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Round Robin Play is over .. and it’s the playoffs! Here is the results:

Friday, March 28, 2008
Source: Canadian Curling Association

VERNON, B.C. — Canada’s Jennifer Jones will play China’s Bingyu Wang in the Page Playoff 1 vs 2 game here at the Ford World Womens Curling Championship Friday evening.

Canada advanced to the big game with a 7-3 victory over Sweden’s Stina Viktorsson on the final draw of the round-robin here Thursday evening.

China kept pace with a narrow 6-5 victory over Germany’s Andrea Schoepp, while Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott was also a winner, dropping Russia’s Liudmila Privivkova 9-4.

Put it altogether and the round-robin ended with Canada, China and Switzerland all tied for first place with 9-2 records.

Because the three teams all had identical 1-1 records against each other during the round-robin, officials resorted to a second tiebreaker — a team draw to the button competition that was staged just prior to this event.

China won that competition, Canada finished second and Switzerland finished third. So that put China and Canada in the 1-2 game (with China getting the first place advantage of hammer or choice of rocks) while Switzerland was relegated to Friday afternoon’s page-playoff 3 vs 4 game.

Switzerland will play the winner of a tiebreaker game Friday morning between Denmark’s Angelina Jensen and Japan’s Moe Meguro.

The winner of the 3-4 game advances to Saturday’s semi-final to face the loser of the 1-2 game.

Canada played what was probably their strongest game of this event against Sweden. “We got out of the gate quite well and had consistent play from start to finish,” said second Jill Officer. “We felt a lot better about things.”

“It’s playoffs,” said third Cathy Overton-Clapham, “and we’re right where we wanted to be.

“We had fun out there and there and that’s when we play our best.”

Friday’s 3-4 page playoff game will be played at 4 p.m. ET and air live on TSN. The 1-2 game will also air live on TSN, beginning at 9 p.m. ET.

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