REGINA -- And then there was one.

Alberta’s Shannon Kleibrink is the last undefeated team remaining in the field here at the 2008 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

Kleibrink improved to 3-0 with an 8-5 victory over Kerry Galusha’s Northwest Territories/Yukon Sunday evening.

While Kleibrink was winning, Ontario’s Sherry Middaugh -- the only other undefeated team heading into the Sunday evening draw -- was losing, 8-7 to Quebec’s Marie-France Larouche.

Put it altogether and the 2006 Olympic bronze medallists from Calgary are suddenly in the driver’s seat heading into Day 3.

Kleibrink isn’t celebrating just yet, however, noting the team needs a bank of wins for the long road still in front of them. “It’s definitely important,” Kleibrink said, “because we have a lot of the big teams in front of us.”

In other games Sunday evening, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Heather Strong cracked a three in the tenth end to stun BC’s Allison MacInnes 9-7.

In the only other game, Saskatchewan’s Michelle Englot gave a huge crowd at the Brandt Centre something to cheer about, scoring two in the ninth end and then stealing two more in the tenth end to defeat Canada’s Kelly Scott 8-6.

The win was Saskatchewan’s first and improves them to 1-2. Canada, meantime, falls to 1-2, not where the two-time defending champions expected to find themselves at this stage in the tournament.

“We’re certainly not where we wanted to be,” Scott said. “But we’re not out of this by a long measure.”

Englot was simply relieved to have racked up her first win in front of the home crowd. “It’s good to have the monkey off our backs,” Englot said. “The girls dug deep. We were a lot more like ourselves out there tonight.”

Englot also gave credit to a boisterous crowd that roared all night for the home side. “The Rider’s 13th man was working for us,” Englot said, referring to the Saskatchewan Roughriders legendary fanbase.

Heading into Day 3, Alberta is alone in first followed by five teams tied for second at 2-1 -- Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Quebec. Then there’s a five-way logjam at 1-2 -- Saskatchewan, Canada, PEI, New Brunswick and BC. Only NWT/Yukon is still winless at 0-3.

The Scotties continues Monday morning when Quebec plays PEI, Saskatchewan plays New Brunswick, Ontario plays Manitoba and Canada plays Nova Scotia.

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