Canadian provincial women's curling championship
The 2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts , the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario , was held from January 23 to 29 at The Plex in Port Elgin , Ontario .[ 1] Rachel Homan rink represented Ontario at the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts , Canada's national women's curling championship in Kamloops , British Columbia where they made the Championship round losing to Nova Scotia 7–6 in an extra end.
The event was held in conjunction with the 2023 Ontario Tankard , the provincial men's curling championship. Both events are held together in non-Olympic years.[ 2]
Qualification process
Twelve teams qualified for the 2023 Ontario Scotties. As defending champions, Team Rachel Homan earned the first qualification spot (due to COVID-19 the 2022 Ontario Hearts were postponed until after the national Tournament of Hearts). One team qualified via their results in the "Grand Slam " series events (2022 PointsBet Invitational , 2022 National , 2022 Tour Challenge , 2022 Masters ). Two teams qualified via their results in the Trillium Tour '1000' series events (Stu Sells Toronto Tankard , Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel , North Grenville Curling Club Women's Fall Classic , Stu Sells Brantford Nissan Classic ). Three teams qualified via their results in the Trillium Tour '500' series events (Gord Carroll Curling Classic , KW Fall Classic , CurlON Women's Open, Home Again Women's Classic, plus the aforementioned 1000 events). One team (restricted to curlers under the age of 25) qualified via their results in the aforementioned Trillium Tour events, plus the CurlON 250 Event #1. The remaining four teams qualified via an open qualifier.[ 3]
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:[ 4]
Skip
Third
Second
Lead
Alternate
Club
Hailey Armstrong Megan Smith Jessica Humphries
Terri Weeks
Emma Artichuck KW Granite Club , Waterloo
Chelsea Brandwood Brenda Holloway Riley Sandham Hilary Nuhn
Listowel CC , Listowel
Hollie Duncan Megan Balsdon Rachelle Strybosch Tess Bobbie Sherry Middaugh Woodstock CC , Woodstock
Susan Froud Kaitlin Jewer
Kristina Brauch Audrey Wallbank
Alliston CC , Alliston
Allison Flaxey [ a] Calissa Daly [ a] Lynn Kreviazuk Laura Hickey Dundas Valley G&CC , Dundas
Rachel Homan (Fourth)Tracy Fleury (Skip)Emma Miskew Sarah Wilkes Ottawa CC , Ottawa
Carly Howard Stephanie Matheson Grace Holyoke Jestyn Murphy Mississaugua G&CC , Mississauga
Danielle Inglis Kira Brunton Cheryl Kreviazuk Cassandra de Groot
Ottawa H&GC , Ottawa
Isabelle Ladouceur Jamie Smith Grace Lloyd Rachel Steele Grace Cave Dundas Valley G&CC , Dundas
Lauren Mann Shelley Hardy Stephanie Mumford Stephanie Corrado
Marteen Jones Arnprior CC , Arnprior
Maddy Warriner
Sarah Bailey
Madison Fisher
Shannon Warriner
Kaelyn Gregory Dundas Valley G&CC , Dundas
Katelyn Wasylkiw Lauren Wasylkiw Stephanie Thompson Erin Way Whitby CC , Whitby
Round-robin standings
Final round-robin standings [ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
Key
Teams to Championship Round
Teams to Tiebreaker
Pool A
Skip (Club)
W
L
PF
PA
EW
EL
BE
SE
Team Homan (Ottawa)4
1
39
23
19
15
2
4
Danielle Inglis (Ottawa Hunt)4
1
39
29
23
19
3
7
Team Harrison (Dundas Valley)4
1
33
27
21
17
0
7
Susan Froud (Alliston)2
3
29
38
17
23
1
4
Lauren Mann (Arnprior)1
4
28
39
20
22
2
3
Maddy Warriner (Dundas Valley)[ b]
0
5
11
23
9
13
3
2
Round-robin results
All draws are listed in Eastern Time (UTC−05:00 ).[ 10]
Draw 1
Monday, January 23, 7:30 pm
Draw 2
Tuesday, January 24, 9:30 am
Draw 3
Tuesday, January 24, 2:30 pm
Draw 4
Tuesday, January 24, 7:30 pm
Draw 5
Wednesday, January 25, 9:30 am
Draw 6
Wednesday, January 25, 2:30 pm
Draw 8
Thursday, January 26, 9:30 am
Draw 9
Thursday, January 26, 2:30 pm
Draw 10
Thursday, January 26, 7:30 pm
Draw 11
Friday, January 27, 9:30 am
Tiebreaker
Friday, January 27, 7:30 pm
Championship round
Records from Round Robin carry over to the Championship Round
Key
Teams to Playoffs
Teams to Tiebreaker
Championship round results
Draw 13
Friday, January 27, 7:30 pm
Draw 14
Saturday, January 28, 9:30 am
Draw 15
Saturday, January 28, 2:30 pm
Tiebreaker
Saturday, January 28, 8:00 pm
Playoffs
Source:[ 11]
Semifinal
Sunday, January 29, 10:30 am
Final
Sunday, January 29, 3:00 pm
2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
Tracy Fleury
Qualification
Open Qualifier
January 7–8, Midland Curling Club , Midland [ 12]
B1 Side
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
To STOH
Katelyn Wasylkiw 7
Cathy Auld (Thornhill)
4
Tori Zemmelink (Navan)
9
Breanna Rozon (Oshawa)
9
Breanna Rozon (Oshawa)
8
Emma Acres (RCMP)
5
Tori Zemmelink (Navan)
5
Cathy Auld 9
Sierra Sutherland (Rideau)
2
Cathy Auld 8
B2 Side
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
To STOH
Allison Flaxey 9
Abby Deschene (Acton)
5
Abby Deschene (Acton)
9
Amanda Gebhardt (Guelph)
4
Abby Deschene (Acton)
10
Quinn Walsh (Leaside)
5
Mackenzie Kiemele (Dixie)
4
Emily Lindsay (RCMP)
9
Emily Lindsay (RCMP)
5
Mackenzie Kiemele (Dixie)
9
Notes
References
^ "Port Elgin Chrysler '23 Ontario Tankard/Scotties" . Port Elgin Curling Club . Retrieved January 6, 2022 .^ "Tankard, Ontario Scotties to be played in Port Elgin in 2023" . Owen Sound Times . April 15, 2022. Retrieved January 6, 2023 .^ "Women's (Scotties)" . CurlON . Retrieved January 6, 2022 .^ "2023 Ontario Women's Scotties Teams" . CurlON . Retrieved January 6, 2023 .^ "Team Harrison" . Facebook . Retrieved 24 January 2023 .^ "2023 Official Provincial Draw" . CurlON . Retrieved January 21, 2023 .^ "Pool A Standings" . CurlON . Retrieved January 21, 2023 .^ "Pool B Standings" . CurlON . Retrieved January 21, 2023 .^ "Statement from Team Warriner" . Twitter . Team Warriner. Retrieved 26 January 2023 .^ "Scoreboard" . CurlON . Retrieved January 22, 2023 .^ "Playoff" . CurlON . Retrieved January 29, 2023 .^ "2023 STOH -- OPEN QUALIFIER" . CurlON . Retrieved January 6, 2022 .
