The Brock Badgers women\u2019s curling team has punched its ticket to the semifinal round at the 2018 USPORTS\/Curling Canada Curling Championships in Leduc, Alberta.<\/p>\n
Another two wins on Day 3 at the Championships improved the Badgers\u2019 record to a tournament-leading 5-1. With only one round-robin game to go, Brock can finish no worse than a tie for first, guaranteeing them a spot in Tuesday night\u2019s semifinal round and ensuring that they\u2019ll play for either a gold or bronze medal Wednesday.<\/p>\n
After their seventh round-robin game Tuesday at 5 p.m. EST against Alberta, the Badgers will play again in the semifinal at 9:30 p.m. EST Tuesday against either Mount Allison, Alberta or Thompson Rivers, who are all currently tied for second with equal 4-2 records. The finals, for the two teams that advance, will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. EST with CBC providing live streaming online.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve surprised a lot of teams. The OUAs were a little bit of a tougher go, but they\u2019re putting it all together now,\u201d Brock curling coach Murray Etherington said from Leduc Monday night after the Badgers beat Queen\u2019s 8-4 in Game 6. \u201cWe really got a handle on the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Brock women qualified for the Nationals by winning bronze at the OUA championships last month. But in Leduc, they\u2019ve outscored the competition 55-30, having only lost to Thompson Rivers in Game 3 of the round robin.<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s team is skipped by senior Terri Weeks with senior Joanna Francolini as lead, but even the two second-year curlers on the team, second Marcia Richardson and third Jessica Humphries, both have experience playing at the Canadian Junior Championships with their club teams.<\/p>\n
Etherington is hoping all that combined experienced will help them in Tuesday night\u2019s semifinal.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaking the playoffs was goal number one, so for now we\u2019ll enjoy the evening, but tomorrow we\u2019ll refocus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
On the men\u2019s side of the tournament, the OUA champion Badgers haven\u2019t had as much luck. Brock won Game 1 over University of New Brunswick and Game 3 over Ryerson, but has lost the other four games to Waterloo, Winnipeg, Dalhousie and Regina.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for the Eric Bradey-skipped team of Benjamin Hughes, Nick Lemieux and Jamie Waters, even a win in their final round-robin game Tuesday at 3 p.m. EST against Alberta won\u2019t be enough to get the Badgers men in to the playoffs.<\/p>\n
2018 USPORTS\/Curling Canada Curling Championships Brock Badgers Women’s Draw 2018 USPORTS\/Curling Canada Curling Championships Brock Badgers Men’s Draw The Brock Badgers women\u2019s curling team has punched its ticket to the semifinal round at the 2018 USPORTS\/Curling Canada Curling Championships in Leduc, Alberta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":50137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1,58],"tags":[256,4437,6438,4632,4927],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50138,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50136\/revisions\/50138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>W 14-5 vs. Mount Allison
\nW 7-4 vs Regina
\nL 8-2 vs. Thompson Rivers
\nW 10-5 vs. Laurier
\nW 14-4 vs. Memorial
\nW 8-4 vs. Queens
\nTuesday, March 27, 3 p.m. vs. Alberta
\nTuesday, March 27, 9:30 p.m. Semifinal Round
\nWednesday, March 28, 2 p.m. Gold\/Bronze Medal Round<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>W 11-6 vs. University of New Brunswick
\nL 8-5 vs vs. Waterloo
\nW 9-7 vs. Ryerson
\nL 9-5 vs. Winnipeg
\nL 5-3 vs. Dalhousie
\nL 7-6 vs. Regina
\nTuesday, March 27, 3 p.m. vs. Alberta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"