Rachel Homan rebounded from a uncommon setback with a 12-5 victory over Selena Sturmay in Monday’s afternoon draw on the 2025 Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials.
Homan improved to 3-1 in Halifax, returning to her profitable methods after an extra-end loss to Kayla Skrlik on Sunday ended her 32-game profitable streak towards Canadian opponents.
The Ottawa-based group took management of the match towards Edmonton’s Sturmay with a five-point third finish that gave it an 8-2 lead.
“It’s a brief spherical robin so you must come out robust each recreation, and something prior to now, nothing will be modified about that,” Homan stated. “You simply have to maneuver ahead and are available along with your greatest recreation the subsequent day.”
Homan, the two-time defending Canadian and world girls’s champion, moved into sole possession of second within the girls’s standings, behind unbeaten Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Man.
Einarson improved to 4-0 with a 6-4 win over Winnipeg’s Kaitlyn Lawes.
In different afternoon outcomes, Christina Black of Halifax gained 9-4 over Corryn Brown of Kamloops, B.C., and Skrlik scored two within the tenth finish for a 7-6 victory over Kate Cameron of St. Adolphe, Man.
Lawes, Sturmay, Black and Skrlik had been a part of a logjam at 2-2. Brown fell to 1-3 whereas Cameron remains to be chasing her first win at 0-4.
In males’s competitors Monday night, Winnipeg’s Matt Dunstone remained unbeaten at 4-0 with a 9-7 extra-end win over Brad Gushue (3-1), handing the St. John’s skip his first loss.
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“That was 11 ends of full and utter mayhem. I believed we managed nearly all of that recreation,” stated Dunstone. “Again, didn’t begin with hammer, we simply did what we do. We flipped hammer instantly, you understand, cracked it open in seven, after which Brad took his flip doing what he does, and that’s being Brad Gushue late in video games, and he put relentless quantities of strain on us.”
Brad Jacobs, the 2014 Olympic champion, and his Calgary squad defeated Winnipeg’s Jordon McDonald 6-3, who’s nonetheless looking for his first win.
Saskatoon’s Mike McEwen topped Calgary’s Kevin Koe 9-7 as each groups sit at 2-2, and Saskatoon’s Rylan Kleiter improved to 1-3 with a 10-7 win over Toronto’s John Epping (1-3).
Gushue gained 5-3 over Epping in Monday’s opening draw, taking the low-scoring contest by stealing a degree within the third and sixth ends. Gushue’s rink additionally took care of the rock with the hammer by not giving up a steal to Epping.
Gushue, the 2006 Olympic champion, is hoping to signify Canada on the Winter Games as soon as once more in his ultimate aggressive season. He additionally led Canada to bronze on the 2022 Olympics.
Dunstone started the day with a 7-3 win over Kleiter. Dunstone went up 5-1 after 5 ends and cruised to victory from there.
In different early draw outcomes, Koe scored three within the ninth finish in an 8-7 win over McDonald, and Jacobs beat McEwen 6-3.
The winners of the boys’s and ladies’s competitions on the curling trials will signify Canada on the 2026 Games in Milan and Cortina, Italy.
Women’s Standings
Einarson 4-0
Homan 3-1
Lawes 2-2
Black 2-2
Sturmay 2-2
Skrlik 2-2
Brown 1-3
Cameron 0-4
Men’s Standings
Dunstone 4-0
Gushue 3-1
Jacobs 3-1
McEwen 2-2
Koe 2-2
Kleiter 1-3
Epping 1-3
McDonald 0-4
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