The 10 team Provincial Masters Men’s Curling Championship, for curlers age 60 and over, gets underway today, with draws at 9 am and 1 pm at the Cornwall Curling Club. Play starts Saturday morning for the two team Master’s Women’s championship at the same venue. No admission charge to watch this event.

Event website with draw times, schedule, team rosters: peicurling.com/masters20142015/

Click for end-by-end Curlcast scoring.

File photo from 2013 Provincial Masters at Cornwall

Opening men’s draws: Friday January 16

9 AM:

Ice 1: Dale Cannon (Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club) vs Louis Walsh (Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club)

Ice 2: Barry Craswell (Cornwall Curling Club) vs Bill Hope (Ch’town, Cornwall)

Ice 3: Ray Biagé (Cornwall Curling Club) vs Matt Smith (Ch’town Curling Complex)

Ice 4: Clair Sweet (Maple Leaf Curling Club) vs Paul Arsenault (Cornwall Curling Club)

1 PM:

Ice 1: Loser Craswell/Hope vs loser Sweet/Arsenault

Ice 2: Loser Cannon/Walsh vs loser Biagé/Smith

Ice 3: Bob Maynard (Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club) vs winner Cannon/Walsh

Ice 4: Mel Bernard (Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club) vs winner Craswell/Hope

Womens’ best of five series between Shirley Berry (Cornwall and Charlottetown) and Diane MacKay (Cornwall Curling Club): games go Saturday at 9 AM and 12:30 pm, Sunday at 9 am and, if necessary, 12:30 pm, and, if needed, Monday at 1 pm.

The men’s two game championship round, if required, goes Tuesday at 9 am and (if needed) 1 pm.

The Cornwall Curling Club will be selling soup and sandwiches at lunch-time Friday through Sunday, and will be conducting a 50X50 draw.

The men’s and women’s winners and runners-up (which will include both women’s teams this year) will earn the right to compete in the Maritime Masters Championships. Dates and venue for this event have not yet been announced. The winning teams, or the highest-finishing men’s and women’s rinks that choose to attend, are invited to participate in the 2015 NVA Hotel Divison Canadian Masters Championships, March 30 to Apr. 5 at the Whitehorse Curling Club in the Yukon.