SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — P.E.I.’s Suzanne Birt will begin play in the championship round of the 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts on Thursday.
Birt completed round-robin play 5-2 (won-lost) after losing 7-3 to Saskatchewan’s Robyn Silvernagle on Wednesday night. The top four teams from each eight-team pool advanced to the championship round of the Canadian women's curling championship, and Birt’s Charlottetown Curling Complex rink was third in Pool B.
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Birt, third stone Marie Christianson, second stone Meaghan Hughes and lead Michelle McQuaid will play twice in the championship round on Thursday. They will take on the winner of a morning tiebreaker between Manitoba’s Tracy Fleury (4-3) and British Columbia’s Sarah Wark (4-3) at 2:30 p.m. Then in the 7:30 p.m. draw, P.E.I. will face Alberta’s Chelsea Carey (7-0).
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Silvernagle took advantage of the hammer against P.E.I., scoring deuces in the third and sixth ends. With P.E.I. down 5-3 in the 10th end, Saskatchewan stole a pair to close out the scoring.
Erin Carmody of Summerside is the third stone with Nova Scotia’s Jill Brothers rink, which completed play 2-5.
Alison Griffin, who has connections to West Prince, played third stone with the Jennifer Blaney-skipped rink from Nunavut, which posted a 1-6 round-robin record.
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