Birt battling for a playoff spot with two days to go in round-robin
Moving day is normally the second-to-last day at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, but Suzanne Birt’s crew starting packing early.
Birt’s bunch out of the Charlottetown Curling Club of third Shelly Bradley, second Robyn MacPhee and lead Leslie MacDougall made a major move up the standings as the field started to spread out a bit at the 12-team Canadian women’s curling championship at the Civic Centre.
The Islanders doubled Nova Scotia’s Heather Smith-Dacey 6-3 Tuesday night in front of 2,057 fans for their third win in a row to move above the .500 mark at 4-3 and into a tie for the fourth and final playoff position with two days of round-robin competition to go.
The teams they’re tied with are the teams they beat Tuesday — Nova Scotia and Alberta, which P.E.I. trimmed 7-5 in an extra end.
The mood was night and day from where Birt and company were 36 hours ago, at 1-3 and licking their wounds after an 8-2 drubbing from Ontario on Monday morning.
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Guardian photo by Brian McInnis
P.E.I. third Shelly Bradley keeps an eye on the sweepers after making a shot in draw 11 Tuesday night against Nova Scotia
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