Just the Men’s and Women’s semi-finals at 9 am Friday, and the noon finals remain at the Curl PEI Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, being played at the Cornwall Curling Club.
Photo: Women’s semi-finalists Sweetapple and Berry
The women’s semi-final will see Carol Sweetapple and her host club rink, who finished round robin play in second place with a 3-2 win-loss record, take on defending champion Shirley Berry and her combined Cornwall/Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club rink. Berry finished in a three-way tie for third place at 2-3 with Montague’s Sherren MacKinnon and Cornwall’s Ruth Stavert teams, necessitating a pair of tiebreakers. Berry stole a deuce in the final end to edge MacKinnon 5-4 in the first, and scored one with hammer in the eighth end to get by Stavert by a 5-4 score in the second tiebreaker. The winner of tomorrow morning’s semi will face undefeated Diane MacKay (5-0) and her Charlottetown/Cornwall rink in the noon final.
Photo: Bill Hope
In the men’s semi-final, Bob Maynard, who qualified second out of the triple knockout round, after defending champion and Silver Fox clubmate Mel Bernard, and then lost 8-0 to Bernard in the Page 1 vs 2 game this afternoon, will face Bill Hope and is his combined Cornwall/Silver Fox foursome. Hope won the Page 3 vs 4 game 7-3 over Paul Arsenault and his Cornwall team, helped out by a steal of four in the fifth end. The winner of the 9 am semi will take on Page 1 vs 2 winner Mel Bernard in the championship game.
Ten men’s and six women’s teams began play Monday. Men’s and women’s 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.
End by end results are available at peicurling.com/masters