Shield Curling Club sweeps Maple United to land atop Rock League standings

TORONTO — Shield Curling Club earned the third sweep of the week in Rock League curling action Friday, defeating Maple United 3-0 to climb atop the standings heading into the weekend’s playoffs.

Shield (3-2, 3.5 points) is in a three-way tie with Alpine (3-2, 3.5 points) and Northern (3-2, 3.5 points) but holds the tiebreaker thanks to an advantage on points scored with 102.

Teams get one point for a win, plus an extra half-point for a sweep.

Shield will take on Maple, Alpine Curling Club faces Frontier Curling Club and Northern United matches up against Typhoon Curling Club in the opening round of the playoffs on Saturday. The semifinals and final of the inaugural event will be played Sunday at Toronto’s Mattamy Athletic Centre.

The competition offers US$250,000 in prize money, with $100,000 going to the winning team.

Kerri Einarson led Shield’s women’s team to a 5-4 win over Maple’s Rachel Homan. In the men’s game, Brad Jacobs’ rink cruised to a 9-3 win over Mike McEwen. Marlee Powers and Benoît Schwarz-van Berkel earned a 10-6 win in mixed doubles over Jocelyn Peterman and Tanner Horgan to complete the sweep.

Earlier, Typhoon got back to its winning ways with a 2-1 victory over Alpine in the afternoon draw. Alpine got off to a strong start when Alina Paetz defeated Anna Hasselborg 7-3 in the women’s game.

But Niklas Edin led Typhoon to a 9-4 win over Joel Retornaz in the men’s game, and Typhoon clinched the win when Tori Koana and Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi downed Sofia Scharback and Oskar Eriksson 7-4 in mixed doubles.

Typhoon, which was swept 3-0 by Northern on Thursday, improved to 3-2.

Northern couldn’t keep the momentum going, losing 2-1 to Frontier on Friday. Frontier pulled out the win in dramatic fashion when Stefania Constantini’s women’s team scored four in the final end in a 7-6 win over Giulia Zardini Lacedelli.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 10, 2026.