// BONUS ONLINE-ONLY COVERAGE USA ladies finish sixth in Switzerland Round robin standings, Women
2014 World Junior Curling Championship Flims, Switzerland
Korea (Kyeong-Ae Kim) Canada (Kelsey Rocque) Russia (Yulia Portunova) Sweden (Isabella Wrana)
7-2 7-2 6-3
Switzerland (Briar Hurlimann) 6-3 USA (Cory Christensen)
2-7
Czech Republic (Iveta Janatova) 3-6 Scotland (Gina Aitken) Italy (Veronica Zappone)
6-3* 5-4 3-6
Denmark (Christine Svensen) 0-9 *Sweden defeated Switzerland, 7-6, to ad- vance to the Page playoffs
USA game results: Team USA (l-r): Cory Christensen, Mackenzie Lank, Anna Bauman, Anna Hopkins, and Tina Persinger.
Cory Christensen leads American ladies to 5-4 finish at World Junior Championships
Flims, Switzerland, at the Waldhaus Arena. Christensen (Duluth, Minn.), 19, and team-
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mates Mackenzie Lank (Lewiston, N.Y.), Anna Bauman (Duluth, Minn.), Anna Hopkins (Bis- marck, N.D.), and Tina Persinger (Fairbanks, Alaska) had a solid first half of the round robin, winning three of their first four games, but lost one game too many and was unable to advance to the playoffs. Te team finished on a winning note as they
defeated playoff-bound Russia, 8-7, to wrap up the round robin. Te win improved the U.S. to 5-4, which equated to a sixth-place finish. In the women’s playoffs, Korea (7-2) and Cana-
da (7-2) met in the Page 1-2 game with the Cana- dian ladies, led by Kelsey Rocque, moving on to the final with a 7-6 victory. In the Page 3-4 game, Sweden, which defeated Switzerland, 7-6, in a tie- breaker match to get into the playoffs, slid past Russia, 5-4. Tat set up a semifinal matchup be- tween the Swedish ladies and Korea. Te Korean team prevailed and marched into the gold-medal game to face Canada. Russia got revenge for the earlier playoff loss to Sweden in the bronze medal
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SA’s Cory Christensen rink just missed out on a playoff berth at the 2014 World Junior Championships in
Switzerland 7, USA 6 USA 16, Korea 3 USA 9, Czech Republic 4 USA 8, Denmark 2 Scotland 7, USA 4 USA 11, Italy 4 Canada 8, USA 4 Sweden 9, USA 3 USA 8, Russia 7
Page playoffs, 1-2: *Korea 000 102 012 0 – 6 Canada 001 020 200 2 – 7
Page playoffs, 3-4: *Russia 010 000 020 10 – 4 Sweden 001 001 101 01 – 5
Semifinal: Sweden 001 100 020 0 – 4 *Korea 030 011 000 2 – 7
Bronze medal: *Sweden 020 100 10x x – 4 Russia 005 021 03x x –11
Gold medal: *Canada 100 010 220 x – 6 Korea 010 101 001 x – 4 *last rock in first end
Team USA’s Anna Hopkins (leſt) and Anna Bauman sweep during round robin action in Switzerland.
Photo courtesy of the WCF
game as they scored early and oſten in winning, 11-4. Canada once again defeated Korea and took home the gold medals with 6-4 victory. It was Canada’s first junior women’s gold-medal win since 2003. Czech Republic’s lead Zuzana Hajkova was the
recipient of the 2014 World Junior Champion- ships Sportsmanship Award. Te 2015 World Junior Championships will
take place Feb. 28-March 8 in Tallinn, Estonia. Te 2015 USA Curling Junior National Cham- pionships to select Team USA will take place Jan. 17-24 in Devils Lake, N.D. n
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