Canada hammered 9-3 in only six ends by world championship rookie Yuta Matsumura of Japan in Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A 24-game winning streak came to an abrupt halt Wednesday morning, against the most surprising team in the world men’s curling championship, and now Kevin Koe’s Canadian team is in a dogfight for the most coveted playoff positions.
It was the first time Koe’s team, which includes third B.J. Neufeld, second Colton Flasch and lead Ben Hebert, has lost since the round robin at the Alberta provincial championship in early February. They won their last five games at that event, went 13-0 to win the Brier last month in Brandon and started out this championship with six straight victories.
Three members of the Japanese team are competing for the first time in the world championship — they have all been alternates before but never full position players — but they’ve proven to be cool customers all week. “Canada is a great, great team but our guys just executed so well today,” said Bob Ursel, the Canadian coach of Team Japan. “They weren’t missing. The skip made some phenomenal shots for the big end there and it was fantastic.”
It was clear the Canadians knew they were in huge trouble in the third end. They even called their time out and took a lot of time to make decisions on what to do with Koe’s rocks. Nothing worked out.
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