Stoughton remains perfect with win over Korea

By: Paul Wiecek Posted: 12:44 PM CDT Monday, Apr. 4, 2011

REGINA -- Jeff Stoughton is still perfect here at the 2011 World Men’s Curling Championship, improving to 4-0 on Monday morning with an 7-4 victory over Korea’s Dong Keun Lee.

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REGINA -- Jeff Stoughton is still perfect here at the 2011 World Men’s Curling Championship, improving to 4-0 on Monday morning with an 7-4 victory over Korea’s Dong Keun Lee.

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REGINA — Jeff Stoughton is still perfect here at the 2011 World Men’s Curling Championship, improving to 4-0 on Monday morning with an 7-4 victory over Korea’s Dong Keun Lee.

Team Canada never trailed but did require all 10 ends to dispatch a feisty Korean team that would not go quietly. Lee, the Korean skip, had his draw weight all game long and was able to bail his team out of trouble in end after end.

Lee shot 86 percent at the skip position, but his team was simply overmatched as the Canadians shot 91 percent as a team — the second game in a row they have shot 90 percent or better.

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Team Canada skip Jeff Stoughton makes a shot during a draw against team Korea on Monday. — JONATHAN HAYWARD/ The canadian Press Team Canada skip Jeff Stoughton makes a shot during a draw against team Korea on Monday.

“We played it tight,” said Stoughton. “We just wanted to control the game and we did…It was maybe a simple game, but we felt we had control the whole way.”

Team Canada second Reid Carruthers, who is making his worlds debut this week, had his best game so far at 91 percent and leads all seconds with an 89 percent average.

Shouldn’t he be more nervous in his worlds debut? “I’ve got to be relaxed,” said Carruthers. “I’ve got some of the best curlers of all time on my team.”

Team Canada now gets Monday afternoon off before returning to the ice Monday evening against USA’s Pete Fenson. Fenson — the 2006 Olympic bronze medallist — is 1-2 and has struggled early, but still shapes up to be the toughest challenge Stoughton has faced here so far this week.

Canada is tied for first place with Scotland heading into the afternoon draw. The Scots, the only other unbeaten team remaining in the 12-team field, also improved to 4-0 with an 8-5 victory over Germany’s Andy Kapp (1-3) this morning. In other morning draw results, Sweden’s Niklas Edin improved to 3-1 with a 9-1 thrashing of China, who dropped to 2-2; and France’s Thomas Dufour is now 3-1 after an 8-5 victory over Denmark’s Tommy Stjerne (0-4).