Four unbeaten teams after opening day at PEI Senior Men’s Ch’ship

Posted on by February 9, 2012

Day one is over at the PEI Credit Unions Provincial Senior Men’s Curling Championships, for curlers age 50 and up, being played at the Crapaud Community Curling Club, with two draws completed, and all nine teams seeing action in the triple knockout event.

Three teams have swapped skip and third positions from their original rosters, with Rod MacDonald now calling the game on the John Likely rink, Marc Leclair taking over as skip on the Dale Cannon team, and Donald Whitehead now calling the game as skip, with Frank MacDonald throwing fourth stones on their rink (according to Canadian Curling Association convention, the player who calls the game, regardless of throwing order, is considered to be the skip).

Four teams are undefeated, with 1-0 records – the Blair Jay and Mel Bernard rinks from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, the Clair Sweet team from the Maple Leaf club in O’Leary, and the Charlie Wilkinson rink from the Charlottetown Curling Club. The Barry Cameron rink from the Fox, and the Rod MacDonald (John Likely) team from Charlottetown are 1-1, while the defending champion Bill Hope team from Charlottetown and Cornwall and Summerside’s Marc LeClair (Dale Cannon) team are 0-1, and the Donald Whitehead (Frank MacDonald) foursome from the host club are 0-2.

The opening draw saw Wilkinson down Whitehead 11-6, and Likely edge Cameron 8-7. In the evening, Bernard doubled Hope 6-3, Jay got by Rod MacDonald 6-4, Sweet downed LeClair 7-1, and Cameron edged Whitehead 9-8.

The opening ceremonies took place prior to the start of draw two, with Marc LeClair from sponsor Credit Unions of PEI throwing the ceremonial first rock, assisted by Dario Zannier, Kenny Stewart and Raymond Thomson, all from the host club. Also on hand for the opening ceremonies were club manager Krista Fall-Clyke, and PEI Curling Association President George Koke.

Friday through Sunday draws are at 1 and 6 pm, with the championship round on Monday at 1 and, if necessary, 6 pm. In the event that one team sweeps all three triple knockout sections, the championship round will not be needed.

End-by-end results are available at LiveCurling.com.

The eventual winner will advance to the Canadian Seniors championships, March 17-25 in Abbotsford BC.

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