Defending champion Brad Gushue opens with victory at Montana's Brier

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Defending champion Brad Gushue opened the Montana’s Brier with a 9-2 victory over Newfoundland and Labrador’s Ty Dilello on Friday evening.

Gushue opened with a deuce and by no means trailed within the eight-end win at Canada’s annual males’s curling championship at Prospera Place in Kelowna, B.C.

The St. John’s, N.L.-based skip is trying to win the curling championship for a file fourth time in a row and seventh time general.

An athlete dressed in red delivers a rock during a curling game. — Newfoundland & Labrador skip Ty Dillelo delivers a rock whereas enjoying Brad Gushue’s Group Canada rink through the Brier in Kelowna. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

Dilello is making his Brier debut. His group performs out of the identical St. John’s membership as Gushue’s rink.

Spherical-robin play continues by means of Thursday evening.

The Web page playoffs are set for subsequent weekend forward of the ultimate on March 9.

Groups from 10 provinces and three territories, together with a number of extra groups, will compete for the title of Canada’s finest males’s curling group. The successful group can even go on to characterize Canada on the World Curling Championships, which can be performed on residence ice this yr in Moose Jaw, Sask.