The UPEI rink of Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Anson Carmody, and Alex MacFadyen won three in a row today to advance to the semi-finals at the CIS/CCA University Curling Championships in Edmonton. This morning, they downed McGill 11-2 to finish round robin play with a 4-2 win-loss record, tied for second in their pool with Western and Alberta. Queens, who beat Alberta 7-5 this morning took first place with a 5-1 record.
UPEI then beat Alberta 4-1 in their first tiebreaker, and stole a point in the final end to double Western 6-3 in their second.
UPEI now plays Dal, while Manitoba takes on Queens in the semi-finals at 8 pm Atlantic, with the winners advancing to the 1 pm AT Sunday finals.

SMU takes on Waterloo, and Wilfred Laurier faces Regina in the women’s semis.
UPEI’s women’s representatives, the Sarah Clow foursome, did not pick up a win in the tournament.

The winning teams will represent Canada at the 2011 FISU World Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey, January 27 to February 6th, 2011.