The Jennifer Jones rink beat the Jill Thurston foursome 7-0 in only four ends this evening in an all-Winnipeg final at the Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Women’s Curling Classic World Curling Tour in Winnipeg. Jones and her team went home with the $15,000 top prize, with $10,000 going to the Thurston team. There is also a $100 payout per win, up to the qualifying round.
Calgary’s Crystal Webster rink, which includes PEI native Geri-Lynn Ramsay at second stone, went home with $3700, plus $400 for their triple-knockout wins. as they ;ost their afternoon quarter-final game by a 6-5 score to Jones, who is the former skip of Webster’s third, Cathy Overton-Clapham. Jones, who won the event back in 2005, then went on to beat the Silvana Tirinzoni rink from Switzerland 9-4 in semi-final action, scoring 5 points in the sixth end to bring the game to an early conclusion.
The Laura Crocker team from Edmonton, which includes PEI native Erin Carmody at third, was also in the event, but did not qualify for the money round, finishing with a 1-3 win-loss record.
Webster and Crocker are competing in the Road to the Roar Olympic Pre-trials, Nov. 5-10 in Kitchener, while Jones will be competing in The Masters Grand Slam of Curling event, Oct. 29-Nov. 3.