Playoff-bound Kerri Einarson remains undefeated at Canadian curling trials

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Kerri Einarson continued her undefeated run through the Canadian Olympic curling trials on Tuesday night in Halifax with a 6-5 win over Kayla Skrlik.

Einarson, of Gimli, Man., entered the night game with a playoff spot already secured, but still picked up her sixth win.

Ottawa's Rachel Homan kept the heat on Einarson with an 8-7 win over Kaitlyn Lawes to improve to 5-and-1.

Those results put the top two women's teams in Canada on a collision course, with Homan and Einarson set to meet in the final women's round-robin draw on Wednesday afternoon.

The team that finishes atop the round-robin standings gets direct entry into the best-of-three final, while the second and third seeds face off in a semifinal.

In the men's afternoon draw, 2006 Olympic champion Brad Gushue and 2014 gold medallist Brad Jacobs won their matches to create a three-way tie for first place.

Gushue, of St. John's, scored two in an extra end for an 8-6 win over Winnipeg's Jordon McDonald. Jacobs and his Calgary rink posted a 6-4 win over Toronto's John Epping.

Gushue, Jacobs and Winnipeg's Matt Dunstone were at 4-1 heading into the final two men's round-robin draws on Wednesday. Dunstone suffered his first loss of the tournament Tuesday afternoon, falling 5-4 to Calgary's Kevin Koe.

Mike McEwen beat Ryan Kleiter 9-7 in a battle of Saskatoon skips.

McEwen and Koe were right behind the leaders at 3-2, while Kleiter and Epping were 1-4 and McDonald was 0-5.

The winner of the men's and women's trials will represent Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina, Italy.