The Curl PEI Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, got underway at 9 this morning at the Cornwall Curling Club, with eight of the 10 men’s rinks seeing action, and three of the four wins coming from teams who curl out of the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside.
Photo (L-R): Blair Jay, Earle Proud, Mel Bernard
In the opening men’s triple knockout draw, the Paul Arsenault rink from the host club defeated the André Gauthier team from Charlottetown 7-5, Des Arsenault and his Silver Fox foursome downed their Fox clubmates the Louis Walsh rink 10-3, the defending champion Mel Bernard rink from the Fox stole four points in the fifth end on the way to a 7-2 win over Cornwall’s Bob MacWilliams rink, and another Fox team, skipped by Bob Maynard, stole a single in the last end to get by Bill Hope and his combined Cornwall/Silver Fox team by a 7-6 score.
Here are some pictures from the opening round action:
The opening women’s draw hit the ice at 12 noon, with all six women’s teams playing a round robin format. Carol Sweetapple of Cornwall is playing Marg Nowlan from the Fox, Sherren MacKinnon from Montague is facing defending champion Shirley Berry and her combined Cornwall/Silver Fox rink, and Ruth Stavert from Cornwall is playing Diane MacKay and her Charlottetown/Cornwall team.
The second men’s draw goes at 3 pm.
Live results are available through the week at peicurling.com/masters.