The lineup for the Canadian girls’s curling championship was accomplished Sunday with the crowning of eight champions.
A discipline of 18 groups will curl Feb. 14-23 within the Scotties Event of Hearts in Thunder Bay, Ont.
Corryn Brown (B.C.), Kayla Skrlik (Alberta), Nancy Martin (Saskatchewan), Kate Cameron (Manitoba), Danielle Inglis (Ontario), Krista McCarville (Northern Ontario), Jane DiCarlo (Prince Edward Island) and Brooke Godsland (Newfoundland and Labrador) prevailed Sunday of their respective finals.
Rachel Homan’s workforce was already certain for Thunder Bay’s Hearts as defending champion after successful final 12 months in Calgary.
4-time champ Kerri Einarson, Alberta’s Selena Sturmay and Manitoba’s Kaitlyn Lawes pre-qualified for the Hearts primarily based on their rating on the finish of the 2023-24 season.
Different provincial and territorial reps already certified embody Christina Black (Nova Scotia), Laurie St-Georges (Quebec), Kerry Galusha (Northwest Territories), Melissa Adams (New Brunswick), Bayly Scoffin (Yukon) and Julia Weagle (Nunavut).
The winner in Thunder Bay represents Canada on the girls’s world championship March 15-23 in Uijeongbu, South Korea.
Brown claimed her second B.C. girls’s title 5 years after the primary with a 10-7 victory over Kayla MacMillan in Langley.
“It feels unimaginable. We had a extremely nice week all week. We confirmed we deserved to be right here and we actually introduced all of it collectively in that final recreation,” Brown informed Curl BC.
McCarville’s bid to symbolize Northern Ontario in her hometown of Thunder Bay was a battle.
The 2-time Hearts finalist trailed Emma Artichuk 5-2 after 5 ends, however scored one within the sixth and stole single factors within the seven and eighth.
The skip drew the four-foot rings within the tenth for the win and her twelfth journey to the Hearts.
Cameron simply wanted Beth Peterson’s shot stone to go away and made the hit for a 7-6 victory in Pilot Mound, Man.
Cameron skipped her workforce to final 12 months’s Hearts semifinal in Calgary the place her rink was ousted by Jennifer Jones.
Kayla Skrlik edged Nicky Kaufman 6-5 to win Alberta and return to the Hearts after going 4-4 in her first look in 2023.
After dropping the final two Saskatchewan finals, Martin prevailed 9-7 over Jolene Campbell in Kindersley to punch a ticket to Thunder Bay.
Inglis claimed a second straight Ontario championship by doubling Chelsea Brandwood 8-4 in Coburg.
Godsland was a 10-4 winner over Carrie Vautour in St. John’s, N.L.
DiCarlo stole two factors within the tenth finish for an 8-7 victory over Hillary Selkirk in P.E.I.
The Hearts winner additionally qualifies for November’s Olympic curling trials in Halifax if that workforce ranks within the high six on the world championship.
Homan and Einarson have already got trials berths locked down. Ought to both workforce emerge victorious in Thunder Bay, the trials berth goes to the highest-ranked workforce within the 2024-25 nationwide girls’s workforce rankings on the conclusion of the Gamers’ Championship in April.
Brier taking form
A number of males’s curling groups punched their tickets to the Canadian championship Sunday.
A discipline of 18 groups will curl Feb. 29 to March 9 within the Montana’s Brier in Kelowna, B.C.
Cameron de Jong (B.C.), Rylan Kleiter (Saskatchewan), Sam Mooiebroek (Ontario), John Epping (Northern Ontario), Tyler Smith (Prince Edward Island) and Ty Di Lello (Newfoundland and Labrador) prevailed of their championship finals.
New Brunswick determines its provincial champion Feb. 2, Northwest Territories on Feb. 3, and Alberta and Manitoba on Feb. 9.
Different provincial and territorial reps already topped have been Owen Purcell (Nova Scotia), Thomas Scoffin (Yukon), Felix Asselin (Quebec) and Shane Latimer (Nunavut).
Six-time champ Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L., has already punched his Brier ticket as defending champion.
John Epping, pictured competing in 2021, will make his fourth look on the Brier. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)
Groups skipped by Brad Jacobs, Mike McEwen and Matt Dunstone pre-qualified for Kelowna primarily based on their rankings on the finish of the 2023-24 season.
Jacobs, a Canadian, world and Olympic champion, took over as skip of Brendan Bottcher’s Alberta-based workforce, that ranked No. 2 in Canada on the finish of final season.
The victor in Kelowna represents Canada on the males’s world championship March 29 to April 6 in Moose Jaw, Sask.
Epping defeated Dylan Johnston 10-2 on Sunday. Epping will skip Northern Ontario on the Brier for the primary time after three appearances (2018, 2020 and 2021) for Ontario. His workforce is ranked No. 5 in Canada.
Kleiter downed Steve Laycock 8-5 in Kindersley, Sask. De Jong was a 10-8 winner over Glenn Venance in Langley, B.C.
Mooiebroek defeated Scott Howard 7-4 in Coburg, Ont.
Tyler Smith will skip P.E.I. a second straight 12 months after going 5-3 final 12 months in Regina. His workforce was an 8-6 winner Sunday over Darren Higgins.
Ty Di Lello’s workforce stole two within the ninth and one within the tenth to defeat Andrew Symonds 6-5 in St. John’s.
This 12 months’s Brier winner can declare a berth in November’s Olympic trials so long as the workforce ranks within the high six at world championships.
Defending Brier champion Gushue and Jacobs are already certain for trials.
Ought to Gushue or Jacobs prevail in Kelowna, the trials berth goes to the very best ranked workforce on the conclusion of the 2024-25 season following the Gamers’ Championship in April.
