SYDNEY, N.S. – Krista McCarville’ s run at the Scotties Tournament of Heart came to a crashing halt on Saturday afternoon.
The Thunder Bay skip dropped a 6-4 decision to Ontario’s Rachel Homan in the 3-4 Page playoff game, who grabbed a deuce in the second end and then held the Northern Ontario team to singles throughout the contest.
McCarville told curling.ca they just couldn’t find a way to get an extra stone into scoring position.
“It just seemed like we couldn’t get anything going when we had the hammer,”
McCarville said.
“We wanted to create a little more aggressive style of play to make them shoot more difficult shots and we didn’t seem to do that too well today. We just didn’t really have any opportunities to get a deuce going today.”
McCarville, lead Sarah Potts, second Jen Gates and third Kendra Lilly, did take home some hardware. McCarville, Lilly and Potts were named to the second all-star team and Potts was also named the event’s most sportsmanlike player.
Homan will take on Saskatchean’s Robyn Silvernagle rink in the semfinal on Sunday morning, the winner tackling 2016 Scotties champion Chelsea Carey of Alberta in Sunday night’s final. Carey downed Saskatchewan 11-7 in the 1-2 Page playoff game.
