(Posted 4:30 a.m., Jan. 22)
Orléans curler skips rink into Canadian Junior final
By Fred Sherwin
Orléans Online

Orléans curler Rachel Homan is one win away from the Canadian Junior Curling championship after her Ottawa Curling Club rink won both their round robin games on Thursday to earn a berth in Sunday's final.

Homan and her teammates Emma Miskew, Laura Crocker and Lynn Kreviazuk.improved their round robin record to a perfect 10-0 on Thursday with wins over Manitoba and Nova Scotia.

The Homan rink is attempting to exercise the demons of last year's championship final which they lost 7-4 to the defending champions from Manitoba.

Although they still have two round robin games left on Friday, the Homan and company have already earned an automatic berth in Sunday's final where they will face the winner of the semi-final to be played on Saturday.

"It's pretty exciting getting right back to where we were last year," said Homan in an interview on Thursday,"but we still have two more games that we want to win and try and go undefeated this year. We weren't last year, so it's another goal of ours."

The Homan rink owes much of their success to their willingness to play in senior women's events where they've done fairly well. They managed to earn a berth in the "Road to the Roar" Olympic pre-trial in November where they won their first two games before bowing out. One of their wins was against Quebec women's champions Marie-France Larouche.

Sunday's women's final will be televised on TSN at 2:30 p.m.

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