It’ll be a Nova Scotia vs New Brunswick final at 2 this afternoon at the Atlantic Curling Tour championships at Moncton’s Curling Beausejour. The last of four PEI rinks in the event, skipped by Rod MacDonald, and including Andrew Robinson, Mark O’Rourke, and Sean Clarey, lost in the quarter-finals this morning to Rick Perron of New Brunswick in an extra end by a 5-4 score. MacDonald stole the final end, but Perron had hammer in the extra and took the win with a single point. Perron is playing another New Brunwick rink, skipped by Jamie Murphy, in the semis, which got underway at 11, while Chad Stevens is playing Jamie Murphy in the other semi. Both rinks are from Nova Scotia.
PEI’s Kevin Champion rink lost to Nova Scotia’s Shawn Adams 6-1 in a Sunday night tiebreaker, after winning their first two games, against Adams and against clubmate and tour moneyleader Robert Campbell, and losing 5-4 to Perron. PEI’s Eddie MacKenzie and Campbell rinks did not pick up wins in the event, with Campbell losing 7-6 to Perron, 6-5 to Champion, and 9-5 to Adams, while MacKenzie lost 5-4 to MacDonald, and 8-3 to Stevens. MacDonald recorded wins against MacKenzie (5-4), Ken Myers of Halifax (6-3), and lost 5-3 to Stevens before advancing to the quarter-final round.
$10,o00 is the total purse in this cashspiel, which wraps up the curling tour for the season, as teams now shift their focus to their provincial championships.