The 2024 PointsBet Invitational took place this past weekend at Markin MacPhail Centre in Calgary, Alberta. On Sunday, Rachel Homan of Ottawa, Ontario won the PointsBet Invitational women’s final for the second consecutive year after trouncing Kayla Skrlik of Calgary, Alberta 8-3.
Homan got off to a fantastic start as she had stolen points in the second and third ends to take a 3-0 lead. After Skrlik pulled within a single point, Homan picked up two points with the hammer in the sixth end, and then stole three points in the seventh end to take a dominant 8-1 lead. Last season when Homan won the PointsBet Invitational in Oakville, Ontario, she defeated Kerri Einarson of Winnipeg, Manitoba 9-7 in the final.
So far in the month of September, Homan has a perfect record of 12 wins and zero losses. In addition to her four wins in Calgary, Homan’s team won the AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic in Cornwall, Ontario. After winning in Cornwall, Homan and her team were photographed in pink hats, in honour of Jenkins, one of Canada’s top ice makers of all-time who wore a pink hat.
Meanwhile, in the men’s final, Mike McEwen’s Regina-based team got off to a fantastic start. They scored four points in the first end en route to an 8-3 win over Newfoundland’s Brad Gushue.
