The Diane MacKay rink from the Charlottetown and Cornwall curling clubs remains undefeated with a 3-0 win-loss record in the round robin women’s section of the Curl PEI Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, which continues through Friday afternoon at the Cornwall Curling Club.

In the men’s division, two rinks, skipped by defending champion Mel Bernard from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, and by Fox clubmate Bob Maynard remain unbeaten, and will play, at 3 pm Wednesday, for the first of four qualifying spots in the Page championship round.

MacKay, playing with Val MacLean, Lynn Thiele, and Donna Boulter, didn’t have to play the second half of their game this morning, after blanking Marg Nowlan and her Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club rink 9-0, MacKay picked up a point with hammer in the first end, and stole the next two to lead 3-0 after three ends. She then stole six points in the fourth end, and the Nowlan team called it quits at the half time break. Her afternoon game, against Carol Sweetapple from the host club, went the full eight ends, with MacKay stealing a single in the third end and a deuce in the final end in a 7-4 win.

Photo: Diane MacKay, left, watches as Marg Nowlan, 2nd left, guides her team’s rock into the house in the morning draw

Sherren MacKinnon and her Montague rink are second in the women’s round robin, with a 2-1 record, stealing a deuce in the eight end to edge Ruth Stavert of Cornwall 7-6, and taking seven points in ends 1-4 and stealing an eighth end deuce in an 11-7 shootout over Nowlan, who scored six of her 7 points in one end, making up for the day’s other six-ender, which she gave up in the morning.

Nowlan, along with Ruth Stavert and Carol Sweetapple from Cornwall and defending champion Shirley Berry from Cornwall and the Silver Fox all share 1-2 win-loss records. Two women’s round robin draws remain, Wednesday at noon, and Thursday at 9 am.

Bernard handed Cornwall’s Paul Arsenault rink their first loss today, winning 8-2,8-4. while Maynard doubled Des Arsenault of Summerside 8-4.

Play continues on Wednesday with Men’s draws at 9 am and 3 pm, and a Women’s round robin draw at noon, with second place MacKinnon facing first place MacKay, Sweetapple taking on Stavert in an all-Cornwall game, and Nowlan playing defending champion Berry.

The semi-finals go Friday at 9 am with the finals following at noon.

Winners and runners-up earn the right to compete in the Maritime Masters Championships, March 7-10 at the Capital Winter Club, in Fredericton NB.. The winning teams, or the highest-finishing men’s and women’s rinks that choose to attend, are invited to participate in the Canadian Masters, April 8-14 at the Port Arthur Curling Club in Thunder Bay Ontario.