Photo: Sandy Hope

Sandy Hope could wrap up the Best of Five women’s event in that draw with a third win over Shirley Berry. In this morning’s game, Hope stole a single in the fifth end and a deuce in the sixth in a 9-6 win over Berry. The fourth and fifth games, if necessary, go Monday at 10 and 2.

Photo: Paul Arsenault

In the men’s event, Paul Arsenault, trailing 4-2 at the 4th end break this morning, staved off elimination with a 7-5 win over O’Leary’s Clair Sweet, scoring a triple in the fifth end and stealing a single in the sixth en route to the victory and a ticket to the 2 pm “C” final.

Arsenault will be facing the Bill Hope rink, trying to capture their second section final in the modified triple knockout draw. Hope was down 5-2 after 4 ends this morning against defending champion Ted MacFadyen and his squad from the Silver Fox, who had picked up four points in the fourth. Hope scored triples in the fifth and seventh, keeping MacFadyen to a single in the sixth, and stole the final end for a 9-6 win. 

If “A” section winner Hope wins the “C” final this afternoon, he would have a big advantage going into the 2 game Monday championship round against “B” section winner MacFadyen, as a win in either Monday game would give him the title, while MacFadyen would have to win both. If Arsenault wins, there would be three separate section winners, and both games would be needed.

Winners and runners-up earn the right to advance to the Maritime Masters Curling Championships, at the Bluenose Curling Club in New Glasgow Nova Scotia, March 16-18 2018.  The winning Men’s and Women’s team, or the runners-up should they choose not to attend, also earn the right to compete in the 2018 Canadian Masters Curling Championships in BC, April 1-8 at Surrey’s Cloverdale Curling Club and White Rock’s Peace Arch Curling Club.

Live end-by-end results from the PEI Masters are available at PEICurling.com