Monday, March 20, 2006 | Source: Larry Wood
GRANDE PRAIRIE, March 20…Defending champion Anette Norberg and her methodical Swedes paired down the ranks of the undefeated at the Ford World Women’s Curling Championship to themselves on Monday.
And Canada’s Kelly Scott managed to finagle another split out of another hair-raising day on the Canada Games Arena freeze. Sweden defeated Debbie McCormick of the U.S. 8-5 in the morning, then knocked over Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont 8-6 in the afternoon. Dupont was pummelled 9-2 by McCormick in the evening.
The Canucks, meanwhile, wound up facing another pair of hunting parties gunning for the red maple leaf target. “It was our dream to beat Canada,” said 21-year-old Bingyu Wang of Harbin after out-hitting Scott’s Canadian champions 5-4 on the early shift. Scott came back in the afternoon to steal a 7-6 win from Kelly Wood of Scotland when she was off-line on a seven-foot runback with Canada’s winner sitting hidden in the four-foot.
