CALGARY -- Oye-Sem Won and Trevor Bonot needed some late-game heroics, but sometimes saving the best for last is OK.
Team Northern Ontario scored three in the eighth end of their Draw 18 match at th.e Canadian Mixed Doubles Championship on Sunday at the Markin MacPhaile Centre in Calgary's Olympic Park and pulled out a come-from-behind 6-5 win over British Columbia's Tyler Tardi an Dezaray Hawes.
Won made a draw that bit the button on her final shot to secure the win.
"That's definitely the best feeling, when you get to throw that last stone and you make that perfect rock," Won said at a media conference after the game.
"It feels good. We've struggled with a few of our last rocks, so it felt good for me today to make better hits and definitely to pull off that last draw in the end to pull off the win was huge."
Bonot said the team rarely has to worry about over-sweeping in a format like mixed doubles.
"She threw it great. She had just thrown the same exact weight on her first shot that end, so we knew (the ice)," he said.
The win helped erase a two-game slide for the team from Thunder Bay and evened their record at 2-2.
Down by two, Bonot suggested they knew what needed to be done, they just needed to execute.
"For us, we just said make the last shot. It's pretty simple, If you can go out there and make your shots, you're typically going into have a good chance. So just keep it simple and relax. We knew that we had to score a deuce an three was a bonus an we did that," Bonot said.
Won and Bonot are alone in fourth in the Pool E standings at 2-2, with two games remaining, starting at 1:30 p.m. on Monday against Toronto's John Epping and Lisa Weagle, a former member of Rachel Homan's team who now curls with Manitoba's Jennifer Jones.
Tardi and Hawes took control of the match early, with steals in the first and second ends. But Won and Bonot struck back with a deuce in the third to even things up, 2-2. They stole a point in the fourth to go up 3-2, but the team from B.C. evened things up in the fifth, then seemingly took control of the match with steals of one in the sixth and seventh to take a 5-3 advantage.
Thunder Bay's Karlee Jones, curling for Nova Scotia, and her partner Bryce Everist, were knocked off 9-3 by Manitoba's Krysten Karwacki and Derek Samagalski and slipped back to .500 at 2-2. They'll take on Catlin Schneider and Shannon Birchard at 4:30 p.m. on Monday.
The top 12 teams at the 35-team even will advance to the championship round.
