Rachel Homan's Ottawa-based team stole points in five ends, including steals of two in the sixth and seventh ends, en route to an 11-1 win over Shaelyn Park on Thursday at the PointsBet Invitational curling event.
Homan, who is skipping the second-seeded team in the single-elimination event, was up 4-0 after three ends following a deuce in the first end and a steal of one in both the second and third.
Park, skipping the 11th-seeded squad from New Brunswick, got one back in the fourth, but Homan responded with two points in each of the next three ends.Homan will next face the seventh-seeded team skipped by Isabelle Ladouceur, which advanced with an 8-6 win over No. 10 Serena Gray-Withers. In other results, third-seed Jennifer Jones moved on with a 10-6 win over No. 14 Myla Plett. Jones will next face No. 6 Christina Black.The PointsBet Invitational is the first Season of Champions event of the season. The March Madness-style single-elimination format has 16-team draws featuring many of Canada's top men's and women's rinks.
On the men's side later in the evening, Brendan Bottcher's second-seeded foursome from Spruce Grove, Alta., defeated Jake Dobson's team from Haliburton, Ont., 7-1. Bottcher scored singles in the second and third ends, then added deuces in the fourth and sixth ends, before adding a single in the eighth. Dobson recorded his lone point in the fifth end.
Mike McEwen's 10th-seeded crew from Winnipeg, Man., rocked Aaron Sluchinski's quartet from Airdrie, Alta., 11-5, Karsten Sturmay's sixth-seeded Leduc, Alta., team knocked off Glenn Howard's Tiny, Ont., team 8-4, and Matt Dunstone's third-seeded team slipped past Sam Mooibroek's Kitchener, Ont., foursome 10-5.
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