Team Tardi is triumphant!
In an extra end during play Saturday, Canadian skip Tyler Tardi snatched the gold medal from Team Scotland on their home ice in Aberdeen to win the World Junior Curling Championships.
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British Columbia has a world champion. The final score was 6-5 for Canada, in a close game. And the team, on its Facebook page described it as B次元官网网址渟urreal.B次元官网网址�
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Tardi and his Langley team of third Sterling Middleton, second Jordan Tardi, lead Zachary Curtis and alternate Jacques Gauthier delivered Canada the gold medal at the World Junior Curling Championships in Aberdeen, Scotland, this morning.
TylerB次元官网网址檚 draw to the four foot resulted in a 6-5 extra-end win over previously undefeated Scotland, skipped by Ross Whyte.
Canada, with coaches Paul Tardi and team leader/coach Melissa Soligo, immediately celebrated, posing with the flag, capping a brilliant day for the nation as Kaitlyn JonesB次元官网网址檚 Nova Scotia team also claimed the gold in junior womenB次元官网网址檚 play.
Asked how he felt immediately following the win, skip Tardi was having trouble finding the words.
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Without hammer to start the game, Canada had Scotland in trouble on several occasions.
After a blank first end, Scotland was forced to one in the second.
A chance for four or five in the third end went awry as skip TardiB次元官网网址檚 tap-back wrecked on a guard up front and he had to settle for just one.
Down 2-1 at the break, Tardi came back for a three-ender in the sixth and a steal of one in the seventh to take control, although he didnB次元官网网址檛 feel that way.
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Up 5-2, his take-out in the ninth flashed for a Scotland deuce and TardiB次元官网网址檚 draw to the four foot for the win in the 10th was heavy as Whyte tied it at 5-5 with a steal of one.
Tardi redeemed himself in the extra end with the draw to the four foot, with some backing, but behind a Scottish guard for the win.
Middleton and Jordan were strong throughout the game, out-scoring their opponents by 12 and 13 percentage points, respectively, as the Scots were out-played badly at those middle positions for most of the day.
In the end, it was the second golden moment of the day for Canada, which struggled at the Olympics in Pyeongchang and went medal-less. Not in Aberdeen, however.
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Victory on the womenB次元官网网址檚 front, too
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