The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, get underway on Monday morning at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. Defending champions, the Carol Sweetapple rink from the Cornwall Curling Club, and the Mel Bernard foursome from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside are back to defend their titles.

The seven men’s teams, and four women’s rinks from six PEI curling clubs will play double knockout format draws, Monday through Wednesday at 9:30 am and 1:30 pm, with the final men’s game, if needed, going at 5:30 pm Wednesday. The final women’s draw is Wednesday at 9:30 am. All games are eight ends. Opening ceremonies are Mnday at 12:30 pm.

Winners and runners-up earn the right to compete in the Maritime Masters Championships, February 12-19, in New Glasgow NS. The winning teams, or the highest-finishing men’s and women’s rinks that choose to attend, are invited to participate in the Canadian Masters, March 26 to April 1 in Montreal.

Here are the team rosters (skip to lead, club):

Men

Mel Bernard, Ted MacFadyen, Lou Nowlan, Earle Proude, Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club Fred Fall (throws 3rd), Brian Ellis (throws 4th), Raymond Thomson, Walter Andrews, Crapaud Community Curling Club John Holmes. Steve Bent, Des Arsenault, George Power, Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club Clair Sweet, Bob Matheson, Muncey Harris, Wayne Arsenault, Maple Leaf Curling Club Louis Walsh, Wayne Gardiner, Carl Delaney, Walter Benson, Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club Walter Callaghan,  Leslie Hardy, Johnny Ellsworth, Eddie Bernard, Western Community Curling Club Roddie MacLean, Ron Giggey, Paul Arsenault, Edgar Coffin, Cornwall Curling Club

Women

Shirley Berry, Sandy Hope, Arleen Harris, Evelyn Rogerson, Bill Hope (coach), Charlottetown/Cornwall clubs Marg Nowlan, Georgie Coulson, Dawn MacFadyen, Norma Sonier, Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club Ruth Stavert, Myrna Sanderson, Gloria Clarke, Myrna Craswell, Cornwall Curling Club Carol Sweetapple, Danielle Girard, Carlene Peters, Karen Fisher, Cornwall Curling Club

Here are the opening draws:

January 23 at 9:30 am Ice 1: Marg Nowlan vs Shirley Berry Ice 2: Roddie MacLean vs Fred Fall Ice 3: Carol Sweetapple vs Ruth Stavert Ice 4: Mel Bernard vs John Holmes

January 23 at 1:30 pm

Ice 1: Louis Walsh vs Walter Callaghan Ice 2: Loser Nowlan/Berry from draw 1 vs winner Stavert/Sweetapple from draw 1 Ice 3: Clair Sweet vs winner Bernard/Holmes from draw 1 Ice 4: Winner Nowlan/Berry from draw 1 vs loser Stavert/Sweetapple from draw 1

Complete draw is available at peicurling.com/masters. End by end results will be available at Livecurling.com