Chelsea Carey upset at curling's Champions Cup
Alberta skip downed by world junior champs
Chelsea Carey suffered an upset defeat to the reigning world junior champions in Sherwood Park, Alta., on Wednesday evening.
Kristin Clarke led Team Fay to a comeback victory over Team Carey in an extra end at the final Grand Slam of Curling event of the season. It was the Chester, N.S., team's first appearance at a Grand Slam event and they were without their usual skip, Mary Fay.
Lawton beats Flaxey in early draw
Meanwhile, Stefanie Lawton scored one point in an extra end for a 5-4 victory over Allison Flaxey.
Lawton, from Saskatoon, pulled ahead with a deuce in the seventh end but Flaxey, from Caledon, Ont., tied it with a single in the eighth. Lawton threw at an 81 per cent clip while Flaxey struggled at just 67 per cent.
Winnipeg's Kerri Einarson defeated Scotland's Eve Muirhead 7-3. In men's play, Switzerland's Peter De Cruz topped Saskatoon's Steve Laycock 10-5, Scotland's David Murdoch beat Saskatoon's Shaun Meachem 7-2 and Sweden's Niklas Edin defeated American John Shuster 7-5.
With files from CBC Sports