In the six team men’s division, defending Seniors champ Rod MacDonald from the Charlottetown Curling Complex beat Summerside’s Blair Jay rink 9-1, stealing four points in the third end, and taking a triple in the fifth to end the game early. 2011 Seniors winner Bill Hope and his team from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside and from the host Cornwall club recorded steals in the fourth through sixth ends in a 7-1 decision over Blair Weeks of Charlottetown in six ends. In the closest Men’s game of the evening, six time Seniors and reigning Masters champ Ted MacFadyen got by Silver Fox clubmate Leo Stewart by a 7-5 score, taking four points in the fourth end, and stealing a single in the fifth. Stewart made a comeback in the second half, taking a deuce, and stealing two singles, but ran out of rocks in the final end when MacFadyen got by a tight guard to remove Stewart’s shot rock.
The only women’s game on the ice was between 1988 provincial women’s champ Jennifer Scott, from the Montague Curling Club, and Cornwall’s Carol Kennedy rink. Scott opened with a deuce, but Kennedy took the lead with a triple in the second end. Scott tied it with a single in end 3. Kennedy blanked the fourth end and took a single in five to lead 4-3. Scott scored a triple in the sixth to take a two point lead . Kennedy narrowed the gap to 1 with a single in seven, but a light draw left them out of rocks in the last end. Final score: Scott 6, Kennedy 5.
Round robin action continues on Friday and wraps up Saturday evening with four of the five women’s teams in the event playing at 10 am Friday, with Kennedy taking on Karen Currie in a battle of host club rinks, and Kathy Clarey taking on Scott in a game between the two Montague teams in the event, along with one men’s game, between Weeks and MacDonald. Other Friday draws are at 2:30 and 7 pm. The women’s final goes Sunday evening with the men’s going either at the same time, or, in the event that two tiebreakers are needed, Monday at 2:30 pm.
Live results at PEICurling.com/seniors
The winning men’s and women’s teams will advance to the Canadian Seniors, to be held March 22-30, 2014 at the Yellowknife Curling Centre, the first time the Canadian Curling Association has ever held a national championship in the Northwest Territories.