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Brad Jacobs defeated Matt Dunston 6-5 to win his second straight game in the men's best-of-three final at the Canadian Curling Trials in Montana.
Jacobs and his Calgary team will represent Canada at the Cortina Olympics in Milan in February.
Earlier in the day at Scotiabank Centre, Ottawa's Rachel Homan defeated Halifax's Christina Black in the women's final.
Ottawa's Rachel Homan, Tracey Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes beat Christina Black's team in the Canadian curling final.
With the game tied after nine ends, Jacobs had the mallet and hit a single to win it in the 10th.
Jacobs and his team of VP Mark Kennedy, 2 Brett Gallant and leader Ben Hebert beat Dunston 9-8 in the first game on Friday night.
Jacobs was forced to play alone early in the second game. Dunston gave up a steal in the second when he had an easy tie, but tied the game at deuce in the third.
Kennedy hit a running back triple takeout in the fourth end, and his skip hit another highlight reeling angled shot to salvage a single for a 3-2 lead.
Dunston singled Jacobs off the button for a single in the bottom of the sixth. Jacobs made a double take for a pair in the seventh and scored again with a highlight reel double in the eighth, forcing Dunston to tie for one.
Jacobs was happy to give up a steal in the ninth to keep the hammer until the final end.
Jacobs won Olympic gold at the 2014 Sochi Games with a team that included current Dunston players Ryan Harnden and EJ Harnden. It was the first challenge final for Dunston and vice president Colton Lott.
Kennedy and host Ben Hebert won Olympic gold in 2010 on the team Kevin Martin missed out on. Kennedy and Hebert returned to the Games in 2018 with skip Kevin Coe.
Gallant, who won Olympic bronze three years ago on the team missed by Brad Gushue, also qualified to play for Canada in mixed doubles at the 2026 Games with Jocelyn Peterman.
Homan's Olympic comeback
Rachel Homan, Tracey Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes will represent Canada at the Milan-Cortina Olympics after defeating Christina Black's team in the Canadian curling final.
Homan's team beat Black 12-3 in the second game of the best-of-three Olympic curling finals in Halifax on Saturday. This will be her third consecutive Olympic appearance.
“We’re very happy,” Homan said. “There are no words to describe how you put that maple leaf on your back at the Olympics.”
Homan played on the women's team alongside Miskew at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. She returned to the 2022 Beijing Games to play mixed doubles with John Morris. Homan missed the podium both times.
After a tight 5-4 win over the Blacks on Friday, Homan's team dominated the second game and were in complete control, scoring four points in the third end at Scotiabank Center.
