{"id":311579,"date":"2025-11-28T03:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311579\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T03:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:54:07","slug":"dunstone-advances-to-canadian-curling-trials-final-with-victory-over-mcewen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311579\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunstone advances to Canadian Curling Trials final with victory over McEwen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HALIFAX \u2014 Matt Dunstone\u2019s Winnipeg-based side posted a 9-5 win over Mike McEwen\u2019s Saskatoon team in the men\u2019s semifinal of the Montana\u2019s Canadian Curling Trials on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dunstone will play the Calgary-based rink skipped by Brad Jacobs in the men\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McEwen made a tap for two in the third end, but Dunstone answered in the fourth with an in-off for a pair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dunstone made a double takeout for three points in the sixth end and tacked on a deuce in the ninth for an 8-5 lead. McEwen, who lost to Kevin Koe in the 2017 Trials final, gave up a steal in the 10th to end it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou don\u2019t want to pass up on these opportunities and we didn\u2019t,\u201d Dunstone said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The men\u2019s final games will be played Friday and Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">If necessary, the third and deciding game will be on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Milan Cortina Olympics begin Feb. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HALIFAX \u2014 Matt Dunstone\u2019s Winnipeg-based side posted a 9-5 win over Mike McEwen\u2019s Saskatoon team in the men\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-311579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311579","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=311579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}