PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — Canada’s Kerri Einarson used to be nonetheless trying to find a playoff berth on the girls’s international curling championship after letting a golden likelihood slip away Thursday.
Giving up single-point steals within the tenth and eleventh ends to South Korea in an 8-7 loss left the host nation with paintings to do at the ultimate day of the around robin Friday.
“Needless to say, we keep watch over our personal future,” Einarson mentioned. “We’re going to simply park this one.”
A 9-3 win over the US previous Thursday for a 5th immediately win — their fourth used to be a forfeit through Scotland — stored Canada in competition to be a number of the six groups enjoying into the weekend for an international identify Sunday.
Protecting champion Silvana Tirinzoni (10-0) used to be confident of completing first within the standings and incomes one among two byes to Saturday’s semifinals.
Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg (8-3) additionally had a playoff berth locked in. Einarson and South Korea’s EunJung Kim had been tied for 3rd at 7-3.
Denmark, Japan and the US had been all 6-4 forward of Germany and Norway tied at 5-5.
Canada caps the initial around towards the Germans on Friday morning and the Czech Republic (2-8) at evening.
The Scots withdrew Sunday as a result of 4 avid gamers examined certain for COVID-19.
The highest two seeds Friday get semifinal byes with the 3rd via 6th groups enjoying off previous that day to sign up for them.
Einarson’s Gimli Curling Membership foursome had settled into its ice reads and execution in Monday’s win over Denmark and rode the momentum of a win streak into Thursday night time’s draw.
However the Canadians made a hash of Thursday’s further finish. They did not peel guards to open up the home for Einarson’s final shot. The skip confronted a hard faucet in the back of a guard for the win and rolled a hair huge for a loss.
“We simply had a super-sloppy further and let it slip,” 3rd Val Sweeting mentioned. “”We want to chat about issues, why we did not have as excellent a deal with at the ice that recreation.
“We did not know that we’d have had a playoff spot if we received, in order that wasn’t in our minds in any respect. It is nonetheless in our palms. We have now simply were given to return out sharp day after today morning.”
Trailing South Korea 5-4 after seven ends, the Canadians became the tide scoring 3 within the 8th. Coming house up some degree with hammer, Einarson’s shooter rolled huge on successful for the win within the tenth to surrender a thieve.
“It simply ran immediately,” Einarson mentioned. “I used to be assured going into 11 after which we simply had a sloppy eleventh.
“We are enjoying neatly. We began off sluggish, however we picked it up.”
Einarson and corporate opened final yr’s international championship 1-5 in Calgary’s curling bubble.
Fuelled through fatalism, they received six of 7 to squeak into the 6th and ultimate playoff spot earlier than dropping out.
After a 2-2 get started on opening weekend, their highway in Prince George has been much less of a white-knuckle trip.
Einarson gave the impression aggravating about her workforce’s loss of end, on the other hand, in Thursday’s post-game interviews.
“It wasn’t our best possible recreation total,” Sweeting mentioned.
Whilst Canadian championships function tiebreaker video games when groups are tied for the final playoff spot, the arena championships don’t.
If two international locations are tied Friday, the winner in their round-robin matchup ranks upper. If 3 or extra groups are tied, their report of the video games between them supplies seedings.
If that does not unravel the impasse, the typical distance of all pre-game attracts which resolve which workforce will get hammer are used for score.
