The Shirley Berry rink from the Charlottetown and Cornwall curling clubs won the women’s section  this morning at The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy Provincial Masters Curling Championship, for curlers age 60 and over, at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. The Berry rink recorded an 8-5 victory over Cornwall’s Ruth Stavert team. The Berry squad got off to a quick start in the game, taking five points in the first end, and stealing a single in the second. Stavert fought back with a deuce in three, and two stolen singles, to come within 2 points. Berry responded with a deuce in end six, with Stavert taking a single in the seventh. Berry ran the Stavert foursome out of rocks in the final end. Other members of the winning Berry rink are third Sandy Hope, second Arleen Harris, and lead Evelyn Rogerson. Playing with runner-up Stavert were Myrna Sanderson, Gloria Clarke, and Myrna Craswell.

Meanwhile, Mel Bernard and his Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club rink won this afternoon’s B final against the Fred Fall foursome from the Crapaud Community Curling Club by a 6-2 score, and have advanced to the championship game, at 5:30 this afternoon, against A section winner Clair Sweet from the host club. Bernard blanked the first end in this afternoon’s game, scored four in the second and stole singles in the next two ends to lead 6-0 after 4 ends. Fall picked up singles in the next two ends, and shook hands in the seventh. Fall edged Summerside’s Louis Walsh 6-5 in an extra end and Bernard downed Sweet 7-2 in the B semi-finals this morning. Sweet won the A final Tuesday afternoon, with a 6-4 win over Walsh.

Seven men’s and four women’s rinks were entered in the double-knockout competition.

Winners and runners-up earn the right to compete in the Maritime Masters Championships, February 12-19, in New Glasgow NS. The winning teams, or the highest-finishing men’s and women’s rinks that choose to attend, are invited to participate in the Canadian Masters, March 26 to April 1 in Montreal.