One women’s and one men’s draw have been played at the provincial The Dominion Curling Club Championship at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, with the club champions from six of the seven Island curling clubs competing to advance to the national The Dominion Curling Club Championship, November 18-23, 2013 at the Fort William Curling Club in Thunder Bay Ontario.
The opening women’s draw saw 2011 champ Lorianne Davies and her Cornwall Curling Club team beat Charlottetown’s Carol Kennedy rink 7-4, aided by a four point third end, Sharon Horne and her host club team beat Karen MacDonald and her rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside by an 8-5 score, and Montague’s Tracy Yorston-Campbell rink scoring two steals and a four-ender en route to an 8-6 win over Crapaud’s Vanessa Hammings team. Women’s round robin play continues on Friday, with draws at 9:30 am and 2:30 pm, and wraps up on Saturday with 12 noon and 5:30 pm draws.
In the men’s division, Charlottetown’s Alan Brown team scored two four-enders in a 10-3 win in only six ends over Cornwall’s Paul Neima foursome, defending champion Alan Inman and his Crapaud Community Curling Club team doubled Montague’s team, skipped by Paul Morrison , with David Rice throwing fourth stones, by a 10-5 score, and Blair Jay and his Silver Fox team stolel ends six and seven in a 5-3 win over the host club’s Mike Trudeau rink. Men’s round robin action continues on Friday with noon, and 5:30 pm draws, and concludes on Saturday with games at 9:30 am and 2:30 pm.
The top three men’s and women’s teams following the round robin and any tiebreakers advance to the championship round, with the second and third place teams squaring off in their respective semi-finals, Sunday at 1:30 pm, with the semi-final winners facing the first place teams in the men’s and women’s finals, at 5:30 pm.
Complete draw and end-by-end results are available at peicurling.com/thedominion
All profits from The Dominion Curling Club Championship are re-directed to Spinal Cord Injury and developmental curling initiatives in communities across the country. For more information about the Championship visit thedominioncurls.ca.