Kerri Einarson’s Team Canada squad has won their first three games of the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Kamloops, British Columbia. In the first three days of competition, they have had a win on each day. On Friday, Einarson of Gimli, Manitoba, defeated Quebec’s Laurie St-Georges 11-8. On Saturday, Einarson beat the host team from British Columbia, skipped by Clancy Grandy 9-4, and then on Sunday, Einarson beat the top wildcard team skipped by Kaitlyn Lawes of Winnipeg, Manitoba, by a score of 10-9 in 11 ends.
On Sunday’s action. Joanne Courtney, who is now working for TSN, made the bold claim that no one at the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts would go undefeated. Einarson’s team is the only squad at this year’s event that has a chance to accomplish the feat. The last team to go undefeated at a Scotties Tournament of Hearts was Rachel Homan of Ottawa, Ontario, who won all 13 of her games in winning the 2014 Canadian Women’s Curling Championship in Montreal. Einarson has won the last three Scotties Tournament of Hearts championships.
Seven teams are currently at two wins and one loss. They are Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville, Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones, Northwest Territories’s Kerry Galusha, Ontario’s Rachel Homan, Nova Scotia’s Christina Black, British Columbia’s Clancy Grandy, and the first Wildcard team skipped by Lawes. The one significant upset on the weekend came from Galusha, who beat Homan, 8-4 on Sunday morning.
