Team Desjardins took a two-point lead into the final end after scoring one in the seventh, but Martin drew for three in the eighth to improve her team’s record to 3-1. The Desjardins rink started with last rock and took an early 4-0 lead, but Martin and Schneider scored deuces in the fourth and sixth ends to pull within one. PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN.—Nancy Martin and Catlin Schneider scored three in the eighth and final end to post a 7-6 win over Emilie and Robert Desjardins in Wednesday’s morning draw at the Canadian mixed curling championship. “Later in the game we started to get our draw weight down a little better,” said Schneider. The winner of the tournament will represent Canada when mixed curling doubles makes its debut at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

Source: thestar January 03, 2018 16:52 UTC