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FINALLY, A WIN!The poster boys for the 2018 Tim Hortons

Brier, presented by Mosaic, finally gave the home fans a win to cheer about.

Saskatchewan (Saskatoon) defeated New Brunswick (Oromocto) 9-4, skipped by James Grattan, to score its first victory at the Brandt Centre Sunday evening igniting a lusty cheer from the audience. Both teams are 1-2.

Ever since Curling Canada awarded the event to Regina, skip Steve Laycock, fourth-rock thrower Matt Dunstone, second Kirk Muyres, and lead Dallan Muyres (Lyle Muyres is the alternate and Pat Simmons the coach) have been featured on promotional material. That’s because the four have been the province’s best team for a few years.

However, with losses in their first two games the fans were starving for a win. And they got it in fine fashion as Saskatchewan dominated after taking a 4-3 lead in the third end.

“That was nice to get a win finally. We played a little bit better each time out so far and finally it turned into victory,” said Laycock. “We just took a little while to figure out the ice and the rocks. We weren’t that far off, we weren’t throwing it that badly. We played a really good Manitoba team this morning (a 7-5 extra-end loss). We’re playing a little bit better now. Hopefully we can keep that rolling.”

Meanwhile at the top of Pool B at 3-0 are Northern Ontario (Sault Ste. Marie) and Manitoba (West St. Paul). Manitoba, the pool’s top-rated team skipped by Reid Carruthers, breezed past Nunavut 12-5 to keep the team from Iqaluit skipped by David St. Louis winless (3-0).

The partisan crowd was so thirsty for a

Saskatchewan victory that the loudest cheer of the day just might have come Sunday morning when a draw by Manitoba skip Reid Carruthers came up light in the 10th end to surrender a steal to Saskatchewan, forcing an extra end.

“It was an exciting shot,” said Carruthers. “We’re in Saskatchewan. They should be cheering against me.”

Brad Jacobs, the 2014 Olympic gold medallist, used the steal of four courtesy of Prince Edward Island skip Eddie MacKenzie (1-2) in the fifth end to beat the Charlottetown team 9-5.

If Jamie Murphy has any plans to pull off what fellow Haligonian Mary-Anne Arsenault accomplished last month at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts he’s off to a good start.

Murphy’s Nova Scotia squad overcame a 6-3 deficit after six ends to defeat Greg Smith of Newfoundland/Labrador 9-6 Sunday to improve to 2-0 in Pool A.

Arsenault flew under the radar at the Scotties to

reach the final weekend Page playoffs leading Nova Scotia to a third-place finish.

“We certainly watched what they did. They prepared and compete very similar to our team. Every year we get to come back to this type of event, we get a little bit more comfortable,” said Murphy.

Joining Murphy at 2-0 were Team Canada (St. John’s) skipped by defending world champion Brad Gushue and Team Wild Card (Winnipeg) with Mike McEwen calling the shots.

Both were pre-event favourites and are living up to their rankings. Team Canada (St. John’s) took care of business by downing Thomas Scoffin of the Yukon Territories (Whitehorse) 8-3. McEwen, meanwhile, handed Sean Geall of British Columbia (Kelowna) a 9-3 defeat.

Gushue’s win was his 113th in Brier history tying him for all-time record with Russ Howard and Kevin Martin. He can get the record by beating Nunavut in this morning’s draw.

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They got hereby a ‘whisker’The Fear the Beard boys reached the Tim

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A couple of years ago, the 2014 Olympic gold medallist team from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., grew beards. This year, skip Brad Jacobs, third Ryan Fry, second E.J. Harnden and lead Ryan Harnden are back at the Brier representing Northern Ontario for the sixth time in seven years.

But they barely got here.At the provincial championship, they lost two early

games and were forced into the position of having to win four games in 31 hours. In the final, they were up against a hotshot young team skipped by 20-year-old Tanner Horgan of Sudbury. The kids had the vets on the precipice of defeat leading 5-2 in the eighth end after scoring three in the seventh.

