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Six-time national champion Jones booked an express ticket to Sunday's final of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts when her Manitoba team beat Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville 8-5 in a Saturday night playoff game in Kamloops, B.C.
Jones will play in her 10th Hearts final. The 46-year-old can become the first woman to win seven Canadian women's championships. "We're excited to help her reach that record, but it's also a big record for us too," third Karlee Burgess said."All four of us being so young, being able to win our first Scotties with the best in the world, with Jen, it would be an amazing story."
"I think it was massive," Jones said"For us to kind of start the way we , get down a little bit early, and then found a way to hang in there and come back, it will show a lot of character for tomorrow." Einarson's foursome recovered from dropping a playoff game to Jones the previous evening — Einarson's first loss of the tournament — with a commanding performance Saturday.
Sweepers can make or break the outcome of a delivered stone, so Einarson was also the beneficiary of workhorse efforts by Sweeting, Birchard and Harris."She is a champ. Holy smokes," Einarson said."She's got a little one in her and it's motivating her to just push through. I don't think I could do it."Her team won the sudden-death playoff game, the semifinal and then the final 9-6 over McCarville.
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