 Team Homan (Photo: Curling Canada) sits third in the standings with four games left to play in the round robin. By: Cameron Sallaj Another split day at the 2025 LGT World Women's Curling Championship has Canada and Team Rachel Homan still on track as they look to push towards the playoff round. In the morning, the team of Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes took on the host Korean team skipped by Gim Eun-ji. With both teams entering the match at 5-1, this was a pivotal game that may have major implications on the playoff round. Starting with hammer for the sixth time in their seven games, Team Homan gave up an uncharacteristic steal to open the scoring. Facing two on her first rock, Gim saved the end with a perfect runback followed by a freeze to the button which the Canadian skip could not remove. A solid third end by Canada allowed them to convert two points, though this was immediately followed with two by Korea who retook the lead 3-2. The Canadian side was then forced to just one in the fifth, tying the score. Entering the second half, Gim Eun-ji continued to shoot lights out for the Koreans, capitalizing on a mistake by Homan to put three points on the board. The host nation then forced Canada to one in seven before converting once again with hammer in eight, taking an 8-4 lead with two ends remaining. Needing a big end, Rachel Homan kept her Ottawa foursome alive with a thin double takeout to score three points, closing the gap to 8-7. In ten, however, the Canadian skip wrecked on her final draw which left Gim an open hit to secure the win, 11-7 the final score. Despite suffering their second loss, Team Canada was able to park their morning draw as they got off to a fast start in their evening game against Norway's Marianne Roervik. After trading singles in the first two ends, the Canadian team stole three in the third to take early control. From there, the Norwegians were never able to crawl back into the lead, though they came close in the second half. Down 6-3 in the eighth, the team scored their first deuce of the game and then stole one in the ninth after a perfect tap-back to the pin by fourth Kristin Skaslien. Tied coming home, Team Homan scored two for the 8-6 win to keep within striking distance of the group leaders. Current Standings (After Draw 14): Q Switzerland (Silvana Tirinzoni): 8-0 Korea (Gim Eun-ji): 7-1 Canada (Rachel Homan): 6-2 Sweden (Anna Hasselborg): 6-2 China (Wang Rui): 5-3 Scotland (Sophie Jackson): 5-4 Denmark (Madeleine Dupont): 4-4 Norway (Marianne Roervik): 4-5 Japan (Sayaka Yoshimura): 3-5 United States (Tabitha Peterson): 3-5 Italy (Stefania Constantini): 3-6 Turkiye (Dilsat Yildiz): 0-8 Lithuania (Virginija Paulauskaite): 0-9 At 6-2, Canada ranks third in the group, tied with Sweden's Anna Hasselborg who they previously beat in the round robin. Their next game will be against Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni in a must win if they want to keep a direct semifinal berth alive. The team also still has to face Japan, Italy and China in the final two days of the preliminary round. |
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