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| AOMORI, Japan - Canada's Kelly Scott methodically picked apart a reeling Danish team to advance to Sunday's final of the 2007 World Women's Championship.
The Canadian champions crushed Denmark's Angelica Jensen 11-3 by scoring a deuce in the third end, followed by a steal of two in the fourth and another single in the fifth to build a 5-1 lead at the break.
In the seventh, the wheels fell off for the Danes as a smorgasbord of throwing and sweeping errors led to an enormous steal of five points.
After going through the motions in the eighth, Jensen managed a point and promptly conceded.
"We expected a much tighter game but we'll take 'em and run," said Scott.
Denmark drops to the Saturday night bronze medal match - the de facto semi-final - versus Scotland, with the winner set to face Scott for the championship on Sunday. |
(Mar 24, 2007) -- AOMORI, Japan - Canada's Kelly Scott methodically picked apart a reeling Danish team to advance to Sunday's final of the 2007 World Women's Championship.
The Canadian champions crushed Denmark's Angelica Jensen 11-3 by scoring a deuce in the third end, followed by a steal of two in the fourth and another single in the fifth to build a 5-1 lead at the break.
In the seventh, the wheels fell off for the Danes as a smorgasbord of throwing and sweeping errors led to an enormous steal of five points.
After going through the motions in the eighth, Jensen managed a point and promptly conceded.
"We expected a much tighter game but we'll take 'em and run," said Scott.
Denmark drops to the Saturday night bronze medal match - the de facto semi-final - versus Scotland, with the winner set to face Scott for the championship on Sunday.
The Danes ran into guards all day, missing the kinds of shots they had made earlier in the week. The loss was their third in a row after an 8-1 start.
The lineup is vastly different, as Jensen now throws second (up from lead) and alternate Ane Hanson is in at lead. Jensen's sister Camilla, the regular second, had to leave Japan on Friday to write a university exam in Copenhagen.
"Canada played really, really well," acknowledged Madeleine Dupont, who throws last rocks.
"We were prepared for the loss after the fifth end, actually."
It was the biggest playoff trouncing at the women's worlds since Canada's Cathy Borst stomped Norway's Dordi Nordby 10-2 in the 1988 bronze medal game.
Saturday night's match will be watched with interest, as Kelly Wood's Scots proved to be the only squad to solve the Canadians through the week. In the final round-robin draw, Canada allowed a 5-3 lead to evaporate and Scotland stole the final four ends to win 7-5.
"This year we're not going to be satisfied unless we cap it off with a win tomorrow," said Scott, the 2006 third-place finisher.
"There's no better time to go out and grab it."
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