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World Curling Media

November 2, 2024

The Pan Continental Curling Championships are quickly approaching the medal high with the women’s semifinals on Friday morning, with Canada playing China and Korea playing Japan.

This game between Canada and China was tied 2-2 going into the fifth inning, and then with the score still tied at 3-3 in the ninth inning, Canadian skipper Rachel Homan scored two to tie the score. Leading 5-3.

In the tenth end, China skipper Wang Rui made a perfect draw to score two points and tie the game again – this time at 5-5 – and force an extra end. In that extra end, Homan made the final shot for a point needed to give his team a 6-5 victory and a place in the gold medal final. China will now play for the bronze medal.

Canadian Homan later said: “We had a few misreads here and there but we had to learn from it. “It’s really exciting to be in the final for Canada for the first time.”

In the other semi-final, second-ranked Japan faced third-ranked Korea.

In the ninth end, Korea took a 6-5 lead when Japan’s skip Miyu Ueno hit a nose shot to the Korean piece to score a point and tie the game at 6-6. Later, in the tenth end, Korea’s Eunji Gim tied with her last piece and scored a point to win the match 7-6. This win puts Korea into the gold medal final against Canada, which will have a chance to defend the title they won last year, while Japan faces China in the bronze match.

Kim Eunji said after her win: “It means a lot to be in the final. We want to play well in the next match and return home with the gold.”

women bronze

In the evening match, China won the bronze medal against Japan. Japan opened the scoring with a single, but China responded immediately with the diving Wang Rui scoring two with a towering putback in the second end.

Japan scored a single in the fourth end after trailing in the third. China left the fifth end open to go into halftime with a 2-2 draw.

Japan stole a single point in the sixth end and China then took control of the game. Wang hit a strikeout to score two in the seventh end, then stole a single in the eighth, per the umpire’s discretion.

In the ninth end, Japan’s pitcher Ueno Miyu attempted a strike-and-stay to bring Japan back into the game, but rolled out, giving up stealing double points. China finished off Japan’s pieces in the tenth round, securing Japan’s bronze medal with a score of 7-3.

China’s jumper Wang Rui said: “I’m very happy! Every game was very close, so we just had to play our game and keep our patience.

This team is like a family, even though we lost some games we stay together, play together and fight together.

men bronze

Before the women’s bronze medal match, the USA and Canada faced each other in the men’s bronze medal match on Friday afternoon.

In the first two periods, both teams took advantage of the last piece and scored two points each, bringing the match to 2-2. In the third end, after a series of outs from the same port and a hidden draw from United States skipper John Shuster, a hack-weight from Canadian skipper Brad Gushue added two more points to make it 4-2.

The United States took the lead by three scores at 5-4 in the fourth end. Then in the fifth round Canadian Gushue went too far and had to settle for a single point, 5-5.

The seventh end gave Canada a chance to score four points, but due to excessive curling in Gushue’s last over, they had to settle for two to tie the game again at 7-7.

In the final, the USA was ahead 9-8 with the hammer. On Canada’s final shot, they froze on the United States’ shooting stone, but John Shuster scored a perfect equalizer to seal a piece of the switch and score a goal to end the game at 10-8 and win the bronze medal for United. States.

After playing “an incredible game against an incredible team”, John Shuster was pleased with his team, saying they were “playing better every game” and “really turning into the team we were trying to be”.

Part B

In Division B, Australian women advanced to the gold medal match by beating the Philippines 11-6 in the semi-finals. Jamaica, on the other hand, beat Kazakhstan 9-8 and met in the final. Philippines and Kazakhstan will now fight for the bronze medal.

In the semi-finals of the Men’s B League, Kazakhstan beat Jamaica 10-3, while the Philippines defeated Hong Kong China 6-1. Kazakhstan will now face the Philippines for the gold medal, while Jamaica will face Hong Kong China for the bronze medal.

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