The rinks skipped by Bill and Sandy Hope will both have two chances to win the PEI Masters Championships, for curlers age 60 and over, on Monday at 10 am and 2 pm at the Charlottetown Curling Club. Their opponents, the defending champion Ted MacFadyen men’s team, and the Shirley Berry women’s foursome would have to win both games to take the championship, while the Hopes each need to win only one game. The MacFadyen rink is from the Silver Fox, while the other three teams playing tomorrow are from Cornwall.
Photo: Shirley Berry (left) and Sandy Hope
The two-team Best of Five women’s event could have been over this afternoon, as two-time defending champion Sandy Hope had won the first two games, but Shirley Berry brought the series to game four, with a 6-4 win this afternoon, stealing a deuce in the third end and a single in the sixth, and running Hope out of rocks in the last end.
Photo: Bill Hope
Photo: Ted MacFadyen
Bill Hope captured his second section in the four-team men’s Modified Triple Knockout draw with a 10-5 win over clubmate Paul Arsenault in the “C” final this afternoon, scoring three of those points in the first and, and four of them in the eighth. Hope also won the “A” section, while defending champion MacFadyen won the B. By winning two sections, Hope has a “double life” in Monday’s two-game championship round against MacFadyen.
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