PEI loses heartbreaker (Journal)

SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT.
JASON SIMMONDS
The Journal Pioneer

The Kathy O’Rourke rink’s run towards P.E.I.’s first-ever Canadian women’s curling championship came to a heart-breaking end early Sunday evening.
O’Rourke, who calls the game and throws second stones for the Al Ledgerwood-coached rink from the Charlottetown Curling Club, lost 8-7 in an extra end to Team Canada’s Jennifer Jones in a nail-biting final of the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. It was Jones’ third straight Canadian title.
“Certainly we would have liked to make history and finish that off, but we gave it our best and it just turned out to be a couple inches short today,” O’Rourke said.

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