KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Kerri Einarson's bid for a four-peat is alive and well, but Jennifer Jones is also a win away from rewriting the record books in Canadian ...
"I think our fatigue from the three games yesterday kind of set in today," Black acknowledged. "They're an incredible team and they gave us a few chances and we didn't capitalize. I feel like this is the best we've played yet." Black eliminated three-time champ Rachel Homan of Ontario with the second win. Colleen Jones' team was the first from 2001 to 2004. "My team played amazing," Einarson said. We knew we had to pick up and we still didn't and things started going their way a little bit, but we just have to regroup for tomorrow." "We're excited to help her reach that record, but it's also a big record for us too," third Karlee Burgess said. For her teammates under the age of 25, a victory Sunday would be their first Hearts crown. I don't think I could do it." "We weren't throwing it very well. "It doesn't feel different because of that.
Six-time national champion Jones booked an express ticket to Sunday's final of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts when her Manitoba team beat Northern Ontario's ...
"I think our fatigue from the three games yesterday kind of set in today," Black acknowledged. "They're an incredible team and they gave us a few chances and we didn't capitalize. Colleen Jones's team was the first from 2001 to 2004. Black eliminated three-time champ Rachel Homan of Ontario with the second win. For her teammates under the age of 25, a victory Sunday would be their first Hearts crown. "We're excited to help her reach that record, but it's also a big record for us too," third Karlee Burgess said.
KAMLOOPS — Team Canada's Kerri Einarson was in dangerous territory. It didn't matter that she went undefeated in round-robin action, Einarson found herself ...
But if we could stand on top of the podium, that would be the thrill of a lifetime.” McCarville led 3-0 after three ends before Jones responded with a pair in the fourth and a steal in the fifth to tie the game and grab the momentum. “We’re in the best spot that we can be and I’m super excited.” We go back to the drawing board, talk about what we did well, talk about what we did badly and just try to improve on that. The team’s rock placement was on point, and they were in line to score four, but a crucial miss by the veteran skip led to a five-point swing with McCarville starting the game with a steal. “That would be a thrill of a lifetime for me. Einarson responded by winning three in a row, including a 9-6 victory over McCarville in the final. Our backs are against the wall now and we have to win so we just went out and got it done,” said third Val Sweeting. Einarson coughed up four points to Jones in the second frame on Friday. We’re just going to keep grinding it out and playing like we know we can. It was one bad end that put Canada in this situation in the first place. Einarson now awaits the loser of Saturday night’s Page 1-versus-2 game between Jones and Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville.
Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Man., beat Christina Black of Nova Scotia 9-4 Saturday to earn a spot in Scotties Tournament of Hearts semifinal.
“My team played amazing. We never really slipped behind the T and let them off the hook. “(Canada) is an incredible team and they gave us a few chances and we didn’t capitalize. “I think our fatigue from the three games (on Friday) kind of set in today. “I’m thrilled with how we did this week,” Black said. “I think we still have another notch in us. “We’ll need to be even better,” Einarson said. Team Canada curled 88% for the game and never really gave Nova Scotia much of a chance to get things going. “With experience and being in these situations before numerous times … “We never, ever have, right from Day 1. Einarson lost to Jennifer Jones in a seeding game on Friday night and needed to run the table starting on Saturday. Article content
Jennifer Jones will play for a record seventh Scotties Tournament of Hearts title. The veteran skip and her Ma...
The Northern Ontario skip made a double raise to count one and the teams were tied 5-5 heading home. On Saturday, McCarville stole points in each of the first three ends to take a 3-0 lead on the Manitoba champions, but Jones responded with a deuce in the fourth and a steal of one in the fifth. The victory sent Jones directly into Sunday night’s final.
It's not the preferred route to the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts championship, but Team Canada skip Kerri Einarson knows the path well, and is following ...
Team Canada, as it has done repeatedly over its run of success at the Scotties, applied pressure from the start, scoring deuces in the third and fifth ends to go up 5-2. Einarson’s world events have been held in Prince George, B.C., and the Calgary bubble. They were making a lot of draws in previous games and that was our game plan going in not to leave freezes for them.” “This team doesn’t seem to do things the easy way,” said Einarson. She had to play the 3-4 game last year in Thunder Bay before running the table. The 2023 LGT World Women’s Curling Championship, presented by New Holland, will be held in Sandviken, Sweden, from March 18-26. Team Einarson also had to win the semifinal game at the Calgary bubble Scotties in 2021. Three times they stole away victories without hammer in the final end. But a little fatigue may have set in.” “My team played amazing,” said Einarson. “They gave us some chances so you better capitalize because they don’t give you many of them. Nova Scotia’s legendary Team Colleen Jones of Halifax won four straight between 2001 and 2004.