Scotland suffer fifth successive defeat at World Curling Championship

BySportsbeat

Published 06/04/2016 at 09:12 GMT

Scotland all but ended their playoff hopes at the World Curling Championship on Tuesday with a 9-7 defeat to USA after an extra-end, their fifth successive defeat.

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USA opened with the last stone advantage and scored two in the first end, before the Scots bounced back with two of their own in the second.

The Americans edged ahead with another two shots in the third end, only for Scottish skip Tom Brewster to pull the tie back to 4-4 after five ends.

The sixth end was blanked before the USA regained the lead in the seventh end, before Brewster levelled once more in the eighth.

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Both sides scored another point apiece, including a potential shot of the Championship from Brewster in the tenth, before USA's Tyler George gave his team their fifth victory of the competition with two points in extra-end.

But despite Scotland not getting the result they desperately needed, Brewster was full of his praise for his team.

"I thought we were playing well," he said. "It's been a tough day and I thought we played better than both the teams that beat us.

"I thought we had them in the extra end but that's just the way it goes.

"I thought the guys played great – maybe just a couple of bits where we've shown our inexperience, but I really think we've played some great curling.

"We've just not had the rubs or the luck and there's not much more you can say."

Scotland face Finland and Germany on Wednesday.

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