Scotland’s Tom Brewster covered the pinhole with a last-rock draw and Sweden’s two-time Olympic gold medallist Anette Norberg and her team got untracked to win 20-point skins games at the World Financial Group Continental Cup on Saturday morning, extending the lead for Team World over Team North American to 32 points.

Canada’s Glenn Howard, directing Sherry Anderson, Brent Laing and Sherri Singler, succeeded in keep the Americans within shouting distance, hanging an 18-2 mixed skins beating on Sweden’s Niklas Edin and his team of Eve Muirhead, Cristoffer Svae and Qingshuang Yue.

“The skins seemed to work for us,” said Howard, a veteran of the format. “I have to commend the two Sherry(i)s, they played great. That was a well-curled skins game — pretty darn close to as good as it gets. I thought we had Niklas in trouble every end and, ironically enough, if he sticks his last angle raise we go to a draw-to-the-button. But that’s skins for you.

Niklas Edin shouts to his teammates at the 2012 World Financial Group Continental Cup. (Photo by Michael Burns/CCA)

“It turned out we lost another eight points as a team but we still have a long way to go.”

Singles play, the six-shot Hot Shots points game, takes over the spotlight for an afternoon draw at 1:30 p.m. PT with 30-point skins returning at 6:30 p.m.

In the 30s, Eve Muirhead of Scotland tackles Amber Holland of Canada in women’s skins, Howard takes on Edin in men’s skins and teams skipped by Thomas Ulsrud (Norway) and Jeff Stoughton (Canada) go at it in mixed skins.

The Cup debate concludes Sunday with women’s 55-point skins (Stefanie Lawton of Canada vs. Bingyu Wang of China) at 10:30 a.m. and 55-point men’s skins (Jeff Stoughton of Canada vs. Thomas Ulsrud of Norway) at 5 p.m.

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