There will be a new champion at the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship in Moose Jaw, Sask. This year. And it won’t be Canada.
Brad Jacobs dropped a 7-4 decision against Bruce Mouat de Scotia in the semifinal game on Saturday at the Temple Gardens Center. Mouat, who eliminated the Niklas Edin Defense champion of Sweden in a morning qualifier, will play Yannick Schwaller in Switzerland for the gold medal.
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Bruce Mouat de Scotia defeats Brad Jacobs and his Calgary 7-4 track in his semifinal match in the World Curling Championship in Moose Jaw, Sask. Canada will face China for bronze while the Scots face Switzerland for gold.
Below one with a hammer at the tenth end, Jacobs tried a triple-ascensor of victory instead of attracting the draw and an additional end. The Canadian rocks spilled and Scotland stole two for victory.
“We fight, we fight, we tried,” Jacobs said. “They were better than us today. But we are going to regroup here and leave and try to put ourselves on the podium and get a bronze medal.”
Jacobs and his third team by Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert will play the Xiaoming Xu of China in the third game.
Xu beat Magnus Ramsfjell of Norway 8-7 in the morning rating, but dropped a 7-3 decision against Switzerland in the other semifinal.
Scotland will try to win its second world male title in three years. Mouat beat Brad Gushue of Canada in 2023 in Ottawa.
“Maybe we have not had our best week, but we definitely had our best games today against Sweden and against Canada,” said Mouat, the fifth sown in the playoffs after an 8-4 round record in theft.
Scotland entered the Canada game with confidence after eliminating Edin, a champion seven times.
The best classified Mouat also handed Jacobs his only loss of round-robin game.
A Deuce of Scotland at the second end was interspersed between the forces of Canada. Two blank spaces continued ahead of an interesting sixth final.
Mouat had the opportunity to sit three, but his blow and stick came out just out of the rings. Jacobs’s final rock spread and Mouat’s soft weight blow for three generated only a couple.
The host team brought the crowd sold of approximately 4,200 at their feet in the seventh final with a double outlet to tie the game.
With a Canada stone biting the 12 -foot ring, Jacobs doubled with the Scottish stone that only lost his rock on the edge.
The jump was emphatically pumped his fist after the high pressure shot. A fault would probably have given the control of the rest of the way.
“I thought we were really resistant during that game and I am proud of us for being so,” Jacobs said.
Mouat was forced one in the eighth, giving Scotland a 5-4 advantage but returning the hammer to Canada. A blank established the dramas at the tenth end.
“I liked the choice,” said Canada Paul Webster coach. “In that type of end, we have to do it. We had 15 rocks at stake that seemed in the final shot.
“That is the type of (situation) you want when you are trying to generate two at the last end.”
Both teams were under time pressure. Only 10 seconds were left on the clock when Jacobs made his last release.
“We almost had them,” said Hebert. “We simply pinch a bit there at the end for the time. We had to hurry a couple of shots and calls.”
Canada has not won the male world gold since Gushue was victorious in Edmonton in 2017.
“I am disappointed, but I am not disappointed in the way we play,” said Hebert. “Two of the best teams in the world who do it.
“They made a couple more than us today.”
