After losing the last two Manitoba Women’s Championship final games, Assiniboine Memorial’s Team Beth Peterson has won the trip to the national Scotties as Team Manitoba.
The Peterson team, skipped by Kelsey Calvert, won a pair of games Sunday at the RME Women of the Rings presented by Case IH at the Riverdale Community Centre in Rivers to earn their Team Manitoba jackets.
In a rematch of the 2024 final game against Kaitlyn Lawes-Heather, Team Peterson (Kelsey Calvert, Beth Peterson, Katherine Remillard, Melissa Gordon-Kurz, Coach Kyle Kurz) scored a single with a draw to the button facing three on the 9th end to take an 8-7 lead coming home.
Lawes (Selena Njegovan, Jocelyn Peterman, Kristin Gordon, Coach Marcel Rocque) was possibly laying one when she threw her final stone of the 10th end. She tried to navigate a narrow port to bump Peterson’s second shot stone off the button but rubbed a guard, just enough to redirect and rub the Peterson stone into shot stone position. The final score was 9-7 Peterson/Calvert without throwing their final stone.
Earlier in the day, in the semi-final rematch of the 2025 final, Team Peterson had defeated Kate Cameron and her St. Adolphe team (Briane Harris, Taylor McDonald, Mackenzie Elias, Coach Derek Samagalski) in a high scoring 13-7 affair that saw 5-2’s, 2-3’s and a 4 point end.
Team Peterson will represent Manitoba at the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Jan. 23 – Feb. 1, 2026 in Mississauga, Ont.
