Photo: Rebecca Jean MacDonald, Robert Campbell (Credit: World Curling Federation)

Team Canada (PEI’s Robert Campbell and Rebecca Jean MacDonald) won their first tiebreaker game Friday morning at the World Mixed Doubles in Saint Paul Minnesota, 7-4 over Slovakia, but lost their second, to Denmark, by a 6-4 score, in the afternoon, and did not advance to the quarter-final round, which got underway at 9 pm Atlantic time. Campbell and MacDonald won both their games on Thursday, beating Russia 7-5, and downing Italy 13-1 to finish up round robin play with a a 4-3 record, and advance to the tiebreakers.

After the second tiebreaker,  Robert Campbell said “we put ourselves in the hole by losing three in a row in the middle of the week. We knew it was an uphill battle. We tried our best. This morning we played well,  and this afternoon we just didn’t quite have it. Denmark – I have to give credit to them – they made some good shots – a couple of hit and rolls and a couple of draw taps – and we just couldn’t capitalize on our chances.”

Asked what he will take away from this championship, Campbell said “It’s been a learning thing, especially from Canada when you are playing two on two. We tried to pick it up as we went this week. Communication is a big thing, sweeping is a big thing. I’d love to come back and play better than I did. Personally, I didn’t perform as well as I’d like to. There’s part of me that would like to come back and prove I could be a better curler than I was this week but I’m not getting any younger though!” [He is 44].

Quarter-final matchups are: Sweden vs China, Switzerland vs Denmark, France vs USA, and Japan vs Russia.

The semi-finals go Saturday morning at 10 PEI time, with the gold and bronze medal games at 3 pm Atlantic.