Only two unbeaten rinks remain after day two play at the Ferguson Funeral Homes Provincial Stick Curling Championship at the Montague Curling Club. Two-time champions Ernie Stavert and Sterling Stratton are 5-0 in the men’s/mixed division, while the defending women’s division champions, the Ruth Stavert/Gloria Clarke team, are 3-0. Both rinks are from the Cornwall Curling Club (Ernie and Ruth are husband and wife).  Three men’s/mixed rinks are at 5-1, including the defending champion Walter Callaghan/John Vincent twosome from the Western Community Curling  Club in Alberton, along with the Bob Acorn/Willie Nicholson pair from Charlottetown and the Bazil and Sterling Higginbotham team from the host Montague Curling Club.

Round robin play wraps up Thursday morning with draws at 10 and 11:15 am. The men’s/mixed quarter-final round goes at 12:45 pm, with the semis in both divisions at 2:15, and the finals at 4:45.

Complete draw and results are available at peicurling.com/stick.

The top four men’s/mixed teams and the top two women’s teams earn the right to compete in the Maritime Stick Curling Championships, March 15-17 at the Beaver Curling Club in Moncton. The top two men’s/mixed teams may also compete at the 2011 Canadian Open Stick Curling Championship, March 23-25, 2011 at the Golden Ears Winter Club in Maple Ridge BC.

In stick curling there are two curlers per team, who deliver their rocks with delivery sticks, with each team member delivering from opposite ends. Sweeping is allowed only from the hog line to the back of the house at the playing end. Two curlers, one from each team, alternately deliver 6 stones each per end, while their teammate skips that end. The roles are then reversed, and the partners deliver the stones back. No stone may be removed from play until the fourth stone of each end. Games are six ends and take about an hour to play. For more information on stick curling, including complete rules of play, visit www.stickcurling.ca.