Rachel Homan remained excellent on the Grand Slam of Curling’s season-ending Gamers’ Championship with a 7-4 win over Sweden’s Isabella Wrana in Thursday’s early attract Toronto.
Homan’s Ottawa rink had back-to-back one-point steals within the sixth and seventh ends to return out on high in what had been a back-and-forth affair as much as that time. Wrana fell to 2-1.
Homan improved to 3-0, which was tied for first within the ladies’s standings with Silvana Tirinzoni. The Swiss skip was slated to face Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Man., in Thursday’s second draw.
Homan, who led Canada to a world ladies’s curling title final month, was scheduled to face Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg in Thursday’s fourth and ultimate attract a rematch of this 12 months’s Canadian ladies’s championship ultimate.
Jones, a six-time Canadian champion, two-time world champion, Olympic gold medallist and 17-time Grand Slam winner, is stepping away from four-player curling after this event.
WATCH | Homan victorious at worlds:
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Canada’s Rachel Homan wins gold on the ladies’s curling world championship with a 7-5 win over Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni. The win ended Canada’s six-year title drought at this occasion.
