The 2022

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, the provincial women's

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championship for

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was held April 7 to 10, 2022 at the Thornhill Club in

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. The event was originally going to be held from January 5 to 9 2022, but on January 3, following new

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regulations implemented by the province,

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decided to suspend the event. The winning team would have represented

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at the

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, to be held January 28 to February 6 2022. On January 7, CurlON announced that Team

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would represent Ontario at the 2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, unless Homan is chosen to represent Canada in mixed doubles at the

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, with a plan to hold the provincial championship in April 2022. Homan was chosen to play in the Olympics, so Team

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was chosen to represent Ontario instead. Instead, Team Homan (without Homan herself), skipped by normal third

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will play at the national Tournament of Hearts as Team Wild Card #3. On January 19, CurlON announced that the provincial championship would be rescheduled for April 7 to 10, and that the winner will earn a bye to the 2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, and that there would be a purse of $15,000 for the event.

Qualification process

Eight teams qualified, two from a cash spiel qualifier, three from an open qualifier, the southern Ontario team with the best record at the

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, the top southern Ontario team in the

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(December 1, 2021), and one from the "Trillium Tour Series", the top team from a series of

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events.

Teams

The team lineups are as follows: * Middaugh replacing regular skip

Round robin standings

''Final round robin standings''

Round robin results

All draws are listed in

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( UTC−05:00). Games were 8 ends rather than the typical 10.

Draw 1

''Thursday, April 7, 2:30 pm''

Draw 2

''Thursday, April 7, 8:00 pm''

Draw 3

''Friday, April 8, 9:30 am''

Draw 4

''Friday, April 8, 2:30 pm''

Draw 5

''Friday, April 8, 7:30 pm''

Draw 6

''Saturday, April 9, 9:30 am''

Draw 7

''Saturday, April 9, 3:30 pm''

Playoffs

Semifinal

''Sunday, April 10, 9:00 am''

Final

''Sunday, April 10, 2:00 pm''

Qualification

Cash Spiel #1

''December 3–5, Missisaugua Golf and Country Club,

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Open qualifier

''December 18–19, 2021,

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References

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