![]() ![]() The top two teams in each pool, plus the next four best records, earn spots in the playoffs, with tiebreakers, if necessary, being held today. ![]() Three teams with 4-3 records - Sweeting/Gushue, Chelsea Carey/Colin Hodgson and Kaitlyn Lawes/John Morris - in Pool B, plus Kalynn Park/Charley Thomas (3-4), were also still alive for tiebreaker spots entering Thursday’s final draw. ![]() “The games are going to get harder, but that’s good. Now that that’s accomplished we need to ramp up and figure out how to get through the next round. “We were just trying to come out here and play really well and certainly get through the first round was the goal. “I can’t say we really talked a whole lot about goals to be honest,” Bottcher said. “Laura’s made a lot of key shots when I’ve got us in a little bit of trouble and we’re managing to score points in those situations and still control the scoreboard.”īottcher/Ferguson (6-1) will also be in the playoffs, but their final pool-play contest, versus Sherry Middaugh/John Epping (2-5) ended after press time. We’ve had a couple really good games and we’ve had a few where we’ve caught a few breaks and made a lot of big shots. “I don’t think we’ve had a game where we threw everything together and played perfect. “We’re making shots, we’re making a lot of really key shots,” Walker said. What’s been the key to Crocker and Walker’s success? We wanted to make sure that we kept some intensity out there in that game and treated it just like a playoff game and any time we missed I thought we bounced back.” “We knew we had a spot in the playoffs locked up, but win and we got first place, which meant hammer and such in the playoffs. “We definitely wanted to win that game,” Crocker said. A single in seven gave Crocker and Walker a 7-6 lead and they secured the victory after Ferguson’s final stone in eight was heavy and resulted in a steal of two in a battle of unbeatens. The duo completed pool play at the Canadian Olympic mixed doubles trials at Portage la Prairie’s Stride Place with an 8-0 record in Pool B after knocking off the Edmonton pair of Dana Ferguson and Brendan Bottcher 9-6 in a morning draw, and erasing a six-point deficit against Gushue and Val Sweeting to win 9-8 in an extra end in the afternoon.Ĭrocker and Walker jumped out to 5-1 lead after three ends against Ferguson and Walker, but the Edmontonians tied it up heading to the seventh. John’s, and Crocker, a third on Kelsey Rocque’s Edmonton team, aren’t getting married until May when they tie the knot in Mexico after the curling season ends, but a pre-wedding honeymoon in PyeongChang, South Korea, is a possibility. Walker, 32, who curls with Brad Gushue in St. Geoff Walker and teammate Laura Crocker examine the situation in the house during a Canadian Olympic mixed doubles curling trials game at Portage la Prairie’s Stride Place on Thursday morning. “Don’t even ask Geoff about planning the wedding, he won’t know what to answer,” the 27-year-old Crocker quipped. PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE - Living more than 6,000 kilometres apart has made it somewhat difficult for engaged couple Laura Crocker and Geoff Walker to plan their dream wedding. This article was published (1976 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. ![]()
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