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Homan, Einarson, McEwen advance to quarterfinals at Grand Slam of Curling event in Charlottetown
Chelsea Carey’s 3-member team from Winnipeg exits tournament with 1-3 record
The Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 04, 2024 9:03 AM CST | Last Updated: October 5, 2024
Ottawa skip Rachel Homan delivers a stone against Team Skrlik during the women’s curling final at the PointsBet Invitational in Calgary, Alberta on Sept. 29, 2024.
Rachel Homan, the reigning world and Canadian champion, scored three points in the eighth and final end Friday to beat Switzerland’s Xenia Schwaller 6-4 at the HearingLife Tour Challenge in Charlottetown. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian
Canada’s Rachel Homan and Kerri Einarson advanced to the women’s quarterfinals at the HearingLife Tour Challenge in Charlottetown with wins on Friday, while Mike McEwen moved on to the men’s final eight.
Homan, the reigning world and Canadian champion, scored three points in the eighth and final end to beat Switzerland’s Xenia Schwaller 6-4.
It was the third win for Homan’s Ottawa-based team at the triple-elimination Grand Slam of Curling event, giving her a spot in
the weekend playoffs.
Einarson, a four-time Canadian champion from Gimli, Man., defeated Winnipeg’s Kaitlyn Lawes 5-4. Einarson’s team reeled off three straight wins after losing its opening match.
Schwaller and Lawes both fell to 2-2 and dropped into the event’s “C” bracket.
In a later draw McEwen defeated reigning men’s world champion Niklas Edin of Sweden to improve to 3-1 and book a spot in the quarterfinals.
Winnipeg’s McEwen is looking to build on a strong start to the season which included a win at least week’s PointsBet Invitational in Calgary. Edin (2-2), who has lost two straight, faces archrival Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L., in a do-or-die “C” bracket game on Saturday morning.
