By Larry Wood.
Winnipeg’s young Chelsea Carey team, playing out of Morden, Man., clinched a berth in the Canada Cup of Curling women’s final Friday by winning its fifth match in six starts.
Carey, 27, needed a deuce in the 10th end to conquer four-time Canadian champion Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg 8-7 in an afternoon tussle that completed the qualifying draw for the team of Carey, Kristy McDonald, Kristin Foster and Lindsay Titheridge
Photo: Chesea Carey celebrates
The win was only Carey’s second victory over Jones in their last seven matches.
Calgary’s Shannon Kleibrink, a two-time Canada Cup champion, claimed second place in the seven-team race and matched Carey’s 5-1 record with a last-end, come-from-behind 6-5 decision over Ottawa’s Rachel Homan on Friday night.
Carey handed Kleibrink her only defeat of the round robin. Carey’s only setback was engineered by Heather Nedohin of Edmonton.
Kleibrink, who has Amy Nixon, Bronwen Webster and Carolyn Darbyshire firing in front of her, will face the four-time Canadian champion Jones in the championship semi-final at 1 p.m. MT/4 AT Saturday. Jones, surviving with a 3-3 record, rallied from a 2-5 deficit to defeat defending Canadian champion Amber Holland of Kronau, Sask., 8-7 with a 10th-end deuce.