(By: Paul Wiecek)
CHARLOTTETOWN — Team Canada’s Jennifer Jones and her third Kaitlyn Lawes are off to a hot start here at the 2011 Canadian Womens Curling Championship. And the event hasn’t even formally started yet.
Jones defeated Lawes in an all-Team Canada final of the pre-event individual skills competition Saturday afternoon.
Jones won a two-year lease on a vehicle, while Lawes won $2,000.
“It was fun. And to have both of us in the final was super-fun. I was super happy for Kaitlyn,” Jones said, cautioning against reading too much into her team’s dominance of the skills competition as a harbinger of things to come.
“The Hot Shots is the Hot Shots. It’s completely different than a curling game so you never look too hard at it going into the week. It’s a fun way for us to start. And like I said, I wanted to make sure Kaitlyn enjoyed herself this week and it’s a pretty nice way for her to start.”
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Jennifer Jones (photo by Derek MacEwen, PEICurling.com)