 The 2024 Canadian Junior champions (photo: Michael Burns/Curling Canada) won 8-6 over Gimli's Kerri Einarson to advance to Friday's Elite 8. By Meredith McCullum Allyson MacNutt - with third Maria Fitzgerald, second Alison Umlah and lead Grace McCusker - from Halifax, Nova Scotia came into the PointsBet Invitational ranked 14th, thanks to their win at Canadian Junior Nationals earlier this year. MacNutt faced Manitoba's Kerri Einarson in the Sweep 16, who came into the tournament ranked third. The team includes spare Laura Walker, in for the event with their second Shannon Birchard currently recovering from injury. The teams exchanged singles through the first three ends, putting Einarson up 2-1. In the fourth, MacNutt broke through with a huge three points to take a 4-2 lead. Einarson bounced back in the fifth end with a draw to the eight-foot to score three and regain the lead 5-4, half way through the game. In the sixth end MacNutt gave up a steal of one, but they would regroup and score a point in the seventh to even the game 6-6. In the eighth end, Einarson had a hit for a single but rolled out, resulting in a steal for MacNutt who would take a 7-6 advantage with two ends left to play. Einarson blanked the ninth end to give herself the hammer in the all important final end. In the tenth end, Allyson MacNutt made a beautiful shot with her last rock, drawing through a port to the button to sit shot and force Einarson leaving Einarson limited options to score. Kerri Einarson threw a runback and made contact with the rocks in the four-foot, but it was MacNutt who was left shot rock in the end and secured the win 8-6. With the victory Macnutt, who curled 90% on the afternoon, becomes the first 14th seed to win a game at the PointsBet Invitational. Her team will advance to the Elite 8 where they will face Manitoba's Kate Cameron Friday afternoon at 1pm MST. MacNutt is preparing to represent Canada at Junior Worlds, which will take place in Cortina Italy in April 2025. The event will be a trial run for the Olympic facilities in 2026. The girls are training with Curling Canada National coach Helen Radford and they participated in the NextGen training camp and U25 NextGen Classic earlier in September. Team MacNutt getting set for the 2024 PointsBet Invitational with national coach Helen Radford: Following the PointsBet Invitational, team MacNutt will be playing a few local events in Halifax before they head to Amherst, Nova Scotia to play in the Nova Scotia Scotties Qualifier December 14-15. Follow along with team MacNutt's season as they get set to represent Canada at Junior World's in 2025: Scores for the rest of the PointsBet Invitational Event can be found at Curlingzone.com and games will be streamed on TSN. |
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