Birt finishes round-robin at 2-2, Casey goes 1-3, Gushue 3-1 in NL Grand Slam event (Journal)

Posted on by September 11, 2015

PARADISE, N.L. – P.E.I.’s Suzanne Birt rink is right in the thick of things here at the Grand Slam of Curling’s Tour Challenge.

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Suzanne Birt

Birt, third stone Robyn MacPhee, second stone Meaghan Hughes and lead Marie Christianson recorded a 7-5 come-from-behind win over Nina Roth of the United States on Friday to even their record at 2-2 (won-lost) in the women’s Tier 2 Division. That guarantees the Birt rink no worse than a tiebreaker.

The Adam Casey rink, also of P.E.I., dropped an 8-6 decision to Niklas Edin of Sweden to complete round-robin play in the men’s Tier 1 Division at 1-3.

Brett Gallant of Charlottetown is also curling in the Tour Challenge as the second stone with the Brad Gushue rink, which defeated Edin 9-5 on Friday to complete the round robin at 3-1 in the men’s Tier 1 Division.

Gushue will face Ontario’s Glenn Howard rink in a quarter-final on Saturday.

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