Krista McCarville starts Olympic pre-trials with win after more than a year off

Thunder Bay’s Krista McCarville posts opening-draw win at Canada’s Olympic curling pre-trials

Krista McCarville of Thunder Bay, Ont., scored back-to-back deuces in the fifth and sixth ends in a 7-5 win over Jestyn Murphy of Mississauga, Ont., on Monday in the first draw of Canada’s Olympic curling pre-trials.

“I guess it was the Scotties ? A year and a half ago? Almost two years ago?” said McCarville, a past silver- and bronze-medallist at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. “We were in a bonspiel around a month ago, but it’s not the same intensity as playing in the pre-trials or the Scotties.

In other first-round women’s games on Monday night, Corryn Brown of Kamloops, B.C., stole two in the fifth end and three more in the sixth in a 9-4 triumph over Winnipeg’s Beth Peterson .

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