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January 12-‐15Langley Events Centre
For tickets, visit
November 30 - December 4Cranbrook Rec Plex
In addition to our “Old Classic” full event pass – for the fans who crave the excitement of every
single draw – we’re introducing the Double Impact ticket option that allows you to double up on the
draws that work best for your schedule.
Sponsor of the day
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Larry Wood
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One win. Just one win.Defending champion Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg needs one
more win for her fourth straight Scotties Tournament Of Hearts skipping title, tying the legendary Colleen Jones of Winnipeg.Manitoba’s Jones also needs just one win on Sunday night at 7:30 p.m. for
Jones’s six skipping successes.Manitoba’s Jones and her second player
Pezer and Lee Morrison of Saskatchewan. Yes, just one measly little win . . . in the
to within that one win on Friday night, twice battling from behind to defeat
tion, Holland dropped into Saturday’s 5
earlier playoff match between Ottawa’s
of Halifax.Meanwhile, Jones was ecstatic with her
team and the result.“It’s so much fun to play with this team,” she allowed.
been a part of.
able with the ice” and “a bit sharper”.
Jones followed the same route a year
ing a pair at the outset. Then they forced
one in the second.
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THE SCOTTIES Page 1/2 Game
Canada third Kaitlyn Lawes signals the key moment in the Page 1/2 playoff game – a three-spot in the ninth against
Saskatchewan’s Amber Holland.
Jones train just keeps on rollin’
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Holland drew a piece of the button
looking at a pair in the third and Jones
drew the four-foot looking at three in the
thin double-kill to score two and take a
5-2 edge.
Jones turned up the offence in the
second half. Holland was in the glue for
The turning point arrived when Jones
buried two rocks in the four-foot and
Holland’s last in-turn of the seventh end
the double theft and the go-ahead points
for her foe.
Another double-kill set up an eighth-end
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ing to get an in-turn freeze into the four-
foot and yielded a count of three before
Jones even threw her last rock which
wrecked.
Holland had an open hit for a tying
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ewan skip had opportunities for tight
buries in the four-foot with both turns on
wrecked with her second.
Jones wasn’t required to throw her last
stone.
leader.
“You have to make shots against a team
you strong.
And they took advantage of some poor
middle-of-the-end shooting from us.
“There was nothing wrong with the ice.
I think it’s more the player in the hack
not focusing in what needed to be done.
And on a philosophical note . . .
“Now that we’re down to sudden death
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The green faithful are hoping for another shot at Team Canada, Sunday.
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QUESTION 0F THE DAY:
When last the Canadian
women’s curling cham-
pionship was played in
Charlottetown, which
province won the title?
2. Name the skip of the
team.
3. Name three skips who
have won two Canadian
women’s championships
while losing four games
in each of them.
4. A total of 25 players
have competed in the
Scott Tournament of
Hearts representing at
least two provinces and/
or territories. Name any
(including fifths) who are
competing at the current
Scotties and for which
province/territory.
5. Name the other prov-
ince/territory for which
each played.
6. Name any other play-
ers who played for P.E.I.
and one other province/
territory.
7. And the other prov-
ince/territory in each
case?
8. Name any who have
won the Canadian title,
where and when. Hint:
There are five.
9. Name the only player
in Hearts history who
has represented three
provinces/territories and
Team Canada.
10. Did she win a world
title? If so, where and
when?
11. Name the only other
player who has repre-
sented three provinces/
territories at the Cana-
dian women’s champion,
the provinces/territories
represented and the
years.
12. Four skips have
been required to win a
dozen games each in
order to win the Scott
Tournament of Hearts.
Name them.
13. In what years did
they score the dozen
wins?
14. Who skipped P.E.I.
teams in those years?
