{"id":240580,"date":"2025-10-26T04:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240580\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:02:12","slug":"canadas-team-homan-to-play-for-gold-at-pan-continental-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240580\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Team Homan to play for gold at Pan Continental Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

VIRGINIA, Minn. \u2014 Team Rachel Homan will play for gold wearing the Maple Leaf on Sunday at the 2025 United States Steel Pan Continental Curling Championships<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Suffice it to say, the team hopes it\u2019s not the last time this season it will play in an international final representing Canada, so it will gladly take advantage of a dress rehearsal on Sunday at the Iron Trail Motors Event Center in Virginia, Minn., when Team Canada plays China\u2019s Team Rui Wang at 5:30 p.m. (all times Eastern) in the final edition of the Pan Continental Championships.<\/p>\n

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Ottawa\u2019s Homan, vice-skip Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew, lead Sarah Wilkes, alternate Rachelle Brown, and coaches Renee Sonnenberg and Viktor Kjell clinched a berth in the gold-medal game Saturday night, beating Team Tabitha Peterson of the United States 8-3 in the semifinal.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Team Canada\u2019s Sarah Wilkes directs her teammates during semifinal action on Saturday. (Photo, World Curling\/Caroline Sherman)<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be a second straight Sunday final for Team Homan, which won its record 19th Grand Slam championship last weekend in Nisku, Alta.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not easy going from one tournament right to the next, but they gave us the opportunity to put on the Maple Leaf on and play 10-end games, and it\u2019s a great opportunity to be in the final for Canada,\u201d said Homan. \u201cWe\u2019re always going to jump at that opportunity and never take that for granted. We\u2019re excited to be here, excited to be representing Canada, and obviously winning that game is just huge. It\u2019s just so exciting. We always want Canada in that final battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Team Canada got steadily better as the evening proceeded. After a blanked first end, Miskew\u2019s early hit-and-roll set up the second end perfectly, and Homan finished it off with a draw to the rings for two.<\/p>\n

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An end later, Homan snuffed out a U.S. threat with a terrific double runback takeout<\/a> that eventually forced the U.S. to take a single<\/p>\n

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Canada made it 3-1 when Homan hit for a single in the fourth, needing a hard sweep from Miskew to hold the line, and stretched it to 4-1 an end later on a bad miss from Peterson, who had a hit for three but was narrow with her delivery and ended up pushing a Canadian stone into scoring position for the steal.<\/p>\n

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It was a terrific night for Miskew, who finished the game scored at xx per cent, and made a double runback takeout in the eighth<\/a> that cleared off a pair of U.S. centre guards as well as a dangerous U.S. stone at the top of the four-foot.<\/p>\n

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That set the stage for Homan\u2019s last-rock double takeout for three that prompted a concession from the U.S. team.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe (Miskew) was phenomenal,\u201d said Homan. \u201cShe stepped up her game, and that\u2019s a difference-maker in big games like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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China, 7-0 in the round robin, defeated South Korea\u2019s Team Eunji Gim 6-5 in an extra end in the other semifinal. The Chinese scored two in the 10th end for a 7-6 win over Canada in their round-robin game on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPlaying in the semifinal is always tough, so it\u2019s almost freeing to make the final, and know that you\u2019ll be playing for a medal,\u201d said Miskew. \u201cWe\u2019ve been learning all week and I think we\u2019re in a good place for the final.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The U.S. will play South Korea in the bronze-medal game at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

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It could be a double golden day for Canada as the men\u2019s final will feature Calgary\u2019s Team Brad Jacobs taking on Team John Shuster of the United States at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Earlier Sunday, Jacobs, vice-skip Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant, lead Ben Hebert, alternate Tyler Tardi, team coach Paul Webster and national coach Jeff Stoughton shaded China\u2019s Team Xiaoming Xu 5-4 in the men\u2019s semifinals.<\/p>\n

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Scores, standings and full team lineups are available by CLICKING HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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All games will be available on World Curling\u2019s streaming platform, The Curling Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This story will be posted in French as soon as possible at www.curling.ca\/fr\/nouvelles-media\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIRGINIA, Minn. \u2014 Team Rachel Homan will play for gold wearing the Maple Leaf on Sunday at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[109035,109036,109037,109038,49,48,109039,109040,109041,109042,109043,2598,44,109044,109045,109046,109047,109048,109049,109050,109051,4137,109052],"class_list":["post-240580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-2025-u-s-steel-pan-continental-curling-championships","tag-ben-hebert","tag-brad-jacobs","tag-brett-gallant","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-curling","tag-curling-canada","tag-emma-miskew","tag-jeff-stoughton","tag-marc-kennedy","tag-minnesota","tag-news","tag-paul-webster","tag-rachel-homan","tag-rachelle-brown","tag-renee-sonnenberg","tag-sarah-wilkes","tag-tracy-fleury","tag-tyler-tardi","tag-viktor-kjell","tag-virginia","tag-world-curling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}