{"id":313724,"date":"2025-11-29T05:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313724\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T05:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:09:07","slug":"jacobs-defeats-dunstone-in-game-1-of-canadian-curling-trials-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313724\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacobs defeats Dunstone in Game 1 of Canadian Curling Trials final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Team Jacobs captured Game 1 of the best-of-three Canadian Curling Trials final with a 9-8 victory over Team Dunstone on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brad Jacobs and his Calgary-based rink scored two in the 10th end to secure the advantage in the championship matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jacobs came out of the gate with a single point in the first end, before stealing two for an early 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After the teams traded two-point ends, Matt Dunstone struck for four heading into the fifth-end break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jacobs bounced back to score two in the sixth and overcame Dunstone\u2019s 9th-end deuce with two of his own in the 10th end to earn the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Team Jacobs will now have two chances to qualify for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano and Cortina, Italy, with the first coming in Game 2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">If Dunstone wins the second matchup, the teams will play a winner-take-all match on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Jacobs captured Game 1 of the best-of-three Canadian Curling Trials final with a 9-8 victory over Team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-313724","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\/313724","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=313724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}