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The national women’s curling championship will take place at Sandman Centre in Kamloops from Feb. 17 to Feb. 26.

Team Canada, represented by the Kerri Einarson rink of Gimli, Man., will begin its pursuit of a recordtying fourth consecutive Scotties Tournament of Hearts title against Quebec’s Team Laurie St-Georges on Feb. 17 to open the tournament.

teams in each pool advance to the playoffs. The second- and thirdranked teams in each pool cross over to play in Page playoff qualifier games on Friday, Feb. 24, at 1 p.m.

The winners advance to play the winners of Pool A and Pool B on Friday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m. The winners of those games go to the Page first versus second game, while the losers will compete in the Page third versus fourth game.

Tuesday, February21

Wednesday, February22

108:30a.m.WC2vsNBBCvsNUMBvsNTSKvsWC1

111:30p.m.CAvsSKNBvsWC3ABvsPEYTvsMB

126:30p.m.NTvsNOQCvsWC1WC2vsNLNUvsNS

138:30a.m.QCvsPEWC2vsMBSKvsNUWC3vsON

141:30p.m.NBvsNLABvsNSNOvsYTWC1vsBC

156:30p.m.NUvsWC1NLvsNOQCvsBCNTvsWC2

Thursday, February23168:30a.m.YTvsWC3PEvsSKNBvsONCAvsAB

171:30p.m.ONvsWC2YTvsNTNLvsWC3MBvsNB

186:30p.m.BCvsABNUvsCAPEvsWC1NSvsQC

TB8:30a.m.TIEBREAKERIFNECESSARY

The event will feature 18 teams — Team Canada, 14 provincial/territorial champions and three wild card teams — split into two pools of nine, seeded based on their standing in the Canadian Team Ranking System as of Jan. 30.

Friday, February24

PO-11:00p.m.#2vs#3-TBD

PO-26:00p.m.PoolWinnervs#2/#3Winner-TBD

Team Kaitlyn Lawes (Winnipeg), Team Casey Scheidegger (Lethbridge, Alta.) and Team Meghan Walter (East St. Paul, Man.) nailed down the wild card berths.

Teams will play a complete eight-game round-robin within their pools. From there, the top three

The standard Page playoffs commence with the winner of the Page first versus second game on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 6 p.m., advancing directly to the final and the loser playing the winner of the Page third versus fourth game (scheduled for 1 p.m. on Saturday) in the semifinal.

The semifinal (Sunday, Feb. 26, at noon) winner will take on the winner of the Page first versus second game in the Scotties title tilt at 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Tickets are available online at curling.ca/tickets, in person at the Sandman Centre box office or by phone at 250-828-3339.

The winner will represent Canada at the 2023 LGT World Women’s Curling Championship, which is being held from March 18 to March 26 in Sandviken, Sweden.

THE SCOTTIES FIELD

(Teams are listed according to overall seeding, with players listed in order of skip (player calling the shots), vice-skip (player holding the broom for the skip), second, lead, alternate, coach).

POOL A

• 1. Team Canada: Kerri Einarson (Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris, Reid Carruthers; Gimli, Man.)

• 4. Wild Card 1: Kaitlyn Lawes (Laura Walker, Jocelyn Peterman, Kristin MacCuish, Lisa Weagle; Winnipeg)

• 5. British Columbia: Clancy Grandy (Kayla MacMillan, Lindsay Dubue, Sarah Loken, Katie Witt; Vancouver)