HALIFAX — Christina Black, Jill Brothers, Marlee Powers and Karlee Everist finished shaking hands, and immediately, the Nova Scotia team ran toward one another on sheet B and jumped and hugged and screamed while a nearly full crowd cheered right along with them.

On Thursday afternoon on home ice, Halifax’s own Team Black upset Canada’s second-ranked Team Einarson at the Scotiabank Centre to earn a berth to this country’s best-of-three Olympic Trials final, against none other than World No. 1 Rachel Homan.

“Oh my goodness, this is unbelievable,” a grinning Black said after her team’s 6-3 win, pumping her shoulders up and down with excitement, minutes after she’d let fly her final shot, ending the game and celebrating by pumping her fist and pointing to the crowd with tears in her eyes.

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