Junior champ Gallant is all wins so far

Summerside - Three-time P.E.I. Junior champ Brett Gallant and his team, which includes Summerside curlers, were hot on the ice Friday, winning both their games at the Silver Fox Curling Club's Summerside Cashspiel.
The first was an easy 7-2 victory over Jamie Newson's foursome. The Charlottetown-based Gallant team had a tougher time in Game 2 against Terry Piper, but pulled off another win, this time 5-3.
Eighteen teams are competing in this annual Silver Fox Cashspiel, which got underway Friday afternoon in Summerside.
Summerside skip Mike Gaudet, runner-up in the Moncton Hub City Shootout last weekend, also had an easy win in his team's first match of the day with a 7-1 victory over Kim Dolan of Charlottetown, one of two women's rinks among the entries.
But Gaudet lost to the Newson rink in his evening game, coming up on the short end of a 5-3 final. Gaudet was leading through the first half of the match, but Newson pulled ahead scoring three points in the sixth end.
Dolan took her second match with a 4-3 squeaker over D. Ellard's rink.
Defending champion and event organizer Rod MacDonald is in the event this year, playing on Kevin Champion's rink. They won handily over Calvin Smith's team with a 7-2 victory in their second match of the day and beat former Labatt Tankard men's champion John Likely 5-3 in their first.
Likely scored a 9-0 defeat over the cashspiel's only other women's team, skipped by Karen Currie of Cornwall, later in the day. Currie was also beaten by Mark Armstrong 12-3.
P.E.I. mixed champ Bill Hope lost a tough one to Robert Shaw 6-5 and went on to lose to Rick Perron 4-2 in the final game of the evening.
Former Labatt Tankard men's champion Ted MacFadyen is also among the entries. He beat Tim Cullen 8-5 Friday afternoon.
Top prize for the 2008 cashspiel is $2,000, with $1,600 for the runner-up, $1,200 for third and fourth place, and $800 for fifth and sixth.
Play continues today at the Silver Fox. The quarter-finals begin Sunday at 9 a.m., the semifinals at noon and the finals are set for 3 p.m.