Thunder Bay’s Brier hopes have been dashed for another year.
Sudbury’s Jordan Chandler stopped the Colin Koivula rink for the second time in one day on Saturday, winning 7-4 in the semifinal round at the 2016 Traveler’s Men’s Provincial Championship in North Bay.
Koivula started strong, taking a 2-0 lead in the second, but Chandler stormed back in front in the third with a three-point end.
Koivula evened the game in the fifth, but Chandler responded with a pair in the sixth and never trailed from there, putting it away with two in the 10th.
Chandler will take on five-time champion Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie in Sunday’s final. Jacobs, the defending Olympic gold medalist, won the Brier in 2013.
