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Team USA members (l-r) Margie Smith, Norma O'Leary, Debbie Dexter, Shelly Kosal, and Lucy DeVore.
Team USA members (l-r) Bill Peskoff, Bill Nickle, Dennis Mellerup, and Gert Messing.
U.S. women 7th, men 11th at World Senior Championships
playoffs at the 2013 World Senior Champion- ships held April 13-20 at the Grant Harvey Cen- tre in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Smith (St. Paul, Minn.) and teammates Nor-
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ma O’Leary (Silver Bay, Minn.), Debbie Dexter (St. Paul, Minn.), Shelly Kosal (Edgerton, Wis.), and Lucy DeVore (Superior, Wis.) lost to Cathy King’s Canadian team, 6-4, in the final draw of the round robin to be eliminated from playoff contention. “We did push them hard; not quite hard
enough, but if we would have played like that all week, we would have been both teams 5-and-0 going into the day. And we didn’t,” Smith said af- ter the loss. “We knew we could give them a run. Top to bottom, they shoot really well. But we did, too. It was a good game.” Te Canadian women, who have not lost at
this event since 2008, went on to defeat Austria, 13-1, to win another gold medal. On the men's side, Messing (Hartsdale, N.Y.)
and teammates Dennis Mellerup (Hoboken, N.J.), Bill Nickle (Long Valley, N.J.), Bill Peskoff (Glen Gardner, N.J.) and alternate/coach Paul Pustovar (Hibbing, Minn.) finished the tourna- ment with a 4-5 record. “My first time at a world championship, and now I have an idea of what the global fraternity
.S. teams skipped by Margie Smith (St. Paul, Minn.) and Gert Messing (Hartsdale, N.Y.) missed out on the
Scotland Sweden
Switzerland Italy
Finland
Canada Austria Japan USA
New Zealand Ireland Russia
Czech Republic Australia
Round Robin: Women Group A: 6-0 5-1 4-2 3-3 1-5 1-5 1-5
Group B: 6-0 4-2 4-2 3-3 3-3 1-5 0-6
USA game results:
USA 11, Ireland 2 USA 14, Russia 2 Japan 5, USA 4 Austria 11, USA 2 USA 8, New Zealand 6 Canada 6, USA 4
Tiebreaker: Austria 11, Japan 7 Semifinals:
Canada 7, Sweden 6 (extra end) Austria 11, Scotland 6
Bronze medal: Sweden 9, Scotland 8 (extra end) Gold medal: Canada 13, Austria 1
of curlers is like. Lifetime of memories — met so many great people, got a ton of good photographs, and it’s been a lot of fun,” Peskoff said. Canada completed the sweep as the men defeat- ed New Zealand, 6-4, for the gold medal. n
Canada Sweden
Australia Finland
Denmark USA
England
Netherlands Russia
Germany
New Zealand Switzerland Scotland Norway Ireland Latvia Japan Italy
France Czech Republic
Round Robin: Men Group A: 9-0 8-1 6-3 6-3 5-4 4-5 3-6 3-6 1-8 0-9
Group B: 8-1 7-2 6-3 5-4 5-4 4-5 4-5 4-5 1-8 1-8
USA game results:
Australia 8, USA 4 USA 10, Germany 4 Sweden 6, USA 5 Netherlands 5, USA 4 USA 6, Denmark 5 Finland 7, USA 5 USA 8, England 3 USA 7, Russia 3 Canada 7, USA 5 Semifinals:
New Zealand 10, Sweden 2 Canada 11, Switzerland 3
Bronze medal: Switzerland 7, Sweden 2 Gold medal: Canada 6, New Zealand 4
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