Jacobs managed to get two in the eighth to narrow the deficit. They looked to be toast again in the ninth

when Horgan had a shot to seal the deal with his final rock but came up heavy and wide allowing Jacobs to tie the game 5-5. Jacobs stole the winning point in the 10th when Horgan tried a double run-back that jammed.

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FROM PAGE 4“Hey, you’ve got to be good to

be lucky,” admitted Jacobs, who still sports whiskers. “We certainly got some massive breaks in that Northern Ontario final. Certainly there was some luck involved, there’s no doubt about that, we’re the first ones to admit that. But I was really proud of the way our team was able to hang in there in that final when it looked like we weren’t going to win, but we just kept plugging away making shots. Weird things happen in sport in championship finals, and sometimes you just need to be able to get to the end of the game with a chance and you never know what will happen.”

So out on the ice did it feel like they were playing a version of themselves circa 2005?

“Ten, 15 years ago? How about like five years ago?” exclaimed Jacobs. “Tanner Horgan’s team, they played unbelievable. We said it throughout the playdowns in Northern Ontario, it felt like we were playing against Koe, McEwen, Gushue. Those teams played very well, Tanner Horgan’s team in particular. We think they’re just a phenomenal, young,

talented team and they’ve got a bright future. Certainly, they’re miles ahead of where we were when we were at that age.”

Horgan, who has represented Northern Ontario at five Canadian junior championships, played so well going 7-0 in the round robin, Jacobs asked him to be the team’s alternate this week.

“Right now we felt like Tanner was the best choice,” said Jacobs.

With the Olympics in the books, a Brier player movement is expected to ramp up as teams jockey for position for the next quadrennial. But the Jacobs team has already agreed to keep the family together. Jacobs and the Harndens are cousins, although Fry, a Winnipeg native, has moved to Calgary where his fiancee works. Despite the relocation, Fry didn’t hesitate to stick with his mates. Why wouldn’t he, retorted Fry?

“We’ve been a top-three team, top-four team in the world,” said Fry, 33, who has also retained a bit of a beard.

Quipped Ryan Harnden, “We tried to get rid of him off the team but he paid us.”

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In theory, we need full-time jobs, in addition to curling and training, which is a full-time job in and of itself.

The challenge does not stop there. Have you ever tried to ask a prospective employer for 10 weeks off work every year? I don’t recom-mend it. Even if you can feasibly do your job with that amount of time off (by working weekends/overtime, etc.), the optics alone are generally enough to deter companies from hiring you. After all, they probably have other well-qualified candidates to choose from who will gladly take their standard three weeks of vacation.

If you asked most of the members of top teams on tour, very few of them would tell you they have a standard full-time job. In many cases, they have left their career full-time jobs in order to focus on curling.

I have had to leave two different territory account management jobs in the last five years. Reid Carruthers is a teacher by trade, and gave up a full-time position in order to pursue his curling dreams. You’ll find quite a few mortgage brokers in the curling world, as they are then self-em-ployed and it allows for the flexi-bility required for our competitive

travel schedule.There are business owners

as well. Brad Gushue and Mark Nichols opened an Orangetheory Fitness facility in St. John’s, and Colin Hodgson owns Dynasty Curling, which outfits many of the teams here this week in both on- and off-ice clothing.

Owning your own business is a massive amount of work, obvious-ly, and you’re always ‘on call,’ but you don’t necessarily have to be in the office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.

It’s an interesting time to be involved in curling. It’s an amaz-ing time for our sport in many ways. The sponsorship opportu-nities, television exposure and fan engagement have probably never been greater than they are right now. It’s not uncommon these days to be recognized in public places, in any city across Canada, because you played in a Scotties or a Brier, or have been seen on TV at one of the many events that are now broadcast.

On the other hand, it takes a full-time commitment to give yourself a chance at staying atop the Canadian rankings, and ultimately having a shot at the world championships and Olympics. The financial side has not caught up to the required commitment level just yet, and that

makes striking a feasible balance quite tricky for many of us.