Time out for trivia
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Larry Wood
HeartChart Editor
It was over early for two-time Scotties champion Kelly Scott and her Kelowna mates
in Friday’s tiebreaker, even though they battled down to the last gasp and forced Heather-Smith Dacey of Nova Scotia to throw her last rock to ensure a 9-8 victory.
stride at the right moment,” said the diminutive Scott, “but we just
few ends.”They certainly didn’t in a lose-and-you’re-gone encounter at the Civic Centre.After the Bluenose skip hit
end which was determined on a measure, Scott missed shots in the second, third and fourth ends and tumbled 6-0 in arrears.How was she feeling at that point?“We were wondering if we could start over or maybe rewind?” said Scott.“You just have to dig deep and try to make a game of it. We had some moments there that could have gone our way but they didn’t give us too many breaks.”The win moved Nova Scotia into another sudden-death playoff
-cas, set for 12 noon today against Ontario’s Rachel Homan.The winner of this tilt will advance to the championship semi-
“We had a game plan going in to keep the pressure on and that’s what we did,” said Smith-Dacey.
game plan early and that gave us a little breathing room.”That proved to be a relative relief for the Nova Scotians.“When we beat Alberta the other
had to score two in the 10th (coach and hubby) Mark said, “How do you like skipping at the national level now’?”Much has been made of the fact Smith-Dacey isn’t a long-time
skip. But she has had her share of success on the teehead.“I’ve skipped in junior and won, and skipped in the Scotties (2004), and it came back to me really quickly,” she said.“The team’s really behind me so
Smith-Dacey rolled out on a hit
kill for a deuce. But the Bluenosers
to run the advantage to 8-2.Scott again put together a deuce
in the seventh. Smith-Dacey blew an open draw for two in the eighth, then rolled out in the ninth to leave Scott a draw for two.Smith-Dacey faced three B.C.
one and rolled out to clinch what wasn’t as narrow a decision as the
“You knew they’d bring it right down to the end,” said Smith-Dacey with a shrug. “In fact, Mark was mad that we gave them a steal of two in the 10th. He said I should have stuck on that last rock.”
Added Scott, who won the 2006 and 2007 renewals of the event and added a world title in 2007:“Coming here, everybody was
this was and we’re pretty proud that we got to through the round-robin portion and were still playing today. “Maybe we should have picked up on our practice ice a bit better. It’s the trickiest draw ice we’ve seen at a Scotties. But it wasn’t unfair. It was swinging more than a lot of Scotties which is fantastic. But draw weight? Boy, you almost
had to throw a rock in a track and
how often do you get those freebie draws to know?“You threw what you thought you wanted, it didn’t end up where you wanted, and what could you do? At this level you don’t want ice that’s just an automatic given. You want to have ice reading and the players out there really picking up on the conditions and using it to their advantages.“But we got caught several times throughout the week and we found it irritatingly tricky.”
Bluenosers sail on to Saturday
Nova Scotia skip Heather Smith-Dacey (left) took control of the tiebreaker early and cruised to a 9-8 win over B.C.’s Kelly Scott.
TIEBREAKER: Nova Scotia 9 B.C. 8
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Home province now my favouriteOne more Scotties con-
tender was eliminated Friday and will join the other seven teams that are now engaged in diversions while trying not to have regrets.They now have an opportunity
to relax, sleep-in, do some sight-seeing and, perhaps later, join the party at the HeartStop Lounge.The four remaining teams are
still in their routine and preparing for one of the biggest games of their lives.The round-robin games at this
drama. P.E.I. had a rollercoaster week during which the Suzanne Birt team showed real signs of being a team that would make the playoffs. For that they can be proud of themselves.I stick by my pre-Scotties be-
lief in them as contenders for the Canadian title. It just will not be this year. But in many ways the 2011 Scotties was a good one for the P.E.I. team. The drama of the game against Team Canada and
the electric crowd were amaz-ing. The convincing win against the defending champs sparked a three-game run which brought them back into the playoff hunt. Their two wins on Thursday were important as P.E.I. earned a win-ning record, which I am sure was a bottom-line goal for this team.
