Canadian teams laying down the law at Slam event
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This article was published 23/10/2009 (6177 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
CANADA is stealing the show early on at the Grey Power World Cup of Curling.
Three Canadian rinks are 3-0 at the event, the first stop on Capital One Grand Slam of Curling. Edmonton’s Kevin Martin and Kevin Koe boast perfect records, along with top seed Glenn Howard of Coldwater, Ont., through five draws at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont.
Martin began play on Thursday by doubling up Thomas Dufour of France 6-3 and followed that with an 8-4 victory over China’s Fengchun Wang. He’s tied for the in Pool A with Koe, who hung on to beat Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud 6-4 in his first match Thursday then needed an extra end to defeat Edmonton’s Randy Ferbey 7-6.
Howard, first in Pool B, hammered Denmark’s Ulrik Schmidt 9-3 then pasted world champion David Murdoch of Scotland 8-3.
The World Cup features five Canadian teams and nine international entries and a purse of $100,000.
Edmonton’s Randy Ferbey fell to 1-2 after giving up a steal of four in the seventh and losing 8-3 to Edin combined with his loss to Koe.
Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L., split his first two games Thursday to sit at 1-2. The 2006 Olympic gold medallist fell 7-1 to Germany’s Andy Kapp, but rebounded with a 6-5 extra-end win over Switzerland’s Ralph Stoeckli.
Kapp is the only international skip above .500 after three draws, with a 2-1 record.
The round-robin wraps up today, with the playoffs set for Saturday and Sunday.
— Canwest News Service
