MISSISSAUGA — Canada’s Kerri Einarson is returning to the championship game at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Einarson beat Alberta’s Selena Sturmay 12-5 in the semifinal of the Canadian women’s curling championship.
Einarson will face Manitoba’s Kaitlyn Lawes in the tournament’s final later Sunday.
The championship game will be a rematch of Saturday’s 1/2 Page playoff when Lawes routed Einarson 10-2 in eight ends.
It’s the 10th consecutive year that either Einarson or Rachel Homan have been finalists at the Tournament of Hearts.
Homan, the reigning national champion, is missing this year’s event because she’s representing Canada at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
In the semifinal, Einarson made a perfectly placed draw for three in the second end for an early lead.
Sturmay replied with a single in the third to cut into Einarson’s lead. The two teams then exchanged deuces in the fourth and fifth ends for Einarson to hold a 5-3 lead.
Einarson, with hammer, grabbed two more points in the sixth when Sturmay’s final throw was inches short of Canada’s previous stone. Einarson then just made a simple draw near the button to score a deuce.
Sturmay got a single in the seventh and then stole another in the eighth to cut Einarson’s lead to 7-5.
The two teams shook hands in the ninth end after Einarson scored five to put the game well out of reach for the Alberta rink.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 1, 2026.
John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press
