The 2017

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, the provincial women's

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championship of

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, was held from January 25 to 29 at the Eric Coy Arena in

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. The winning

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team represented Manitoba at the 2017 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in St. Catharines, Ontario, finishing second. The event was most notable for the defeat of the defending Olympic champion

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rink in the semifinal.Olympic champ Jennifer Jones ousted at Manitoba Scotties
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who proceeded to lose to the

rink in the final. Englot, who is a resident of

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had won seven provincial titles in her home province, but joined her new Winnipeg-based team in the 2016 off season, replacing their previous skip

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who had lost in the final of the 2016 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts. It was the first provincial title for Englot's third,

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, while second Leslie Wilson-Westcott and lead

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won their third provincial titles. Jennifer Jones' loss in the semifinal would mark the first time since 2004 that she would not win a provincial tournament she had participated in. Jones cited a number of factors for her team's loss stating "the ice was tricky today ... draw shots were harder and it was a struggle with draw weight for everybody". Jones' semifinal loss was her second in a row, after having won all seven of her round robin games. After the event, Jones was awarded as the tournament's all-star skip, Cameron was named all-star third,

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(Team Robertson) was named all-star second and Mariah Mondor (Team Birchard) was named all-star lead.

Teams

The defending Olympic champion Jennifer Jones rink was the top seed ahead of the event. They had not played in the 2016 provincial Scotties, as they had an automatic berth to the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts as Team Canada for having won the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. 2016 provincial champion

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was given the second seed, while eventual-winner

was given the third seed. The teams are listed as follows:

Round robin standings

Scores

;Draw 1 *Brown 10-5 Briscoe *Meilleur 7-4 MacKay *Jones 9-3 Reed *Birchard 9-2 Kilgallen ;Draw 2 *Overton-Clapham 8-5 McLean *Englot 9-8 Menard *Einarson 5-3 Armit *Peterson 7-6 Robertson ;Draw 3 *Jones 8-5 MacKay *Brown 9-4 Kilgallen *Briscoe 7-3 Birchard *Reed 8-6 Meilleur ;Draw 4 *Menard 8-3 Einarson *Peterson 9-6 Overton-Clapham *Robertson 13-7 McLean *Englot 11-4 Armit ;Draw 5 *Meilleur 8-6 Kilgallen *Birchard 11-1 Reed *MacKay 9-5 Brown *Jones 10-0 Briscoe ;Draw 6 *Englot 7-2 Peterson *Robertson 8-2 Armit *Overton-Clapham 9-5 Menard *Einarson 10-3 McLean ;Draw 7 *Reed 11-6 Brown *Jones 10-0 Kilgallen *Meilleur 6-1 Briscoe *MacKay 8-7 Birchard ;Draw 8 *Overton-Clapham 10-3 Armit *Einarson 7-3 Peterson *Englot 8-3 McLean *Robertson 8-6 Menard ;Draw 9 *Englot 6-5 Robertson *Menard 12-4 McLean *Peterson 8-6 Armit *Einarson 9-5 Overton-Clapham ;Draw 10 *Birchard 7-4 Meilleur *Briscoe 6-5 MacKay *Reed 10-5 Kilgallen *Jones 8-4 Brown ;Draw 11 *Menard 9-3 Armit *Robertson 6-5 Overton-Clapham *Einarson 7-3 Englot *McLean 7-5 Peterson ;Draw 12 *Reed 6-5 MacKay *Birchard 9-8 Brown *Jones 9-5 Meilleur *Kilgallen 8-7 Briscoe ;Draw 13 *Robertson 10-5 Einarson *Armit 10-1 McLean *Peterson 6-3 Menard *Overton-Clapham 8-4 Englot ;Draw 14 *Jones 8-6 Birchard *Briscoe 7-6 Reed *MacKay 10-5 Kilgallen *Brown 9-2 Meilleur ;Tiebreakers *Birchard 11-4 Reed *Robertson 12-3 Einarson

Playoffs

R1 vs B1

''Saturday, January 28, 7:45 pm''

R2 vs B2

''Saturday, January 28, 7:45 pm''

Semifinal

''Sunday, January 29, 9:00 am''

Final

''Sunday, January 29, 3:00 pm''

References

Saskatchewan's Michelle Englot wins Manitoba Scotties
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