Sweeting and Jones post early victories at Tour Challenge Grand Slam
REGINA — Val Sweeting scored a single point in an extra end for an 8-7 victory over China’s Bingyu Wang, then topped Rachel Homan 6-4 in the late draw on Wednesday to race out to a 2-0 record at the Tour Challenge.
Sweeting, from Edmonton, pulled close with a pair in the seventh end of her first game before tying it with a single in the eighth.
Against Homan (0-2), Sweeting took a 5-4 lead with a deuce in the seventh and added a single in the eighth.
Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones (2-0) also won twice Wednesday. She came back for a 7-6 extra-end win over Allison Flaxey of Caledon, Ont., in the morning draw before downing Sherry Middaugh of Coldwater, Ont., 5-1 in the afternoon.