Winnipeg skip claims WCT title in Saskatoon McEwen already rocking

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MIKE MCEWEN completed his perfect run through the Point Optical Curling Classic in Saskatoon with a 6-5 extra-end win over Olympic champion Kevin Martin in the final.

McEwen got just his second career win in eight tries against Martin on the Asham World Curling Tour by scoring one with hammer in the extra end.

The skip from Winnipeg put deuces on the board in the third and fifth ends to build a 4-2 lead, but after exchanging singles, Martin replied with two points of his own in the eighth to knot the score.

McEwen won all four of his preliminary round games and won three more in the playoffs to claim the $15,000 first-place prize.

McEwen outlasted Edmonton’s Randy Ferbey 9-8 in the semifinals. The game featured seven multiple-point ends, including three-spots by both teams.

A deuce with hammer in the eighth sealed the win for McEwen.

Martin, from Edmonton, rallied from a 3-1 deficit at the break to beat Calgary’s Steve Petryk 7-4. Martin scored three in the fifth and stole three more in the sixth to take control of the game.

In Regina, Russia’s Liudmilla Privivkova beat Jolene Campbell of Humboldt, Sask., 7-2 in the final of the Schmirler Curling Classic. After stealing one in the fourth, Privivkova stole three more in the fifth to take a 7-1 lead and put the game out of reach, clinching the $12,000 champion’s cheque.

Privivkova beat 2010 Olympic silver medallist Cheryl Bernard of Calgary 6-5 in an extra end in the semifinals. Bernard tied the score with a steal of two in the eighth, but couldn’t steal the win in the extra end.

Campbell blanked Winnipeg’s Janet Harvey 7-0 in just four ends in the other semi.

Privivkova had to win a pair of tiebreakers on Sunday night just to reach the playoffs. Campbell needed one tiebreaker to get into the final round.

— Postmedia News