Jennifer Jones, Reid Carruthers win PointsBet curling titles

Jennifer Jones and Reid Carruthers were the winners of the inaugural PointsBet Invitational on Sunday with their Manitoban curling teams each pocketing $50,000 in prize money.

Jones defeated Casey Scheidegger's team, with Kristie Moore filling in at skip for the absent Scheidegger, in the women's final 7-4.

Carruthers doubled Matt Dunstone 8-4 in the men's championship game at Willie O'Ree Place in Fredericton.

Both teams won four straight games to collect winners' cheques.

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Jones, an Olympic gold medallist and two-time world champion, and Carruthers are both skipping new teams this season.

The 48-year-old Jones is calling the shots for a team of under-25 curlers who won national and world junior titles just two years ago.

Karlee Burgess, Mackenzie Zacharias, Lauren Lenentine and alternate Emily Zacharias round out the Jones rink.

"We felt [chemistry] instantly, and I wasn't sure because they were already an existing team, and I'm just a couple of years older than them, so I wasn't sure how that would all work," joked Jones.

"I honestly feel like it's so easy. They're easy to be around, and I feel like we've just become one united team, which is crazy because it's only September."

Jones is working on a 12-game winning streak with her new team dating back to the Saville Shoot-Out in Edmonton earlier this month.

The team went 8-0 and beat Rachel Homan in the final there.

Carruthers, vice Jason Gunnlaugson and the front end of Derek Samagalski and lead Connor Njegovan collected their first win of the 2022-23 season.

Carruthers couldn't recall a bigger payday in his curling career.

"It's unreal," Carruthers said. "New [Olympic] quad, new team and we win