MOOSE JAW, Sask. – After a triumphant run to a Montana’s Brier title earlier this month, Brad Jacobs and his Canadian teammates picked up where they left off Saturday in their opening game at the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship.
Jacobs and his Calgary-based team defeated Japan’s Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi 7-3 in the first round-robin draw at the Temple Gardens Centre.
“We were riding the hot hand and really riding the energy of the crowd out there,” said Canadian lead Ben Hebert. “It got us going.”
The host side opened with hammer and blanked the first three ends as players got used to the ice in the 4,200-seat venue.
Jacobs sunk a stone under a pair of guards in the fourth end to open the scoring with a deuce. Canada kept…