Ottawa skip Rachel Homan fell 6-3 to Val Sweeting of Edmonton in the championship game of the Home Hardware Canada Cup on Sunday afternoon in Camrose, Alta.
The eighth ended with the rinks tied 3-3, but Sweeting took two in the ninth and another in the 10th end to seal the victory.
Sweeting scored a deuce in the ninth end and earned a steal in the 10th to win.
It was a small measure of revenge for Sweeting, who lost to Homan in the final of the Tournament of Hearts last February.
“A great team game, probably our strongest game all week, start to finish and from lead to skip,” said Sweeting after high-fiving part of the large crowd of supporters from her hometown of Vegreville, Alta., just east of Edmonton.
Homan’s last-rock takeout attempt in Sunday’s ninth end hung wide and failed to remove Sweeting’s shot rock from the rings, allowing the Edmonton skip to calmly draw for a go-ahead deuce to break a 3-3 tie.
“I thought it would curl there, the inturn close to the line and it just never came up,” Homan said of her shot. “It just kind of tracked halfway down the sheet and never came up.”
Sweeting’s steal in the 10th end sealed the win.
The men’s final between Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen and Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., was later Sunday.
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