Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Source: Canadian Curling Association

VERNON, B.C. — Canada’s Jennifer Jones has clinched at least a playoff tiebreaker game here at the Ford World Womens Curling Championship.

With an 8-6 win over Scotland’s Gail Munro Wednesday afternoon, Canada’s Jones improved to 8-1 and would play in at least a playoff tiebreaker game even if she were to lose her final two round-robin games on Thursday.

Canada plays Denmark Thursday morning and then wraps up their round-robin against Sweden Thursday night.

“We’re in the driver’s seat and we control our own destiny and that’s what we want,” Jones said after the win over Scotland.

Canada cracked a four against the Scots in the third end to take a 4-2 lead but Scotland battled back and took the game to the tenth end before finally yielding. Munro struggled mightily with her draw weight in the game, shooting just 60 percent.

In other games Thursday afternoon, China’s Bingyu Wang — the last undefeated team in the field — finally suffered a loss, falling 9-7 to Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott. Ott broke open a tight game with a five-ender in the eighth.

The loss dropped China to 7-1. They play again Wednesday evening against Italy’s Diana Gaspari.

Ott improved to 7-2 with the victory.

In other games, Sweden beat Czech Republic 7-3 and Russia edged Germany 7-6.

In other games Wednesday evening, Russia plays Denmark, Scotland plays Japan and Sweden plays USA.

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