Sunday afternoon’s Draw Four at the Ford World Women’s Curling Championship at the Enmax Centre in Lethbridge was a learning experience for Canada’s Heather Nedohin. The good news for her was the story had a happy ending, a 7-5 win over one of the week’s favourites Bingyu Wang of China.
It’s a game that Nedohin’s crew of Laine Peters, Jessica Mair and Beth Iskiw controlled most of the way, but every time the Canucks looked like putting the affair away, China bounced back and a tidy deuce in nine meant Nedohin had a one point lead and hammer coming home. She made no mistake hitting and sticking on shot stone for a 7-5 win.
Heather Nedohin calls to her teammates during Draw 4 of the 2012 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship. (Photo: CCA/Michael Burns Photography)
“It’s challenging out there when you are on a sheet for the first time with a new set of rocks and a new opponent and you are looking at the way you through and they throw … it’s a little bit of a wizard out there, it takes all four of us to do that, so in the first half we were trying to figure it out then we got our deuce and kind of controlled things after that,” said Nedohin on figuring out ice conditions.
The third title event played on Alberta soil this year has started well for the Edmonton crew.
The win keeps Nedohin atop the table at 2-0 along with Germany and the team she’ll be playing tonight – Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott who handed the United States its second straight loss. Ott scored three with hammer in the tenth for an 11-7 win.