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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning walks off the field after throwing his lone, but critical interception in Super Bowl XLIV. (Chris O’Meara/Associated Press)

Peyton Manning spent the whole season building toward a Super Bowl crown, a win that certainly would put him among the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history.

And then he threw it all away.

Blocked to the ground, Manning could only watch as Tracy Porter returned an interception for a clinching, 74-yard touchdown in the final minutes Sunday that gave the New Orleans Saints a 31-17 victory over the Colts.

“It’s time for the Saints to celebrate. It’s their field and it’s their championship,” Manning said.

It was a startling end to a game that seemed destined to wind up in Manning’s strong right hand. It was the lone turnover of a back-and-forth thriller.

Saints defensive end Will Smith knocked Manning down as he tried to get in Porter’s way. Manning took a glance over his shoulder toward the end zone, unbuckled his chinstrap, stood up and simply walked toward the bench.

“We played well in the first playoff game, played well two weeks ago. We just didn’t make enough plays against the Saints,” Manning said.

All week, the story line for the Super Bowl was this: Could Manning, the son of former Saints quarterback Archie and a New Orleans boy through and through, deny New Orleans in a game they desperately wanted to win for their city?

Turned out Manning did help his hometown team win its first Super Bowl — only not in the way he wanted.

Until Porter cut in front of wide receiver Reggie Wayne, Manning seemed to be in charge when he got on the field. The four-time MVP did his dance at the line of scrimmage, putting his teammates in position, and zipped pass completions all over the field.

The Colts set an NFL record with seven fourth-quarter comebacks this season, and surely most everyone at Sun Life Stadium thought Manning was at it again. Down 24-17, the Colts were driving toward a tying score until Porter sealed it with 3:12 left.

Even after Porter’s pick, Manning tried to rally the Colts. He moved them near the Saints’ goal line, but a final pass to Wayne fell incomplete.

Manning’s receivers helped the Colts reach the Super Bowl but had crucial drops in the championship.

Pierre Garcon and Austin Collie couldn’t catch third-down passes to keep drives going. Hank Baskett made a mistake on special teams, failing to bring in New Orleans’ onside kick to open the second half.

Manning did what he could Sunday, repeatedly driving the Colts down the field and forcing the Saints to gamble. But unlike previous games this season, many in his supporting cast didn’t come through. It was the first time all season that the Colts’ starters finished a game and lost.

Garcon had an early TD reception, but he dropped a big third-down pass in the second quarter when New Orleans was down 10-3 and struggling.

The Saints kept the ball for 26 of the next 32 plays.

Collie couldn’t haul in another third-down pass early in the fourth quarter. It forced the Colts to send 42-year-old kicker Matt Stover in to attempt a 51-yard field goal that went wide left. Stover’s miss set up New Orleans’ go-ahead TD drive.

But it wasn’t just the offensive role players who struggled for Indy.

Colts defenders missed several tackles, something they had not done frequently all season. On the first two New Orleans touchdown drives, the Saints never confronted a third-down situation.

The combination helped prevent Manning from working yet another fourth-quarter comeback.

New Orleans coach Sean Payton celebrates with the Lombardi Trophy after the Super Bowl win. (Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press)

Sean Payton put in an MVP-like performance from the sideline in Super Bowl XLIV.

The New Orleans coach made all the right calls in the Super Bowl — even one that didn’t look so good at first turned out just fine. Thanks in large part to Payton’s bravado, the Saints won the first Super Bowl title in their franchise’s largely dismal history, beating the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 Sunday night.

Tracy Porter clinched it for the Saints with a 74-yard interception return for a touchdown, and Payton was reticent about accepting any praise.

“It’s really a credit to everyone, these players here,” he said. “They carried out the plan.”

Payton will go down in Super Bowl lore for calling an onside kick at the start of the second half — the first time it had been attempted in the championship game before the fourth quarter.

The Saints recovered and drove down for a touchdown that put them ahead for the first time, 13-10.

“I just told our guys you’ve got to make me look good on this,” Payton said. “That really becomes like a turnover.”

There were a couple of other calls by the brash coach.

Near the end of the first half, with his team trailing 10-3, Payton decided to go for it on fourth-and-goal from just outside the Indianapolis one-yard line instead of kicking a chip-shot field goal. When Pierre Thomas was stuffed for no gain, it looked as though Payton might be remembered for a big blunder.

