Playoff implications were certainly top of mind for many teams on Tuesday at the 2026 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship as the last day of round robin approaches.
Team New Brunswick’s Sylvie Quillian (4-1; Moncton) came through with a 5-4 extra-end victory over the previously unbeaten Team Nova Scotia’s Brent MacDougall (3-1; Halifax) on Tuesday afternoon.
Quillian, along with vice-skip Marcel Robichaud, second Lynn L. LeBlanc, and lead Jordan Pinder, also won their Tuesday evening match 9-2 in six ends against Team Yukon’s Scott Williamson (0-4; Whitehorse) keeping New Brunswick in a good position in Pool B.
The New Brunswick team is looking to bring home another title after Team Rene Comeau claimed the crown at the 2025 edition.
“It would be awesome to have back-to-back champions from New Brunswick,” said Quillian. “Last year’s team told us to bring it home. So, we’re trying, fingers crossed.”
The team’s chemistry was already well-established heading into the championship. Quillian and LeBlanc regularly compete together, while Robichaud, Quillian’s brother, has previously played alongside Pinder.
“The bond is already there, so we’re having a good time on and off the ice,” said Quillian.
It was a relatively quiet game, with the teams exchanging singles through the opening ends. Quillian broke through with the only deuce of the matchup in the fifth end, using her last rock to tap back a Nova Scotia stone for two.
In the eighth end, MacDougall was faced with a tough draw around three New Brunswick stones to tap his own stone a few inches and score one point, sending the game to an extra end.
The extra end came down to Quillian’s last rock. She made a hit through her own guards to bump the opposing stone out of scoring contention and take the win for New Brunswick.
“Yes, I felt the pressure in the extra end,” said Quillian. “Coming to my shots, I thought I might be in trouble, but I pulled a nice one on my first stone and cleared things up.
“We thought it’d be good for us if we won this game, so we wanted to win it, but we’re just playing our game, and that’s all we can do.”
The Moncton contingent has one game left to finish round-robin play Wednesday at 6 p.m. (all times Atlantic) against another team sitting high in the Pool B standings, Team Manitoba’s Colin Kurz (3-1; Winnipeg). The top four teams in each pool advance to the Championship Pool on Thursday.
Only Team Québec’s Félix Asselin (4-0; Dollard-des-Ormeaux) remains undefeated and holds first place in Pool A.
Action from the 2026 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship will continue Wednesday with draws at 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 6 p.m.
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