Scot Muirhead conquers tough women’s field at Autumn Gold Curling Classic (Calgary Herald)

Posted on by October 15, 2013

Rising star who will represent Great Britain at the 2014 Olympics beats China’s Bingyu Wang in the final

By Rita Mingo, for the Calgary Herald
She’ll carry the weight of the whole island on her thin shoulders and that suits Eve Muirhead just fine.

The Scottish reigning women’s world curling champion, who will skip Team Great Britain at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, got another dress rehearsal under her belt, bettering a slew of top rinks and emerging victorious at the Autumn Gold Classic at the Calgary Curling Club.

Scot Muirhead conquers tough women’s field at Autumn Gold Curling Classic

Scottish skip Eve Muirhead, kneeling, encourages her team as Chinese skip Bingyu Wang, left, and second Quingshuang Yue looks on during the Autumn Gold Curling final at the Calgary Curling Club. Photograph by: Christina Ryan, Calgary Herald

The Muirhead rink handily defeated Bingyu Wang 8-3 in the all-world tournament final on Thanksgiving Monday, putting a capper on a terrific four days of curling which included seven straight victories. The foursome — made up of third Anna Sloan, second Vicki Adams and lead Claire Hamilton — beat Wang in textbook fashion: put up two, give up one, put up two, give up one, etc. etc.

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Neither the Crystal Webster rink from Calgary, which includes PEI native Geri-Lynn Ramsay, nor the Laura Crocker rink out of Edmonton, with PEI native Erin Carmody at third,  advanced to the playoff round. Webster finished with a 2-3 win-loss record, while Crocker, who doubled Webster 6-3 when they met in the triple knockout, finished with 4 wins and 3 losses, losing a “C” qualifier to Wang.

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