Scotland 9 - USA 2

Tough loss tonight for the ladies. They gave up 7 points in the first three ends and just couldn't get back into it.

Well, at least that was their only game today - now they can enjoy a nice bottle of wine, have a relaxing evening and be ready for action again tomorrow! I do not know what time they play next, but it will be a big game against undefeated Team Canada. I will post the schedule as soon as I know what it is.

NZ website hasn't been updated...

I am fairly certain the game is over. It has been almost three hours since the game started but the website has only been updated thru the 4th end and it is not pretty for Team USA. Team Scotland took 3 in the 1st end, stole 1 in the 2nd end and stole another 3 in the 3rd end. Team USA took 1 in the 4th end to make the score 7 - 1. Nothing has been updated since then, and believe me I have been wearing out my f5 button hitting refresh!

Wait, let me try again... Nope nothing new.

As soon as it is updated I will post the results here.

USA 2 - 0

With a 7 - 4 win over Sweden last night Team USA has a 2 - 0 record going into the second day of play. The ladies took control from the beginning with a steal of 3 in the first end followed by another steal of 1 in the second end and remained in control the rest of the game. They were up 3 with the hammer heading into the 8th end and it looks like they ran Sweden out of rocks, since no score is posted for the 8th.

Great momentum for the old broads heading into today's game! They play against Scotland at 1:30 pm NZ time (6:30pm PST). Scotland is currently 0 - 2, losing to Japan 8 - 6 in the first draw and losing to Switzerland 7 - 1 in the second draw. This is their only game today, I hope they had a good nights rest and are not too tired out after two games yesterday!

Keep it up ladies - you are doing GREAT!

In the News...

Joan Fish and Aija Edwards were featured in an article today in the Kitsap Sun newspaper.

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/apr/26/hansville-curlers-in-the-house/

Update from Cathie - BEFORE the curling started

Cathie sent an email last night about their last few days of sightseeing before heading back to Dunedin for the World Championships.

I last wrote from Balcutha. We were on our way up to Nazby so that we could practice before coming back to Dunedin. We got in sort of late, but ended up staying at the Royal Hotel which is over 200 years old! the next day we had two practice sessions on the ice. We ate lunch in the restaurant owned by the NZ skip. Oh, before all that, we were still in the Caitlands and went on 3 hikes. Two were up to waterfalls and the 3rd was to Nugget Point Light House. Nugget Point was gorgeous. Absolutely spectacular vistas. There we saw seals and penquins and shags (birds).

It felt like home getting back to Dunedin. the rooms here at this hotel are really nice. they are quite European looking. Murphy took Aija back out fishing (the way we had come in), but she did not catch anything. She was after the elusive brown trout. Joan, Emily, Sharon & I went to the farmer's market. The vegetables were all huge! Everything is organic too. We ate food there and some treats. Later, Joan and I went to the Cadbury factory and had a tour and bought some chocolate. Yesterday was a holiday here: Anzac Day. It's like Memorial Day in USA. Every town here has a memorial to WWI & WWII. Most everything was closed until 1:oo p.m.

I've been trying to get to the library because there is free internet there, but it's been closed both times I've gone. I finally had to bite the bullet and buy time at the
hotel. It's really not bad. $8 NZ for an hour. it's convenient.

We had our practice session today at the arena. there are five sheets of ice. the circles are black and silver! Those are NZ colours. We did great. Murphy is so proud of us. He says we look like winners! I sure hope so. We were all very steady today. tomorrow is the opening ceremony at 10:00 and our first game is against NZ on center ice. We have a second game tomorrow too, but I can't remember who it is against. Tuesday we have 1 game and the other days are all 2 games until the round robin is finished. I must say our uniforms look very smart. Tonight is the meet & greet party. This after noon I signed my first autograph for the Japanese, who were running around collecting them!

It sounds like they had a fabulous time touring around and "training" for the competition. I hope they bring back some treats from the Cadbury factory! Now it is down to business, and they are off to a great start with their first win today! Keep on rocking ladies!!!

USA 8 - New Zealand 4

With a steal of 1 in the last end USA won their first game of the Senior Women's World Championships versus the home team. Great job ladies, we are all proud of you!

They play again tonight at 7:00pm NZ time (Midnight Seattle) against Sweden. Sweden punished Italy in the first draw today, 15 - 0 after 6 ends! Let's hope our ladies can turn the tables on Sweden tonight. I know I will be dreaming of well played shots for them, since I won't be staying up to watch the scoring (especially since it took 50 minutes for them to update the end of this game!).

I have an update from Cathie regarding their "training" period. I will post it later tonight once I am free of children.

GREAT JOB TODAY LADIES!!!!

Your guess is as good as mine...

The USA vs NZ game is the only game that has not been updated on the website, and more than enough time has passed for them to finish the game and update the site. I am starting to think that they forgot to post the final score... So your guess is as good as mine on what happened in the 8th end. I will keep checking and update the blog as soon as something new is posted. Here is the link again if you would like to check for updates:

http://2009nzwscc.co.nz/home/results/1-monday-april-27/