Here are photos from the awards presentation for the Ferguson-Logan Montague Funeral Home Provincial Stick Curling Championships, which wrapped up Saturday here at the Cornwall Curling Club.

Open Division winners Walter Callaghan (left) and John Vincent (centre) with head official Etta Reid.

Open Division Runners up Ernie Stavert (left), Vern Chowan

Event official Etta Reid (left) with Women’s winners Gloria Clarke (centre) and Ruth Stavert

Best of luck to our winners at their championships!

Here is a thank-you note from event co-chairs Ernie and Ruth Stavert:

After a couple of weather delays during the event, the Ferguson-Logan Montague Funeral Home PEI Stick Curling Championships wrapped up Saturday evening at the Cornwall Curling Club, with the Walter Callaghan and John Vincent duo from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton winning the 14 team, two pool single round robin Open (any combination of male/female) division, and, despite a slow start, losing three of their four games in the three-team double round robin Women’s division, the Gloria Clarke and Ruth Stavert team from the host club added yet another Women’s championship (their seventh out of the eight held to-date) to their collection.

Photos (L-R): Walter Callaghan, John Vincent

The top three teams in each Open Division pool advanced to the Open championship round, with the second place teams in one pool playing the third place teams in the other in the quarter-final round, with Howard Kerwin/William Power from Montague (4-2, B pool) beating Alvin Hackett/Victor Hogan  (4-2, A pool) from Alberton’s Western Community Curling Club 7-2,  and Cornwall’s Roddie MacLean/John Dunsford (4-2, B Pool) doubling defending champs Sterling Stratton and Barry Craswell, also from Cornwall (4-2, A Pool) by a 4-2 score.

The A pool winners, Vern Chowan/Ernie Stavert from Cornwall (5-1) then took on MacLean/Dunsford, winning  8-6, while the B pool winners, Callaghan and Vincent, also 5-1, beat Kerwin/Power 7-5 in the other semi-final. The semi-final winners Chowan/Stavert and Callaghan/Vincent then squared off in the final, with Callaghan/Vincent winning 3-1.

Photos (L-R): Gloria Clarke, Ruth Stavert

All three teams advanced to the championship round in the Women’s Division, with third place finishers Clarke and Stavert (1-3) beating 2nd place finishers Ann Barwise and Audrey Callaghan from Western Community (2-2) by an 11-3 score in the semi-final, taking four points in the third end, stealing three in the fourth, and singles in five and six for the win. e final against first place 

Clarke and Stavert then took on the first place team from the double round robin, the Myrna Craswell and Elaine Hughes duo, in the final, stealing four points in the final end for a 9-5 win. Clarke/Craswell have now won.

The top four Open Division (Callaghan/Vincent, Chowan/Stavert, Kerwin/Power and MacLean Dunsford), and top two Women’s Division (Clarke/Stavert and Craswell/Hughes) teams advance to the Maritime Stick Curling Championships, March 14-16 at Curl Moncton. The winning and runner-up Open Division teams (Callaghan/Vincent and Chowan/Stavert) are also invited to participate in the Canadian Open Stick Curling Championship, March 23-26 at the Bluenose Curling Club in New Glasgow NS. 

In stick curling there are two curlers per team, who deliver their rocks with delivery sticks, with each team member delivering from opposite ends. Sweeping is allowed only from the hog line to the back of the house at the playing end. Two curlers, one from each team, alternately deliver 6 stones each per end, while their teammate skips that end. The roles are then reversed, and the partners deliver the stones back. No stone may be removed from play until the fourth stone of each end. Games are six ends and take about an hour to play. For more information on stick curling, visit www.canadianstickcurling.ca.

• Draw 13 at 1 pm
• Draw 14 at 2:15 pm
• Draw 15 at 3:30 pm
• Draw 16 at 5 pm
• Draw 17 at 6:45 pm 

Only two Open Division round robin draws and the Open and Women’s championship rounds remain to be played at the Ferguson-Logan Montague Funeral Home PEI Stick Curling Championships at the Cornwall Curling Club.

Myrna Craswell

Elaine Hughes

The host club team of Myrna Craswell and Elaine Hughes finished in first place in the Women’s double round robin, with a 3-1 win-loss record, and have earned a bye into the 3:45 pm Friday finals. The other two women’s teams – Ann Barwise and Audrey Callaghan from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton (2-2) and defending champions Gloria Clarke and Ruth Stavert from Cornwall (1-3) will square off in the semi-final at 2 pm, with the winning duo facing Craswell/Hughes in the championship game.

The Western Community Curling Club duo of Walter Callaghan and John Vincent is the only undefeated (5-0) team in the 14 team, two pool Open Division (any combination of male/female) round robin, and will finish in first place in their pool, as the 4 next closest teams all have two losses.

Walter Callaghan

John Vincent

Leading the other pool is the host club team of Vern Chowan and Ernie Stavert with a 4-1 win-loss record. Defending champions Sterling Stratton and Barry Craswell, who were slow out of the gate, losing their first two games, made a remarkable recovery, reeling off four consecutive wins to finish round-robin play at 4-2, very much in playoff contention. Joe Gill and Merrill Cronin (Cornwall) and Alvin Hackett and Victor Hogan (Western) also have 2 losses in the pool, with one game left to play.

On Friday, the Open Division round robin wraps up with draws at 10 and 11:15 am. The second and third place teams in opposite pools square off in the quarter-finals at 12:30, with the winners of the quarters playing one of the first place teams in the semi-finals at 2 pm. The winners of the 2 semis advance to the championship final at 3:45.

All times are subject to change, particularly with the forecast storm.

At the end of the competition, the top four Open Division, and top two Women’s Division teams advance to the Maritime Stick Curling Championships, March 14-16 at Curl Moncton. The winning and runner-up Open Division teams are also invited to participate in the Canadian Open Stick Curling Championship, March 23-26 at the Bluenose Curling Club in New Glasgow NS. 

In stick curling there are two curlers per team, who deliver their rocks with delivery sticks, with each team member delivering from opposite ends. Sweeping is allowed only from the hog line to the back of the house at the playing end. Two curlers, one from each team, alternately deliver 6 stones each per end, while their teammate skips that end. The roles are then reversed, and the partners deliver the stones back. No stone may be removed from play until the fourth stone of each end. Games are six ends and take about an hour to play. For more information on stick curling, visit www.canadianstickcurling.ca.