Stoughton leads Canada to 3-0 at Worlds

By: Paul Wiecek Posted: 5:44 PM CDT Sunday, Apr. 3, 2011

REGINA — Winnipeg’s Jeff Stoughton is still perfect here at the 2011 World Men’s Curling Championship, as Team Canada improved to 3-0 with a 7-4 victory over Germany’s Andy Kapp Sunday afternoon at the Brandt Centre.

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While it was yet another win for the Canadians, it was notable as the best overall performance by Team Canada so far in this event. After a pair of mediocre outings in wins over Switzerland and Denmark on Saturday, Stoughton and company shot 90 percent as a team against Germany in a return to the kind of high percentage game that won them the Brier in London last month.

Indeed, the win over Germany was much more lopsided than the final score indicated, with only a stellar performance by the German skip standing in the way of what would otherwise have been a Canadian blowout of Germany.

Kapp stood on his head for much of the game, most notably in the fourth end when he had an extremely difficult draw to the button against three Canadian counters just to score one.

“Andy played great,” said Stoughton. “He made every little freeze, tapback, triple takeout — he played wonderfully well…We had to just keep plugging along because their skip was playing so well, we just had to hang in there with him.”

Stoughton third Jon Mead said the best news is that Canada is undefeated in three games and still has room to improve. “I’ve been at these things where you come out of the gates and you’re unbeatable,” said Mead.

“And it’s hard to maintain that… It’s just little things. We know we’re far from perfect yet. But the guys are throwing well and that’s the bottom line. So it’s going to come around and it’s just lots to build on.”
Canada now gets Sunday evening off before returning to the ice on Monday with games against Korea on the morning draw and then USA Monday night.

Canada is alone in first at 3-0 heading into Sunday night’s draw, followed a win behind by China and Scotland at 2-0.