MOOSE JAW – Canada will settle for an appearance in the bronze-medal game at the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship.
Brad Jacobs and his Calgary-based team dropped a 7-4 semifinal decision to Scotland’s Bruce Mouat on Saturday at the Temple Gardens Centre.
Rather than draw for a single to play an extra end, Canada went for the win by trying an angle-raise triple takeout. The Canadian stones spilled out and Scotland stole two for the victory.
“We were close,” Jacobs said. “We fought and battled all the way to the end.”
Canada will play China’s Xiaoming Xu in the third-place game on Sunday. Scotland will play Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller for gold.
Switzerland defeated China 7-3 in the other semifinal.
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