The 2017

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, the provincial women's

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championship of

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, was held from January 24 to 29 at the

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in Halifax. The winning

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team represented Nova Scotia at the

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in St. Catharines, Ontario. The winning Mattatall rink were all senior-aged, with all members of the team being over 50 years old. Mattatall won her sixth provincial title of her career, and her first since 2005 when she played third for

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. Third

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and second

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had both won provincial seniors titles in 2010 and lead Marg Cutcliffe won the provincial masters championship in 2016 for curlers over 60. The top seed in the event was the defending champion

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team, which earned a direct spot in the tournament along with former World Champion

Mary-Anne Arsenault Mary-Anne Arsenault (born August 19, 1968 in Scarborough, Ontario, also known as Mary-Anne Waye when she was married) is a Canadian curler from Lake Country, British Columbia. She is a five-time Canadian Champion, and two-time World Curling Ch ...

Teams

Teams were as follows:

Round robin standings

Scores

;Draw 1 *Arsenault 9-8 McConnery *Brothers 5-4 Gamble *Mattatall 7-4 Breen *McEvoy 10-5 MacDiarmid ;Draw 2 *Breen 9-4 Gamble *Arsenault 6-5 McEvoy *MacDiarmid 8-6 McConnery *Mattatall 7-6 Brothers ;Draw 3 *Mattatall 7-5 MacDiarmid *Breen 10-4 McConnery *Brothers 6-4 McEvoy *Gamble 7-4 Arsenault ;Draw 4 *McEvoy 8-7 McConnery *Mattatall 8-4 Gamble *MacDiarmid 6-5 Arsenault *Brothers 7-4 Breen ;Draw 5 *Arsenault 7-5 Mattatall *McConnery 8-6 Brothers *McEvoy 5-4 Breen *MacDiarmid 8-3 Gamble ;Draw 6 *Brothers 6-4 MacDiarmid *Mattatall 7-6 McEvoy *Gamble 11-7 McConnery *Breen 7-5 Arsenault ;Draw 7 *McEvoy 9-4 Gamble *Breen 7-6 MacDiarmid *Brothers 6-5 Arsenault *Mattatall 7-4 McConnery ;Tiebreaker *Breen 8-4 McEvoy

Playoffs

Semifinal

''Saturday, January 28, 6:00pm''

Final

''Sunday, January 29, 2:00pm''

References

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