The 12 noon finals are set at the Curl PEI Provincial Masters Curling Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, at the Cornwall Curling Club.

On the men’s side, it’s an all-Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club final, with Mel Bernard, who qualified on the A side of the triple knockout, and then blanked clubmate Bob Maynard 8-0 in the Page 1 vs 2 game to earn a bye to the final, taking on Maynard again.  Maynard defeated the Bill Hope rink from the Cornwall and Silver Fox clubs in this morning’s semi-final, by a 7-1 score, with Maynard stealing a deuce in end four, a single in five, and another deuce in six to wrap things up early,

On the women’s side, the semi-final was a see-saw battle between defending champion Shirley Berry and her combined Cornwall/Silver Fox team, and Carol Sweetapple from the host club. Berry opened with a deuce, but Sweetapple pulled ahead with a single, a stolen deuce, and a stolen single. Berry moved into a 5-4 lead with a triple in the fifth end, and stole a single in the sixth. Sweetapple tied things up with a two point seventh end, and kept things clean coming home. Berry was short on her first draw, and didn’t throw her final rock, as that would have given her only one rock in the house, not enough for a tie. Final score: 7-5 Sweetapple.

Sweetapple now faces undefeated Diane MacKay and her Charlottetown/Cornwall rink in the final.

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.