THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Christina Black's deployment of a five-player rotation on her curling team, instead of the traditional four players and alternate, delivered Saturday in a playoff win at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Christina Black's deployment of a five-player rotation on her curling team, instead of the traditional four players and alternate, delivered Saturday in a playoff win at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
With no warmup, Powers executed a hit and roll behind cover and a draw around guard on her first shots of the third end. Black, whose Halifax Curling Club foursome includes Jill Brothers at vice and Karlee Everist at lead, will meet the loser of Saturday's later playoff game between defending champion Rachel Homan and Manitoba's Kerri Einarson.The champion at Fort William Gardens represents Canada at the world championship March 15-23 in Uijeongbu, South Korea.
"It just feels like we know that we have the knowledge and the shots confidence to just go out there and do it," Brothers said."I don't know if I've always had that in the past, so I think we just make a good duo at the back end.Black drew for a piece of the button in Saturday's ninth end to score three points and re-take the lead. Alberta was up 6-5 after a three-point eighth end.
A subplot for both Black and Skrlik in the final four was their pursuit of an express pass to next year's Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Mississauga, Ont., as well as spots in November's Olympic trials in Halifax. Skrlik and Black also closed in on berths in the Olympic trials that determine Canada's representatives in Milan-Cortina, Italy, in 2026.
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