But the Colts couldn’t do much, backed up against their own end zone, and were forced to punt it away. The Saints took over at their 48 with 35 seconds left, enough time to get back in position for Garrett Hartley’s second field goal of the game.

Payton decided at half to take an even bigger gamble. Thomas Morstead moved forward slowly, as if ready to swing his right foot into the ball like any other kickoff. Suddenly, the pigskin was dribbling along the ground, headed toward Hank Baskett.

The ball bounced off the chest of the Colts receiver, setting off a mad scramble that took more than a minute to sort out. Finally, the officials made their call, with Jonathan Casillas recovering for the Saints.

The next big Payton decision was a no-brainer, with the team electing to go for a two-point conversion after Drew Brees found Jeremy Shockey for a touchdown and a 22-17 lead.

Brees threw a low pass toward Lance Moore, who bobbled the ball before regaining control right at the goal line. The official immediately ruled incomplete, but Payton wasn’t going to take that for an answer. No doubt aided by his assistants upstairs who had a look at the replay, the coach decided to challenge the call.

If the referee had ruled against New Orleans, it would have cost them a potentially crucial timeout in a tight game. But the replay showed that Moore did have control and got across the line for a 24-17 lead instead of 22-17.

At the end of the game Payton was doused with Gatorade, lifted into the air and hauled to the middle of the field above everyone else.

Costa Rica’s National Liberation Party presidential candidate Laura Chinchilla waves to supporters after voting at a polling station in Sunday’s election. (Esteban Felix/Associated Press)

Costa Rica’s ruling party candidate appeared headed for a clear victory Sunday as the central American nation’s first woman president.

Laura Chinchilla, who served as vice-president under current President Oscar Arias, was winning 47 per cent of the vote with 44 per cent of the ballots counted, Reuters reported.

Chinchilla, running for the National Liberation Party, was trailed by rivals Otton Solis of the Citizens Action Party and Otto Guevara of the Libertarian Movement Party.

Solis, who barely lost the presidential election to Arias in 2006, conceded defeat shortly after the results began coming in.

The winner of Sunday’s election needs to get at least 40 per cent of the vote to avoid a run-off in April.

Chinchilla, a 50-year-old social conservative who opposes abortion and gay marriage, has pledged to continue Arias’ moderate free-market policies.

She seemed to appeal both to Costa Ricans seeking a fresh face in politics and those reluctant to risk the unknown.

“All of this has been worth it. We are going to win, and in the first round,” Chinchilla said earlier in the day.

Chinchilla’s win would continue a recent trend in many Latin American countries: Nicaragua, Panama, Chile and Argentina have all elected women as presidents.

With files from The Associated Press

Quarterback Drew Brees threw a pair of touchdown passes as the New Orleans Saints rallied from an early 10-point deficit for the first Super Bowl championship in franchise history, a 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts.

Brees hit tight end Jeremy Shockey with a two-yard slant to put the Saints up for good with 5:46 remaining in the fourth and cornerback Tracy Porter sent New Orleans fans at Sun Life Stadium in Miami into a frenzy by intercepting Peyton Manning’s bid to bring Indianapolis back, returning it 74 yards for a touchdown.

New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees, right, hoists the Vince Lombardi Trophy as coach Sean Payton looks on. (Chris O’Meara/Associated Press)

The Colts had one more possession deep in New Orleans territory, but stalled inside the five-yard line. Indianapolis led 17-16 after three quarters on Joseph Addai’s four-yard touchdown run, but after kicker Matt Stover missed a 51-yard field goal attempt early in the fourth, New Orleans took over.

Brees completed his last 10 attempts to finish 32-for-39 passing for 288 yards, earning Super Bowl most valuable player honours.

The Saints were in the championship game for the first time in their existence. They had only been in the playoffs four times since their 1967 debut until Brees arrived as a free agent in 2006 and helped turn the team’s fortunes around one year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

“We just believed in ourselves,” said Brees. “We knew we had an entire city, maybe an entire country behind us.

“What can I say? I’ve tried to imagine what this moment would be like for a long time and it’s even better than expected.”

While only 23 seconds separated the time of possession for the team at the end of the game, it was a misleading statistic.

A huge key for the Saints was Brees keeping NFL most valuable player Manning off the field for a large swath during the middle of the game.

