This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 25 represents Canada at the women’s world curling championship March 16-24 in Sydney, N.S. The lineup also includes Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville, B.C.’s Clancy Grandy and Corryn Brown, Quebec’s Laurie St-Georges, Kerry Galusha of the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia’s Heather Smith, Alberta’s Selena Sturmay, Manitoba’s Kaitlyn Lawes and Kate Cameron, New Brunswick’s Melissa Adams, Stacie Curtis of Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario’s Danielle Inglis, Jane DiCarlo of Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan’s Skylar Ackerman and Yukon’s Bayly Scoffin. The 18-team Canadian women’s curling championship starts Friday in Calgary.įour-time defending Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion Kerri Einarson returns as Team Canada with Ontario’s Rachel Homan and Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones pre-qualified based on last season’s rankings. All cards of the Hearts suit count for 1 penalty point. In each suit the cards ranking is the same Aces are with the highest value, 2s are with the lowest. Hearts is played with a 52 standard card deck. The goal of the game is to avoid penalty points at all costs. The winner represents Canada at the world men’s championship March 30 to April 7 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Hearts is one of the most famous trick-taking card games for 4 players. Other teams headed to Regina are Saskatchewan’s Mike McEwen, B.C.’s Catlin Schneider, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Andrew Symonds, New Brunswick’s James Grattan, Northern Ontario’s Trevor Bonot, Jamie Koe of the Northwest Territories, Ontario’s Glenn Howard, Nova Scotia’s Matthew Manuel, Nunavut’s Shane Latimer, Prince Edward Island’s Tyler Smith, Quebec’s Julien Tremblay and Yukon’s Thomas Scoffin. Gushue returns to the Brier as defending champion. Under new Curling Canada entry criteria, Alberta’s Brendan Bottcher and Manitoba’s Matt Dunstone pre-qualified for the 2024 Brier last year based on their rankings at the end of the 2022-23 season. The 2024 Brier will feature three teams from Alberta. Sluchinski hit against three Koe stones to secure the provincial title in Hinton.įour-time Brier champion Koe earned the third and final wild-card berth by virtue of this season’s highest national rank among non-qualified men’s teams at No. Sluchinski, third Jeremy Harty, second Kerr Drummond and lead Dylan Webster from the Airdrie Curling Club scored two in the first end and stole a point in the seventh to lead 5-1.Īfter blanking the eighth, Koe scored two to trail by two coming home without hammer. Sluchinski upset Koe 6-3 in Alberta’s final Sunday. Calvert blanked the ninth and gave up a steal of two in the 10th. Jacobs, Carruthers, second Derek Samagalski and Connor Njegovan led 4-3 after eight ends Sunday. It sucks to lose that final, but I’m sure they’ll keep working hard and we have a ton of respect for them.” Team Calvert, obviously a world-class team. There’s great young teams and players coming up.
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