robin can be the most exciting and this year was no exception. The B.C. team became the stars of Draw 17 by arising from the
pull off a memorable win.I always have had a great deal
of respect for Kelly Scott. She is both determined and gracious;; a good teammate. These qualities were on display again when she encouraged and led her team to victory, one shot and one end at a time. It was a big challenge as
berth and in a must-win situation against Saskatchewan, the best team in the round robin.Ontario is an impressive team
-ished the round robin with a win. They are young and very good, can throw big weight and seem to have great determination. With the win, they avoided potential tiebreakers. This week has proven that being young is not a limita-tion at the Scotties.Alberta had its destiny in its
own hands on Thursday night. The Kleibrink team went into the game against Team Canada at 6-4 and a win would have placed them into at least the tiebreaker round. The team made some great shots, just not enough. Team Canada played with some great spirit, as they needed the win to
qualify for the Page One-Two game. Jennifer Jones made an in-credible tap-up against a number of Alberta stones in the seventh end which stalled a Kleibrink comeback bid.At this point, with only four
teams left, it will be hard to pick a winner. All the teams have dem-onstrated the ability to dominate other teams this week. Jones has a great deal of experience in this position. Saskatchewan will be looking for a breakthrough win and are deserving of it. I am now cheering for a Sas-
katchewan victory in the Scotties
the playoffs I will be supporting the province in which I was born. Although an Islander at heart, I
From-Away). It is great to have options. .
Shelley MuzikaHeartChart Guest Columnist
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Larry WoodHeartChart Editor
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Red Deer 2012 Scotties organizing committee members Lyle Treiber (left, vice-chair facilities), Tracy Ferguson-Bush (vice-chair volunteers), Sherri Ryckman (chair), and Bob More (vice-chair hosting) are in Charlottetown this week.
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Final Standings Upcoming
GamesSaturday*Ontario vs Nova Scotia Noon
Sask vs 3/4 Winner 5:00 p.m. Bronze medalSunday
Gold medal
SCOTTIES SCHEDULE AND RESULTS
Canadian Curling Association
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Canadian Curling Association
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B.C. lead Jacquie Armstrong
had the highestshooting
percentage in the tiebreaker.
Canada lead Dawn Askin curled 91 per cent in Friday’s 1/2 Game.
Nova Scotia’s front end: Second Blisse Comstock (back) and lead Teri Lake.
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The Cool Curling championship playdowns get underway today at 3:00 pm in the HeartStop Lounge. Friday’s $60 daily prize winners – Brent Gallant and Hilary Thompson – along with the runner-up team of Peter and Karen MacDonald - are the last two to qualify for the !nals. They’ll be joined by another 10 teams from the past six days of action. When the dust settles this afternoon, the champions will take home !rst prize of $350, second place picks up $150 and third place $130. Thanks to all the competitors who took part in the Scotties Cool Curling tournament!
