Scotland women reach European Curling Championships semi-finals
BySportsbeat
Published 25/11/2015 at 15:12 GMT
Eve Muirhead is refusing to get carried away despite the skip leading Scotland women to victory over world champions Switzerland and into the semi-finals of the European Curling Championships.
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A Scottish win looked unlikely after the first two ends as they found themselves 0-3 down following a single steal in the first end and a further steal of two shots for Switzerland in the second end.
However, the Scots then turned the tide, scoring three in the fourth end and then stealing two in the fourth and one more in the fifth for a 6-3 half-time lead.
Switzerland blanked the sixth end and then the teams swapped singles for the next three ends, with the Swiss team conceding before the tenth end was completed to give Scotland a 7-5 win.
This win guarantees that Scotland will finish at least third in the rankings as they head into the semi-finals, but Muirhead insists there is still plenty of work to be done.
"We've still got one more round-robin game left, so once that is over then we'll start to think properly about what’s next," Muirhead said.
"Our first goal was to make the play-offs and now we can step up – we're all in really good shape now.
"I'm pleased with the win against Switzerland. We actually had a good first end and then in the second end, we weren’t far away from getting a big end.
"It was a tough shot but we knew if we just stuck together and played well and put them under pressure we would come back at them, and that’s exactly what we did."
Elsewhere, Russia needed an extra end to beat Sweden 12-9, while Denmark suffered a surprise 7-6 loss to Finland.
Germany beat Norway 9-4 while Estonia were 8-4 victors against Hungary.
All this means Russia have won seven and lost one of their games and are leading the standings, with Denmark second and Scotland third.
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