Team Galusha will once again wear the territorySA国际影视传媒檚 colours at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts and they won the right to do so in rather dominating fashion.
Kerry Galusha and her rink of Jo-Ann Rizzo, Margot Flemming and Sarah Koltun will be off to the Canadian womenSA国际影视传媒檚 curling championship in Calgary next month thanks to winning the NWT WomenSA国际影视传媒檚 Curling Championship in Hay River on Sunday by beating Team Cormier out of Inuvik by a score of 8-3 in the final.
The Inuvik rink is better known as Team Wainman and skipped by Reese Wainman, but YellowknifeSA国际影视传媒檚 Sharon Cormier came on board to help the young team out for the event. Two Hay River rinks skipped by Betti Delorey and Deb Stanley rounded out the field.
Galusha said it was a strong performance from start to finish for her rink.
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Galusha and company were never in trouble at all when you look at the scorelines in all of their games. The four teams played a double round-robin and Team Galusha won them all to earn a bye straight through to the final. Cormier and Delorey finished second and third respectively and ended up in the semifinal, which Cormier won, 11-3, to advance to the decider.
In the final, Team Galusha opened with a deuce in the first end to take an early 2-0 lead. They would steal one in the second and two more in the third to extend that lead to 5-0, before Cormier got a single back in the fourth. Team Galusha put up another deuce before the fifth-end break to go up, 7-1.
After the break, Team Galusha stole one to make it 8-1, which was followed by a single for Cormier in the seventh and a steal in the eighth, but Cormier decided to shake hands after that to give Team Galusha the win.
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With the ticket punched for Calgary, the focus now turns to what will be the swan song for this current line-up of Team Galusha.
Galusha said the ladies decided before the season began that this season would be it.
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