Englot steals win in last end to improve to 2-0
Michelle Englot, the skip for team Englot who is originally from Saskatchewan, got her Winnipeg-based rink a huge 6-5 win over team Meilleur on Thursday morning to improve to 2-0 at the Canadian Meridian Open.
Englot will stay in the ‘A’ bracket along with Valerie Sweeting, who also came away with a narrow win in the sixth draw of the tournament, 6-5 in an extra end over China’s Bingyu Wang.
“We had a really solid game yesterday and then dug deep today and managed to come out with the win [today],” Englot said, who was down 5-3 heading into the seventh end but battled back to win. “This team has a lot of resiliency and we don’t give up in games so it’s just really good to play with them because you know they’re never going to get down so we battle back in every game we can.”
This is just the second Grand Slam event so far for the rink made up of Englot, Kate Cameron, Leslie Wilson-Westcott, and Raunora Westcott. They made the finals at the Tour Challenge in Cranbrook, B.C., in Novemeber, but fell to Team Sweeting.