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Peterman, Gallant punch playoff ticket at Canadian mixed doubles curling trials

LIVERPOOL, N.S. — Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant stayed undefeated on the Canadian combined doubles curling trials with a pair of victories Wednesday.

The husband-and-wife duo from Calgary clinched a playoff spot at 6-0 atop Pool B with one preliminary-round recreation remaining.

The trials winner can signify Canada within the 2026 Olympic Video games if the duo additionally finishes excessive sufficient on the 2025 world championship to qualify their nation for Italy.

The Olympic discipline will embody the highest eight ranked nations on the planet, or the highest seven plus host Italy if the Italians aren’t within the prime eight. Canada presently ranks fifth.

The 16-team trials discipline was divided into two swimming pools. The highest three groups in every pool advance to the playoff spherical beginning Thursday night. The ultimate is Saturday at Queens Place Emera Centre.

Peterman and Gallant, who had been silver medallists on the 2019 world championship, defeated the father-daughter combo of Jim and Jaelyn Cotter 8-1 earlier than downing Tyrel Griffith and Jennifer Armstrong 5-2 on Wednesday.

Peterman and Gallant had one pool recreation remaining Thursday in opposition to 2024 Canadian champions Colton and Kadriana Lott (4-2).

The Lotts had been 8-6 winners Wednesday afternoon over Lisa Weagle and John Epping, who had been additionally 4-2 in Pool B.

The Cotters and Griffith and Armstrong had been 3-3.

Rachel Homan and Brendan Bottcher dropped their first recreation in Pool A on Wednesday once they fell 7-6 to Brittany Tran and Rylan Kleiter.

Homan and Bottcher, Tran and Kleiter and Laura Walker and Kirk Muyres had been tied at 4-1 prime Pool A heading into Wednesday night’s draw.


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