VIRGINIA — Canada’s Brad Jacobs won a second game in a row to start the Pan Continental Curling Championship with a 10-3 victory over Marc Pfister of the Philippines.

Defending champion Rachel Homan dropped her first game of the event with an 11-5 loss to Japan earlier Tuesday.

The Pan Continental is a regional qualifier for the men’s and women’s world championships in 2026.

Canada is already assured a berth in the women’s world championship as the host country March 14-22 in Calgary.

The top four countries in the men’s Pan Continental join host United States in the field of next year’s men’s world championship in Ogden City, Utah, from March 27 to April 4.

Jacobs opened with a 10-4 victory Monday over China’s Xiaoming Xu in the first meeting between the two teams since Jacobs beat Xu

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