It was a great opening day for the Island teams at the Travelers Curling Club Championship at the  Ottawa Hunt Golf and Curling Club. The event officially kicked off with celebrated local curlers Craig Savill, Rick Bachand, Emma Miskew and Cheryl Kreviazuk tossing the ceremonial opening stone in front of many visiting fans and families of the 256 competing curlers.

In the opening draw, the PEI Men’s team, skipped by Freddy Fraser out of the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, doubled Nunavut 6-3. PEI plays Newfoundland and Labrador (Andrew Symonds) this afternoon.

The Island women’s team, skipped by Lisa Jackson, from the Cornwall Curling Club, won by the same score, 6-3 over the Pam Osborne rink from Newfoundland and Labrador. PEI faces Nova Scotia (Monica Moriarty) and Quebec (Sonia Simard) today.

(Curling Canada/Claudette Bockstael Photo)

The 14 men’s and 14 women’s teams are split into two seven-team round-robin pools. After a single round-robin, the top three teams in each pool will make the playoffs. The first-place teams will be seeded directly into the semifinals, Friday, Nov. 27, at 7:30 p.m. (all times Atlantic). The second- and third-place teams will meet in crossover quarter-finals Friday at 2:30 p.m, with the winners moving into the semis.

The gold- and bronze-medal games are set for Saturday, Nov. 28, at 11 a.m.

Selected games from the 2015 Travelers Curling Club Championships will be live-streamed at www.curling.ca/2015travelers/

Scores and standings from the event will be available at www.curling.ca/scoreboard/.

For draw times, team lineups and other event info, go to: www.curling.ca/2015travelers/