Team Canada skip Jennifer Jones says her team never sets a goal coming into a competition in terms of wins and losses, but she did say they do aim at avoiding back-to-back losses.
After dropping an 8-6 decision to the hometown favourites Monday night in front of a full house, the defending champs bounced back in style Tuesday morning, grabbing control against former champ B.C.’s Kelly Scott en route to an impressive 10-2 win to go to 4-2 on the week.
Team Canada at the 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts (Photo by: Andrew Klaver)
Scott’s crew missed some key shots in the opening end and yielded a steal of four, gave up another in the second, and Jones controlled the game the rest of the way.
” We came out better, which we tend to do after a loss so that was good, but we got a few breaks early, obviously, so I felt bad for them,” said Jones.
With the issue seeming decided, Jones says her club was able to work on a few things.
“It’s never a problem to remain focused, but it did give us a chance to try a bunch of different shots and get some peels and (lead) Dawn (Askin) got some draws in there,” said Jones.
“We’re out there doing what we love to do.”
Jones’ former third Cathy Overton-Clapham of Manitoba was not so fortunate.
With a chance to beat Nova Scotia’s Heather Smith-Dacey with her last stone in the 10th end, she missed her draw for two, sending the game to an extra end without hammer where Dacey-Smith made no mistake with her last rock
— a draw to full eight-foot for an 8-7 win.