2017 Scotties Tournament of Hearts


The 2017 Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held from February 16 to 26 at the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario. The Rachel Homan rink, representing Ontario, won their third national title; with Homan becoming the youngest skip, man or woman, to ever win three national championships. Her team represented Canada at the 2017 World Women's Curling Championship in Beijing from March 18 to 26.
In the final, Ontario, skipped by Rachel Homan, defeated Manitoba's Michelle Englot 8–6 in an extra end to win her third national championship. Heading into the game, Manitoba had beaten Ontario twice already in the tournament, once in the round robin and again in the 1 vs. 2 game. In the first end, Englot attempted to blank the end, but her rock stuck around in the 12-foot circle, forcing Manitoba to take a single, and lose last rock advantage to Ontario. In the second, facing a Manitoba shot-rock, Homan made an incredible cross-house double takeout at the perfect angle to score three to take a 3–1 lead early on. Manitoba clawed back however with a single in the third, and stolen points in the fifth and seventh to take a 4–3 lead, but Ontario scored two in the eighth to go up 5–4. In the ninth, Englot missed a thin takeout attempt on her first throw, and wrecked on a guard on her last, giving up a steal of one to Ontario heading into the 10th, down 6–4. In the 10th end, both team's thirds, Ontario's Emma Miskew, and Manitoba's Kate Cameron made double takeouts to help their teams out. Facing three Manitoba stones on her last, Homan made a clutch double takeout to prevent Manitoba possible scoring three points and the win. Englot then made her draw to tie the game, forcing an extra end. In the 11th end, Englot drew to the back-four behind cover on her last stone to sit shot-rock. Homan opted to throw a short run-back of her own stone on to shot rock, which she made, winning the game. There were 4,143 spectators on hand to witness the final.
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Teams

The 2017 Scotties was notable for the presence of many veteran skips from previous Canadian Women's Championship tournaments. Shannon Kleibrink made her 5th Scotties appearance after defeating the 2-time Scotties Silver medallist Valerie Sweeting in the Alberta final; however, issues with back pain limited her performance. Marla Mallett of British Columbia and Stacie Curtis of Newfoundland and Labrador made their 4th Scotties appearances, as well as Mary Mattatall who was in her 5th as Team Nova Scotia after upsetting last year's Nova Scotia Champion Jill Brothers. PEI's Robyn MacPhee made her 8th Scotties appearance, Ève Bélisle of Quebec made her 3rd, and Kerry Galusha of the Northwest Territories made her 14th Scotties appearance. Geneva Chislett returned again for Team Nunavut, as did Sarah Koltun for the Yukon. The only two teams to make their Scotties debuts were Penny Barker of Saskatchewan and Melissa Adams of New Brunswick. Notably absent was the 5-time Scotties Champion and 12-time Manitoba Scotties champion, Jennifer Jones, who was defeated in the Manitoba Scotties Semifinal by Darcy Robertson, who lost to Michelle Englot in the final. The headline teams for this year's Scotties were last year's Silver medallist Krista McCarville who defeated Tracy Fleury in Northern Ontario for the second year in a row, the 2-time Scotties Champion Rachel Homan who won the southern Ontario final against Jacqueline Harrison, and the defending Champions Chelsea Carey of Team Canada.
The teams are listed as follows:

Pre-qualifying tournament

Results

All draw times are listed in Eastern Standard Time.

Draw 1

''Thursday, February 16, 6:30 pm''

Draw 2

''Friday, February 17, 8:00 am''

Draw 3

''Friday, February 17, 4:00 pm''

Pre-qualifying final

''Saturday, February 18, 2:30 pm''

Round robin standings

''Final Round Robin Standings''

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Eastern Standard Time.

Draw 1

''Saturday, February 18, 2:30 pm''

Draw 2

''Saturday, February 18, 7:30 pm''

Draw 3

''Sunday, February 19, 9:30 am''

Draw 4

''Sunday, February 19, 2:30 pm''

Draw 5

''Sunday, February 19, 7:30 pm''

Draw 6

''Monday, February 20, 2:30 pm''

Draw 7

''Monday, February 20, 7:30 pm''

Draw 8

''Tuesday, February 21, 9:30 am''

Draw 9

''Tuesday, February 21, 2:30 pm''

Draw 10

''Tuesday, February 21, 7:30 pm''

Draw 11

''Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 am''

Draw 12

''Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 pm''

Draw 13

''Wednesday, February 22, 7:30 pm''

Draw 14

''Thursday, February 23, 9:30 am''

Draw 15

''Thursday, February 23, 2:30 pm''

Draw 16

''Thursday, February 23, 7:30 pm''

Draw 17

''Friday, February 24, 9:30 am''

Playoffs

1 vs. 2

''Friday, February 24, 7:30 pm''

3 vs. 4

''Saturday, February 25, 2:30 pm''

Semifinal

''Saturday, February 25, 7:30 pm''

Bronze medal game

''Sunday, February 26, 2:30 pm''

Final

''Sunday, February 26, 7:30 pm''

Statistics

''Round Robin only''

Awards

The awards and all-star teams are as follows:
;All-Star Teams
First Team
Second Team
;Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award
;Joan Mead Builder Award