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Issue 9 - Sunday, April 12, 2009 / Édition 9 - Dimanche 12 avril 2009

TONIGHT 7:30 p.m.

SCOTLANDDavid Murdoch

CANADAKevin Martin

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‘A day off in advance of the Ford Worlds men’schampionship final didn’t prove to be a successful for-mula for David Murdoch a year ago.

And here he was again on Saturday at the Coliseum,in sneakers and preparing to watch Kevin Martin andhis Canadians battling in a semi-final with hopes ofearning yet a third and most vital crack at the Scotstonight at 7:30.

“I’m darn sure I prefer this to curling today anyway,”said Murdoch when the gab got around the advantages

and disadvantages in curling playoffs.“I’m delighted to be in the final so I can’t look at this

as a disadvantage.“We’re on a high. And the fact that we’ve beaten

Canada twice puts us on an extreme high. So, for sure,there’s no disadvantage (being a semi-final specta-tor).”

Tonight’s title scuffle will be Murdoch’s fourth inplanetary play. He lost to Randy Ferbey in Victora(2005), defeated Jean-Michel Menard at Lowell,Mass., (2006) and lost to Martin last year in GrandFork, N.D.

Martin-Murdoch: Round 3Battle of old foesagain closes Worlds

Funny how history repeats itself.At least, to a point.Defending Ford Worlds cham-

pion Kevin Martin earned his way backto tonight’s championship final at theColiseum by outclassing RalphStoeckli of Switzerland 6-5 in the Sat-urday afternoon semi-final.

The result appeared close but gamereally wasn’t. The Swiss posted fourpoints in the last three ends.

A year ago, Martin defeated Nor-way’s Thomas Ulsrud in the semi inorder to get another crack at Scotland’sDavid Murdoch in the final. This time,Stoeckli stepped up to the plate afteredging Ulsrud 5-4 in a Page Three-Four playoff game on Saturday morn-ing.

Murdoch, of course, relegated Mar-tin to the semi on Friday night with asecond straight win over the Canadianin the Page-One-Two playoff tilt.

Martin turned it around against Mur-doch in last year’s final but this time is0-for-2 against the Scots.

“I like Murdoch,” said the Swiss skipof tonight’s 7:30 result. “He beat Martintwice and he knows how to beat him.And if Martin plays the same style Ithink Murdoch has a real good chance.”

“He plays really tough in big cham-pionship games.”

Martin opened Saturday with a con-servative style of play he hadn’t un-veiled in recent games.

“We got that steal in the second andit was big and we just kept it simpleuntil we got the big three in six,” hesaid.

“If we play like that we should doOK in the final. I expect we’ll play thesame way. No sense changing any-thing. Just try to cut down our ownmistakes.

“You can’t win this unless you get toSunday night. So here we are. We’vedone what we can and we’re there.”

Martin led 6-1 after seven ends witha couple of steals tossed in.

“It’s not about the score, it’s aboutwinning or losing,” said Stoeckli.

“I don’t really care if I lose 10-zip or6-5. A loss is a loss, period. When youget older, you don’t care about scores,just results.

‘‘I didn’t think he (Martin) felt toocomfortable at the beginning. It tookhim five ends and then suddenly heturned on the heater. They were all overus in the sixth. They probably madeeight perfect shots and we probablymade five.

“We knew we needed to have fourguys out there playing amazing curlingand we didn’t have four guys playingamazing curling and that’s not enoughto beat Canada.”

Stoeckli earlier survived a skin-tight5-4 extra-ender with Ulsrud. The Swissskip drew a corner of the four-foot withthe last of the 11th to win it after bothskips had missed key shots to the closethe deal in the preceding pair of ends.

The same combatants were sched-uled to play for the bronze medal todayat 1 p.m.

“It was a tough loss,” said the Nor-wegian skip. “We just have to regroup.For us, it’s a big deal with the bronze,anyway. It’s a big difference betweenfourth place and bronze so that’s agood thing about coming from Nor-way. People don’t expect you to takegold, they’re just happy if you take amedal. We just have to re-set our goalsnow.”

The teams exchanged singlesthroughout. There were no steals, ninesingles and two blanks.

“I wasn’t too worry about that rock,”said Stoeckli of his last shot. “I was justhoping for a good spot to draw andthere was a good spot.”

The Swiss winning streak ended atseven games with the loss to Martin.

By LARRY WOODEye Opener Editor


Scots ‘on a high’

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Canadaʼs Kevin Martin acknowledges the crowd aftera semi-final victory over Switzerlandʼs Ralph StoeckliSaturday in the Ford Worlds at the Coliseum.

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Italy, 2010

There was a time, in days of yore, whenthe World Men’s Curling Champi-onship was parachuted in to some of

Europe’s more exotic winter resorts.Megeve, France, hosted the event in 1971.

Then it was Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Ger-many, Worlds site every 10 years from 1972through 1992. In ’94, the globe’s best curlersgathered in Bavaria’s Oberstdorf. All werequaint Alpine locations.

Now, close to 16 years later, those goodtimes will return next year when the Men’sWorlds is staged in Cortina d’Ampezzo,Italy, which is the centrepiece of one of theworld’s premier winter sports and spectacularmountain areas — the Dolomites.

Verily, folks, Cortina is just dead solid gor-geous, that’s all. It was the site of the 1956Winter Olympic Games. It is a Banff-likemountain town of 6,000 permanent residentsthat swells to 40,000 in two high seasons —winter (skiing) and summer (mountaineering,hiking, biking).

It also has been the curling capital of Italyfor eons, and then some.

