By Canadian Press

Ontario’s McEwen and Wild Card 1’s Bottcher win qualifier games at Brier

Mar 10, 2023 | 3:33 PM

LONDON, Ont. — Ontario’s Mike McEwen and Wild Card 1’s Brendan Bottcher are moving on to the final four at the Tim Hortons Brier.

McEwen beat Alberta’s Kevin Koe 9-8 and Bottcher topped Northern Ontario’s Tanner Horgan 8-5 in today’s crossover elimination games at Budweiser Gardens.

They will advance to the four-team Page playoffs with seeding games scheduled for the evening. 

Unbeaten Manitoba skip Matt Dunstone and Team Canada’s Brad Gushue earned byes after leading their respective nine-team pools in round-robin play. 

Dunstone will play Bottcher in one seeding game and Gushue, the defending champion, will face McEwen in the other. The winners advance to the 1-2 Page game on Saturday and the losers fall to the 3-4 game.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 10, 2023. 

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