Matthew MacLean and his rink from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary and the Cornwall Curling Club’s Katie Fullerton each lost their first two round-robin games. Fullerton took Newfoundland and Labrador (0-2) while MacLean met the Northwest Territories (0-2).
MacLean lost 9-4 to British Columbia’s Tyler Tardi on Saturday, and 7-6 to Northern Ontario’s Tanner Horgan on Sunday afternoon.MacLean and his teammates, Alan MacLean, second stone Noah O’Connor and lead Jordan MacLean, will face Saskatchewan (1-1) in Monday’s morning draw and New Brunswick (1-1) in the afternoon.The Fullerton team, also consisting of Chloe McCloskey, Sabrina Smith and Aleya Quilty, dropped an 8-6 decision to Nova Scotia’s Mary Laura Fay (3-0) on Saturday. Sunday, Saskatchewan’s Kourtney Fesser (2-1) scored three in the eighth end and then stole a deuce in the 10th end to erase a 5-2 deficit after seven ends and win 7-6.
Fullerton meets Ontario (1-1) on Monday morning and British Columbia (2-0) in afternoon action.
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