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Close losses doom American men at World Juniors
championship debut. Vukich (Seattle) and teammates Evan McAuley (Sammamish, Wash.),
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Luc Violette (Granite Falls, Wash.), Kyle Lorvick (Seattle), and Alex Fen- son (Bemidji, Minn.) lost to Russia in an extra end, 8-7, to finish 2-7 in the round robin. Te young American team got off to a shaky start to the event but then
put together two wins to even their record at 2-2. Ten came three games in a row in which the U.S. team lost by one rock and their playoff hopes disappeared. In the men’s playoffs, Norway (7-2) and Scotland (6-3) faced off in the Page 1-2 game with Scotland winning, 8-5, to move on to the final.
Team USA (l-r): Jake Vukich, Evan McAuley, Luc Violette, Kyle Lorvick, and Alex Fenson.
Round robin standings, Men
Norway then played Switzerland in the lone semifinal game aſter the Swiss team defeated Canada, 6-5, in the Page 3-4 game. Switzerland, which defeated Italy, 4-3, to advance to the playoffs, kept on win- ning as they got past Norway in the semifi- nal, 10-2. Te winning continued for Yannick Schwaller’s rink as the Swiss men won the gold medals with a 6-5 defeat of Kyle Smith’s Scottish rink. Austrian skip
Sebastian Wunderer was the recipient of the 2014 World Junior Curling 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 Champion- ships to select Team USA will take place Jan. 17-24 in Devils Lake, N.D. n
2014 World Junior Curling Championship Flims, Switzerland
Norway (Eirik Mjoen) Scotland (Kyle Smith) Canada (Braden Calvert)
7-2 6-3 6-3
Switzerland (Yannick Schwaller) 6-3* Italy (Amos Mosaner) Sweden (Fredrik Nyman) Russia (Sergey Glukhov)
6-3 5-4 4-5
Austria (Sebastian Wunderer) 3-6 USA (Jake Vukich) China (Zhilin Shao)
2-7 0-9
*Switzerland defeated Italy, 4-3, to advance to the playoffs.
USA game results:
Switzerland 6, USA 2 Scotland 7, USA 2 USA 6, China 4 USA 7, Italy 4
Austria 6, USA 5 Sweden 8, USA 7 Norway 9, USA 8 Canada 8, USA 1 Russia 8, USA 7
Page playoffs, 1-2: Scotland 003 010 202 x – 8 *Norway 010 101 020 x – 5
Page playoffs, 3-4: *Canada 001 000 020 20 – 5 Switzerland 000 201 002 01 – 6
Semifinal: *Norway 010 000 01x x – 2 Switzerland 002 041 30x x – 10
Bronze medal: *Norway 022 000 100 2 – 7 Canada 000 010 022 0 – 5
Gold medal: *Scotland 100 100 101 1 – 5 Switzerland 021 021 000 0 – 6 *last rock in first end
ake Vukich, 20, and the U.S. men struggled to get into the win column at the Waldhaus Arena, finishing ninth at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Flims, Switzerland, in the team’s world
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