New Orleans had the ball for nearly 12 minutes in the second quarter and then Saints coach Sean Payton kept Manning away from the ball by calling for an onside kick at the beginning of the second half. Thomas Morstead executed the successful kick, with Hank Baskett of the Colts unable to corral the first touch for Indianapolis.

After the onside kick, Devery Henderson hauled in two passes from Brees to set up a 16-yard scoring play from running back Pierre Thomas, who caught a screen pass and eluded several Colts to dive into the end zone for the first New Orleans lead of the game.

Including the extended halftime show, Manning had barely been on the field in the previous 75 minutes, but he coolly responded with a 27-yard pass to Dallas Clark between three defenders to put Indianapolis back in scoring position.

Addai ran it in from four yards, spinning and outfighting two New Orleans defenders for his first Super Bowl touchdown.

The Saints drove right back downfield, but Colts safety Melvin Bullitt made a key tackle on Shockey to force New Orleans to settle for a 47-yard Garrett Hartley field goal, his third of the day, to set up the final quarter.

Pierre Garcon caught a 19-yard touchdown pass from Manning late in the first for a 10-0 Indianapolis lead late in the first as the Saints appeared jittery in the early going. The touchdown completed a 96-yard scoring drive that was propelled by 53 combined yards from Addai.

Manning led the Colts to a 38-yard Matt Stover field goal on the team’s first drive. He found favourite target Clark for two passes and made a third-down conversion to Austin Collie on the nearly six-minute scoring drive.

Saints cornerback Tracey Porter celebrates his interception return in the end zone, a play that put the game out of reach. (Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press)

Brees and the Saints, who received the opening kickoff, completed just one first down in two drives to start the game as Colts defenders provided good coverage on his intended targets.

But the Colts saw their progress halted in the second when Garcon dropped a catchable pass on third down to halt progress.

The Saints had to settle for two Hartley field goals to make it 10-6 at halftime. The Saints were stuffed on a fourth-down play near the Indianapolis goal-line in the second as Thomas was knocked back by Indianapolis linebackers Gary Brackett and Clint Session on the play with 1:55 left in the half.

But Brees by that point had led his offensive unit on a pair of time-chewing scoring drives in the stanza to get momentum back, with Hartley earlier accounting for the first Super Bowl points in New Orleans history with a 46-yard field goal. Hartley, who was a midseason replacement for ineffective veteran John Carney, added a 44-yard field goal on the last play of the half.

The skill level of the two quarterbacks, and the lack of a sustained pass rush, led to a coolly efficient game at times. At one point, Brees and Manning had combined to complete 77 per cent of their pass attempts.

Manning would end up with 33 completions in 45 attempts for 333 yards, one touchdown and one interception.

Indianapolis had not lost a game this season when playing their starters for all four quarters, while New Orleans rebounded from losing three straight to end the season to score 107 points in three playoff games.

The Colts were looking for the third Super Bowl win in franchise history, but are now 2-2. Indianapolis won in 2007, also in Miami, while the Baltimore Colts were victorious in 1971.

The Super Bowl was played in Miami area for the 10th time in clear conditions.

Quarterback Drew Brees threw a pair of touchdown passes as the New Orleans Saints rallied from an early 10-point deficit for the first Super Bowl championship in franchise history, a 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts.

Brees hit tight end Jeremy Shockey with a two-yard slant to put the Saints up for good with 5:46 remaining in the fourth and cornerback Tracy Porter sent New Orleans fans at Sun Life Stadium in Miami into a frenzy by intercepting Peyton Manning’s bid to bring Indianapolis back, returning it 74 yards for a touchdown.

New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees, right, hoists the Vince Lombardi Trophy as coach Sean Payton looks on. (Chris O’Meara/Associated Press)

The Colts had one more possession deep in New Orleans territory, but stalled inside the five-yard line. Indianapolis led 17-16 after three quarters on Joseph Addai’s four-yard touchdown run, but after kicker Matt Stover missed a 51-yard field goal attempt early in the fourth, New Orleans took over.

Brees completed his last 10 attempts to finish 32-for-39 passing for 288 yards, earning Super Bowl most valuable player honours.

The Saints were in the championship game for the first time in their existence. They had only been in the playoffs four times since their 1967 debut until Brees arrived as a free agent in 2006 and helped turn the team’s fortunes around one year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

“We just believed in ourselves,” said Brees. “We knew we had an entire city, maybe an entire country behind us.