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Roy Doucette and Alan MurphyDave Porter and Evie Porter
Alex MacFayden and Leo GallantBob Acorn and Darlene AcornAmy Cormier and Ian Cormier
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Jamie Newson and Jeff GallantBrent Gallant and Hilary Thompson
Peter MacDonald and Karen MacDonald
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The major problem, of course, is choosing the criteria when assigned
to selecting the Top 10 Scotties tournaments in history.Do you go for the top-10 spec-
tacular last-rock shots to win? Or the top-10 most attended affairs? Or the top-10 most competitive jousts? Or the top-10 most exotic locales? Or the top-10 most orga-nized productions? Or the top-10 joints with the best restaurants. Or a mixture of all of them?Whatever the case, the Heart
Chart has burrowed deep into the memory banks of its editors and assorted spies to produce the fol-lowing Top 10 Scotties.Dissenters may line up to the
right in orderly fashion.No. 10 —— 2003 at Kitchener-
WaterlooThis was the year of the so-
called Atlantic Storm with three eastern teams qualifying for play-offs. And the 44-year-old Colleen Jones and her Halifax teammates won their third straight national women’s curling championship
shading Newfoundland’s Cathy Cunningham 9-7 in an extra-end
they come. Jones completed the victory with an open out-turn hit after Cunningham wrecked on her draw attempt behind a corner guard. Newfoundland appeared to have it wrapped by setting up a winning split for a deuce in the 10th. After Kim Kelly wrecked on a guard, Peg Goss had an open hit to sit a widely-separated two with four stones remaining. But the
St. John’s vice-skip rolled out her shooter. Cunningham eventually was forced to draw to the four-foot for a single point to force the extra end. Prince Edward Island’s
the round robin a dominant 10-1, Jones was 8-3 and Saskatchewan’s
In the sudden-death Page playoff, Cunningham stole a tying ninth-end single and a winning 10th-end
deuce against Betker, then won
No. 9 —— 1995 at CalgaryManitoba’s Connie Laliberte
twice defeated defending cham-pion Sandra (Schmirler) Peterson of Regina, who was looking for a three-peat, and conquered former national junior champion Cathy
a tension-packed championship
of 13 games in all. Alberta dropped
Manitoba from the unbeaten ranks in the fourth round of the prelimi-
only blemish on Laliberte’s week. In an assortment of tiebreakers, Borst dumped Prince Edward Island’s Rebecca Jean (MacPhee) MacDonald, a rookie back then, by
by Peterson. Hence Peterson was -
poses but she couldn’t solve No.
Borst, meanwhile, drummed out
a 3-3 tie with a four-ender in the
get her last rock hidden and Laliberte’s shooter narrowly hung around for the winner following a last-rock takeout. No. 8 —— 2010 at Sault Ste
MarieDefending champion Jennifer
Jones of Winnipeg skipped her team of Cathy Overton-Clapham,
third straight Scotties Tournament Of Hearts title at Sault Ste. Marie’s Essar Centre with a thrilling
victory over Kathy O’Rourke’s Prince Edward Island upstarts. If you’d come in late on the week’s scenario you might have thought this would be something less than
has produced a Canadian women’s curling champion. But those who had seen the previous two col-lisions of these teams knew the match would be anything but a runaway. In fact, the Islanders
ends with a stolen deuce and ap-peared headed home and dry to the throne room. But, then, the heat
ends, the Jones team stole three points and exhibited the reasons why they’ve won four titles in six years. Jones compiled a 10-win, three-loss record over the nine-day championship. The P.E.I. team
favourites of a crowd of 3,911, fea-
and Geri-Lynn Ramsay throwing fourth and third rocks respectively,
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stones and 39-year-old Tricia Af-
preliminaries and wound up No. 1
the defenders in the Page One-Two
women’s curling championship
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Counting down the Top 10 Scotties
Jennifer Jones-won Scotties make three entries in Larry Wood’s Top 10 list.
