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BC Curling Tour season wraps up at Kelowna Curling Club

The womenÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s final tour takes over KCC Nov. 9 to 11
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Vernon skip Jim Cotter will lead his squad as the final BC Curling Tour concludes this weekend as both them menÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s and womenÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s tour at the Kelowna Curling Club. (Black Press file photo)

Many of B.C.Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s top curlers will end their season in Kelowna this weekend.

The and the take over the Kelowna Curling Club as teams from across B.C. will battle it out on the rink for a chance at a berth to the Scotties Curling Championships.

Kelowna skip Brette Richards will look to lead her team against the stiff womenÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s competition which wonÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™t include Team Brown, who sits atop the tour standings as theyÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™ve already been invited to the PintyÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s Grand Slam of Curling Tour in Nova Scotia which already means a likely berth to the Scotties.

Team Richards, who sits fourth place in tour standings, will have to out-play third-place KamloopsÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™ Team Thompson for the final berth to the Scotties. The two rinks are only separated by four points and the result of this weekendÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s tournament at the KCC will decide who stays home and who goes to the championships.

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Meanwhile, this weekendÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s tournament wonÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™t produce an immediate advancing team to the BC MenÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s Curling Championships as there will be one more menÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s tournament, the Ashley Home Store Curling Classic in Penticton on Nov. 22, that will need to be played before the final placings.

Jeff Richard from Kelowna will lead his rink against the tough competition at this weekendÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s Raymond James Kelowna tour. Team Richard will look to get some points against the tour-leading Team Tardi from Langley and Team Gaell from Abbotsford.

VernonÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s Jim CotterÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s rink will also be competing, but as last yearÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s defending championships, have already secured a position in the BC MenÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s Curling Championships.

Both the womenÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s and the menÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s tours will be .

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