Tuesday was another good day for Saskatchewan’s entries at the Brier in Kelowna.
Mike McEwen and his Saskatoon Nutana foursome rattled off a pair of wins.
McEwen outscored the Yukon team 7-5 in the morning draw. Then, in the evening draw, McEwen scored three in the first and fifth ends and put up four in the seventh on their way to a 14-2 win over the Northwest Territories.
McEwen’s round-robin record is now a perfect 6-0 atop Pool B, but he feels his team still has the best to come.
“We’re building towards getting to a point where all four of us together are playing well. We want to come into the playoffs clean. That can mean hammer, and there are implications to having a clean record.”
Meantime, Saskatoon’s Rylan Kleiter was in tough in Tuesday morning’s draw, coming up short in a 6-3 loss to Alberta’s Brad Jacobs. Kleiter’s crew would bounce back in the evening draw with a 9-4 win over Ontario’s Sam Mooibroek.
Kleiter’s record is now 3-2, tied with Ontario and Quebec’s Felix Asselin for the third and final Pool B playoff spot. Saskatchewan third Matthew Hall says that they aren’t looking ahead to the playoffs.
“We’re just trying to grind them out one at a time, and once the round-robin is done, we hope to be in a good spot so we can continue on from there.”
McEwen and Kleiter will play one another in their lone game on Wednesday. The afternoon match-up will be the first time that two Saskatchewan teams have ever played one another at a Brier.
