Brad Gushue thrilled a near-capacity crowd Wednesday afternoon by posting a 6-3 victory over Winnipeg’s Reid Carruthers at the Kioti National.
The teams shook hands after Carruthers made a draw for a single in the seventh end.
Gushue, from St. John’s, N.L., improved to 2-0 in round-robin play at the Mary Brown’s Centre. It’s the first major curling event in the city since 2017, when Gushue won his first career national men’s championship.
Earlier, Winnipeg’s Kaitlyn Lawes made a game-winning draw to the button for a 5-4 victory over Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni. It’s Lawes’s first competition since she returned from maternity leave.
Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg defeated South Korea’s Eun-Ji Gim 6-2 and Japan’s Momoha Tabata beat Xenia Schwaller 6-4. Satsuki Fujisawa topped Sayaka Yoshimura 6-3 in an all-Japanese matchup.
Germany’s Marc Muskatewitz outscored Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller 8-6 and Scotland’s Ross Whyte dumped Switzerland’s Michael Brunner 7-2.
The four-draw day will wrap with an evening session. Competition at the Grand Slam of Curling event continues through Sunday.
