St-Georges, Grandy, Galusha punch tickets to Canadian women's curling championship

B.C.'s Clancy Grandy and Quebec's Laurie St-Georges both went to extra ends to win their respective women's provincial curling championships Sunday and qualify for the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

Kerry Galusha of Northwest Territories also punched her ticket to the Canadian women's championship, to be held Feb. 17-26 in Kamloops, B.C.

Grandy, St-Georges and Galusha joined already qualified defending champion Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Man., Nunavut's Brigitte MacPhail and Yukon's Hailey Birnie.

Grandy's Vancouver Curling Club team recovered from giving up five points in the third end to Corryn Brown of Kamloops to prevail 10-9 in an extra end in the B.C. women's final in Chilliwack.

"We played aggressively, so when you play aggressively, there's always an opportunity for a big end," Grandy told Curl BC. "We just said 'stick with it, keeping playing our game' and we felt we were able to do that."

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St-Georges, whose team curls out of the Laval-Sur-Le-Lac and Glenmore curling clubs, edged Lauren Horten 4-3 in an extra end to take Quebec's women's crown in Alma.

St-Georges reached the playoffs and skipped Quebec to a 6-6 record in the 2021 national championship, which was held in a bubble in Calgary because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Her Quebec team went 3-5 and missed the playoffs last year in Thunder Bay, Ont.

Galusha will play in her 18th career national women's championship,