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Jacobs 2-1 at Players Championship

With two more games left in their round robin schedule, Brad Jacobs and his Northern Ontario rink lost their first game of the Players’ Championship during their final quest to win a Grand Slam of Curling event this season.

With two more games left in their round robin schedule, Brad Jacobs and his Northern Ontario rink lost their first game of the Players’ Championship during their final quest to win a Grand Slam of Curling event this season.

Draw 9 saw the Team Jacobs rink face Reid Carruthers out of Winnipeg, MB on Thursday evening at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto.

Opening the game with a pair in the first, Jacobs ended up tied at three after four ends.

After blanking the fifth and sixth ends, Carruthers stole one in the seventh leaving Jacobs with the hammer in eight.

Only scoring a single point in the eighth, the game went to extra ends with Carruthers holding the hammer.

Carruthers scored a single point in the extra end for the 5-4 win.

“We realize we didn’t play up to our potential at all,” Jacobs told Sootoday at the end of the draw. “We just have to come out ready to play tomorrow.”

Team Jacobs is back in action Friday at noon for draw 11 against Team Laycock and again at 7 p.m. for draw 13 against Team Epping.

“I’m really looking forward to the fact that we can come out tomorrow, wake up, and do everything right,” said Jacobs. “I think we play much better when we have two games in a day as opposed to laying around all day and playing at 7 o’clock.”

Jacobs is currently in fifth place with a 2-1 record.

(Photo: Team Jacobs at the Players Championship in Toronto. Shaylan Spurway/SooToday)


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