Canada's Kevin Koe defeats South Korea 6-5 at men's curling worlds
Koe made an open hit for the single point and a 6-5 extra-end victory over South Korea's SooHyuk Kim, delighting the home crowd at the Enmax Centre.
In other Draw 1 games, Japan's Yuta Matsumura topped Italy's Joel Retornaz 6-4 and Jaap Van Dorp of the Netherlands scored two in the 10th end for a 6-5 win over American John Shuster.The 33-year-old skip wasn't afraid to be aggressive. He delivered a nice angle-raise runback to sit shot stone in the first end before drawing for one.
The Canadians regained hammer in the sixth by forcing South Korea to a single and used it to blank the next two ends. “We were totally in control that game but it was still a little nerve-racking because they never go away,” Koe said. St. John's, N.L., skip Brad Gushue won silver for Canada at last year's world championship in Las Vegas.
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