World Junior Curling Championships
Sweden steals World Junior Curling crown from Orléans skip
By Fred Sherwin
Orléans Online

Rachel Homan's bid for a World Junior Curling Championship came to a disappointing end early Sunday morning as Sweden managed to steal three consecutive ends in the final to win the gold medal.

The game was tied 3-3 after six ends and Canada had last shot advantage when things started to come completely unraveled. Sweden stole two points in the seventh and two more in the eighth to take a commanding 7-3 lead in the ninth end. When they stole another point in the ninth, Canada conceeded the gold medal and were forced to settle for silver instead.

The game was a bitter disappointment for the Canadian rink which two days ago completely overhwelmed the Swedes in the 1-2 playoff game, winning 9-3 in eight ends. In their only other meeting during the round robin portion of the tournament, the Canadians won 6-4 in 10 ends.

"We are all bitterly disappointed," said Homan. "We just didn't curl our game today. We had our chances but failed to take them or missed shots. We were not playing our style of game."

Homan was the top rated skip heading into the final, curling at a better than 85 per cent clip. Unfortunately, she picked a bad time to be off her game.

(Posted 11:30 a.m., March 14)

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