Don’t get me wrong: this is a choice we make. No one is forcing us to pursue curling. We could quit tomorrow, find a “regular” full-time job and be financially secure.

But we are not getting rich from curling. I always tell people

who ask that if you’re getting into curling for the money, you’ve chosen the wrong sport. It has progressed immensely over the past two decades as well — prize money, funding and sponsorship have all drastically increased, and continue to trend in the right direction.

Will we eventually be true pro-fessional athletes? Maybe. I’ll even say probably, but that’s speculation on my part.

For now, we do it in spite of the financial side. We do it because we love it. We do it because we’re chasing a dream.

That’s why we play the game.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total Sask. (Laycock) 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 — 5Manitoba (Carruthers) *0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 — 7

N.B. (Grattan) *1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 — 7Ontario (Epping) 0 3 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 — 9

N. Ontario (Jacobs) *2 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 x — 6Nunavut (St. Louis) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 x — 3

P.E.I. (MacKenzie) 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 2 — 7Quebec (Fournier) *0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 — 6

Draw 42 p.m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Territories (Koe) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 x x — 2Alberta (Bottcher) *0 2 2 2 1 0 1 1 x x — 9

Canada (Gushue) 2 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 x x — 8Yukon (Scoffin) *0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 x x — 3

Wild Card (McEwen) 1 2 0 0 3 0 2 1 x x — 9B.C. (Geall) *0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 x x — 3

Nova Scotia (Murphy) 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 2 1 x — 9N.L. (Smith) *1 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 x — 6

Draw 57 p.m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total N. Ontario (Jacobs) 0 1 0 2 4 2 0 0 x x — 9P.E.I. (MacKenzie) *1 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 x x — 5

Nunavut (St. Louis) 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 x x — 5Manitoba (Carruthers) *2 1 0 2 4 0 3 0 x x — 12

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N.B. (Grattan) 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 x x — 4Sask. (Laycock) *2 0 2 1 1 1 0 2 x x — 9

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2 p.m. DrawA — MB vs. QC; B —NO vs. NB; C — SK vs. PE; D — ON vs. NU

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The SSHF has parked its 53-foot converted semi-trailer in The Link, ideally situated between the Brandt Centre, where the curling takes place, and the International Trade Centre, home of the Brier Patch, and invited visitors passing by to come in and examine the exhibits honouring the best of the best of Saskatchewan sport.

The trailer is heavily adorned with curling memorabilia, as would be expected at the Brier, but it is also festooned with many other photos and artifacts, a sampling of what the SSHF houses at its main building at 2203 Victoria Ave. in downtown Regina.

It’s been a hit with curling fans so far, and the people have been cheek to jowl inside the trailer as they inspect the displays saluting the various inductees.

“It (traffic) has been really good,” said Heather Kelly, who works part-time for the Hall. “Yesterday we had about 450 people go through. We’re going to duplicate that again today, which is really nice. People are just in awe of what we can do with a trailer.”

It’s no surprise what fans are looking to see inside the trailer.

“Everyone who walks in asks ‘where’s the Schmirler stuff?’” says Kelly.

The trailer has two photos and a plaque inside a glass case honouring Sandra Schmirler’s Regina team that won the 1998 Olympic gold medal for Canada.

The SSHF took to the road with its trailer two summers ago to celebrate its 50th anniversary and bring the displays to people in Saskatchewan who otherwise would not be able to see them. They have traveled the length

and breadth of the province during the summer, hitting community festivals where people gather in numbers.

The Brier, however, is the first time the trailer has been parked indoors.

“We got lucky. Curling Canada reached out to us,” said Kelly.

The trailer showcases about one-third of what the Hall normally houses in its main Regina building.

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The trailer is open one hour before and an hour after every draw, and offers free admission, although it does accept donations as it is a non-profit organization.

Heather Kelly invites curling fans to view the Hall’s displays.

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