text: Brad Jacobs's rink off to strong start at Canada Cup - The Globe and Mail
  Brad Jacobs's rink off to strong start at Canada Cup
  Brad Jacobs shouts to his sweepers during his win over Brad Gushue at the Canada Cup in Estevan, Sask. on Dec. 5, 2018.
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  The team from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., which added Marc Kennedy after Fry started an indefinite leave last month following an incident involving excessive drinking with another squad, improved to 3-0 at the Canada Cup with a 5-4 win over Reid Carruthers of Winnipeg on Thursday morning.
  Jacobs won it on last rock, making a wide out-turn tap of a Carruthers stone partially buried in the four-foot.
  "It was really great; just an exciting team shot, and really happy to be 3-0," said Jacobs. "(Kennedy) really did his job; he got E.J. and Ryan on it at the right time. He couldn't have called it any better, and he was a big reason why we made it."
  In the other men's game on Thursday morning, Brad Gushue of St. John's, N.L., topped Toronto's John Epping 7-2.
  In women's action, Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg suffered her first loss, falling 6-3 to Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Man.
  Ottawa's Rachel Homan improved to 2-1 with an 8-3 win over Edmonton's Laura Walker, while Calgary's Chelsea Carey downed Casey Scheidegger of Lethbridge, Alta., 7-6.