Brad Gushue opens world title defence with win over Russia


Canada's Brad Gushue opened defence of the men's world curling championship with a 7-6 win over Russia's Alexey Timofeev on Saturday.

Brad Gushue's Canadian rink survived a scare to beat the Russian team 7-6 at the men's curling world championship in Las Vegas, Nevada 1:03

Gushue, third Mark Nichols, second Brett Gallant and lead Geoff Walker out of the Bally Haly Golf and Country Club in St. John's N.L., went undefeated to win the title last year in Edmonton.

Canada led 7-6 coming home with hammer against Russia on Saturday. Timofeev was light on an attempted draw with his final throw of the game, so Gushue didn't have to throw his last rock.

"The first four ends they didn't play very well and I thought we played pretty good," Gushue said. "During the middle of the game, the ice changed and they picked up on it way faster than us.

"I struggled to get the broom in the right spot for just about everybody. We threw a lot of good rocks that we didn't get good results out of. I have to chalk it up to not being familiar with the ice.

"A couple of games under our belt, obviously those mistakes are going to go away."

Canada got the jump on Russia with a quick three-pointer in the first end and a deuce in the fourth for a 5-1 lead Saturday.

But Russia recovered scoring four points over the next three ends to pull even heading into the eighth.

Canada was to face Scotland's Bruce Mouat at night.




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