Kerri Einarson and her foursome from Gimli, Man., scored a single within the eighth finish to edge Delaney Strouse’s crew from Traverse Metropolis, Mich., 5-4 on Friday within the WFG Masters at Merlis Belsher Place in Saskatoon.
With the win, Einarson prolonged her playoff streak within the Grand Slam of Curling collection to 11 occasions following the ultimate girls’s round-robin draw Friday.
Einarson completed first among the many 9 groups tied with 2-2 data and earned the No. 5 playoff seed by advantage of a closest-to-the-button expertise contest.
Elsewhere in Friday’s fifteenth draw, Winnipeg’sJennifer Jones edged Stefania Constantini of Italy 9-7 in an additional finish, Winnipeg’s Kate Cameron beat Gim Eun-ji of South Korea 5-4, and Tabitha Peterson from the U.S. topped Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa 8-6.
Solely a complete of three girls’s video games might be set for the Saturday morning tiebreaker draw as one tiebreaker recreation is assured on the boys’s facet.
Sweden’s Isabella Wranå will play Fujisawa, Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg will face Strouse and Kim will tackle Peterson.
Cameron and Kaitlyn Lawes, additionally of Winnipeg, have been each eradicated regardless of their 2-2 data as they’d the worst shootout scores.
Tirinzoni, Jones and Homan will await the tiebreaker winners in Saturday’s quarterfinals, whereas Gim will go up in opposition to Einarson.
The lads’s playoff image will turn into a lot clearer after Friday’s late draw.
