Manitoba will have a new men’s curling champion
Calvert reaches final, while defending champ eliminated
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Braden Calvert will play in the Manitoba men’s provincial curling final for the third year in a row.
The 30-year-old skip from Carberry punched his ticket to Sunday’s championship game (3 p.m. start) with an 8-7 win over previously unbeaten Jordon McDonald (Assiniboine Memorial) in Saturday night’s Page 1 vs. 2 game inside the Selkirk Recreation Complex.
Calvert is on the hunt for his first trip to the Brier after losing the last two title games to Reid Carruthers.
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Skip Braden Calvert of team Calvert throws during his team’s game against team Ryan Hyde at the 2026 men’s provincial curling championship at the Selkirk Recreation Complex on Wednesday. Calvert will play in the championship game on Sunday.
With the loss, McDonald now has to face fellow Assiniboine product Brett Walter in a semifinal matchup at 9:30 a.m. to decide who squares off with Calvert in the afternoon. Walter outlasted Carberry’s Kelly Marnoch 8-6 in the Page 3 vs. 4 game.
New champion to be crowned
The No. 1 seed was forced to head home early.
Reigning back-to-back champion Carruthers was upset 10-5 by Marnoch in a Page 3 vs. 4 qualifier game Saturday afternoon. It was the third and final strike for Carruthers in the 24-team event after losing games to Walter and McDonald on Friday.
The 41-year-old Carruthers, a nine-time provincial champion, has participated in every Brier dating back to 2018.
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