Summerside’s own Rod MacDonald and Mike Gaudet have finished in first and second place respectively in round robin play at the Labatt/Journal-Pioneer Cashspiel at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, and have earned byes to the 12 noon semi-finals. MacDonald will play the winner of a 9 am quarter-final match between Jamie Christianson of Halifax and Robert Shaw of Charlottetown, while Gaudet will take on the winner of the other quarter-final, between Martin Gavin of Halifax and Charlottetown’s Robert Campbell. The final goes at 3 pm.
MacDonald, Gaudet, Gavin and Christianson finished round robin play on Saturday with 4-1 win-loss records, while Shaw and Campbell went 3-2. Eighteen teams from around the Maritimes began play Friday in this annual Atlantic Curling Tour event. $2500 is the prize for the top team, with $1600 for the runner-up, $1200 for 3rd and 4th place, and $800 for 5th and 6th place.
The Tour travels to Moncton Dec. 8-11 for the Molson Canadian Hub City Shoot Out.