{"id":8079,"date":"2025-01-02T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T14:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2025-01-02T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T14:05:22","slug":"jocelyn-peterman-brett-gallant-clinch-top-spot-as-playoff-picture-settles-at-canadian-mixed-doubles-curling-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/01\/02\/jocelyn-peterman-brett-gallant-clinch-top-spot-as-playoff-picture-settles-at-canadian-mixed-doubles-curling-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterman, Gallant clinch top spot as playoff picture settles at Canadian mixed doubles curling trials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing during Draw 12 action Wednesday against Laura Walker and Kirk Muyres. (Curling Canada\/ Michael Burns Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

The playoff picture at the 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials in Liverpool is a lot clearer after draws on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three teams secured playoff spots on Wednesday: Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant clinched the top spot on Pool B with their undefeated record of 6-0, Rachel Homan and Brendan Bottcher and Brittany Tran and Rylan Kleiter are tied at the top of Pool A with records of 5-1.<\/span><\/p>\n

MORE COVERAGE: 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Playoff action begins<\/a> Thursday evening. The top two teams from each pool cross over to compete for a spot in \u00a0the Page 1 versus 2 game, in Curling Canada’s Page Playoff system. The winners of each of those games advance directly to the Page 1 versus 2 game. The losers of each of those first games then have a second chance to advance by playing a third-place team.<\/span><\/p>\n

The winner of the Page 1 vs 2 game goes on to the final, while the loser has yet another chance in the semi-final as they go against the winner of the Page 3 vs 4 game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The team of Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing are still in the playoff picture, tied for third in Pool A. They have a must-win game at 1 p.m. Thursday against Homan and Bottcher.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reigning Canadian champions Kadriana Lott and Colton Lott also have to win their game this morning against Peterman and Gallant to have a chance at the playoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n

The semi-final is set for Saturday at 10 a.m., with the final getting underway at 2 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

All games are at Queens Place Emera Centre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Full results and standings<\/a> can be found on the Curling Canada website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curling Canada is also livestreaming some games on their YouTube channel here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The playoff picture at the 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials in Liverpool is a lot clearer after draws on New Year\u2019s Day. Three teams secured playoff spots on Wednesday: Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant clinched the top spot on Pool B with their undefeated record of 6-0, Rachel Homan and Brendan Bottcher and Brittany […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2711,2712,2715,2761,2764,390,2277,2713,2760,2663,2771,2770,351,2714,2765,1626],"class_list":["post-8079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-2025-canadian-mixed-doubles-curling-trials","tag-brendan-bottcher","tag-brent-laing","tag-brett-gallant","tag-brittany-tran","tag-curling","tag-curling-canada","tag-jennifer-jones","tag-jocelyn-peterman","tag-olympic-trials","tag-page-playoffs","tag-playoffs","tag-queens-place-emera-centre","tag-rachel-homan","tag-rylan-kleiter","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8085,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions\/8085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}