Nova Scotia’s Owen Purcell and Quebec’s Felix Asselin signed up with the Canadian guys’s crinkling champion area by winning their corresponding rural finals Sunday.
Purcell, that beat Kendall Thompson 8-5 in Halifax, will certainly make his launching as miss at the Montana’s Brier in Kelowna, B.C.
Asselin’s 9-3 success over Robert Desjardins in Alma, Que., notes the return of his 3rd and previous Canadian champ Jean-Michel Menard to the Brier.
Menard, the 2006 nationwide champ and globe silver medallist, went back from guys’s affordable crinkling in 2018 prior to signing up with Asselin’s group this period. Asselin makes his 5th Brier look and 2nd as miss after going 5-3 in 2023.
Purcell and Asselin were amongst the very first rural and territorial agents established for the 18-team areaFeb 28 to March 9 in Kelowna.
Six- time champ Brad Gushue ofSt John’s, N.L., has actually currently punched his Brier ticket as safeguarding champ.
Teams missed by Brad Jacobs, Mike McEwen and Matt Dunstone pre-qualified for the occasion based upon their positions at the end of the 2023-24 period.
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Jacobs, a Canadian, globe and Olympic champ, took control of as miss of Brendan Bottcher’s Alberta- based group prior to the period started.
Thomas Scoffin was crowned Yukon’s champ previously in January when his group won a best-of-five territorial last over Dustin Mikkelson with 3 straight victories.
Scoffin will certainly miss Yukon at the Brier for the 6th time. His group uploaded a 2-6 document in 2014 in Regina.
Shane Latimer will certainly stand for Nunavut a 2nd straight year after defeating Peter Macey 3 straight in a best-of-five collection. Latimer went 1-7 in his Brier launching in 2014 in Regina.
Provincial and territorial guys’s champions were still to be played in Northwest Territories, B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Northern Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.
The Brier area will certainly be fullFeb 9 when the Alberta and Manitoba guys’s champs are crowned.
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