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Offers expire at month's end unless extended or revised. See your Lexus dealer for complete details. All- star game not for D- men / C3 SPORTS SPORTS EDITOR: STEVE LYONS 204- 697- 7285 I SPORTS@ FREEPRESS. MB. CA I WINNIPEGFREEPRESS. COM I CLASSIFIEDS C6 MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2015 C 1 W INKLER, Man. - The game Jennifer Jones called was tight, precise, an exercise in patience from the first push out of the hack to her final 10th- end slide. When that last rock struck its target, Jones became the Manitoba women's curling champion. Again. That makes seven times now for Jones. Seven buffalo jackets. She won the latest Sunday, after chiselling out a 5- 2 win over Kerri Einarson in the final of the Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts. The win was expected, but still an emotional cap to a breathtaking run through these provincials - one in which the Jones foursome from St. Vital never even trailed on the scoreboard, let alone lost a game. The team will roll out to Moose Jaw, Sask., next month, on the hunt for Jones' fifth Canadian title - though it would be her first with third Kaitlyn Lawes on board. " It's truly special," Jones said moments after handshakes, with the Winkler arena crowd still roaring its approval. " I never dreamed of winning one Manitoba title, and here we are with seven. We played great from start to finish, and the girls just played outstanding. We had a ton of confidence coming into the playoffs." They also knew not to take Einarson's sparkplug East St. Paul rink lightly. The two teams met Saturday in the 1 vs. 1 Page playoff game, where Einarson, third Selena Kaatz, second Liz Fyfe and lead Kristin MacCuish gave the Jones foursome more trouble than any team they'd played in the round robin. On Sunday, making their second final appearance in the same number of years, Team Einarson held the game close and played gunning to win. " I thought we gave her a pretty good game," Einarson said. " We were doing really well... I wanted to be one of the teams to give ' em a run for their money. We did a great job of that. The girls came out to play tonight, so did I, and we just missed a couple of key shots." For the most part, the game wasn't one of explosive weight or YouTube- gold hits. It was quiet, patient even, as the Jones foursome placed rock after rock with surgical precision. There were pretty come- arounds, perfectly- placed guards. Jones opened with a single; Einarson blanked the next two ends. She picked up a single in the fourth, then kept Jones to just one in the fifth end. The teams went into the break with the Olympic champions leading 2- 1. " It wasn't the most entertaining game for fans, so sorry about that," Jones said, with a little laugh. " We did our best. I felt like we made a bunch of shots when they needed to be made, and we never really gave up control of the game." Eventually, something needed to break, and in the eighth it did. Einarson's rock slid too deep, giving Jones a path to the only deuce of the game. That end, Jones agreed, " totally changed the momentum." When Einarson's hammer in nine didn't curl the way she expected, it handed Jones a steal of one. That dried up the last of Einarson's championship hopes, as the Jones foursome - which also includes lead Dawn Mc- Ewen - proceeded to run her out of rocks. The crowd issued up a thunderous round of applause after Einarson threw her first ( and game- final) rock. For Jones' second Jill Officer, the throw that sealed the win was especially emotional: Einarson's lead, MacCuish, is Officer's niece, and the two have long been close. After the match was over, they met their families together at the side of the rink, where aunt and niece shared a long embrace. " That was actually one of the harder games I'd ever had to play," Officer said, wiping away tears. " It was hard yesterday, when we played them in the 1- 1 game, but I knew they had another chance. Today was different... but I'm really proud of her, I'm proud of her team. And I know they'll be back." Einarson advanced to the final after a mucky 5- 3 win over Assiniboine Memorial's Barb Spencer in the midday semifinal. It was not, strictly speaking, a particularly beauteous game of curling, as both teams wrestled with a slew of misses. In the end, Spencer's simply came at worse moments. The teams were tied 3- 3 when Spencer's ninthend draw curled too far and wrecked on a guard, handing Einarson a steal of two. Then in the 10th, an Einarson miss gave Spencer