(by Jean Mills) Mike McEwen bounced back from two losses on the last day of round robin play, defeating Kevin Koe 9-7 in a tiebreaker, moving on to meet Glenn Howard in the men’s semi final of the 2012 Capital One Canada Cup of Curling (8:30 pm Atlantic tonight).

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“Despite not having the hammer to start, we dictated pretty much most of that game,” said McEwen. “The boys in front of me played really well. I myself probably let Kevin back in a couple of times, but I’m really happy with how the guys played. We controlled that game.”

“They got set up better than we did,” said Koe’s third Pat Simmons. “We were chasing most of that game. We probably didn’t deserve to win it. The skipper made a few good shots and kept us in there.”

“This year for us is just to keep improving,” Simmons said, looking forward. “We’ll try and learn from our small mistakes this week and try and improve on them.

As for McEwen, he’s ready for the semi-final.

“If I can sharpen up, we’ll give Glenn everything he can handle.”