PEI’s Robyn MacPhee foursome defeated the Ayami Ogasawara team from Sapporo Japan by a 6-2 score this afternoon to win the final of the 11th anniversary Royal LePage OVCA Women’s Fall Classic, a World Curling Tour event, in Kemptville Ontario. Team MacPhee, which includes third Sarah Fullerton, second Meaghan Hughes, and lead Michelle McQuaid, goes home with $5,500, out of a total purse of $17,500 in the 24 team event.

Photo (L-R): Robyn MacPhee, Sarah Fullerton, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle McQuaid

This is Michelle McQuaid’s 2nd victory in the OVCA Fall Classic, winning in 2013 with skip Susanne Birt, third Shelly Bradley, and lead Susan McInnis.

MacPhee knocked out 2011 event winner Sherry Middaugh of Coldwater ON with an 8-7 win in the quarter-finals, and then defeated Hollie Nichol of Ottawa 5-3 in the semis, while Ogasawara beat Ottawa’s Danielle Inglis squad, which includes PEI native Kiri Campbell at lead stone, by a 5-4 score in an extra end in her semi-final game.