Canada’s senior women grab gold

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CHELYABINSK, Russia — Colleen Pinkney’s rink from Truro, N.S., certainly saved its best for last Saturday.

Pinkney scored four in the extra end to capture a dramatic 8-4 victory over Switzerland in the women’s final at the world senior curling championship.

Pinkney, whose rink finished the tournament undefeated, said she didn’t feel her team played well in the final. In fact, she said she didn’t think the squad really got going until late in the match, particularly after Switzerland scored one in the eighth to force the extra end.

“We felt a little nervous,” she said. “I don’t feel we curled our best game at all. I give the Swiss credit. They curled very well and put pressure on us all the time. They came out on fire and we did not, and we were making a lot of half shots. I think we only felt confident when we forced them to take one in the eighth and went to an extra end.”

Pinkney secured Canada its seventh world women’s senior curling title.

Sweden won the bronze medal, scoring one in the final end to edge the United States 6-5.

But Canada had to settle for the split as Ottawa’s Bruce Delaney dropped a 4-3 decision to the United States in the men’s final.

The Americans captured the gold medal with steals of one in each of the final two ends to hand the Canadians their only loss of the event.

Canada looked in good shape, leading 3-1 through six ends. But the Americans pecked away at the advantage, scoring singles in the seventh and eighth to force extra ends before registering the winning point in the ninth. The Americans claimed just their second world senior men’s title. The first came in 2002.

— The Canadian Press