NISKU, Alta. — Selena Njegovan skipped Winnipeg’s Workforce Kaitlyn Lawes into the win column throughout Draw 5 Wednesday within the Co-op Canadian Open on the Silent Ice Heart.
Workforce Lawes defeated Japan’s Workforce Ikue Kitazawa 6-4 to enhance to a 1-1 file in round-robin play.
Njegovan, who usually performs third, is skipping the workforce with Lawes on maternity depart. Jocelyn Peterman has moved as much as third with alternate Becca Hebert subbing in at second.
Lawes gave beginning to her second daughter, Ella, this previous Friday.
“We’re tremendous excited for her,” Njegovan stated. “I skipped the final time she was pregnant, so it’s not the most recent factor for me however it’s a lot completely different taking part in skip over third. It’s been good. It’s actually good for me whilst an total participant and as a 3rd to see it from a unique finish.”
Njegovan held the hammer coming residence main by one. She needed to make a double takeout with the final shot of the sport to safe the victory whereas additionally tacking on one other level.
“It was enjoyable,” Njegovan stated. “I assumed that we had that shot and knew what the ice was going to do. Simply got here on the market and threw it.”
“The ladies performed rather well,” she added. “We had an excellent workforce sport and are simply studying each sport on the market.”
Elsewhere within the morning draw, Workforce Xenia Schwaller scored two within the eighth finish to edge Workforce Silvana Tirinzoni 6-5 in an all-Switzerland showdown, Italy’s Workforce Stefania Constantini defeated Workforce Seung-youn Ha of South Korea 7-3 and Japan’s Workforce Satsuki Fujisawa beat South Korea’s Workforce Eun-ji Gim 8-2.
Constantini and Fujisawa climbed to 2-0 data. Schwaller, Tirinzoni and Ha are all stage at 1-1. Gim fell to 0-2.
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NOTES
The Co-op Canadian Open is the second Grand Slam of Curling occasion of the season that includes 16 of the highest males’s groups and 16 of the highest ladies’s groups from all over the world. … Spherical-robin play runs by means of to Friday night. The highest eight groups advance to the playoffs. If crucial, one tiebreaker draw will probably be performed Saturday morning. … The quarterfinals and semifinals are scheduled for Saturday with each finals set for Sunday.