“What can I say? I’ve tried to imagine what this moment would be like for a long time and it’s even better than expected.”

While only 23 seconds separated the time of possession for the team at the end of the game, it was a misleading statistic.

A huge key for the Saints was Brees keeping NFL most valuable player Manning off the field for a large swath during the middle of the game.

New Orleans had the ball for nearly 12 minutes in the second quarter and then Saints coach Sean Payton kept Manning away from the ball by calling for an onside kick at the beginning of the second half. Thomas Morstead executed the successful kick, with Hank Baskett of the Colts unable to corral the first touch for Indianapolis.

After the onside kick, Devery Henderson hauled in two passes from Brees to set up a 16-yard scoring play from running back Pierre Thomas, who caught a screen pass and eluded several Colts to dive into the end zone for the first New Orleans lead of the game.

Including the extended halftime show, Manning had barely been on the field in the previous 75 minutes, but he coolly responded with a 27-yard pass to Dallas Clark between three defenders to put Indianapolis back in scoring position.

Addai ran it in from four yards, spinning and outfighting two New Orleans defenders for his first Super Bowl touchdown.

The Saints drove right back downfield, but Colts safety Melvin Bullitt made a key tackle on Shockey to force New Orleans to settle for a 47-yard Garrett Hartley field goal, his third of the day, to set up the final quarter.

Pierre Garcon caught a 19-yard touchdown pass from Manning late in the first for a 10-0 Indianapolis lead late in the first as the Saints appeared jittery in the early going. The touchdown completed a 96-yard scoring drive that was propelled by 53 combined yards from Addai.

Manning led the Colts to a 38-yard Matt Stover field goal on the team’s first drive. He found favourite target Clark for two passes and made a third-down conversion to Austin Collie on the nearly six-minute scoring drive.

Saints cornerback Tracey Porter celebrates his interception return in the end zone, a play that put the game out of reach. (Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press)

Brees and the Saints, who received the opening kickoff, completed just one first down in two drives to start the game as Colts defenders provided good coverage on his intended targets.

But the Colts saw their progress halted in the second when Garcon dropped a catchable pass on third down to halt progress.

The Saints had to settle for two Hartley field goals to make it 10-6 at halftime. The Saints were stuffed on a fourth-down play near the Indianapolis goal-line in the second as Thomas was knocked back by Indianapolis linebackers Gary Brackett and Clint Session on the play with 1:55 left in the half.

But Brees by that point had led his offensive unit on a pair of time-chewing scoring drives in the stanza to get momentum back, with Hartley earlier accounting for the first Super Bowl points in New Orleans history with a 46-yard field goal. Hartley, who was a midseason replacement for ineffective veteran John Carney, added a 44-yard field goal on the last play of the half.

The skill level of the two quarterbacks, and the lack of a sustained pass rush, led to a coolly efficient game at times. At one point, Brees and Manning had combined to complete 77 per cent of their pass attempts.

Manning would end up with 33 completions in 45 attempts for 333 yards, one touchdown and one interception.

Indianapolis had not lost a game this season when playing their starters for all four quarters, while New Orleans rebounded from losing three straight to end the season to score 107 points in three playoff games.

The Colts were looking for the third Super Bowl win in franchise history, but are now 2-2. Indianapolis won in 2007, also in Miami, while the Baltimore Colts were victorious in 1971.

The Super Bowl was played in Miami area for the 10th time in clear conditions.

Space shuttle Endeavour is seen Sunday on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Marta Lavandier/Associated Press)NASA loaded fuel into space shuttle Endeavour’s external tank for the second evening in a row Sunday in anticipation of pre-dawn launch.

The three-hour operation began at 6:50 p.m. ET just as the NFL Super Bowl game was getting underway in Miami.

Endeavour is scheduled to blast off from Florida at 4:14 a.m. ET Monday on the last big space station construction mission.

Sunday’s launch attempt was scrubbed due to thick, low clouds. Although more of the same is expected Monday, forecasters said there is a 60 per cent chance of acceptable weather.

NASA said Sunday evening the launch was on “red” or “no go” due to the low cloud ceiling. However, it said the weather team was seeing more breaks in the clouds as they make landfall.

It’s the last scheduled night launch for the space shuttle program, which is winding down after nearly 30 years. Four more flights remain after this one.

