Kayla Skrlik progressed to the females’s semifinals of the PointsBet Invitational with an 8-6 trouble of 2nd seed Chelsea Carey on Friday.
Skrlik’s Calgary foursome begun with a three-point opening end. After Carey reacted with 2 factors in the 2nd, Skrlik took control of the suit with 2 in the 3rd and a swipe of one in the 4th.
Trailing by 4 factors going into the 9th end, Carey racked up a factor after that adhered to with a swipe of one, yet had not been able to shut the void.
Winnipeg’s Carey remains in her initial period missing her group after taking it over from the famous Jennifer Jones.
Skrlik will certainly encounter Winnipeg’s Kate Cameron in Saturday’s semifinals. Cameron progressed with a 12-3 sway Allyson MacNutt of Halifax.
MacNutt had actually published the initial significant trouble of the competition on Thursday with an 8-6 sway four-time Canadian champ Kerri Einarson.
“[Team MacNutt] is so great and they’re so close to making a lot of really great shots out there,” claimedCameron “I think they just, unfortunately, were on the wrong side of that inch. They played a lot better than the scoreboard shows.”
The various other females’s semifinal sees front runner and safeguarding champ Rachel Homan of Ottawa dealing with Winnipeg’s Kaitlyn Lawes.
Homan beat Corryn Brown of Kamloops, B.C., 8-4 while Lawes downed Edmonton’s Selena Sturmay 6-4.
The males’s quarterfinals were arranged to occur later on Friday.
The single-knockout competition uses greater than $350,000 in cash prize
