Team Jacobs skip Brad Jacobs delivers a stone against Team Dunstone on Friday. Jacobs is attempting to return to the Olympics for the first time since his 2014 first-place finish.

Team Brad Jacobs closed within one victory of its berth to the 2026 Olympics on Friday by beating Team Matt Dunstone 9-8 in the first night of their best-of-three men’s final.

In a wild night at the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, Winnipeg’s Dunstone missed his last shot in the 10th end which let Jacobs and his Calgary-based rink score two to seize the advantage in the championship matchup.

Team Dunstone must win Saturday night to keep its Olympic hopes alive by forcing a third game on Sunday. Otherwise Team Jacobs will punch the ticket to represent Canada at the Olympics in Milano Cortina in February.

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