Homan grabs two more wins at women’s curling worlds
Rachel Homan and her Canadian championship crew beat the United States 8-4 on Monday night to improve their round-robin record to 4-1 at the LGT women’s world curling championship.
A two-win day for Rachel Homan has her Canadian team in a second-place tie at the midway point of round-robin play at the LGT world women’s curling championship.
The Ottawa-based rink of Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes posted an 8-4 victory over American Tabitha Peterson before picking up an 8-3 win over Turkey’s Dilsat Yildiz.
Canada has a 5-1 record after 11 draws at Uijeongbu Arena.
“We got our job done (with converting deuces), especially later in the game when we want to make sure we score. Getting two in those ends feels really good for the momentum,” Wilkes said.
Canada, shooting an event-high 93 per cent as a unit, had a draw, runback or roll ready to answer any offence the Americans tried to develop.
“It felt like we put together everything we learned from all the previous games and came out there confident knowing what the sheet was going to do, what the rocks were doing,” Wilkes said.
Homan curled 92 per cent against the U.S., Miskew was at 94, and Fleury and Wilkes both finished at 93 per cent.
