Several curling teams secure spots for Scotties, Brier

The lineup for the Canadian women's curling championship was completed Sunday with the crowning of eight champions.

A field of 18 teams will curl Feb. 14-23 in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Thunder Bay, Ont.

Corryn Brown (B.C.), Kayla Skrlik (Alberta), Nancy Martin (Saskatchewan), Kate Cameron (Manitoba), Danielle Inglis (Ontario), Krista McCarville (Northern Ontario), Jane DiCarlo (Prince Edward Island) and Brooke Godsland (Newfoundland and Labrador) prevailed Sunday in their respective finals.

Rachel Homan's team was already bound for Thunder Bay's Hearts as defending champion after winning last year in Calgary.

Four-time champ Kerri Einarson, Alberta's Selena Sturmay and Manitoba's Kaitlyn Lawes pre-qualified for the Hearts based on their ranking at the end of the 2023-24 season.

Other provincial and territorial reps already qualified include Christina Black (Nova Scotia), Laurie St-Georges (Quebec), Kerry Galusha (Northwest Territories), Melissa Adams (New Brunswick), Bayly Scoffin (Yukon) and Julia Weagle (Nunavut).

The winner in Thunder Bay represents Canada at the women's world championship March 15-23 in Uijeongbu, South Korea.

Brown claimed her second B.C. women's title five years after the first with a 10-7 victory over Kayla MacMillan in Langley.

"It feels incredible. We had a really great week all week. We showed we deserved to be here and we really brought it all together in that last game," Brown told Curl BC.

McCarville's bid to represent Northern Ontario in her hometown of Thunder Bay was a battle.

The two-time Hearts finalist trailed Emma Artichuk 5-2 after five ends, but scored one in the sixth and stole single points in the seven and eighth.

The skip drew the four-foot rings in the 10th for the