Endeavour’s six astronauts will deliver and install a new room and observation deck at the International Space Station.

With files from The Associated Press

Indianapolis Colts running back Joseph Addai runs for a score as New Orleans Saints safety Darren Sharper defends during the third quarter. (Chris O’Meara/Associated Press)

Indianapolis and New Orleans are engaged in a Super Bowl nailbiter heading into the fourth quarter, with the Colts up 17-16 on Joseph Addai’s four-yard touchdown run in Miami.

New Orleans stunned the Colts at the beginning of the second half with a successful onside kick. Thomas Morstead executed the kick, with Hank Baskett of the Colts unable to corral the first touch for Indianapolis.

Devry Henderson hauled in two passes from Drew Brees to set up a 16-yard scoring play from running back Pierre Thomas, who caught a screen pass and eluded several Colts to dive into the end zone for the first New Orleans lead of the game.

The Saints offence had managed to keep NFL most valuable player Peyton Manning off the field for most of the middle portion of the game, but the Colts quarterback coolly responded with a 27-yard pass to Dallas to Clark between three defenders to put Indianapolis back in scoring position.

Addai ran it in from four yards, spinning and outfighting two New Orleans defenders for his first Super Bowl touchdown.

The Saints drove right back downfield, but Colts safety Melvin Bullitt made a key tackle on tight end Jeremy Shockey to force New Orleans to settle for a 47-yard Garrett Hartley kick.

The Saints were stuffed on a fourth-down play near the Indianapolis goal-line, the biggest play in the second quarter. Thomas was knocked back by Indianapolis linebackers Gary Brackett and Clint Session on the play with 1:55 left in the half.

But Brees led his offensive unit on a pair of time-chewing scoring drives in the stanza to get momentum back, with Hartley earlier accounting for the first Super Bowl points in New Orleans history with a 46-yard field goal. Hartley added a 44-yard field goal on the last play of the half.

The key offensive play for the Colts in the second saw wide receiver Pierre Garcon drop a catchable pass on third down to halt progress.

Garcon caught a 19-yard touchdown pass from Peyton Manning late in the first for a 10-0 Indianapolis lead. The touchdown completed a 96-yard scoring drive that was propelled by 53 combined yards from running back Joseph Addai.

Manning led the Colts to a 38-yard Matt Stover field goal on the team’s first drive. He found favourite target Clark for two passes and made a third-down conversion to Austin Collie on the nearly six-minute scoring drive.

Brees and the Saints, who received the opening kickoff, completed just one first down in two drives to start the game as Colts defenders provided good coverage on his intended targets.

The championship game pits two NFL teams who combined to win their first 27 regular-season games this season.

Indianapolis (16-2) has yet to lose this season when playing their starters for all four quarters, while New Orleans (13-3) has rebounded from a dip in December to score 76 points in two playoff games.

The Saints are playing in the Super Bowl for the first time since playing their first NFL game in 1967.

The Colts are looking for the third Super Bowl win in franchise history. Indianapolis won in 2007, also in Miami, while the Baltimore Colts were victorious in 1971.

The Super Bowl is being played in Miami area for the 10th time. Conditions were clear, with a game time temperature of 17 C in front of a stadium crowd that favours New Orleans, which is just a 90-minute flight away.

Exit polls showed pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych with a narrow lead over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Ukraine’s presidential run-off election Sunday.

Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych speaks to the media in Kiev on Sunday. (Sergei Chuzavkov/Associated Press)Yanukovych declared victory, but Tymoshenko, a leader of Orange forces, rejected the exit poll data and said the race was too close to call.

“It is too soon to draw any conclusions,” she said, urging supporters to fight for every ballot.

Ukraine’s Central Election Commission reported early Monday that Yanukovych was leading Tymoshenko by 51.3 per cent to 43.3 per cent with 27.4 per cent of the vote counted.

The National Election Poll exit survey predicted that after the count, Yanukovych would capture 48.5 per cent of the vote to 45.7 per cent for Tymoshenko, with other voters mostly choosing “against all.”

The 2.8-percentage-point gap is only slightly larger than the NEP’s margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 per cent.

The NEP poll initially showed Yanukovych with a 3.2-percentage-point lead, but later released revised figures. All other major exit polls had Yanukovych winning, some by larger margins.

