Two tiebreakers will be played Friday morning prior to playoffs at the Canadian women's curling championship.

Four teams emerged with identical 5-3 records and tied for second place in Pool A and need to battle to see who gets the final two playoff spots. The four teams are skipped by Kaitlyn Lawes of Wild Card 1, Quebec’s Laurie St-Georges, Christina Black of Nova Scotia and British Columbia’s Clancy Grandy.

The tiebreaker games have fourth-ranked Team B.C. facing third-ranked Team Quebec, and Team Nova Scotia—the second-ranked team—going up against fifth-ranked Team Wild Card 1.

The highest-ranked winner will finish second in the pool and the lowest-ranked winner will finish third.

Quebec had a chance to slip into the number two playoff spot but suffered a 7-6 defeat at the hands of Nova Scotia to fall back in the pack. St-Georges, with the hammer in the 10th, needed to draw fully to the button to win but came up light and crashed on a front stone.

B.C. won a win-or-go-home matchup against Alberta’s Kayla Skrlik (4-4). Both teams entered the game with 4-3 records, and something had to give.

Grandy was thrilled to still be alive and performing before a home province audience.

“We knew we had to bring our best today, so we’re happy we’re still fighting,” said the Vancouver skip. “We made some key shots when it counted and it was really tight back and forth. Any time you have that, it’s just one shot here or there.”

Lawes clambered into the tiebreakers by besting Suzanne Birt of Prince Edward Island (2-6) by a score of 10-6.

Three-time and defending champions Team Canada, skipped by Kerri Einarson, solidified its position as the team to beat after finishing the round robin undefeated at 8-0 for the second straight year.

Disappointment will be felt by Saskatchewan’s Robyn Silvernagle (2-6) and Alberta’s youthful Kayla Skrlik foursome. The Albertans started slow at 0-2, rattled off four wins in a row but lost their last two matches to finish at 4-4.

Pool B is more straightforward.

Those three playoffs teams were decided earlier by teams skipped by top seed Krista McCarville of Northern Ontario (7-1), second-seeded Jennifer Jones of Manitoba (7-1) and third-seeded Rachel Homan of Ontario (6-2).

Kerry Galusha of NWT finished 4-4 and might wonder what might have been, and similar could be said for the three Pool B squads at 3-5—last year’s bronze medallist Andrea Kelly (New Brunswick), Wild Card 2’s Casey Scheidegger and Wild Card 3’s Meghan Walter.

Tiebreaker games are scheduled for 8:30 a.m. (all times PT) on Friday. The first round of Page qualifier playoffs slide from the hacks at 1:00 p.m., followed by the Page seedings at 6 p.m.

Pool winners Canada and Northern Ontario get the first-round bye and will take to the ice during the evening draw.

The final goes Sunday, Feb. 26.