(by Jason Simmonds)
N.B. earns berth in final
SUMMERSIDE – The P.E.I. men’s rink now controls its own fate at the 2013 Canadian senior curling championships here at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club.
Simply put, if skip Rod MacDonald, third stone John Likely, second stone Mark O’Rourke and lead Peter MacDonald defeat Newfoundland and Labrador’s Glenn Goss in tonight’s (Friday) 7 p.m. draw, P.E.I. will finish round-robin play in second place and play in Saturday night’s semifinal.
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Members of the P.E.I. men’s rink at the 2013 Canadian senior curling championships congratulate each other after an 8-7 win over Ontario’s Howard Rajala at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club on Friday morning.
P.E.I. goes into its round-robin finale tied for second with Alberta’s Wade White at 8-2 (won-lost). However, having defeated Alberta in the round robin, P.E.I. holds the tiebreaker. Alberta plays Northern Ontario’s Bruce Munro (3-7) tonight.
“Going into it I knew we had a good team, and that we were going to be tough,” said MacDonald after P.E.I.’s sixth straight win – an 8-7 nail-biter over Ontario’s Howard Rajala – on Friday morning. “I knew if we got the right breaks and shots at the right time, we would do well.”
P.E.I. made it six straight wins with an 8-7 nail-biter over Ontario’s Howard Rajala on Friday morning. P.E.I. scored three in the sixth end to build an 8-3 lead, but Ontario counted singles in the final four ends and the game came right down to skip MacDonald’s final shot.