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By Earl Seitz

Scotties curling

Team B.C. revved up for the Scotties

Feb 12, 2020 | 11:24 AM

KAMLOOPS — Moose Jaw will be the centre of the curling universe starting the weekend for the Scotties.

Sixteen rinks from, one from each of the 10 provinces, along with the Territories, Yukon, Nunavut and a wild-card, vying for the Canadian Women’s Curling Championship.

Corryn Brown already has one national championship on her curling resume.

In 2013 a 17-year old Brown skipped her Kamloops rink to the Canadian Junior title. Now, seven years later the 24-year old veteran skip is aiming for another national championship.

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“It’s a dream come true.” says Corryn Brown. “It’s something we’ve been working towards our whole curling career. Coming so close when we got bronze (provincial) and then silver last year, it was nice to finally finish it off, and we can’t wait to get going.”

One player on Brown’s 2020 Scotties rink was also on the team for the 2013 Canadian Junior Championship.

Erin Pincott was the third then, and is the third now.

“It’s the event you look forward to your whole childhood.” says Erin Pincott. “Growing up watching Jennifer Jones, Kelly Scott win it. Just to be at that stage now, it’s a huge moment for us, and we’re so excited.”

The 16 rinks at the Scotties will be split into two eight team pools for the preliminary round.

Top four from each qualify for the championship pool, with four from that going to the playoff.

B.C. will be in a pool that includes Ontario’s Rachel Homan, and might include Jennifer Jones, who will be playing in a wild card on Friday to decide the 16th team in the Scotties. ‘

“We’ve played a couple of the teams in our pool before.” says Erin Pincott. “So we know we can compete against them for sure.”

‘It’s really anybodies game once you get to the Scotties.” says Corryn Brown. “It depends on who’s having a good week. You can have teams like Rachel Homan, which is doing really well, but a teamc coming from behind could also do really well. Looking at our pool, I think it’s really do-able for us to get to the championship round. So we just have to take it one game at a time.”

Once the bagpipes are finished playing the introduction of the teams, Corrine Brown doesn’t expect her team to be in awe of its surroundings, but to respect the opponents —– and they’re surrounding themselves with others who have been there before.

“We have quite a bit of provincial and national experience on our team, so I think we can draw on that experience.” says Brown. “Also having our coach Allison (MacInnes) who has been there before, as well as our team leader Melissa Soligo from Curl B.C. and our fifth Dailene Pewerchuk — so it will be really huge having that experience on our team, and it will give us some insight of what to expect.”