Brandon’s Lois Fowler captured the Canadian Senior Women’s Curling Championship Saturday.
Fowler broke open a 1-1 tie with three in the eighth end, and put the game away with a steal of one in the ninth in a 5-1 victory over Saskatchewan’s Lorraine Arguin in the title game.
It’s the first Canadian title for Fowler in her eighth trip to a national championship, and Manitoba’s first title at the Canadian Senior Women’s Championship since Brandon’s Mable Mitchell turned the trick in 1983.
“It was a good game. She (Arguin) didn’t go after us and we didn’t go after her for the first few ends. But then I made a runback double in the eighth end to get our three," said Fowler in a release, "I’m just in a cloud right now, on top of the world.”
Fowler and her team of Maureen Bonar, Cathy Gauthier and Allyson Stewart will also represent our country at the 2015 World Senior Curling Championship.
The site of next spring’s WCF event has yet to be determined.
Meanwhile, Neepawa’s Kelly Robertson came within an eyelash of making it a Westman double.
Two in the tenth end lifted Nova Scotia’s Alan O’Leary to a 9-8 win over Robertson in the Senior Men’s Final at the Canadian Championship in Yellowknife.
Robertson, the 2011 Canadian Seniors champion and 2012 World Seniors silver medallist, and O’Leary played a back-and-forth game that included four lead changes.
The 2014 Canadian Seniors was the first time that the City of Yellowknife and the Northwest Territories had hosted a Canadian curling championship.