LARRY WOODHeartChart Editor
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No. 7 — 2000 at Prince George
Kelley Law and her New Westminster team recorded one of the great rebounds in the his-tory of the Scotties in this one. Law faced not one, not two, not
straight sudden-death matches
round-robin shootout but, as late
opponent turned out to be the three-time Canadian champion Connie Laliberte, who’d lost
which catapulted Ontario’s Anne Merklinger directly to the
cracked a three in the eighth for a
home and dry. But Law and Co.,
ninth and stole the winner in the
-linger yielded single thefts in the eighth and ninth ends and it ended
entire tournament for Merklinger.No. 6 —— 1982 at Regina
-ment of Hearts but Colleen Jones
adopted playoff format called for Alberta and Saskatchewan to
at stake and Arleen Day of Regina dropped former champion Cathy
to Day despite Saskatchewan’s
Scotia turned it on and triumphed
of Winnipeg, a winner in this championship with Betty Duguid
but Rose got three right back, -
steal by Jones in the eighth which
No. 5 —— 2001 at Sudbury
-tured resurrections and collapses, surprises and disappointments, game-deciding measurements,
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the outset, then suddenly losing four in a row and appearing out of it. But the Bluenosers threw up the barricades and won an
-ery one of them but one in what amounted to a sudden-death
other teams one game behind defending champion Kelley Law, and ranked second for playoff
with the champs in the Page One-
and stole a critical single in the
and a slide into the championship
climactic debate. But Jones fash-ioned a tying three in the eighth, stole control in the ninth and forced Law to settle for a tying
placed two counters in the rings, both in the eight-foot, one hid-den. Jones needed not only her patented out-turn hit on the open
reach shot-rock position. At the last second, the rock picked up
inch or so off the hit while both second Mary-Anne Waye and lead Nancy Delahunt, who called
began sweeping. What followed was near-pandemonium. An of-
But there was the matter of two
teeline or just behind it, a breach of the game’s rule that allows only one sweeper per team in that
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result was upheld. No. 4 —— 2005 at St. John’s,
Hackner’s Shot Of the Century
and Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg, trailing by two points heading into the last end, won in dramatic style by playing
double-takeout from a stone in
hidden Ontario shot rock on the button. Jones’s in-turn rock hit the outside stone at the perfect angle and caromed to the cen-tre of the rings to pluck Jenn Hanna’s counter off the pin and
Jones trailed Hanna of Ottawa throughout the game, yielding a steal of two in the second end and
team battled back with a single in
eighth before forcing Ontario to take one in the ninth end, setting
Scott’s British Columbia entry
Hanna won two tiebreaker games
Four playoff against Stefanie Lawton of Saskatoon who logged
Comeau of Moncton eliminated
another surprising tiebreaker
No. 3 —— 1998 at Regina
two-time national junior champ posted no less than three heart-
of Anne Merklinger of Ottawa in what turned out to be the key matches of the entire piece.
the difference in the eighth end
catapulted the winner straight
it was Alberta-Ontario again in that climactic battle during which Borst stole a key point in the
and then withstood a withering rally from Merklinger’s troops to win with the last rock of another
be the triumphant homecoming from Olympic glory for defending champion Sandra Schmirler and established an attendance record as a result. But it wasn’t quite
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Nova Scotia’s Heather-Smith Dacey draws a different kind of curling oppo-nent today at 12 noon in the sudden-death Page-Three playoff at the Scotties Tourna-ment Of Hearts.It’s Nova Scotia versus 21-year-old Ra-chel Homan of Ottawa, third-place playoff
at the Civic Centre.
tory Friday while Homan’s Ontario team, one year out of the junior ranks, had the day off.
