Robyn Silvernagle's rink steals way to Alberta women's curling championship playoffs
Day 2 of the 2025 Curling Alberta Women’s Provincial Championship brought the first team forward for the playoff round at the Rimbey Curling Club.
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Robyn Silvernagle and her Sexsmith Curling Club — which includes third, Jessie Hunkin, second Jessie Haughian and lead Kristie Moore — stole one in the 10th end to earn an 8-7 win over Edmonton’s Gracelyn Richards in a wild A-side qualifier on Thursday night.
The victors managed just one end scoring more than one point, but that four-ender in the sixth was enough to rally them in a game they trailed 4-1 at the halfway point. Richards, of the Saville Community Sports Centre, responded with a three-ender in the eighth and allowed Silvernagle just one with hammer in the ninth but couldn’t keep the veteran skip and her squad from the steal in the deciding end.
In B-side action also late Thursday: Calgary’s Kayla Skrlik handled Edmonton’s Myla Plett 10-4; Sherwood Park’s Michelle Hartwell defeated Calgary’s Keelie Duncan 10-8; and Grande Prairie’s Janais DeJong needed an extra end to down Calgary’s Kayleigh Shannon 12-10.
The losses by Plett, Shannon, and Duncan mean they fall to the C event, joining North Hill/Red Deer/Ellerslie’s Elliot Martens and Edmonton’s Claire Booth in a one-more-loss-and-you’re-out scenario. Both in B-side draws earlier Thursday, Martens lost to Plett 7-2, while Booth was dropped 10-2 by DeJong.
Also Thursday in B-side matches, Skrlik lost 12-6 to Silvernagle in what is expected to be a preview of the final, while Richards knocked off Shannon 10-3, Hartwell toppled Edmonton’s Nicky Kaufman 10-7 and Duncan edged Edmonton’s Hannah Phillips 8-7.
Day 3 of the Alberta Scotties goes Friday with draws at 8:30 a.m. — with Kaufman-v-Plett, Phillips-v-Shannon and Booth-v-Martens games to stay alive — 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. — featuring the B-side qualifier.
The winner of the five-day event moves on to represent Alberta at the 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb. 14-23 in Thunder Bay, Ont.
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