Kerri Einarson’s dream of a three-peat stays alive on the Canadian girls’s curling championships.
The Workforce Canada skip made a takeout within the 6th finish to attain 4 issues, then stole two extra within the 7th for an 11-6 win over Tracy Fleury’s Wild Card 1 in a playoff sport on the Scotties Event of Hearts in Thunder Bay, Ont., Saturday afternoon.
The crew of Einarson, 3rd Val Sweeting, 2d Shannon Bichard and lead Briane Meilleur complex to Sunday morning’s semifinal sport.
They’ll face the loser of Saturday’s night time’s sport between Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville and Andrea Crawford of New Brunswick.
The winner between McCarville and Crawford head at once to Sunday night time’s ultimate.
The fight between Fleury and Einarson grew to become within the 6th when Fleury neglected on a chip shot.
Together with her closing stone, Einarson flippantly took out Fleury’s rock for the 4 issues and an 8-5 lead. It used to be the 14 time throughout the event Workforce Canada scored 3 or extra issues in an finish.
Within the 7th, Fleury neglected on a chip-and-roll along with her first shot. Going through 4 Workforce Canada stones, Fleury controlled to take away simply two along with her ultimate shot. That gave Einarson a commanding 10-5 lead.
Fleury went up 3-1 lead within the 3rd finish. Einarson used to be heavy on her closing shot, permitting Fleury to attract for 3. Workforce Canada responded within the fourth with Einarson scoring 3 of her personal with a takeout.
Within the 5th Fleury used to be laying 3 when Einarson used a feather contact on a draw to take a seat shot. Fleury responded with a takeout to attain two for a 5-4 lead.
Einarson’s crew from Gimli, Guy., have been a really perfect 8-0 throughout the around robin earlier than dropping 8-6 to Crawford in a playoff sport on Friday.
They’re having a look to sign up for an elite workforce of rinks to win 3 consecutive titles.
Saskatchewan’s Vera Pezer received 3 titles between 1971 and 1973 whilst Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones received championships between 2008 and 2010. Collen Jones of Nova Scotia received 4 consecutive titles starting in 2001.
Fleury’s crew of 3rd Selena Njegovan, 2d Liz Fyfe and lead Kristin MacCuish from the East St. Paul Curling Membership in Manitoba completed first in Pool A throughout the round-robin with a 7-1 file. They misplaced 8-3 to Northern Ontario in a playoff sport Friday night time.
Fleury did not play her first sport of the championship till Thursday after being compelled to isolate following a good COVID-19 check earlier than the event. Njegovan took over the skipping tasks for the crew that leads each the Canadian and global scores.
Because of COVID-19 issues, the round-robin portion of the event used to be held in an empty Citadel William Gardens with out fanatics or media within the development. About 150 other folks have been within the stands for Saturday morning’s sport after a restricted selection of volunteers registered for the contest and junior curlers from the realm have been allowed to wait the playoffs.
The Scotties champion will constitute Canada on the 2022 Ladies’s Curling Championship in Prince George, B.C., from March 19-27.
