Chelsea Carey won the bronze medal at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, beating Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville 7-4 on Sunday.
Carey was the defending champion at last year’s Canadian women’s curling championship, but lost 8-1 to McCarville in a playoff game the previous day to fall short of a repeat.
McCarville lost the semifinal 7-5 to Ontario’s Rachel Homan to fall to the bronze-medal game.
Down 2-1 after five ends, Carey scored three hitting and rolling to share a sliver of the button with two other counters.
She stole two in the seventh to take control of the game when McCarville was heavy on a draw to the four-foot rings.
There will be changes for the Carey’s Glencoe Club team from Calgary as third Amy Nixon, 39, said she’s retiring from competitive curling.
