The Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Seniors Curling Championships, for curlers age 50 and over, get underway with the opening ceremonies Thursday evening at 6:15, here at the Cornwall Curling Club, with opening draw following at 7 pm. Admission to watch the PEI Seniors is FREE – we will have a donation jar to help out our Junior program, and will be selling 50×50 tickets at each draw. The daytime curlers will be selling delicious food during the noon-hour on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
We will have piper Calum Brydon piping in the dignitaries and curlers for our opening ceremonies. He is a grade nine student at East Wiltshire Intermediate. Teachers will know him from the fine job he did in front of 1300 teachers at the annual teachers’ convention last October in Charlottetown. Calum will be selling tickets after the opening to help finance his trip to the World Pipe Band Championship in Scotland in August, with the College of Piping. First prize from the College’s draw is a trip for two to Scotland, accompanying the College of Piping bands. Click for more info on the College’s fundraiser.
Friday through Sunday draws go at 10 am, and 2:30 and 7 pm. Six men’s and five women’s rinks are taking part. The defending men’s champion Rod MacDonald rink is back, but last year’s women’s champs, the Nola Murphy rink, are not participating.
Cornwall is represented in this event by the Bill Hope rink on the men’s side, and the Shirley Berry, Karen Currie, and Carol Kennedy women’s teams. Hope won the event back in 2011, while Berry is a five time Seniors champ, winning her first Seniors title here at Cornwall back in 2002. Hope and Berry were last year’s runners-up.
Also in this year’s event is the Jennifer Scott team from Montague, which includes all four members of their 1988 provincial women’s championship team!
The women’s final is Sunday night at 7 pm. The men’s will also go at that time, if there are zero or one tiebreaker. If two are needed, the final will take place Monday the 24th at 1:30 pm.
The winning men’s and women’s teams will advance to the Canadian Seniors, to be held March 22-30, 2014 at the Yellowknife Curling Centre, the first time the Canadian Curling Association has ever held a national championship in the Northwest Territories.
Come on out this week and watch some great curling!
End by end results will be available at PEICurling.com/seniors