Homan bounces back to beat Gim in GSOC Tour Challenge round-robin
Posted Oct 19, 2022 06:00:00 PM.
Rachel Homan scored two for the win in the final frame to lift her Ottawa-based club to a 5-4 victory over South Korea’s Team Gim in their opening game of the HearingLife Tour Challenge on Tuesday, Oct. 18.
After giving up back-to-back single steals in the sixth and seventh ends to fall behind by one, Homan recovered to pull off a short runback double takeout for the decisive deuce.
Gim avoids giving up a steal in the second with a bump and roll to the button for one point. @TeamHoman takes the hammer into the third up 2-1.
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The HearingLife Tour Challenge, taking place at the Coca-Cola Centre, is the second stop on the 2022-23 Pinty's Grand Slam of Curling tour.
Meanwhile, Canada's Team Duncan also kicked things off in the win column with a wild 9-6 win over Team Fujisawa from Japan.
Duncan scored three-pointers in the first and third to lead 6-1 early into the contest. The teams traded pairs of points in four and five before Fujisawa counted a three-ender of their own in the sixth to cut the deficit down to 8-6. Duncan added a single in the seventh and Fujisawa ran out of options in the eighth.
Sweden's Team Wranå took two in the seventh and stole one in the eighth for a 6-5 come-from-behind victory over Canada's Team Jones while Sweden's Team Hasselborg scored three in the fourth and two in the seventh during a 6-2 decision over Germany's Team Jentsch.
