Berry to represent PEI in Senior Nationals (Journal)

Posted on by February 22, 2012

(by Eric McCarthy)

ALBERTON – Changing from a wide-open take-out game to a junk game worked for the Shirley Berry Cornwall/Charlottetown rink Tuesday in the sudden-death final of the P.E.I. Credit Unions Provincial Senior Women’s Curling Championship.

Berry, who has won four previous provincial senior titles, changed her game around after the 2011 defending champ June Moyaert rink from Montague stole single points in the first three ends. Berry took a point in the fourth and then stole deuces in the fifth and sixth ends for a 5-3 lead.

Eric McCarthy/Journal Pioneer photo
The Shirley Berry rink clutches the championship trophy after winning the 2012 Credit Unions of P.E.I. Senior Women’s Curling championship in a pressure-packed winner-take-all final at the Western Community Curling Club Tuesday. Berry, from left, and her Cornwall/Charlottetown team of Sandy Hope, Shelley Ebbett and Arleen Harris will represent P.E.I. in the Senior Nationals March 17 to 25 in Abbotsford, B.C.

Moyaert singles in the seventh and eighth ends tied the game and Berry managed to blank the ninth to preserve hammer for the final end.

“I was so nervous it wasn’t going to roll out,” Berry said of her final shot in nine.

In the 10th, there were five rocks at the back of the house with the Berry team counting one when the Cornwall/Charlottetown skip settled in to throw her first rock. It ended up in the eight-foot on the tee-line, fully exposed.

“I thought we lost it,” she admitted following the game, knowing Moyaert had room to hit and flop to the centre behind cover. Moyaert’s final stone refused to curl, though and she simple advanced the Berry stone, giving Berry a 6-5 victory.

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