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Manitoba women find Cranbrook ice to their liking
Two Manitoba rinks will be playing in the women’s final at the Capital One Canada Cup of Curling today, Dec. 4.
Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones will be taking on Morden’s Chelsea Carey rink, which finished the round robin with a five win and one loss record, earning a bye to the final.
Jones doubled Calgary’s Shannon Kleibrink 6-3 in Saturday’s semi-final at the Cranbrook Rec-Plex.
Olympic champion Kevin Martin’s rink earned a bye to the men’s final and he will take on Glenn Howard’s rink. Howard, from Coldwater, Ont., didn’t waste a shot in knocking off Winnipeg’s Jeff Stoughton 9-5 Saturday evening.
The two rinks have met many times, including a lively 9-8 Martin victory Thursday evening.
The women’s final runs at 11 a.m. and the men’s is at 1:30 p.m. at the Cranbrook Rec-Plex
Sunday’s winners collect $26,000 prizes and the losers earn $16,000. The winners earn a guaranteed berth in the 2013 Olympic curling trials in Winnipeg and invitations to next year’s Canada Cup in Moose Jaw, Sask., as well as the 2013 Continental Cup in Penticton.
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