Grassie heads to mixed curling final
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Manitoba’s Sean Grassie wrapped up the round-robin with a win this morning at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Iqaluit, Nunavut and now heads straight to tomorrow’s final.
Grassie broke open a tight 6-5 game with a four-ender in the ninth and then ran PEI’s Bill Hope out of rocks in the final frame to seal a 10-5 victory.
The win means Manitoba finishes the round-robin alone in first place with a 10-1 record, the only blemish coming mid-week to Northern Ontario.
Grassie, with third Allison Nimik, second Ross Derksen and lead Kendra Green, advances directly to tomorrow afternoon’s final but his opponent isn’t yet known.
Saskatchewan finished second with a 9-2 record and will now await the winner of a tiebreaker game between Ontario and Nova Scotia, who finished the round-robin tied at 8-3.
The winner of that game, which takes place this afternoon, will play Saskatchewan in tonight’s semi-final.
None of the playoff games at the Mixed are being televised.
Meanwhile, on the cash tours, Manitoba’s Kerry Burtnyk, Reid Carruthers and Jeff Stoughton were all winners this morning at the $100,000 Masters of Curling in Waterloo, Ontario.
Burtnyk improved to 2-2 with a 7-6 extra end win over B.C.’s Greg McAulay, Carruthers improved to 1-2 with an 8-4 win over Saskatchewan’s Pat Simmons, and Stoughton improved to 2-1 with a 5-4 win over Switzerland’s Ralph Stockli. The only other Manitoba team playing in Waterloo, Mike McEwen, was also on the ice this morning but came up just short, falling 5-4 to USA’s Craig Brown. McEwen’s record is now 1-2.
Every team plays five round-robin games in Waterloo. The quarterfinals begin tomorrow afternoon, the semi-finals are tomorrow evening and the final is Sunday.
CBC is broadcasting the quarterfinals (2 p.m. Saturday) and the final (noon Sunday) on the full network. They are televising the semi-finals (6 p.m. Saturday) on CBC Bold and on their website, cbcsports.ca.
Finally, on the women’s cash tour, Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones is taking on Seattle’s Cristin Clark this afternoon in the first game for both teams at a $60,000 Women’s Grand Slam event in Abbotsford, B.C.