The Cornwall Curling Club rink of Mark MacDonald, Shirley Berry, Brad Gardiner, and Karen Currie finished round robin play in first place with a 5-1 record to advance directly to the final of the seven team Curl PEI Provincial Mixed Curling Championship, now set for 7 pm on Tuesday at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary.

\Photo (by Craig Mackie) action from this afternoon.

Three teams, skipped by Montague’s Tammy Dewar and George Koke rinks, along with the Charlottetown team skipped by Jamie Newson, ended the round robin with 4-2 records. The Dewar team, which includes players from the host Maple Leaf Curling Club, and the Charlottetown Curling Complex, was awarded second place, with Koke and Newson squaring off in a tiebreaker this evening, won 9-2 by Newson, aided by a five point sixth end which brought the game to a speedy conclusion.

Dewar and Newson now play in the semi-final, now scheduled for 3 pm on Tuesday, with the winner advancing to the 7 pm final against MacDonald.Other members of the Dewar team are Cody Dixon, Amanda MacLean, and Dennis Watts, while Vanessa Hamming, Andrew Robinson, and Michelle MacIntyre round out the Newson squad.

In the final round robin draws today, MacDonald doubled Dewar 8-4 in the morning draw, taking four points in the 7th end, and beat the host club’s Clair Sweet team 8-6 in the afternoon. Newson lost to Koke 7-5 this morning after Koke recovered from a 3-1 deficit with a four point 5th end and a stolen 6th end deuce. Newson edged Montague’s Larry Richards 6-5 in an extra end in the afternoon, while Koke got by the Bill Hope team from the Cornwall and Silver Fox clubs by a 5-4 score.

Hope ended the round robin with a 3-3 record, while Richards went 1-5 and Sweet was 0-6.

Today’s PEI Mixed games were originally scheduled for Sunday, but were delayed 24 hours due to a snowstorm.

The PEI Mixed winner advances to the Canadian Mixed, which will be held November 8-15 at the North Bay Granite Curling Club, with the pre-qualifier event taking place Nov. 6-7.