Homan beats Jones to stay in the Players Championship

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TORONTO – Rachel Homan remained perfect as she beat Jennifer Jones 8-3 in Thursday night's draw at the Season Players Championship Grand Slam of Curling.

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Tied 2-2 after three ends, Homan's Ottawa rink took a 5-2 lead after the fifth. Jones took one point in the sixth and Homan responded with three points in the seventh to win the final of this year's Canadian Women's Championship.

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Homan, who led Canada to the world women's curling title last month, defeated Silvana Tirinzoni 4-0 in the women's tournament.

In Thursday's second tie, Swiss skip Gimli, Man., defeated Kerry Einarson (0-3) 7-3.

Jones, a six-time Canadian champion, two-time world champion, Olympic gold medalist and 17-time Grand Slam winner, will retire from curling after this tournament. His Winnipeg rink fell to 1-3.

In 11 other draw results, Brad Jacobs, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., (2-2) beat Edmonton's Brendan Boettcher (1-3) 6-5, Scotland's Ross White (3-1) took a 7-5 decision over Switzerland's Yannick Schwaller (1-3) and the South Korean. Gim Yoon-ji (3-1) defeated Ksenia Schwaller (1-3) of Switzerland 5-4.

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Homan defeated Sweden's Isabella Vrana 7-4 on Thursday.

Homan had a steal each in the sixth and seventh ends to take the lead in what had been a back-and-forth affair thus far.

Vrana improved her record to 3-1 with an 8-7 win over Sweden's Anna Hasselborg (1-2) in Thursday's afternoon tie. The game was tied 7-7 after seven legs, but Vrana got the hammer in the eighth and made it count.

In other results from the afternoon session, Mike McEwen scored a single in the ninth inning to improve to 3-0 after beating Winnipegger Matt Dunston (1-2) 6-5. Team McEwen is the last undefeated team in the men's competition.

Scotland's Bruce Mowat bounced back from a 5-3 loss to Bottcher to defeat world men's champion Niklas Edin of Sweden 7-5. The result improves Mouat's record to 3-1, while Edin drops to 1-2.

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South Korea's Kim Yunjun (3-1) earned her second win of the day with a 4-3 win over Winnipeg's Caitlin Lowes. Lowes saw his record drop to 0-3.

In Thursday's second draw, world men's silver medalist Brad Gushue of St. John's, NL improved to 2-1 with a 6-1 win over Calgary's Kevin Coe (1-2); Italy's Joel Retornaz (2-2) defeated Scotland's James Craik (1-2) 8-4; and Stefania Constantini (1-2) of Italy defeated Satsuke Fujisawa (1-3) of Japan 8-5.

In the morning draws, White scored five goals in the opening two games as they beat Dunstone 7-2, while Kim thrashed Gim 8-1 in a meeting between the South Korean teams.

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