O’Leary, Cornwall teams prevail at provincial ch’ships

O'LEARY, P.E.I. — It was an all-O’Leary final in the Open Division of the Ferguson-Logan Montague Funeral Home P.E.I. provincial stick curling championships at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary on Thursday.
Sherrill Barwise and Bill Smith, winners of the B pool, downed clubmates and the first-place team in the A pool, Dale Dennis and Arthur Lewis, by a 5-1 score in the championship final.
The women’s championship came down to two teams from the Cornwall Curling Club. Gloria Clarke and Ruth Stavert unseated the two-time defending-champions, Elaine Hughes and Etta Reid, 4-2.
For Clarke and Stavert, it was their eighth provincial title in 11 years.
The four teams vying for the women’s title played a double round-robin format. The second- and third-place teams played off with Hughes and Reid (2-4) downing second-place Audrey Callaghan (Western) and Ann Barwise (Maple Leaf) 8-0 but they couldn’t get past Clarke and Stavert in the final.
There were 15 teams, divided into two pools, in the Open Division. The top three teams from each pool advanced to the playoffs.
In the second-versus-third playoffs, Cornwall’s Brian and Myrna Craswell downed Clair Sweet and Bob Matheson from the host Maple Leaf club 6-1 and Alvin Hackett and Victor Hogan downed Western clubmates Bobby Henderson and Frances Ellsworth 8-4.
The first-place teams got in on the action in the semifinals as Barwise and Smith downed the Craswells 8-3 and Lewis and Dennis won -1 over Hackett and Hogan.