With the game in her hands, Ontario skip Diana Favel could only watch as her final draw attempt came up heavy.

Her miss handed the 2015 Canadian Masters Curling Championship women’s title to British Columbia’s Karen Lepine, whose guarded rock came up inches closer to the button than Favel’s final stone Sunday.

Favel’s front-end of Sue Kollar and Edna Legault did sweep the rock early, before watching as the hammer attempt sailed past the button.

“We talked about the time to throw,” said Favel, 64, from the Rideau Curling Club. “I was going to throw a 4/10 split and I threw a 4/16 split, so we thought it would be great sweeping weight. ... For some reason, it just seemed to glide.”

The miss handed the 2015 title to Lepine, 63, and her 61-year-old sister Susan Beuk, who played third for the rink representing the Langley Curling Club and Cloverdale Curling Club.

Also part of the B.C. team (9-2) were second Agnes Sigurdson and lead Donna Christian.

“She hadn’t drawn for a long time,” Lepine said of Favel’s final shot. “She’d been playing hits. I had a big chunk of that four-foot, so I think I did the best I could do. And the girls put my last guard exactly where I wanted it.”

Lepine said the win was her first national title, following runner-up finishes at senior and mixed events.

Favel, who played third on Ontario’s 2013 championship team, was thrown off by Lepine’s strategy to keep things tight in the final.

“Based on the way she’d been playing some other games, I thought there would have been a lot more rocks in play. So I was surprised when she played a pretty open game with me.”

The tightly-played championship contest saw the two rivals limit each other to single points.

Ontario scored first, and the two teams traded points until the sixth, when Favel managed to blank the end.

Lepine tied the game 3-3 in the seventh, handing the hammer back to Favel coming home.

But it wasn’t meant to be for the Ontario rink, who finished the week with an 8-3 record.

“Sure, you’d like the cherry on top of the cake, but a game’s got to go one way or the other,” said Favel.

Lepine said she played a hitting game in order to combat any potential nerves from her team.

“I wanted to just play it clean,” she said.

Alberta’s Linda Wagner won bronze 8-5 over Manitoba’s Pat Malanchuk in a game that took an extra end to decide.

Two Yukon teams competed in the women’s division. The host team led by Pat Banks finished eighth at 1-8 while Ellen Johnson’s Yukon rink finished last with a record of 0-8.