a chance to pick up a deuce and force an extra end; but the skip's first throw came in too light, and settled outside the house. All Einarson had to do then was peel off the last Spencer rock in the rings to run her opponent out. melissa. martin@ freepress. mb. ca Success, to the power of 7 Jones wins Manitoba women's curling title, again By Melissa Martin PHOTOS BY JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer and Dawn McEwen ( from left) celebrate winning the Manitoba title, beating Kerri Einarson Sunday. Einarson ( left) reacts to a shot as Officer and McEwen watch. Heavy draw CALL it the Jennifer Jones effect, call it a dose of southern Manitoba love, but residents of Winkler and the surrounding area turned out in droves for the 2015 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts from Day 1. The cumulative attendance Wednesday through Sunday was 5,810. That included three sold- out days at the 1,200- seat arena, while even the opening days of the round robin came close, with 1,062 filling the stands on Wednesday and 1,148 on Thursday. While the variation of venue sizes and locations makes comparison a chancy business, Jennifer Jones said the atmosphere reminded her of the record- breaking crowds in Portage la Prairie in 2012, where she won her fifth provincial title. P HOENIX, Ariz. - Mikkel Boedker was hoping to play a little golf over the NHL all- star break, but instead found himself recovering from emergency surgery and bunking at a friend's house in Winnipeg. The Arizona Coyotes' leading scorer took a hard hit from Winnipeg Jets defenceman Mark Stuart on Jan. 18 and ended up on an operating table later that night. The 25- year- old Denmark native arrived at Health Sciences Centre for what he thought was going to be a routine MRI and was subsequently rushed into emergency surgery to staunch internal bleeding and remove his ruptured spleen. " I got hit awkwardly behind the net and didn't think much of it. Felt like I lost my wind and kept on playing, but turned out it was more serious than that," said Boedker. " A bit of a scare. After the hit the wind was knocked out of me for a bit. But when you play, the adrenaline goes through you and I didn't think much of it. My rib cage hurt a bit and I tried to play through it. Played the second period out. Got into the dressing room and needed a bit of attention from the medical staff. " They looked at it and they couldn't find much. I was just uncomfortable. I went back out for the third and I couldn't do much with the puck. I didn't feel comfortable being out there so I went back to the dressing room. The doctor came and looked at me and he just said ' We should get an MRI just to make sure.' They couldn't get it at the arena, they didn't have the MRI machine, so we had to go to the hospital. We were kind of in- between about whether I should go since they couldn't find anything wrong. The Winnipeg doctors insisted on us going, and it was critical that they did that. I can't thank them enough for making sure." Dr. Swee Teo and Dr. Ron Steigerwald examined Boedker at the rink and Dr. Ethel MacIntosh performed his surgery at HSC. " I'm lucky to be treated so nice and so well. It's underrated what they do. People don't realize the effort and the job they do," said Boedker. " All the star players get all the credit in the world, but without ( the medical staff), the league wouldn't be running and the players wouldn't be healthy enough to play and perform the way they do." Boedker saw a consecutive games- streak end at 257 - the fourth- longest in Coyotes history. He leads Arizona with 28 points and 14 goals and had scored five goals in four games before the injury. Boedker doesn't remember much from the night of his surgery. Coyotes star had emergency surgery at HSC Boedker ruptured his spleen in Jan. 18 game against Jets GARY LAWLESS HANNAH FOSLIEN / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mikkel Boedker felt a bit queasy, but had no idea he was seriously injured after being hit on Jan. 18. Sniper is Arizona's top scorer ARIZONA Coyotes left- winger Mikkel Boedker spent the past week in Winnipeg after emergency surgery resulting from a hard hit in a game against the Winnipeg Jets. Some details: BIRTHDATE: Dec. 16, 1989 ( Age 25) BIRTHPLACE : Brondby, Denmark HEIGHT: 6- 0 WEIGHT: 211 SHOOTS: Left DRAFTED: eighth overall, first round, 2008 NHL Entry Draft GP G A Pts +/- PIM 45 14 14 28 - 10 6 Source: National Hockey League Continued Please see BOEDKER C 2 C_ 01_ Jan- 26- 15_ FP_ 01. indd C1 1/ 25/ 15 10: 40: 14 PM ;