Stoughton relieved to get B.C. behind him
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LONDON — Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton got his ninth Brier off to an emphatic start here Saturday afternoon, thrashing B.C.’s Jim Cotter 10-4 on the opening draw of the 2011 Tim Hortons Brier.
Stoughton scored a deuce with the hammer in the first end, stole another in the second end, made a double-raised double-takeout in the third to get out of trouble and force Cotter to one and then dropped a three-ender on B.C. in the fourth to jump out to a 6-1 lead.
Stoughton drew the rings for four more in the sixth end to make it a 10-3 rout at that point, as the Manitobans went on to shoot a blistering 93 per cent as a team.
Stoughton said he was relieved to get B.C. behind him. “They’re one of the top teams here and to get rid of them now is good,” said Stoughton. “They’re only going to get better, so we’re glad we got them when they were just a little bit off.”
“We had draw weight and when we got chances to make good shots, we did make good shots,” said Manitoba third Jon Mead. “And once we got up, there wasn’t a lot of chinks in the armour.”
In other games on the opening draw, Saskatchewan beat N.W.T. 6-4, Newfoundland demolished P.E.I. 12-1 and New Brunswick’s James Grattan stunned Ontario’s Glenn Howard 5-4 when Howard came up light on a draw to the 8-foot with the last rock of the game, handing Grattan a game-winning steal of two.
Manitoba will be right back out on the ice again this evening, taking on a buoyant New Brunswick team.
“It’s a good start,” Grattan said after the win over Ontario. “Against a team like that, you take whatever you can.”
