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Round robin standings, 2014 World Women’s Curling Championship:
Canada (Rachel Homan) Switzerland (Binia Feltscher) Russia (Anna Sidorova) Korea (Un Chi Gim)
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada 10-1 9-2 8-3
Sweden (Margaretha Sigfridsson) 8-3 USA (Allison Pottinger) China (Sijia Liu)
8-3* 6-5
6-5
Germany (Imogen Lehmann) 3-8 Czech Republic (Anna Kubeskova) 3-8 Denmark (Madeleine Dupont) 2-9 Scotland (Kerry Barr) Latvia (Evita Regza)
2-9 1-10
*Korea defeated Sweden, 7-5, to advance to the playoffs
Frances Brodie Sportsmanship recipient: Alison Kreviazuk, Canada
USA game results:
Aſter representing the U.S. at 12 world championships, Allison Pottinger delivers one of her final stones in competition for the Americans while Tabitha Peterson (leſt) and Natalie Nicholson sweep. Photo by Michael Burns Jr. for USA Curling
U.S. ladies just miss playoffs By Terry Kolesar, Editor
on a winning note as Allison Pottinger led the American ladies to an 8-4 win over Scotland on March 20 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Can- ada.
T Te win on the final night of the round robin
at the Harbour Station by Pottinger (Eden Prai- rie, Minn.) and teammates Nicole Joraanstad (Verona, Wis.), Natalie Nicholson (Bemidji, Minn.), Tabitha Peterson (Eagan, Minn.), and Tara Peterson (Eagan, Minn.) over Kerry Barr’s Scottish rink leſt their final record in Saint John at 6-5 for sixth place. “It was nice to come out tonight, play a good
game and just enjoy playing together. It was my last game, this is nice to go out on a win,” said Pottinger, who has represented the U.S. at 12 world championships and two Olympic Games. “I’m not playing next year. Tis is it. To go out on a win at the worlds, is not too bad. I’m done unless someone can talk me out of it, I don’t think that will happen. I’m going to try to do the Wayne Gretzky approach versus the Michael Jor- dan approach. Tat’s my goal.”
eam USA’s run at the 2014 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship pre- sented by Booster Juice came to a close
Te experienced U.S. team came into the tour-
nament with playoff hopes and got off to a hot start but hit a rough patch in the middle of the round robin that cost them a playoff berth. As a team, the U.S. statistically was the fourth ranked team with Nicholson the top ranked athlete in the second position. “We had a great start to the week where we
started to get on the winning streak. Ten we stumbled a bit but we tried to get back on track,” Joraanstad said. “Overall it was a good week. We wish there had been more W’s coming our way so we could get into the playoffs. I felt like we were in a position to play well and get on the podium. All in all it was a good week and we’re happy to have had the additional experience.” Te U.S. placed Tara Peterson into the lineup
on the final night to give her more international experience. “It was nice that Nat gave Tara the opportunity to come into the game. She came in and played great so that was a lot of fun,” Joraan- stad said. Canada’s Rachel Homan and Switzerland’s
Binia Feltscher rinks met in the Page playoff 1-2 game with Canada winnning, 8-3, to advance directly to the gold medal game. Korea, which defeated Sweden in the tiebreaker game to be the
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fourth seed, defeated Russia, 7-5, in the Page 3-4 game. Tat set up a semifinal meeting for Swit- zerland and Korea with the Swiss ladies prevail- ing, 7-3, to earn the spot in the final. Te Swiss magic continued into the gold-medal game as Feltscher’s rink defeated Canada, 9-5, to win the world title. Russia defeated Korea, 7-6, in an ex- tra end to earn the bronze medal. Te 2015 World Women’s Championship will be staged March 14-22 in Sapporo, Japan. n
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