The Leo Stewart men’s rink from the host Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club, along with the Tammi Cudmore women’s team from the Charlottetown Curling Complex, and the Iva Griffin foursome from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, remain undefeated with 3-0 win-loss records following Friday play at the provincial The Dominion Curling Club Championship in Summerside.
Stewart beat two-time defending champion Alan Inman from Crapaud 9-2 in his opener, edged Montague’s Matthew MacDonald team 5-4, and recorded a 7-3 win over Western’s Eric McCarthy squad, taking a triple in the sixth end and stealing a single in the seventh.
Griffin, who was on last year’s women’s winning team, edged Kim Aylward from the Fox 6-5 in her opening game, beat Cornwall’s Kim Glydon foursome 9-3, and stole an extra-end deuce to get by Vanessa Hamming and her Crapaud team 8-6. Cudmore, a former PEI women’s champ, beat Montague’s Gail Greene 10-4 in her opener, scored 5 points in the 7th end to beat Hamming 10-3, and took another 5-ender in a 10-4 win over Aylward.
Charlottetown’s Phillip McInnis and Montague’s MacDonald are 2-1 on the men’s side, with Crapaud’s Inman and Western’s McCarthy at 1-2, while Mark MacDonald of Cornwall is 0-3, losing his first two games by a single point, and his last game 8-3 to Matthew MacDonald.
On the women’s side, three teams are at 1-3: Cornwall’s Glydon, Montague’s Greene, and Aylward from the host club, while Crapaud’s Hamming, who won the inaugural provincial The Dominion in 2009, is 0-3.
Round robin play wraps up Saturday with draws at 9 am and 3 pm, with undefeated Cudmore and Griffin facing off in the 3 pm draw. Tiebreakers, if needed, follow at 7 pm.
Semi-finals, between the second and third place teams, go at 9 am Sunday. If a second tiebreaker is needed, it goes at 9 am, with the semi moved to 2 pm. The semi-final winners play the first place teams in the men’s and women’s finals, which go at 2 pm if the semi is at 9, or 7 pm, if the semi is at 2.
The winning teams will advance to the national The Dominion Curling Club Championship, November 24-29 at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax. Six of PEI’s seven curling clubs have entered teams in both the men’s and women’s divisions of the PEI event.
Live results are available at PEICurling.com/thedominion