Koe and Rachel Homan skipped the Canadian team entries at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games but both missed the podium.
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Gushue and Jacobs were tied at 7-1 in round-robin play but Gushue took the top seed since he won their head-to-head matchup. The men's final drew 4,813 spectators for an overall men's total of 49,878. Jones decided to retain hammer for the 10th end by giving up a single in the ninth that left Fleury with a 5-4 lead.Īnnounced attendance was 4,741 for the women's final, bringing the weekly total for the women's event to 57,266. A measure confirmed a single instead of a pair. Jones gave away another point in the sixth end when her draw grazed the shot stone and settled on the edge of the four-foot ring.
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Jones was 5-3 in round-robin play and defeated Krista McCarville in the semifinal on Saturday. Her perfect 8-0 mark gave her the first seed and an off-day ahead of the final. The top-ranked Fleury team wasn't nearly as dominant as they were throughout most of round-robin play. Fleury responded with a pair of her own and Lawes came through in the fifth end with a brilliant triple-takeout that set up a blank. Jones made some mistakes too as she sent a draw through the rings in the third end, eventually settling for a hit for two. Jones buried a draw to force Fleury to tap but she brushed her own stone and rolled off. Rollouts were common in the first end and Jones put early pressure on to generate a quick steal. Fleury and her team of Selena Njegovan, Liz Fyfe and Kristin MacCuish, were making their first appearance in a trials final. Jones won Olympic gold at the 2014 Sochi Games and has won six national women's titles. Jones and her team of Kaitlyn Lawes, Jocelyn Peterman, Dawn McEwen and Lisa Weagle entered the showdown of Manitoba-based teams with a big edge in experience. "I don't like to toot my own horn but this team is really good and we've been good for a long time," Gushue said. Gushue scored the game's only deuce in the ninth end and Jacobs couldn't build enough offence in the 10th. "We needed to be near-perfect today in order to win this game and we weren't," Jacobs said. In the eighth, Jacobs lost hammer when he jammed on a double-takeout attempt and settled for a hit for one.
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The teams blanked four of the first seven ends. "That was as textbook a game as we could have played against an unbelievable team," said Nichols. Jacobs' final stone rolled out to give Gushue the win. The men's final was a tight defensive battle that looked like it was also heading to an extra end. "I felt close but then it just kind of caught the curl," Fleury said. Jones followed with a guard that Fleury rubbed on her final throw to give up the decisive point on a steal. Jones drew to the side of the button behind a guard and Fleury missed a runback attempt. Jones refocused and put the pressure on Fleury, hoping to make her throw a challenging final shot. So we felt lucky to be able to go to an extra and we really wanted to pull it off there. "I think Jen makes that 99 per cent of the time, that shot. "We thought we had lost in the 10th for sure," Fleury said.
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She furiously bellowed at her teammates to try to hold it but it curled a little too much.Ī stunned Fleury put her hand over her mouth in astonishment. Jones realized halfway down the sheet that the rock was in trouble. In the late-morning game, a gasp went up throughout SaskTel Centre when Jones missed an open takeout for the victory - usually a slam dunk for the veteran skip - with her stone rolling out to leave her with just a game-tying single. Their front end of Brett Gallant and Geoff Walker will make their Olympic debut at the Feb. Gushue and vice Mark Nichols will return to the Games for the first time since winning gold at the 2006 Turin Olympics. That game also ended on a miscue as Jacobs overthrew his last stone in the 10th end, costing him a deuce that would have tied it. "Not everybody can say that and that's really a big strength of our team."īrad Gushue earned the men's title in the evening with a 4-3 victory over Brad Jacobs. "We're there to pick each other up when you miss," Jones said. When the dust settled, Jones escaped with an enthralling 6-5 victory to book her team's ticket to the Beijing Games.