Blake King will not be moving on to the playoff round at the Canadian Firefighters Curling Association national championship.
The Prince George skip and his team (third Cliff Warner, second Jay Winkel and lead Trent Blair) lost their final round-robin game Thursday afternoon 7-3 to Chad Stevens of Nova Scotia and finished the 11-team tournament in fifth place with a 5-5 record.
Under the Page playoff format, only the top four teams qualify for playoffs.
King's crew of firefighters is the first all-Prince George team to win the B.C. provincial title.
First-place Saskatchewan (10-0) will take on second-place Alberta (9-1) this morning with the winner advancing directly to Saturday's final. In the other game today, Nova Scotia (8-2) will play Southern Ontario (7-3). The losers of today's games will play a semifinal this afternoon.
