Saskatchewan’s Mike McEwen in Brier final with semifinal win over Alberta’s Bottcher

Saskatchewan’s Mike McEwen superior to the ultimate of the Canadian males’s curling championship with a 7-3 semifinal win over Alberta’s Brendan Bottcher on Sunday.

A Saskatchewan crew reached the Brier ultimate for the primary time since Brad Heidt misplaced to Kerry Burtnyk in 1995 in Halifax.

McEwen will try to finish a 43-year Brier drought for the province. The final Saskatchewan crew to win it was Rick People’s in 1980.

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The host province is a win away from the championship however faces defending champion Brad Gushue chasing a three-peat and the sixth Brier title of his profession.

The winner represents Canada on the males’s world championship beginning later this month in Switzerland.

McEwen scored three factors within the third and seventh ends to steer 6-2 and management the semifinal. Bottcher couldn’t generate two factors when he had last-rock benefit. Alberta shook arms after the ninth finish when McEwen scored one.