2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts explained

2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
Size:	200
Host City:	Port Elgin, Ontario
Arena:	The Plex
Dates:	January 23–29
Winner:	Team Homan
Curling Club:	Ottawa CC, Ottawa
Skip:	Tracy Fleury
Fourth:	Rachel Homan
Second:	Emma Miskew
Lead:	Sarah Wilkes
Coach:	Ryan Fry
Finalist:	Hollie Duncan
Prev:	2022
Next:	2024

The 2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held from January 23 to 29 at The Plex in Port Elgin, Ontario.^[1] The winning Rachel Homan rink represented Ontario at the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship in Kamloops, British Columbia where they made the Championship round losing to Nova Scotia 7–6 in an extra end.

The event was held in conjunction with the 2023 Ontario Tankard, the provincial men's curling championship. Both events are held together in non-Olympic years.^[2]

Qualification process

Twelve teams qualified for the 2023 Ontario Scotties. As defending champions, Team Rachel Homan earned the first qualification spot (due to COVID-19 the 2022 Ontario Hearts were postponed until after the national Tournament of Hearts). One team qualified via their results in the "Grand Slam" series events (2022 PointsBet Invitational, 2022 National, 2022 Tour Challenge, 2022 Masters). Two teams qualified via their results in the Trillium Tour '1000' series events (Stu Sells Toronto Tankard, Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel, North Grenville Curling Club Women's Fall Classic, Stu Sells Brantford Nissan Classic). Three teams qualified via their results in the Trillium Tour '500' series events (Gord Carroll Curling Classic, KW Fall Classic, CurlON Women's Open, Home Again Women's Classic, plus the aforementioned 1000 events). One team (restricted to curlers under the age of 25) qualified via their results in the aforementioned Trillium Tour events, plus the CurlON 250 Event #1. The remaining four teams qualified via an open qualifier.^[3]

Qualification method	Berths	Qualifying team(s)
Defending Champion	1	Rachel Homan
Top Grand Slam series teams	1	Hollie Duncan
Trillium Tour '1,000' Series	2	Isabelle Ladouceur Danielle Inglis
Trillium Tour '500' Series	3	Lauren Mann Carly Howard Hailey Armstrong
Trillium Tour '250' Series (Under-25)	1	Maddy Warriner
Open Qualifier	4	Susan Froud Chelsea Brandwood Katelyn Wasylkiw Allison Flaxey

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[4]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Club
		Jessica Humphries	Terri Weeks	Emma Artichuck
			Hilary Nuhn		Listowel CC, Listowel
				Sherry Middaugh	Woodstock CC, Woodstock
	Kaitlin Jewer		Audrey Wallbank		Alliston CC, Alliston
					Dundas Valley G&CC, Dundas
Rachel Homan (Fourth)	Tracy Fleury (Skip)				Ottawa CC, Ottawa
					Mississaugua G&CC, Mississauga
			Cassandra de Groot		Ottawa H&GC, Ottawa
				Grace Cave	Dundas Valley G&CC, Dundas
			Stephanie Corrado	Marteen Jones	Arnprior CC, Arnprior
Maddy Warriner	Sarah Bailey	Madison Fisher	Shannon Warriner	Kaelyn Gregory	Dundas Valley G&CC, Dundas
					Whitby CC, Whitby

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

Key
	Teams to Championship Round
	Teams to Tiebreaker

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Pool A
width=250	Skip (Club)	width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20
Team Homan (Ottawa)	4	1	39	23	19	15	2	4
Danielle Inglis (Ottawa Hunt)	4	1	39	29	23	19	3	7
Team Harrison (Dundas Valley)	4	1	33	27	21	17	0	7
Susan Froud (Alliston)	2	3	29	38	17	23	1	4
Lauren Mann (Arnprior)	1	4	28	39	20	22	2	3
Maddy Warriner (Dundas Valley)	0	5	11	23	9	13	3	2

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Pool B
width=250	Skip (Club)	width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20
Hollie Duncan (Woodstock)	4	1	44	25	25	18	1	6
Carly Howard (Mississaugua)	4	1	44	33	23	20	0	8
Hailey Armstrong (KW Granite)	2	3	24	37	18	21	0	5
Katelyn Wasylkiw (Whitby)	2	3	38	40	23	25	0	5
Isabelle Ladouceur (Dundas Valley)	2	3	36	37	21	24	1	7
Chelsea Brandwood (Listowel)	1	4	30	44	20	22	1	3

Round-robin results

All draws are listed in Eastern Time .^[8]

Draw 1

Monday, January 23, 7:30 pm

Draw 2

Tuesday, January 24, 9:30 am

Draw 3

Tuesday, January 24, 2:30 pm

Draw 4

Tuesday, January 24, 7:30 pm

Draw 5

Wednesday, January 25, 9:30 am

Draw 6

Wednesday, January 25, 2:30 pm

Draw 8

Thursday, January 26, 9:30 am

Draw 9

Thursday, January 26, 2:30 pm

Draw 10

Thursday, January 26, 7:30 pm

Draw 11

Friday, January 27, 9:30 am

Tiebreaker

Friday, January 27, 7:30 pm

Championship round

Records from Round Robin carry over to the Championship Round

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker

width=150	Skip	width=20	W	width=20	L
	6	1
	6	1
	4	3
	4	3

Championship round results

Draw 13

Friday, January 27, 7:30 pm

Draw 14

Saturday, January 28, 9:30 am

Draw 15

Saturday, January 28, 2:30 pm

Tiebreaker

Saturday, January 28, 8:00 pm

Playoffs

Source:^[9]

Semifinal

Sunday, January 29, 10:30 am

Final

Sunday, January 29, 3:00 pm

Qualification

Open Qualifier

January 7–8, Midland Curling Club, Midland^[10]

Notes and References

Web site: Port Elgin Chrysler '23 Ontario Tankard/Scotties. Port Elgin Curling Club. January 6, 2022.
News: Tankard, Ontario Scotties to be played in Port Elgin in 2023. Owen Sound Times. April 15, 2022. January 6, 2023.
Web site: Women's (Scotties). CurlON. January 6, 2022.
Web site: 2023 Ontario Women's Scotties Teams. CurlON. January 6, 2023.
Web site: 2023 Official Provincial Draw. CurlON. January 21, 2023.
Web site: Pool A Standings. CurlON. January 21, 2023.
Web site: Pool B Standings. CurlON. January 21, 2023.
Web site: Scoreboard. CurlON. January 22, 2023.
Web site: Playoff. CurlON. January 29, 2023.
Web site: 2023 STOH -- OPEN QUALIFIER. CurlON. January 6, 2022.