The top two seeds from both draws were eliminated Saturday at the PointsBet Invitational in Fredericton, N.B.
Jennifer Jones dispatched top-seeded Kerri Einarson 9-5 in women’s semifinal play at Willie O’Ree Place and Reid Carruthers posted a 5-4 win over top-seeded Brad Gushue in the men’s semifinal later in the day.
Jones, the No. 5 seed, will next play No. 6 Kristie Moore — who’s filling in for skip Casey Scheidegger — in Sunday’s final.
Moore scored two in the 10th end for an 8-7 win over second-seeded Kaitlyn Lawes.
The men’s final will pit the fifth-seeded Carruthers against No. 3 Matt Dunstone, a 9-5 winner over No. 2 Brendan Bottcher.
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Jones gave up a game-tying steal in the ninth end but scored four in the 10th when Einarson’s angle-raise attempt rolled too deep.
Scheidegger was unable to attend the competition due to work commitments.
Moore is throwing fourth stone ahead of vice-skip Kate Hogan, second Jessie Haughian and lead Taylor McDonald.
“It has been a pretty wild ride,” Hogan said. “I think everything in general – from being a new team, travelling across the country to get here, a little bit of a hurricane warning and a fill-in skip – so I think we’ve just been kind of having fun with no expectation and it’s been working.”
The single-knockout event is the first stop on the Season of Champions calendar.
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