skip who went 13-0 in last year’s Cana-
dian junior championship.“Lisa’s (lead Weagle’s) shoulder still is a little sore, and it’s good to rest that. It doesn’t matter who we play, we’re going
Rarely does a national junior champ
13 months. But Homan and her team may
Homan admitted Friday she didn’t think
she said. “It was our goal and we achieved
here so soon. It’s amazing to get that success early. Hopefully we can continue
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After a break,
Homan ready to rock
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OntarioContinued from Page 17Homan says she’s nervous before every game.“But I think it’s good nerves and I’m really excited to be play-ing and I’m hoping for a long day (today).“The results don’t matter, we’ll try our hardest for sure and if things don’t go well we’re still pretty happy.”And this team has eons in front of it to make amends.Smith-Dacey was asked about two-playoff schedule in one day:“We’re used to be playing two games in a day, we’ve been doing it all week,” she said. “So we’ll
out to do what we’ve been doing all week.”Nova Scotia played Ontario at the outset a week ago and suf-fered a 9-3 throttling.“That seems like a long time ago,” said the Nova Scotia skip. “But we had opportunities in that game early and we’re looking
forward to playing them again.“Everyone here is so good, age doesn’t seem to matter. Look at Danielle (Parsons) with us. She’s 21 and plays as well as anyone on our team so . . . it’s whatever
It’s a big game for both of us and I expect it to be a battle to the end.”Smith-Dacey isn’t under-esti-mating the enormity of the task.“What they (Ontario) are doing is unbelievable. It’s so great to have that unit sticking together. You get so comfortable with each other that it’s all routine, right. You’re just playing against the rocks. I think when you’re younger you don’t over-think, you just play. And they do it very, very well.”Vanquished B.C. skip Kelly Scott gave an equally positive review of the Homan team.“Normally, those juniors that
usually rope them into a few
things,” said Scott.“You know, strategy, arena-ice conditions, sometimes those young players need an experience
“But this team has kept it go-ing throughout. They’ve had a solid week. They’re by no means scraping out their wins. They’re here to play, they’re control-ling their games, they have real
wouldn’t be surprised to see them get through another playoff game or two. “I think they’re pretty hard and their longevity playing together already is helpful. They’ve grown up together, they’ve been well-coached together and they’ve learned every year they’ve played together.“They throw quite similarly, all of them, and they’re all on the same page. Living so close to each other, it lets them train together, practise together, travel together, it’s really good. It’s a real asset.”
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TRIVIA ANSWERSFrom Page 4
QofD: Nova Scotia2. Colleen Jones3. Heather Houston, Colleen Jones, Jenni-fer jones.4. Shannon Aleksic, B.C.; Dawn Askin, Canada (Manitoba); Chelsey Bell, Alberta; Sherry Middaugh (Ontario); Dawn Moses (N.W.T.)5. Saskatchewan, On-tario, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Yukon.6. Nancy Cameron, Elsie Farquhar, Karen Jones.7. Nova Scotia, New-foundland, Alberta.8. Dawn Askin 2008 at Regina, 2009 at Victoria, 2010; Debbie-Jones Walker 1985 at Winnipeg, 1995
at Calgary; Christine Bodogh Jurgenson, 1986 at London; Cathy Pidzarko Shaw, 1978 at Sault Ste. Marie; Cathy Caudle Walter, 1983 at Prince George.9. Bodogh Jurgenson.10. Won the world title at Kelowna in 1986.11. Cathy (Pidzarko) Shaw – Manitoba 1978, Northwest Ter-ritories 1980, Alberta 1982, 1983.12. Connie Laliberte, Marilyn Bodogh, Cathy (Borst) King, Kelly Scott.13. Laliberte (1995), Bodogh (1996) King (1998), Scott (2007).14. Rebecca Jean (MacPhee) MacDonald (1995), Susan McInnis (1996), Tammi Lowther (1998), Suzanne (Gaudet) Birt (2007).
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“But I love it. She has been through this so many times and won this so many ways, she’s got the best advice. I’d certainly listen to her over a lot of other people.“After we lost to P.E.I. on Tuesday, she told us . . . ‘It’s all about control-ling your own destiny. Don’t worry about a Tuesday night loss, just focus on the moving day on Wednesday’.“And we did focus on that and we were able to come out and win two big games on Wednesday. Turned out that was really good advice. You can’t dwell on the past. Tuesday’s gone. You just carry on.”The Smith-Dacey team recorded a credible 7-and-4 record in qualifying for Saturday’s Page Three-Four match at 12 noon.“I’ve just been focused on not changing the goal because we’ve had a change in the lineup,” said the Nova Scotia skip. “The more people you have rooting
for you and cheering for you on the better. Now we’re the home team. The only eastern team left. It’ll be awe-some to have fans on our side.“We have a much bigger team than
the one that’s on the ice and that’s just the way we operate. We’re in touch with Colleen every day. “She’s part of our team. In person or in spirit.”
Nova Scotia’s Danielle Parsons and Heather Smith-Dacey.
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