PEI’s Kathy O’Rourke rink fell victim to a five-ender from New Brunswick’s Andrea Crawford team this afternoon, losing 7-1 in the women’s final of the 6th annual Molson Canadian Hub City Shootout cashspiel at Moncton’s Beaver and Beausejour clubs. The men’s section was won by the Paul Dobson rink from New Brunswick, who beat Moncton’s James Grattan foursome 7-3 in the final.
In the women’s final Crawford had a narrow 2-1 lead going into the 5th end, where she scored the five-ender to bring the game to a speedy conclusion.
The winning Crawford team includes Rebecca Atkinson, Danielle Parsons, and Jodie DeSolla. Other members of the runner-up O’Rourke team are Meaghan Hughes, who throws 4th stones, along with Jackie Reid, Tricia Affleck, and alternate Stefanie Clark.
O’Rourke and Crawford both finished round robin play with 4-1 win-loss records to advance to the final. PEI’s Suzanne Birt rink finished at 2-3, while the Tammy Dewar foursome from Montague went 0-5.
In the men’s semi-finals this afternoon, Grattan beat Nova Scotia’s Team Revolve, skipped by Jamie Murphy, 5-2, and Dobson edged defending champion Marc Lecocq 7-6 in a battle of New Brunswick rinks. In the final, Grattan picked up a deuce in the opening end, but Dobson responded with a triple in the second. The third was blanked, and singles were exchanged in four and five. Dobson picked up a deuce in the sixth, stole a single in the seventh, and ran the Grattan rink out of rocks in the eighth end. Other members of the winning Dobson rink are Kevin Boyle, Mark Dobson, and Spencer Mawhinney. Jason and Darren Rocah, and Peter Case round out the runner-up Grattan foursome.
None of the six Island mens rinks, skipped by Robert Shaw, Rod MacDonald, Jamie Newson, Eddie MacKenzie, Mike Gaudet, and Blair Weeks, made it to today’s playoff round.
In PEI men’s play Saturday, Shaw lost 9-6 to Zach Eldridge of NB in the B pool, and then lost his C flight game 8-2 to Andrew Symonds of NL. Rod MacDonald lost 7-6 to Pierre Fraser of NB, and 8-2 to NB’s Jason Vaughan, and Jamie Newson lost 6-5 to Nova Scotia’s Brent MacDougall, and 6-4 to Eldridge.
Eddie MacKenzie also lost 6-5 to MacDougall, Mike Gaudet lost 5-3 to Martin Ferland of Quebec, and Blair Weeks lost 6-4 to Terry Odishaw of NB.
Six PEI men’s rinks and three Island women’s teams began play Thursday in the event.
Live results are available at http://playdowns.com/nbca/draw-sched.php?id_cmp=54
Event website: http://www.curling.monctonut.com/