Defending Canadian champ, former Canadian Junior champ, national Mixed record holder among Mixed skips

This years’s M&M Meat Shops Mixed, at the Charlottetown Curling Club, has only four entries, but may be the most competitive mixed field ever, with two-time Canadian Mixed champion Robert Campbell returning with last year’s Canadian championship team, which includes Rebecca Jean MacDonald, Robbie Doherty, and Jackie Reid, intact.

Photo (L-R): 2010 Canadian Mixed champs – Robert Campbell, Rebecca Jean MacDonald, Robbie Doherty, Jackie Reid

Also entered is John Likely, who returns to this event after several year’s absence, and will be looking for his ELEVENTH PEI Mixed title. He has held records for the most appearances as skip and the most games won at the Canadian Mixed. Likely’s team this year includes Sinead Dolan, Eric Brodersen and Michala Robison, all former PEI Junior champions.

The third Charlottetown Curling Club team entered is skipped by former Canadian Junior champion and World Junior silver medallist Brett Gallant, and includes his long-time teammate Anson Carmody at second. Erin Carmody and Geri-Lynn Ramsay, from last year’s Canadian Scotties silver medallist rink, are playing third and lead, respectively, in their last appearance in a PEI championship before they head west to Calgary next season to join the Crystal Webster rink in their quest for a berth in the 2013 Olympic Trials in Winnipeg.

Rounding out the field is the Tammy Dewar foursome from the Montague Curling Club. Dewar and lead Gail Greene were on the 2005 PEI Mixed championship team, as well as the 2010 PEI Scotties runner-up rink, and are joined this time by Paul Morrison, who throws fourth rocks, and Matthew MacDonald at second stone.

The four teams will play a double knockout format, with Friday draws at 1 and 6 pm. Campbell plays Likely, with Gallant taking on Dewar in the opening draw. Saturday games are at 10 am and 3 pm, with the final Sunday at 10 am. In the event that the same team wins both the A and B section finals, the championship game would not be required.

The winning team will advance to the 2012 Canadian Mixed, which takes place November 12-19, 2011 at the Sudbury Curling Club in Sudbury, Ontario.

Complete draw and end-by-end results available at peicurling.com/mixed.

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