Bernard relieved to get by Japanese
Strange strategy allows comeback
Advertisement
Read this article for free:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Digital Subscription
One year of digital access for only $205*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription will automatically renew at $233.00 + GST every 52 weeks (10% off the regular annual price of $259.35). Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Add Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only an additional
$1 for the first 4 weeks*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*Your next Brandon Sun subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $17.95 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $24.95 plus GST every four weeks.
Read unlimited articles for free today:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 18/02/2010 (6007 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
VANCOUVER — It was a relieved Cheryl Bernard who finally entered the media mixed zone Wednesday afternoon at the Vancouver Olympic Centre.
Not just because she’d finally managed to take a bathroom break — conveniently, at Doping Control — following her 7-6 win over Japan’s Moe Meguro to improve to 2-0 in women’s curling.
Mostly, it was because her Team Canada foursome had won a game it had no right winning.
The Canadians fell behind early, giving up a steal of three in the second end, fought back to take the lead, gave it right back again, and then finally took advantage of some truly bewildering Japanese strategy to hit for a game-winning two in the 10th end.
Sharper
“I know we have to be sharper than that, and I definitely have to be sharper than that,” admitted Bernard, who’s backed by third Susan O’Connor, second Carolyn Darbyshire and lead Cori Bartel.
It started early when six straight missed shots in the second end, capped by Bernard’s draws pulling up well short of the rings, gift-wrapped three points to Japan, but Bernard scraped out deuces in the third and fifth (stolen) ends to retake the lead.
Break
The break of the game was in the eighth end when Japan seemingly was in position to steal as many as three points. But Meguro’s last-rock draw attempt slid just behind the tee line and allowed Bernard to bail out of the end to draw to the backing for a single point that tied the game 5-5. “I had no shot, no shot,” Bernard said.
In the 10th, Canada found itself down one with last rock, and got a bizarre shot from Japan when Meguro called for a guard instead of an obvious runback takeout, a call that left the Canadians stunned afterwards. In the end, Bernard had an open hit for the win.
Canada’s next game is today against Germany’s Andrea Schoepp, the reigning European champion, who was a 6-5 winner over struggling Debbie McCormick of the U.S., leaving the Germans at 2-0 and the U.S. winless through two games.
— Canwest News Service
