CALGARY -- Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton heads into Day 2 here at the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier atop the field with a perfect 2-0 record.

Stoughton followed up a convincing 8-3 victory over Nova Scotia's Mark Dacey here Saturday afternoon with another convincing win Saturday night, 9-4 over NWT/Yukon's Jamie Koe.

"It's pretty good. It was a long day," Stoughton said, "just because the opening ceremonies were a little early and the banquet was late last night. But it's good, we have one game tomorrow...It's nice it's only one game, we'll get a little rest and get ready for the rest of the week."

In other games Saturday evening, BC's Sean Geall defeated Northern Ontario's Mike Jakubo 9-4; Nova Scotia's Mark Dacey beat PEI's Rod MacDonald 8-5; and, in a battle of a world champion against an Olympic champion, Ontario's Glenn Howard scored three in the tenth end to eke out a 9-8 win over Newfoundland's Brad Gushue.

Gushue carried an 8-6 lead into the final end, but his team came apart on him. Second Ryan Fry flashed his second rock and then third Mark Nichols followed right after with another flash of his own. And then with his second rock, Nichols crashed -- a comedy of errors that left five Howard stones piled up in the house.

Stoughton was clinging to a 5-4 lead over Koe, when he made an in-off for three with the last rock of the eighth end. It was the second three-ender of the game for Manitoba.