REGINA – Brad Gushue further solidified his place in Canadian twisting history Sunday.
He turned into the primary man to skip groups to six public men’s titles with a 9-5 win over Saskatchewan’s Mike McEwen in Regina.
Gushue, third Imprint Nichols and lead Geoff Walker won the 6th Briers of their vocations and third in a row to match records held by Randy Ferbey of Edmonton.
Ferbey likewise guaranteed six crowns, including four as a skip when Ferbey likewise three-peated somewhere in the range of 2001 and 2003.
“For this reason I play. For this reason I love the game. I love this second. To see everything happen as expected after the difficult work this week is so cool,” Gushue said. “There’s no need to focus on the number of. It’s about this second here and I will partake in the several hours. We have an early flight so ideally we make it.”
Gushue of St. John’s, N.L., said he felt “somewhat pop” in his leg late.
“I believe it’s simply me being 43, frankly,” the avoid said. “I don’t believe it’s anything significant.”
E.J. Harnden in his second season with Gushue gathered his third public title. His previously was in 2013 with Brad Jacobs.
Gushue will address Canada at the men’s big showdown Walk 30 to April 7 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and return to the 2025 Montana’s Brier in Kelowna, B.C., as reigning champ.
His group gathered $108,000 in prize cash Sunday. An Olympic billet in the 2025 preliminaries was likewise theirs forthcoming a main six positioning in Switzerland.
Gushue, Nichols and Walker played in their eighth Brier last together and Harnden his fourth.
The four men carried that major event experience to beat Saskatchewan, which verged on finishing the territory’s 44-year Brier dry season.
Encouraged on by the thunders of Sunday’s full houses at the Brandt Place, McEwen removed top-cultivated Brendan Bottcher of Alberta 7-3 in the evening’s elimination round prior to engaging back against Gushue to pull inside a point in the 6th end.
Gushue scored two in the subsequent end and three in the fourth, while holding McEwen to singles in the third and the fifth for a 5-2 lead.
In any case, missed strips on monitors by the reigning champs in the 6th permitted Saskatchewan to put two stones on the button and one more at the highest point of the four-foot rings to remove Gushue’s entrance
McEwen attracted to snack the button to count three. Gushue’s tap was somewhat weighty. An estimation decided a take of two for the hosts to trail 5-4 while a competition high 5,734 going to recited “three, three.”
Saskatchewan had the resistance under tension in the seventh when McEwen attracted to the top edge of the button under fractional cover. Yet, Gushue’s slender twofold takeout for the deuce and a 7-4 lead drew clench hand siphons from the skip.
Force kept on swinging to Gushue in the eighth when Saskatchewan third Colton Flasch left every one of the three contradicting stones in the rings on an endeavored triple hit. McEwen drew against four stones for a point.
McEwen’s endeavor at a high gatekeeper with his most memorable stone of the 10th didn’t arrive at the hoard line and was pulled, which allowed Gushue the opportunity at a game-fixing deuce for the success.
“We beat him (last) Saturday night. Tragically, he’s reigning champ, he’s difficult to take care of on Sunday night,” McEwen said. “We have all that to be glad for what we did in a half year. This is an extraordinary group, and we’re not finished at this point.”
A Saskatchewan group arrived at a Brier last interestingly beginning around 1995.
“In spite of the outcome today, this was quite an achievement,” McEwen said.
Gushue won Canada’s first Olympic gold decoration in quite a while’s twisting in 2006, yet it required over 10 years to guarantee his most memorable Brier.
He has said winning his first in quite a while old neighborhood was distressing a result of the strain to create a legendary twisting second.
In any case, the Brier ice was broken for Gushue after that. His groups have since played with the certainty that makes them perpetual competitors. Sunday’s triumph in Regina was Gushue’s second around there after an overwhelming execution there in 2018.
Global gold decorations have been more diligently to get. Gushue’s solitary world title was in 2017 in Edmonton.
He was underdog to Scotland’s Bruce Mouat in 2023 and Niklas Edin in both 2022 and 2018. Gushue was the Olympic bronze medallist in Beijing in 2022. The 2020 big showdown was dropped on account of the Coronavirus pandemic
Fuelled by the fortunes of the host group, Regina’s Brier attracted 101,401 to the structure more than 11 days.
Rachel Homan came out on top for February’s Canadian ladies’ twisting title in Calgary. Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes will wear the Maple Leaf at the ladies’ big showdown Walk 16-24 in Sydney, N.S.
This report by The Canadian Press was first distributed Walk 10, 2024.
