Czech Republic - Canada, men. Continued.
Replaced. Sam's at number one and Marek's moved up to number three. After the stones of the ones we have two good guards, Bucholz twice went to 4 feet. Honz's first stone of the game is the number one guard. There are two center guards and a different colored freezed pair of stones at 4 feet, yellow (CND) better. The Canadian played come around after a brief hesitation but only finished on two. Now we have a better one in the circles and a freeze on yellow. we tried to guard the whole situation but we are close and Bottcher can play a tap back to two in the circles through ours. He played it well. We try a heavy double and !!!! we scored. Fantastic double, or actually triple and we got two better in the circles. Yellow's draw attempt is a little worse and we steal one. 3 to 5. End 7: Playing for a stone on the center line somewhere on five. We play guards and they play clears. But now we have to move the opponent's stone to the back. We roll out ourselves. Bottcher can play for the corner guards that have gradually formed on the right, or for the lone red stone that is on the left. Excellent come around and we unfortunately miss. The two-on-two is no problem for the Canadian skip. End 8: We have two corner guards and we're in. The Canadian has nothing. After a mistake by Canada we have two stones in the circles, one behind the corner guard. Bottcher tries to get a roll from one side to the other but ends up outside the circle. We play Luke behind the corner guard, but we stay loose in the back 10. after the skip hit, we're going to play draw or stay at the two. So we play stay on two. All right, we got two and we're still in range. We got 10, 44 on two ends. That's not much. 5 to 7. End 9: After five rocks, we have a shot rock on four and the Canadian has two of his own in the circles to the left of the center line. Two red guards are guarding it for now. Our rock is no longer in the circles, but we have three guards. Canadian is wide and we can keep trying to come around in the back circles. We're there after an incredible spin and Asmussen plays double clear. It's clear in front of the circles and we try to uguard. Now it's guards and clears. Our last one and then theirs. We play guard. It's fine and bottcher has a run back, quite playable. Super shot and a Canadian for two. The score is 5 to 9. Nice game, Canadians more accurate. We're not playing the tenth end anymore.