The players for the championship round have now been determined at the Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships at the Cornwall Curling Club, with the semi-finals set for Sunday at 2:30, and the finals going Sunday evening at 7. (No tiebreakers are required, so draws at 10 am Sunday and 1:30 pm Monday will not take place)
The men’s semi-final at 2:30 pm Sunday will see second place Bill Hope and his Cornwall/Silver Fox team take on six time Seniors champ Ted MacFadyen and his rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, who grabbed the third and final spot in the round robin this evening with an 8-3 win over Charlottetown’s Blair Weeks foursome, stealing two deuces on the way to the win. Hope, who won the event in 2011, and was runner-up last year, finished round robin play Saturday afternoon with a 4-1 win-loss record, while MacFadyen went 3-2 to wrap up third place. Finishing out of the playoffs are the rinks skipped by Leo Stewart of Summerside (2-3), Weeks (1-4) and Blair Jay of the Silver Fox, who lost 8-3 Stewart in this evening’s other match, to finish at 0-5.
Photo (L-R) Mark O’Rourke, Rod MacDonald, Mark Victor
The winner of the semi-final will face the defending champion Rod MacDonald (5-0) rink, who went undefeated in tthe round robin, after handing the Hope team their first loss this afternoon, by a 9-2 score, after picking up a triple in the sixth end, and 4 points in the seventh.
Photo: Shirley Berry
The three teams for the women’s playoff round were set following their final round robin draw Saturday afternoon. The Shirley Berry rink from the host Cornwall club and the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club finished the round robin with a perfect 4-0 win-loss record and was awarded first place and a bye to the final, Sunday at 7 pm. The Jennifer Scott rink from Montague, and the Karen Currie team from the host Cornwall club both finished with 2-2 win-loss records and have advanced to the 2:30 pm Sunday semi-final, between the 2nd and 3rd place teams, with the winner of the semis advancing to the final. Scott was awarded second place by virtue of her 8-7 extra-end win over Currie in this morning’s draw.
In this afternoon’s draw, Berry beat Cornwall clubmate Carol Kennedy 7-4, while Currie beat Montague’s Kathy Clarey 5-2. Both Clarey and Kennedy finished play with 1-3 records.
Live results are available 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..