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Three and a half hours with USA on the ice

Two extra ends were the crowning glory of an interesting game against the Americans. This time Hamilton sat on the American side and Chaloupek on the Czech side. In the ninth end we had an excellent chance for a deuce, but we didn't convert. We would have gone up by one before the last end. Finally, after zero, we wanted a deuce in the tenth, but American C. Plys (he has Polish ancestry) saved an excellent stone for the USA extra end. Mistakes on both sides, more on our side and also a lot of "high" ice allowed the team led by coach Drobnick to win the second extra end. Too bad. The Scotsman, the German, the Dane and the Swiss lost. So, in the evening, China, which alternates excellent and mediocre performances. Like us. Czech Republic - USA, 4 : 6.