Homan rolls to 9-3 win over Carey at Grand Slam of Curling’s Co-op Canadian Open
NISKU, Alta. — Top-ranked Rachel Homan defeated Chelsea Carey 9-3 on Thursday to keep her perfect record intact at the Co-op Canadian Open.
Homan, from Ottawa, scored three points in the second end and added three more in the seventh. She improved to 3-0 and secured a playoff spot with one more round-robin game to play.
Carey, who succeeded Jennifer Jones as skip of her Winnipeg-based team, fell to 2-1. Lindsey Burgess is filling in this week at second for Emily Zacharias, who is playing a limited schedule this season.
In other early games, Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Man., dumped Japan’s Momoha Tabata 9-1, South Korea’s EunJung Kim defeated Japan’s Sayaka Yoshimura 7-3 and Edmonton’s Selena Sturmay beat Sweden’s Isabella Wrana 10-4.