Music: {allcanada} JONES ADVANCES TO SCOTTIES FINAL TO FACE HOMAN IN REMATCH

Sunday, February 24, 2013

{allcanada} JONES ADVANCES TO SCOTTIES FINAL TO FACE HOMAN IN REMATCH

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KINGSTON, Ont. -- Manitoba's Jennifer Jones booked her spot in the final of the national women's curling championship with an 8-5 win over Team Canada's Heather Nedohin on Sunday morning at the K-Rock Centre.

Manitoba's Jones will play Ontario's Rachel Homan for the gold medal, tonight live on TSN and TSN Mobile TV at 7pm et/4pm pt.

Meanwhile, Nedohin is taking on Kelly Scott of B.C. in the bronze medal game on TSN2 and TSN Mobile TV now.

Homan beat Jones in the 1-2 Page playoff game on Saturday to lock up a berth in the championship game.

Nedohin led 4-2 after six ends but Jones pulled even with a pair in the seventh and stole two in the eighth. The 2012 champion scored one in the ninth to cut the Manitoba lead in half but couldn't complete the comeback in the 10th.

Canada had an 89 per cent shooting percentage while Manitoba shot 82 per cent. Nedohin shot 84 per cent to 82 per cent for Jones.

With the loss, Nedohin fell into the bronze-medal game against B.C.'s Kelly Scott on Sunday afternoon.

The third-place game was a rematch of last year's final in Red Deer, Alta. Nedohin beat Scott 7-6 to win the gold.

The 38-year-old Jones won a world title in 2008 and is a four-time national champion. Homan, 23, won a Canadian junior title in 2010 and finished fourth in her only previous Scotties appearance in 2011.

Jones was 11-0 over the round robin to become the first skip since British Columbia's Linda Moore to go undefeated. Moore went 10-0 in 1985 and then won the final in Winnipeg.

Homan's only loss of the round robin was to Jones. The Ontario skip rebounded with an 8-5 win over Jones on Saturday night.

The Scotties winner will represent Canada at next month's world women's curling championship in Riga, Latvia.

The top two teams at the Scotties receive $15,500 in prize money, the third-place team gets $12,000 and the fourth-place team receives $7,000. Teams finishing fifth through 12th receive $3,400 each.

All 12 teams receive $4,167 for title sponsor cresting.

The winner also receives $10,000 for wearing cresting at the world championship along with $40,000 from Own The Podium for training and competition expenses. Sport Canada will provide them with $144,000 over a two-year period.

The men's national championship -- the Tim Hortons Brier -- is set for March 2-10 in Edmonton. The winner will represent Canada at the March 30-April 7 world men's curling championship in Victoria.

Notes: Announced attendance for the semifinal game was 3,285. Arena capacity is 5,700. ... Manitoba claimed three first-team all-star nods. Jones and teammates Dawn Askin and Kaitlyn Lawes were joined by Ontario's Alison Kreviazuk. Homan was named to the second team with Canada's Laine Peters, Manitoba's Jill Officer and B.C.'s Jeanna Schraeder. The all-star teams were selected solely on their statistics during round-robin play. ... B.C.'s Sasha Carter was the winner of the Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award and Andrew Klaver was the recipient of the Joan Mead Builder Award. Klaver has been the official tournament photographer for the past 23 years. ... The 2014 Scotties will be held in Montreal.

There will be a new champion at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts this year.Jones will play Ontario's Rachel Homan for the gold medal on TSN and TSN Mobile TV, tonight at 7pm et/4pm pt.

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