PEI teams are out of the running at the Canadian Masters in Saint John. Clair Sweet and his Maple Leaf Curling Club team picked up a win against the Yukon in their final round robin game, to finish round robin play with a 4-2 win-loss record, and advance to a tiebreaker game against Ontario’s Mike Dorey foursome. Sweet, and his team of Bob Matheson, Cliff Poirier, and Wayne Arsenault, lost that game 6-4, giving Ontario the final spot in the playoff round, with Manitoba’s Ron Westcott and Saskatchewan’s Eugene Hrituk teams finishing first in their pools, and playing off in the 1 vs 1 Page game yesterday, which Westcott won 6-2 to earn a berth in the final. Ontario went on to edge BC’s Gary Gelowitz 6-5 in the 2 vs 2 game, and will play in the semi-final against 1 vs 1 loser Hrituk at 2:15 this afternoon, with the winner facing Manitoba’s Westcott in the 7 pm final.

In the women’s section, the Summerside team of Jeanne Duffenais, Georgie Coulson, Marg Nowlan, and Pat Barrett finished round robin play with a 2-3 record, and did not advance to the playoffs, which will see New Brunswick champion Ellen Brennan from the host Thistle-St. Andrews club play BC’s Karin Host in the semi-final at 2:15 this afternoon, with the winner taking on Sue Anne Bartlett and her Nova Scotia rink in the 7 pm final. NB and BC both finished the round robin in first place in their pools at 5-0, and squared off yesterday in the Page game between first place teams, with Bartlett winning 11-4 to advance to the final.  New Brunswick and Manitoba were tied for second, and played in the Page 2 vs 2 game, with Brennan winning 10-4 and advancing to this afternoon’s semi-final against 1 vs 1 loser Host.