Brent MacDougall’s Nova Scotia rink scored five points in the eighth end to defeat New Brunswick’s Sylvie Quillian 9-5 and win the Canadian mixed curling title.
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Nova Scotia’s Brent MacDougall won the Canadian mixed curling championship after his rink scored five points in the eighth and final end to defeat New Brunswick’s Sylvie Quillian 9-5 in the gold-medal final.
Entering the eighth, Nova Scotia trailed 5-4, but scored five to take control of the game and close it out by four points.
Nova Scotia had taken a 4-3 lead with a single in the sixth end. New Brunswick then responded with two points in the seventh to set up the decisive eighth.
MacDougall credited vice-skip Erin Carmody, second Scott Weagle, lead Marie Christianson and coach Danny Christianson after the win. He said it “feels amazing because it’s very rare you get here at all,” and added that Christianson’s first mixed curling national final win came after having lost four previous finals as a coach.
In the bronze-medal game, Northern Ontario’s Bryan Burgess beat Quebec’s Félix Asselin 4-3. Northern Ontario led 4-2 after a single in the sixth, with Quebec scoring once in the eighth after a scoreless seventh end.
Quebec had lost twice on Saturday. The Quebec rink fell 5-3 to Nova Scotia in the semifinals, after entering the semifinals on a 10-0 run. In the other semifinal, New Brunswick handed Northern Ontario a 7-4 defeat.
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