Scotties: Ontario alone at the top after Manitoba loses its first

ST. CATHARINES, ONT.— Ontario’s Rachel Homan remained the only unbeaten rink at the Canadian women’s curling championship, winning two games Tuesday to improve to 7-0.

Homan beat Kerry Galusha of Northwest Territories 7-4 in the afternoon draw, then downed Saskatchewan’s Penny Barker 7-4 at night.

And she finally shook Michelle Englot, when the latter’s Manitoba rink fell 8-7 to Team Canada’s Chelsea Carey. Englot had taken the lead with steals of two in both the eighth and ninth ends, but Carey scored two of her own in the 10th.

Both rinks have one loss, with Manitoba at 6-1 and Canada at 5-1.

Quebec’s Eve Belisle, 5-2, and Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville, 4-2, each won twice Tuesday.

Galusha lost to Carey and Ontario to fall to 3-3 alongside Alberta. Prince Edward Island’s Robyn MacPhee and Stacie Curtis of Newfoundland and Labrador were tied at 2-4.

Also in the evening draw, McCarville defeated B.C.’s Marla Mallett 8-3 and Belisle doubled Nova Scotia’s Mary Mattatall 12-6.