VICTORIA — Team Brad Jacobs ousted Team Brendan Bottcher in an all-Canadian clash and a Battle of Alberta in the Co-op Invitational quarterfinals.
Jacobs and his Calgary-based crew scored a deuce in the third, the lone multi-point end of the game, during a 5-3 victory over Bottcher's Edmonton rink Saturday at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.
The reigning Olympic gold champs will take on Switzerland's Team Yannick Schwaller in the evening semifinals.
Schwaller dispatched Winnipeg's Team Matt Dunstone 5-3.
There will be a first-time men's finalist, as Norway's Team Magnus Ramsfjell and Switzerland's Team Marco Hösli meet in the other semifinal.
Ramsfjell eliminated Winnipeg's Team John Epping 8-2, and Hösli defeated Scotland's Team Grant Hardie 6-5.
Ramsfjell has reached the semifinals once before: in his series debut at the 2022 Masters. Hösli qualified for the playoffs for the first time this week in his 11th appearance in the series.