The race narrowed sharply from the first round vote on Jan. 17, when Yanukovych held a 10 per cent lead.

Tymoshenko has vowed to challenge a vote she claims was rigged by in Yanukovych’s favour, as it was in the 2004 elections that set off the Orange Revolution.

Tymoshenko’s campaign chief Alexander Turchinov insisted Sunday there was evidence of fraud. “Intrigue still remains in place, we remain certain,” he said.

But Matyas Eorsi, head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s election observation mission, called the balloting “calm” and “professional” and said there was no evidence the vote had been stolen.

“We are 100 per cent sure that this election was legitimate,” Eorsi said. “All the international community, and even more important the Ukrainian public, can accept this result.”

A preliminary report by international monitors is expected later Monday.

The election commission projected the turnout among Ukraine’s 37 million voters at about 70 per cent, 3.2 percentage points higher than the Jan. 17 first-round vote in which 18 candidates competed.

Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Pierre Garcon accounted for the only toucdown in the first half of Super Bowl XLIV, but also had a key drop to give New Orleans some momentum. (Charlie Riedel/Associated Press)

The New Orleans Saints were stuffed on a fourth-down play near the Indianapolis goal-line, the key play in the second quarter, and the Colts led 10-6 at halftime of Super Bowl XLIV in Miami.

Running back Pierre Thomas was knocked back by Indianapolis linebackers Gary Brackett and Clint Session on the play with 1:55 left in the half.

But Saints quarterback Drew Brees led his offensive unit on a pair of time-chewing scoring drives in the stanza to get momentum back, with Garrett Hartley earlier accounting for the first Super Bowl points in New Orleans history with a 46-yard field goal.

Hartley added a 44-yard field goal on the last play of the half.

The key offensive play for the Colts in the second saw wide receiver Pierre Garcon drop a catchable pass on third down to halt progress.

Garcon caught a 19-yard touchdown pass from Peyton Manning late in the first for a 10-0 Indianapolis lead. The touchdown completed a 96-yard scoring drive that was propelled by 53 combined yards from running back Joseph Addai.

Manning led the Colts to a 38-yard Matt Stover field goal on the team’s first drive. He found favourite target Dallas Clark for two passes and made a third-down conversion to Austin Collie on the nearly six-minute scoring drive.

Brees and the Saints, who received the opening kickoff, completed just one first down in two drives to start the game as Colts defenders provided good coverage on his intended targets.

The championship game pits two NFL teams who combined to win their first 27 regular-season games this season.

Indianapolis (16-2) has yet to lose this season when playing their starters for all four quarters, while New Orleans (13-3) has rebounded from a dip in December to score 76 points in two playoff games.

The Saints are playing in the Super Bowl for the first time since playing their first NFL game in 1967.

The Colts are looking for the third Super Bowl win in franchise history. Indianapolis won in 2007, also in Miami, while the Baltimore Colts were victorious in 1971.

The Super Bowl is being played in Miami area for the 10th time. Conditions were clear, with a game time temperature of 17 C in front of a stadium crowd that favours New Orleans, which is just a 90-minute flight away.

Team Canada skip Jennifer Jones yells after throwing her rock while playing against Team Prince Edward Island during final game action at the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Sunday. (Nathan Denette/Canadian Press)

They needed an extra end to do it, but Jennifer Jones and her Winnipeg-based rink made sure the third time was another charm in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Sunday.

Trailing Kathy O’Rourke’s Team Prince Edward Island 6-3 after the sixth end in their third meeting of this year’s Scott Tournament of Hearts, Jones and her Team Canada squad roared back to an 8-7 win in the 11th end to wrap up their third straight championship.

It was the team’s fourth ever Hearts title, having won in 2005 (St. John’s), 2008 (Regina) and 2009 (Victoria).

P.E.I. stole two in the sixth before Jones mounted a comeback by scoring one in the seventh, stealing one in the eighth and two in the ninth.

Holding O’Rourke’s Charlottetown foursome to one in the 10th end, Jones had the hammer as the game entered the 11th in a 7-7 tie, where Jones took out the P.E.I. shot stone to seal the win.

In their round-robin meeting, O’Rourke defeated Jones 9-5 but lost 8-5 in the Page playoff.

P.E.I.’s win over Ontario’s Krista McCarville 10-6 in Saturday night’s semifinal set the stage for the thrilling final on Sunday.