Carey undefeated at Scotties

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NEEPAWA – Morden’s’ Chelsea Carey continued her winning streak at the 2009 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts while veteran Barb Spencer knocked another young team from the ranks of the undefeated.

Carey defeated East St. Paul’s Kim Link 6-2 in a tight game to improve to 5-0, alone at the top of her pool, while Spencer handed Holly Scott of Fort Rouge her first loss of the round-robin, 8-5, to leave both those teams at 4-1.

Carey, 24, says it’s nice to be atop her pool. But with a game against No. 1 seeded Spencer tonight and her round-robin finale vs. the strong Scott team tomorrow morning, there’s no time for rest now.

“We’re in better position than everybody else, yeah, but the problem with where we’re at now is if we lose our last two games we could very easily not even get a tiebreaker because we play Barb and Holly,” Carey said.

“If we were to lose those two games, they’d both be 6-1 and we’d be 5-2 and we don’t get even a tiebreaker,” said the 2009 Manitoba Curling Tour women’s champion. “So we’re so far  being home-free, it’s not even funny.

“We win tonight, we guarantee ourselves a tiebreaker, we’re still not guaranteed anything as far as placement. It’s great that we put ourselves in that position but there’s certainly no relief at all yet because we still have so much to work to do.”

Link and Brandon’s Lisa Blixhavn are still mathematically alive with 3-2 records, but they need to win out. Spencer plays Carey tonight and Link tomorrow while Scott plays Link tonight and Carey tomorrow.

Earlier today, Karen Porritt stole five points to beat three-time champion Janet Harvey 7-2 and Kristy Jenion edged Brandon’s Maureen Bonar 5-4 in an extra end, leaving both Porritt and Jenion at 5-0 heading into this afternoon’s draw in the red group.

It was Harvey’s first loss. In critical games on the 4 p.m. draw, Jenion takes on Harvey while Porritt goes up against Bonar, who at 2-3 is out of playoff contention. The top two teams in each pool advance to tomorrow night’s Page playoffs.

“That was huge,” Jenion said. “After seeing Janet (Harvey) had lost, we had to maintain the advantage. We’re not even remotely safe at this point. We’re aiming to go 7-0 here, we’re not planning on dropping a game.”

The winner of Sunday’s final earns a spot in the national Scotties championship in Victoria Feb. 21-March 1.

Standings at the 2009 Scotties provincial Tournament of Hearts after Draw 9 (Top two teams in each group advance to playoffs)

Black Group
                            W    L
Chelsea Carey           5     0
Barb Spencer            4     1
Holly Scott                 4    1
Kim Link                    3    2
Lisa Blixhavn            3    2
Linda Stewart            1    4
Angela Wickman       0    5
Charlene Norquay     0    5

Red Group
                        W    L
Karen Porritt       5      0
Kristy Jenion       5      0        
Janet Harvey       4      1
Maureen Bonar    2     3
Tina Kozak            2     3
Terry Ursel           1     4
Chris Scalena        1     4
Karen Rosser        0     5

Draw 10 results this afternoon:

Black Group

Carey         000 101 202 x–6
Link            000 000 020 x–2

Stewart      503 003 x–11
Norquay     010 110 x–3

Blixhavn     300 101 003 x–8
Wickman     010 010 110 x–4

Scott            020 100 110 x–5
Spencer       101 030 003 x–8

Draw 9:

Harvey       000 000 110 x–2
Porritt         100 122 001 x–7

Rosser         110 000 001 x–3
Scalena        001 100 130 x–6

Ursel            201 001 100 0–5
Kozak           020 210 010 1–7

Bonar            100 002 010 00–4
Jenion            001 100 100 11–5