Saskatchewan sweeps day two of Canadian Mixed Curling Championship

Shaun Meachem and Team Saskatchewan rebounded from an opening draw loss with a couple of wins on the second day of action at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Swift Current. Meachem, Kelly Schafer and Chris and Teejay Haichert from the Swift Current Curling Club got their first victory of the event with a 7-3 win over Tyler Smith and Prince Edward Island on Monday afternoon. After scoring two with hammer in the first, Saskatchewan carried on with four stolen points over the next three ends to take a 6-0 lead at the break. PEI started a comeback with two in the fifth and a steal of one in the sixth before the hometown rink picked up one more in the seventh to wrap up the scoring. The nightcap saw a tight, high-scoring game between Saskatchewan and Team Quebec, skipped by Pierre-Luc Morissette. Meachem opened with three in the first end before Quebec responded with four in the second to take the lead, and then Saskatchewan would get four of their own in the third to go up 7-4. After trading singles in the fourth and fifth, Morissette made a game-saving angle raise against three Saskatchewan stones to score two in the sixth and followed up with a steal of two in the seventh to take a 9-8 lead coming home. Faced with another difficult decision in the eighth end, Meachem made a clutch draw to lie two with his first skip rock with hammer. Morissette then missed his final shot to give Saskatchewan a 10-9 victory and its second win of the day. googletag.cmd.push(function() { if($(document).width()