(By Larry Wood). Kelly Scott was rolling back the clock to more productive times Friday night at the Enmax Centrium. “It’s a feeling of complete confidence,” the diminutive 34-year-old Kelowna skip was saying in the wake of upsetting Scotties Tournament Of Hearts round-robin leader Jennifer Jones of Manitoba 7-5 in the event’s Page One-Two playoff game.
Kelly Scott – CCA photo by Andrew Klaver
“I haven’t had it for a while,” Scott added.
But she has appeared to have it most of this week as she directed the accumulation of an 8-3 round-robin record and hit the playoff ice with a definite purpose.
With third Sasha Carter, recovering from a midweek flu attack, rookie second Dailene Sivertson and lead Jacquie Armstrong operating efficiently in front, Scott broke the playoff game open with back-to-back deuces in the fourth and fifth ends to assume a 5-2 advantage from which Jones never could fully recover.
The B.C. team thus qualified for Sunday afternoon’s 1:30 p.m. championship final, a game they last won in 2007.
Jones, the round-robin leader with a 9-2 record, tumbles into tonight’s semi-final against the winner of an 11 a.m. Page Three-Four playoff joust today involving Alberta’s Heather Nedohin of Edmonton and Quebec’s Marie-France Larouche of St-Romuald.
The semi-final winner will take another crack at Scott. The loser will play for the bronze medal at 8:30 a.m.Sunday.