Medicine Hat News

Homan and Einarson improve to 8-1 at Scotties

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The favourites set the tone in championsh­ip pool play Friday at the Canadian women’s curling championsh­ip.

With a few surprise teams making the eight-team cut, perennial contenders Rachel Homan, Jennifer Jones and Kerri Einarson posted afternoon victories and showed why they’re good bets to reach the playoffs.

“With only three teams advancing, you can’t have very many losses to advance,” Jones said. “So we know that and we know we’re going to have to play every game as though we have to get that W and hopefully we perform well.”

Homan’s Ontario team stole a point in the 10th end for a 7-6 victory over Chelsea Carey’s Team Wild Card Three. Einarson, the defending champion, topped Saskatchew­an’s Sherry Anderson 10-6 to keep pace with Homan at 8-1.

Jones’s Manitoba team posted a 12-8 win over Beth Peterson of Team Wild Card Three to sit in third place at 7-2.

Alberta’s Laura Walker got by Quebec’s Laurie St-Georges 7-6 in an extra end to improve to 6-3. Walker moved into fourth place with Saskatchew­an and Quebec, which had an unexpected share of the Pool B lead after the preliminar­y round.

Carey and Peterson fell to 5-4. All eight teams were scheduled to return to the Markin MacPhail Centre for the Friday night draw.

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