Bronze medal and revenge in Scots' curlers' sights
This follows their 5-8 defeat in the Page Play-off, also to Sweden, yesterday afternoon.
In a tight game, the Swedes made the first real breakthrough in the sixth end with the score at 3-2, when their skip Anna Hasselborg was able to hit out a Scottish stone to score two points from the end and take a 5-2 lead.
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Hide AdIn the seventh, Scotland’s skip Eve Muirhead drew her last stone into the house for two points that reduced Sweden’s lead to 5-4.
In the eighth, Sweden scored three points as Hasselborg added her final stone to the two Swedish stones already counting in the house. In the ninth end, Sweden’s Hasselborg played a double take-out which then forced Muirhead to score just one in the end, leaving Sweden with an 8-5 lead. Sweden then ran the Scots out of stones in the tenth end.
Afterwards, Muirhead said: “We’re disappointed. You don’t want to lose a play-off game, but Sweden were the stronger team. We battled hard but we gave her too many half-shots and we didn’t have many. We were always on that back foot and it was frustrating. We had chances but unfortunately we didn’t take them.”
She added: “We’ve just got to dust ourselves off and come out firing tomorrow. We’ve still got a chance for a medal.”