The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy Provincial Masters Curling Championship wraps up today at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. The Shirley Berry rink from the Charlottetown and Cornwall curling clubs won the women’s section this morning, with an 8-5 victory over Cornwall’s Ruth Stavert team. The Berry squad got off to a quick start in the game, taking five points in the first end, and stealing a single in the second. Stavert fought back with a deuce in three, and two stolen singles, to come within 2 points. Berry responded with a deuce in end six, with Stavert taking a single in the seventh. Berry ran the Stavert foursome out of rocks in the final end. Other members of the winning Berry rink are third Sandy Hope, second Arleen Harris, and lead Evelyn Rogerson. Playing with runner-up Stavert were Myrna Sanderson, Gloria Clarke, and Myrna Craswell.

The B final in the men’s section gets underway at 1:30 pm, with Mel Bernard from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside taking on Fred Fall from Crapaud. Fall edged Summerside’s Louis Walsh 6-5 in an extra end this morning, while Bernard downed the host club’s Clair Sweet 7-2. The championship game between A final winner Sweet, and the B final winner goes at 5:30 pm.

Seven men’s and four women’s rinks were entered in the double-knockout competition.

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.