Humber Curling leads all three disciplines after day two

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. - The Humber men's team remains unbeaten after two days of competition at the 2022 Ontario Colleges Athletic Association Curling Championships.

The Humber Hawks defeated the Fanshawe Falcons 8-5 before a narrow 8-7 victory over the Mohawk Mountaineers in extra ends to improve to 4-0. Humber is made up of skip Zack Shurtleff (Burlington, Ont.), vice Austin Snyder (Brantford, Ont.), second Matthew Garner (Toronto, Ont.) and lead Jacob Dobson (Haliburton, Ont.), with Brendan Jackson (Pincourt, Ont.) as an alternate.

Despite the perfect start, Humber requires one more victory to secure first place in the round-robin, with only the Niagara Knights standing in the way. Niagara is 4-1 at the competition with wins against Confederation (7-6) and Sault (6-0) on Saturday. 

Humber still leads the women's standings, but not before suffering its first loss to Niagara 9-6. The Hawks, skipped by Meaghan Mallett (Waterloo, Ont.) have a 4-1 record heading into Day 3, with Niagara and Fanshawe hot on their tails with 3-2 marks. All three teams will advance to the medal round as they jockey for position. 

The mixed doubles curling competition sees the Humber-2 duo of Julie Boulos (Mississauga, Ont.) and Emerson Steffler (Markham, Ont.) with a 3-1 record, with the Mohawk Mountaineers a half-game back at 2-1. Both teams split their head-to-head games in the round-robin, including a 7-6 win for Humber-2 in extra ends on Saturday. Mohawk takes on Humber-1 in the only mixed doubles round-robin game on Sunday.

The final round-robin draw will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Community First Curling Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., followed by semi-final games at 6:30 p.m. The event runs through Monday.