The championship titles continue to mount for Rachel Homan.
A week after winning an astounding 18th Grand Slam of Curling title — tying her teammate Emma Miskew as well as skip Kevin Martin for most-ever — Homan and teammates secured their third-consecutive PointsBet Invitational title.
Homan defeated B.C.’s Corryn Brown in the final 6-2 after both teams went undefeated to book their spots in the title game.
The world No. 1 team from Ontario is once again proving they are in a league of their own.
It’s worth continuing to revisit what Homan and company have done over the past couple seasons because the numbers are staggering.
Homan has won back-to-back world championships, two Canadian championships and five Grand Slam titles.
Her team has reached the final in 20 of the last 23 events they’ve played in. Their record over the past two seasons into this year is 158 wins compared to just 17 losses.
Team Homan is the overwhelming favourite to win the Canadian Olympic curling trials set for Halifax in late November.
For their efforts this week in Calgary, Team Homan is taking home a total of $45,000 — they received $35,000 for winning the event plus $2,500 for each one of their victories.
DUNSTONE WINS BACK-TO-BACK EVENTS
The men’s final pitted two familiar foes against one another.
Brad Jacobs and Matt Dunstone are getting to know each other very well over these last few months.
The two teams met in last March’s Brier final with Jacobs leaving Kelowna, B.C., with the title.
Then just last weekend at the AMJ Masters in London, Ont., they met in the semifinals with Dunstone winning that battle en route to winning his second Slam title of his career.
On Sunday night in Calgary, they met again in the PointsBet Invitational championship game.
It was the 25th meeting between the two skips throughout their career with Jacobs holding a considerable edge, having won 18 of the previous 24 meetings. However, Dunstone had won the last two of three battles.
After trading granite blows throughout the game, the teams found themselves locked in a 3-3 tie in the ninth end.
That’s when Dunstone and Jacobs traded world-class shots throughout most of the end, leading to the decisive moment of the game.
After Jacobs attempted a difficult freeze but wasn’t able to weld the rock onto one of Dunstone’s stones, the Manitoba skip nicknamed the Sheriff took aim.
Dunstone threw a perfect hack-weight takeout to score three and take an insurmountable 6-3 heading into the final end. Dunstone and company ran the Alberta team out of rocks in the 10th to secure the title.
This was the third time Dunstone was playing in the championship game at the PointsBet Invitational. This time, his third time, was a charm.
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