Scotland put stop to run of defeats with World Curling Championships victory
BySportsbeat
Published 06/04/2016 at 17:27 GMT
Scotland recorded their third win of the World Curling Championships on Wednesday, bringing an end to five successive defeats.
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The Scots beat Finland 7-3 in the 12th session of round-robin play, with skip Tom Brewster opening the scoring in the second end.
After Finland scored two to take the lead, Brewster played a double take-out for two points in the fourth, before getting a single steal to take the score to 4-2 at half-time.
After blanking in the sixth end, Finland pulled a point back in the seventh, before Brewster hit out an opposition stone to score three and seal a much-needed win.
"It wasn't the best game we've had all week, but we got our stones in the right places at the right times and we took our chances," Brewster said.
"I played a good double in four to get a two and that gave us a bit of momentum.
"We're just here to win as many games as we can and we'll do our best. The team spirit is high.
"We took the game to the opposition a bit more and were a bit more aggressive and we played more on the front-foot.
"We took a conscious decision to go out all guns blazing."
Elsewhere, Canada continue to top the standings despite suffering their first loss of the tournament with a 4-3 defeat to Sweden in session 13.
Norway sit in second despite losing to third place USA 8-3, who were then narrowly beaten 8-7 by Japan.
A 9-1 win for Finland over Germany puts them into seventh place with four wins and five losses, while Switzerland share eighth place with Scotland after losing 7-6 to Denmark.
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