{"id":8090,"date":"2025-01-03T10:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8090"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T14:22:13","slug":"peterman-gallant-and-weagle-epping-win-big-to-advance-in-playoffs-at-mixed-doubles-curling-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/01\/03\/peterman-gallant-and-weagle-epping-win-big-to-advance-in-playoffs-at-mixed-doubles-curling-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterman, Gallant and Weagle, Epping win big to advance in playoffs at mixed doubles curling trials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant during Page playoff 1vs2 qualifying against Rachel Homan and Brendan Bottcher. (Curling Canada\/ Michael Burns Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Two teams made a big step toward the finals of the 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials on Thursday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant and Lisa Weagle and John Epping won their crucial qualifiers to advance to the next round of the playoffs at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019re fighting for a chance to represent Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a battle between the top teams in each pool.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peterman and Gallant continued their unbeaten streak with a convincing 8-4 win in seven ends over Rachel Homan and Brendan Bottcher.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weagle and Epping got past Brittany Tran and Rylan Kleiter 10-5 in their game.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peterman and Gallant took control early with a score of three in the first and third ends. And they never looked back.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s fun playing those shots where we know where to hit it and we just get to go for it and you’re all in on every shot,” Peterman said.<\/p>\n

“We play a lot together. We know what our roles are on the ice,” Gallant said.<\/p>\n

“Jocelyn needs to make those big last ones and she did a tremendous job of that tonight. She made a couple of pistols that kind of turned the game for us. We’ve played lots of games before. The communication is there, the trust is there, we’ve got a great team dynamic out on the ice. So just keep leaning into that and keep positive things going forward.”<\/p>\n

Weagle and Epping had a closer contest with Tran and Kleiter over the first six ends before scoring two points in ends seven and eight to close it out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Epping said he\u2019s savouring the win.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s pretty exciting,” he sad. “I’ve never been in this position. My trials record so far (over my career) hasn’t been very good. So it’s nice to have this opportunity especially with Lisa. We’re playing really well right now and looking forward to good things to come.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Weagle said she loves the challenge of big games like Thursday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I love these moments. This is why I curl. It’s for big games and big moments, and to test ourselves in competition. And to get to do it with John, … this is probably one of our best team games ever, in one of these big moments. but we’re really happy with how we played and how we supported each other.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Both teams will now get a bit of a rest. They\u2019ll face each other Friday evening at 7 in the 1-2 playoff game. The winner of that game goes directly to the final on Saturday afternoon at 2. The loser will play in the semifinal on Saturday at 10 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

Homan and Bottcher will play Jim and Jaelyn Cotter in Friday afternoon\u2019s playoff qualifier. And Tran and Kleiter will take on Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing in the other afternoon qualifier.<\/span><\/p>\n

The winners of those games will play in the 3-4 playoff on Friday at 7 p.m. for a spot in Saturday\u2019s semifinal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/morningnewsupdatejan325.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two teams made a big step toward the finals of the 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials on Thursday night. Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant and Lisa Weagle and John Epping won their crucial qualifiers to advance to the next round of the playoffs at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool. They\u2019re fighting for a […]<\/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":[2711,2265,2761,390,2773,2760,2757,2756,39,241,2663,351],"class_list":["post-8090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-2025-canadian-mixed-doubles-curling-trials","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-brett-gallant","tag-curling","tag-curling-trials","tag-jocelyn-peterman","tag-john-epping","tag-lisa-weagle","tag-liverpool","tag-nova-scotia","tag-olympic-trials","tag-queens-place-emera-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090","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=8090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8093,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions\/8093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}