The PEI Credit Unions Provincial Senior Women’s Curling Championship will now be decided with the 2 pm Tuesday draw. Four-time champion Shirley Berry and her Cornwall and Charlottetown rink forced the sudden death final with an 8-7 extra-end win over defending champion June Moyaert of Montague this afternoon at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. The Montague team, who won two of the three sections in the triple knockout, could have wrapped it up this afternoon, while Berry, who won the A section, has to win both games in the championship round to take the title.
Berry and her rink of Sandy Hope, Shelley Ebbett, and Arleen Harris, with coaches Bill Hope and Butch McGee had a 7-3 lead after seven ends in this afternoon’s game, but Moyaert fought back with a deuce in eight, and stolen singles in nine and ten to tie the game at 7-all and force the extra, where Berry used last rock advantage to score a single for the win. Moyaert’s teammates are Sherren MacKinnon, Terri Thompson and Kathy Clarey, with Marj Campbell filling in for MacKinnon, who fell in the Friday evening draw.
The winners of tomorrow’s game will join the Senior Men’s winners, the Charlie Wilkinson foursome from Charlottetown, at the Canadian Seniors, March 17-25 in Abbotsford BC.