Canada’s mixed team rolling up wins
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This article was published 23/04/2009 (6303 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Canada improved to 6-0 Wednesday with a 9-6 win over England at the world mixed doubles curling championship.
Sean Grassie of Winnipeg and Allison Nimik of Calgary used a trio of three-point ends to open up an early 9-1 advantage. England’s John Sharp and Jane Clark replied with a deuce in the fifth, a steal of two in the sixth and a single in the seventh, but were run out of rocks in the eighth.
The victory moved Canada closer to clinching top spot in the Red Group, which includes world powers Finland and Scotland.
“I think our group is really tough,” Grassie said. “Finland won the silver last year, and we knew Scotland would be tough. New Zealand, you don’t think of them as a curling power, but they’re playing well.”
Finland beat New Zealand 9-8 and downed Scotland 8-5 to improve to 6-1. The Scots and New Zealand are next at 4-2, followed by Russia at 3-3, Italy at 2-5, Australia at 2-4, England at 1-6 and Bulgaria at 0-6.
Switzerland (7-0) downed Japan 8-6 to clinch top spot in the Blue Group standings.
In the Green Group, China moved to 6-1 with a 10-6 win over the U.S. and a 9-5 triumph over Estonia. Hungary and Sweden are next at 5-2.
The top team in each of the Red, Blue and Green groups will advance to Friday’s semifinals, where they will be joined by the winner of a tiebreaker between second-place teams. The bronze- and gold-medal games go Saturday.
— The Canadian Press