It was a long but successful 3 game day for the Debbie Rhodenhizer rink from the Cornwall Curling Club, but, with wins in two tiebreaker games, along with a five-point end in the semi-final, it got them to the women’s finals of the PEI Travelers Curling Club Championships at the Montague Curling Rink. And, they’ll have to win two more games to win the title and the trip to the nationals (venue, dates not yet announced), while their opponents, the Melissa Morrow foursome from the Silver Fox in Summerside, only need to win one, by virtue of going through round-robin play undefeated, requiring them to be beaten twice. These two teams met in the opening women’s round robin draw, with Morrow winning 6-4. The Morrow rink includes third Darcee Birch, second Lindsey Spencer, and lead stone Miranda Ellis. Morrow is a former national Travelers champ, playing second on the winning Lisa Jackson rink from Cornwall in 2015.

Photo (L-R): Women’s finalist skips Melissa Morrow (left) and Debbie Rhodenhizer

The Cornwall team, which also includes third Nancy MacFadyen, second Sandra Sobey, and lead Cindy Nicholson, started off the day with their first of two tiebreakers, against Sharon Horne and her team from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, picking up a decisive 9-2 victory, and advancing to the second tiebreaker game against Crapaud’s Amanda Holm team, with Cornwall trailing 6-3 after six ends. They scored a triple in seven, and stole the eighth for a 7-6 win, and a ticket to the semi-final, against Tammy Dewar and her Montague squad, who finished second in the round robin, while Cornwall was in the three-way tie for third.

In the semi, Dewar scored 1 with hammer in the first end, with Rhodenhizer blanking the next two, and then scoring a game-changing five points in the fourth end for a 6-1 lead at the fourth end break. The teams exchanged singles for the next three ends, and Montague ran out of rocks in the eighth.

The finals go Tuesday at 10 am and, if Cornwall wins the first game, 2 pm.

The Jamie Newson rink from the Silver Fox won the men’s title on Monday afternoon, with a 5-3 win over Alan Inman and his Crapaud team. Click for more.

Live results are available at PEICurling.com/scoreboard

It’ll be the Alan Inman rink from the Crapaud Community Curling Club advancing to the 2 pm Men’s final of the PEI Travelers Curling Club Championships in Montague, following a 9-5 extra-end win over Daryl MacDonald and his team from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton in this morning’s semi-final between the second and third place finishers from the round robin. The Inman squad, which also includes third Calvin Smith, second Nathan Hardy, and lead Nick Blanchard, finished round-robin play in third place with a 4-2 record in the seven-team field , and now face 1st place (5-1) Jamie Newson and his Silver Fox team in the 2 pm final, with the winner advancing to the national Travelers, with dates and venue yet to be announced.

Alan Inman

MacDonald had a 3-0 lead after two ends in this morning’s semi, but Inman took the next four ends to lead 5-3. A pair of Western singles tied the game, but Inman took four points in the extra end for the win.

Meanwhile, Debbie Rhodenhizer and her Cornwall Curling Club rink advanced out of the first women’s tiebreaker, downing Western’s Sharon Horne foursome 9-2 in seven ends. Rhodenhizer faces Amanda Holm of Crapaud at 2 pm in the second tiebreaker, with the winner advancing to the 6 pm semi-final against Montague’s Tammy Dewar rink, who finished 2nd in the round robin. The semi winner then takes on the Melissa Morrow rink from the Silver Fox in the final at 10 am Tuesday. Morrow went through round robin play undefeated, and must be beaten twice, so if she loses the final, there will be a deciding game game at 2 pm Tuesday to determine the  women’s champ.

Both the Men’s and Women’s teams from Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Community Complex are now one win away from a trip to the national Travelers Curling Club Championship. In the 4 pm Sunday provincial Travelers draw in Montague, the Melissa Morrow rink completed the women’s round robin with a perfect 5-0 record to advance to the women’s final, at 10 am Tuesday. If she loses that game, she’ll have another chance at 2 pm Tuesday, as she has to be beaten twice after her perfect round robin run. 

Jamie Newson

In the eight pm Sunday draw, the Jamie Newson team wrapped up the men’s round robin with a 5-1 record, the same as the Daryl MacDonald squad from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton. Newson beat MacDonald 10-3 in their round robin encounter, and gets the ticket to the final at 2 pm Monday, while the Western team will play the third place Crapaud Community Curling Club team, skipped by Alan Inman, in the 10 am Monday semi-final. Unlike the women’s event, no tiebreakers are needed. The semi winner then plays Newson for the title, and the trip to the nationals, with the venue and dates yet to be announced.

MacDonald beat Montague’s Larry Richard rink 7-5 on Sunday evening, while Newson downed Cornwall’s Cornwall’s Garth Cudmore 9-5 in just six ends, after scoring 5 points in the fourth end and stealing a single in the 5th. Inman lost his last game, 8-6 to Bob Matheson and his team from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary — it was their first win of the event.

Melissa Morrow

Recapping the women’s event, Cornwall, skipped by Debbie Rhodenhizer, takes on Sharon Horne and her Western rink in the first of two tiebreakers, at 10 am Monday, with the winner facing Crapaud, captained by Amanda Holm, at 2 pm. The winner of that game takes on second place Montague in the 2nd vs 3rd semi-final at 6 pm Monday.  The winner will play Morrow at 10 am on Tuesday. As Morrow went through the round robin undefeated, she has to be beaten twice, so if her team loses at 10 am, a deciding game will go at 2 pm on Tuesday.