[Note: Both the winner and runner-up teams will advance to both the Maritime Stick Curling Championship, March 12-14 in Montague, and the Canadian Open Stick Curling Championship here in Cornwall from April 1-4]

(by Eric McCarthy)

ALBERTON — A power outage, a storm and vacation schedules delayed the men’s final of the Ferguson’s Funeral Homes/Curl PEI Provincial Stick Curling Championship by a full two weeks.

When the game finally got underway on Thursday, teams didn’t seem to want to quit.

It took two extra ends for John Vincent and Walter Callaghan from the host Western Community Curling Club to emerge as champions.

Paul Field and Roddie MacLean from the Cornwall Curling Club scored a single in the sixth end to tie the score at 3-3 and send the game into an extra end.

The seventh end ended with no rocks in the house. Callaghan was looking at two Cornwall rocks when he stepped out of the hack with his final delivery in eight and he cleared both of them and stayed for the win.

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Photo (L-R): Walter Callaghan, John Vincent (2011 photo)