Three teams remain unbeaten after day two action at the round robin Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships at the Cornwall Curling Club.
Photo: Rod MacDonald
On the men’s side, defending champion Rod MacDonald from the Charlottetown Curling Complex, and last year’s runner-up and 2011 winner Bill Hope from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside and the Cornwall Curling Club, sport 3-0 win-loss records. The Shirley Berry rink from the Cornwall and Silver Fox clubs is 2-0 in the women’s event. Berry, who is the 2014 PEI Masters women’s champion, has won the Seniors five times, and was runner-up last year.
Photo: Bill Hope
Six time Seniors and reigning Masters men’s champ Ted MacFadyen from the Silver Fox, is 2-1, while his clubmate Leo Stewart is 1-2. Blair Weeks from Charlottetown, and Blair Jay from the Fox are 0-3. Cornwall’s Karen Currie and Montague’s Kathy Clarey are 1-1, while Carol Kennedy from Cornwall and Jennifer Scott from Montague are 1-2 on the women’s side.
In men’s action today, MacDonald beat Weeks 6-4 in the morning draw, and handed MacFadyen his first loss, by a 7-5 score, in the afternoon. Hope doubled Blair Jay 4-2 in the afternoon, and got by Leo Stewart by a 6-4 score, while MacFadyen rebounded with a 7-2 win over Jay in six ends.
Photo: Shirley Berry
In the women’s event, Shirley Berry stole the second through 4th ends in a 6-2 win over Cornwall clubmate Karen Currie, and, protected by a pile of guards, picked up a deuce in the final end to shade Montague’s Jennifer Scott rink 6-4. Currie beat Cornwall clubmate Carol Kennedy 9-7 this morning, but Kennedy rebounded with a convincing 8-1 over Montague’s Kathy Clareyin six ends, stealing a triple and taking another triple in the game. Clarey lost 7-4 to Scott in the morning draw.
Round robin play concludes on Saturday, with draws at 10 am, and 2:30 and 7 pm. The two undefeated men’s rinks, Hope and MacDonald, will face off in the 2:30 draw.
Live results are available at PEICurling.com/seniors
Admission to watch the seniors at the Cornwall Curling Club is free. Six men’s and five women’s rinks are in the event.
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.