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BRANDON, Man. - Northern Ontario's Brad Jacobs and Alberta's Kevin Koe stayed unbeaten at the Canadian men's curling championship Thursday.

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BRANDON, Man. – Northern Ontario’s Brad Jacobs and Alberta’s Kevin Koe stayed unbeaten at the Canadian men’s curling championship Thursday.

Both teams won their first games of the championship pool to improve to 8-0.

Trailing Brendan Bottcher’s wild-card team 6-4 heading into the 10th end, Koe hit for three and the win.

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Team New Brunswick skip Terry Odishaw makes a shot as second Marc Lecocq sweeps during the 12th draw against Team Ontario at the Brier in Brandon, Man. Wednesday, March 6, 2019.
Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press Team New Brunswick skip Terry Odishaw makes a shot as second Marc Lecocq sweeps during the 12th draw against Team Ontario at the Brier in Brandon, Man. Wednesday, March 6, 2019.

Northern Ontario continued its dominance thumping B.C.’s Jim Cotter 11-5.

Defending champion Brad Gushue doubled Manitoba’s Mike McEwen 6-3 to get to 7-1.

Edmonton’s Bottcher fell to 6-2 with the loss to his Alberta rival.

Ontario’s Scott McDonald improved to 5-3 with a 7-4 victory over Saskatchewan’s Kirk Muyres.

Manitoba, Saskatchewan and B.C. were all 4-4.

Team Alberta skip Kevin Koe looks on as lead Ben Hebert and second Colton Flasch sweep during the 12th draw against team Nunavut at the Brier in Brandon, Man. Wednesday, March 6, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Team Alberta skip Kevin Koe looks on as lead Ben Hebert and second Colton Flasch sweep during the 12th draw against team Nunavut at the Brier in Brandon, Man. Wednesday, March 6, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

The top four teams from the championship pool advance to Saturday’s Page playoff. The final is Sunday.

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