Ontario's Mooibroek, Nova Scotia's Purcell to face off for Brier playoff spot

Gregory Strong · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 06, 2025 3:38 PM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Ontario's Sam Mooibroek and Nova Scotia's Owen Purcell were acceptable to conscionable for a playoff spot astatine the Montana's Brier connected Thursday nighttime aft posting victories successful the greeting gully astatine Prospera Place successful Kelowna, B.C.

Mooibroek rebounded from a lopsided 11-5 nonaccomplishment to Alberta's Brad Jacobs a time earlier with a convincing 8-4 triumph implicit Prince Edward Island's Tyler Smith.

Ontario scored 3 points successful the sixth extremity and added a brace of steals to crystal the win. Purcell kept gait with a 7-4 triumph implicit Aaron Bartling of the Northwest Territories.

Mooibroek and Purcell were tied for 3rd successful Pool B astatine 4-3 going into a head-to-head showdown successful the round-robin finale. The apical 3 teams from each excavation beforehand to the playoffs.

In Pool A, defending champion Brad Gushue (7-0) was acceptable to conscionable Manitoba's Matt Dunstone (6-1) successful the day with archetypal spot successful the nine-team radical connected the line.

Manitoba's Reid Carruthers (6-2) and Northern Ontario's John Epping (5-2) remained successful the playoff hunt entering Draw 17. Epping was scheduled to play Nunavut's Shane Latimer (0-7).

Scoffin upsets Kleiter

In different aboriginal results, Jacobs bushed Quebec's Jean-Michel Menard 6-4 and Yukon's Thomas Scoffin upset Saskatchewan's Ryan Kleiter 8-6.

Jacobs (7-0) moved into a necktie for archetypal spot successful Pool B with Saskatchewan's Mike McEwen (7-0), who was idle Thursday morning. The seasoned skips were to conscionable successful the evening gully with the apical effect successful the excavation connected the line.

Kleiter, meanwhile, fell to 3-4 and was eliminated from playoff contention. Scoffin improved to 3-4.

Qualification games were scheduled for Friday up of the Page playoffs connected the weekend. The last volition beryllium played Sunday night.

The victor volition correspond Canada astatine the BKT satellite men's curling title starting March 29 successful Moose Jaw, Sask.