team at that time included Angela Roberts, and Mark and Kathy O’Rourke.

The Robert Campbell rink will now advance to the 2011 Canadian Mixed, at the Morris Curling Club in Morris, Manitoba, November 20-27, 2010.