Make it three NOCA Brokerlink Mixed Provincials titles in a row for the Fort William Curling Club quartet of Trevor Bonot, Jackie McCormick, Mike McCarville and Amanda Gates.
The Sudbury lead and her northwestern Ontario friends posted an undefeated 5-0 round robin record in Thunder Bay last week before outscoring Dylan Johnston, Ashley Palmer, Chris Briand and Marcy Barry 7-4 in the final on Sunday mroning.
Team Bonot, who dropped the 2022 Canadian final to the Quebec rink skipped by FĂ©lix Asselin (most recently in town for the Canadian Mixed Doubles), hit the ground running at Northerns with wins over Tyler Stewart (9-3), Robyn Despins (6-5), Jackson Marchant (12-3), Kevin Brown (8-4) and Dylan Johnston (5-4), going back to back with their clubmates the next day.
With the win, Gates, Bonot and company have earned the right to represent Northern Ontario at the 2023 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Swift Current (Saskatchewan) from November 5th to the 11th (2023).
They are also the first foursome to ever three-peat with an intact lineup in the almost sixty year history of the NOCA Mixed Championships.