CALGARY — Canada’s Brad Gushue defeated Randie Shen of Chinese Taipei 11\u002D3 to secure the top seed in the playoffs at the Pan Continental Curling Championships…
Gushue’s rink from St. John’s, N.L., sits ahead of the Americans , South Korea and Japan in the standings with round-robin play coming to a close.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
“We’re in pretty good shape, I think, and we’re playing pretty well. I think in some of the last couple of games where we got the big leads that keeping the motivation at a high level was a challenge, but I tried to play as many tough shots as possible to keep us engaged, and we made a lot of them.”Article contentCanada scored four points across the first three ends to take the lead early.
“We had a really good week for our draws,” Gushue said. “When we look back at what we did at the worlds and the Olympics last time, we didn’t do very good. So we made a lot of good draws this week and put some on the pin, and it’s paid off on getting first place.” Earlier, Canada’s Kerri Einarson broke open a close game with four points in the eighth end of a 9-3 victory over Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa.
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