KITCHENER, Ont. — Colleen Jones skipped her curling team to a third straight Canadian women's championship on Sunday with a 9-7 victory in an extra end over Newfoundland's Cathy Cunningham.

The Halifax foursome of Jones, third Kim Kelly, second Mary-Anne Waye and lead Nancy Delahunt became the first to win a fourth title as a team and Jones has already won more than any other skip with five. "I swear to God it's like doing it for the first time all over again," said Jones. "If I'd have lost this the others wouldn't have mattered a bit, the other titles. They would have been gone over and done with. Just win now and forget about how many."

They will represent Canada at the world curling championship in Winnipeg April 5-13.

The Mayflower Curling Club squad, which has won four of the last five Canadian crowns, finished second in the round robin at 8-3 behind Prince Edward Island's Suzanne Gaudet at 10-1.

Jones defeated Gaudet in Friday's playoff game to advance to Sunday's final.

"My team to respond to the pressure, year after year after year, I think is a real tribute to them," said Jones.

Jones had last-rock advantage in the 11th end. She had a biter on the 12-foot rings so when Cunningham's attempted draw behind cover wrecked and bounced to the eight-foot rings, Jones was able to throw her bread-and-butter shot - the out-turn hit - for a 9-7 victory in front of a nearly full house at the 6,000-seat Kitchener Memorial Auditorium.

After blanking the ninth, Cunningham had last-rock advantage in the 10th. Jones' second Mary-Anne Waye and third Kim Kelly both had misses, which allowed Cunningham to lay two and set up for a possible pair for the win.

But Newfoundland third Peg Goss was unable to stay in the house on a takeout, opening up the game again as Cunningham had to draw to the four-foot rings to take her one and force an extra end.

In a wide-open ninth end, Jones hit and rolled out with her last shot, allowing Cunningham to throw hers through the house and blank the end and retain last-rock advantage.

Jones drew to the button in the eighth for a single point and a 7-6 lead.

Jones had control of the game early with steals of three in the third and one in the second for a 5-0 lead. But she has said repeatedly her team gets nervous with a big lead.

Cunningham scrapped her way to within one by the fifth end by scoring two in the fourth and stealing a pair in the fifth.

Jones took her one in the sixth for a two-point lead but was heavy with her last rock of the seventh, leaving Cathy Cunningham a delicate takeout to score two and tie the game 6-6.

Jones won the 2001 world championship in Lausanne, Switzerland, but finished out of the medals last year in Bismarck, N.D., after losing in the bronze-medal game.

"It was so disappointing in North Dakota last year to lose the worlds and we just feel that we haven't done what this team is supposed to do yet," said Jones.

The Canadian men's champion will be decided at the Nokia Brier which begins Saturday in Halifax.