“We have played curling in Cortina for

100 years,” says 2010 Worlds organizingcommittee chairman Massimo Antonelli.“The game in Italy started as a pastimeplayed by guests in two five-star hotels.”

Antonelli is in Moncton promoting nextyear’s event along with Nicola De Santis,vice-president of the civic sports facilitiescompany of Cortina, and Cortina Turismocommunications officer Eleanora Alvera.

De Santis heads up the premier facility, anhistorical wooden icehouse that was built forthe Olympics and has since been featured inthe James Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only.

“It’s the old historical arena, the same onebuilt for the Olympic Games, but it has beenrenovated,” says De Santis, who also over-seas operation of the original ski jumping fa-cility. “The arena is all wooden, and part of itwas open but now it has a new glass wallwhere it used to be open and it has a terrificmountain view. And, it has a new roof. Soit’s old . . . but it’s new.

The Stadio Olympico seats 5,500 butcloser to 5,000 for curling and is adjacent toa two-sheet curling facility used by six localcurling clubs.

“We are ready to host 4,000-to-5,000 peo-ple,” says Antonelli. “We have more than 50hotels and the Worlds starts on the Easterweekend, the first week in April. It’s like thestart of the finish of the high season. So, forus, it’s a way to extend the tourist season.”

Italy has hosted the Euros and the Univer-siade and the last Winter Olympics at Torino.

“But we have more to offer than curling inCortina,” says Antonelli.

Indeed, this burg is a veritable touristmecca. The city of Venice is 90 minutes tothe south. The city of Verona, the home ofRomeo and Juliet, is two hours away.

“Visitors will be able to come and watchcurling and, in addition, we will offer touristpackages to many other enticing attractions,”says Antonelli.

Among those are abundant and varied skihills.

“If you want to combine skiing and curl-ing, we guarantee snow through mid-April,”says Antonelli. “But, this year, the skiing willnot close until June. We have had more thanseven metres of snow. It has been a big year.”

Antonelli expects 200 volunteers will besolicited to help organize the event.

“I know they have 500 volunteers here,but we won’t need so many,” he says. “Weare smaller, and everything is within walkingdistance — the arena, the restaurants, the ho-tels, the tourist office.

“Everybody in a town like ours works to-gether. We are a tourist place, so all the as-pects of tourism are covered. Our touristoffice already is preparing for this.”

It is rumoured the 2011 Men’s Worlds willbe held in Ottawa. For 2012, bids have beentendered by Basel, Switzerland, and Karl-stad, Sweden, site of the 1977 Silver Broom.


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onship organizers(from left): Nicola

De Santis,Eleanora Alveraand committee

chairman MassimoAntonelli.

Another Worlds, anothergreat show, and it’s notover yet. Curling buffs oldand new turned out forthis year’s edition of theFord World men’s curlingchampionship at theMoncton Coliseum. After

eight days of action,today we’re down to twoteams. And if the firstweek is any indication,we’re in for a great finalbetween Scotland’s DavidMurdoch and Canada’sKevin Martin.

2009 WORLDS COMING TO A CLOSE

Fans came dressed for the occasion.

Congratulations to Dan Sherrard of Edmonton on winning the Ford Hot

Shots On-line Game. Sherrard was presented with a two-year lease on

a new Ford Flex by Cal Turgeon, the national market manager of Ford

of Canada, during the fifth-end break of Saturdayʼs semi-final.

Mascot Skip entertained the fans all week.Prime Minister Stephen Harper drew a crowd when he popped in to watch a few ends Wednesday.

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Special thanks to all volunteers for yourenthusiasm and dedication in making the

2009 Ford World men’s curlingchampionship an event to remember!

Info-curl quotidien10 Sunday, April 12, 2009

Il y a maintenant 18 mois que LynnMacKenzie a été embauchée comme coor-donnatrice de l’événement du comité

organisateur du Championnat mondial de curl-ing masculin Ford à Moncton. L’anciennedirectrice de l’Association de curling duNouveau-Brunswick a trouvé son expérienceintéressante, mais également enrichissante.

« J’ai eu à travailler avec un groupe de person-nes avec des personnalités différentes, a ditMacKenzie. Cela m’a demandé de bienm’adapter aux différentes situations et auxdemandes de chaque personne pour assurer labonne marche du championnat. Nous avonssurtout travaillé avec l’Association canadienne decurling parce que c’est elle qui a la responsabilitédu championnat lorsque présenté au Canada. »

MacKenzie a eu à gérer un budget de 2,5millions $ en vue de l’organisation du champi-onnat et elle souligne que les commanditaireslocaux ont très bien répondu à l’appel desorganisateurs, comme à l’habitude. « Nousavons dépassé nos revenus prévus avec lescommanditaires qui ont été nombreux. Notreobjectif dans la pré-vente des billets n’a pas étéatteint, mais avec la vente individuelle cettesemaine, nous allons aboutir avec nos prévi-sions sans difficulté. Les gens ont bien appuyéle championnat grâce à leur présence auColisée et je les remercie. »

Le comité organisateur devait recruter desbénévoles pour organiser les diverses activitésentourant le championnat et le chiffre de 500 aété atteint en septembre dernier, même si ils

devaient payer 95 $ pour offrir leurs services.Plusieurs personnes ont attendu trop longtempspour soumettre leur nom et n’ont pu êtreinclus. La somme a aidé à défrayer une partiede l’uniforme et les bénévoles ont pu assisteraux parties sans frais additionnels. Selon

MacKenzie, les bénévoles au curling sonthabitués à payer pour être bénévole lors d’uneactivité importante.

MacKenzie a indiqué que ses journées ont étélongues et occupées, mais qu’elle ne regretterien. Cette semaine, elle était au Colisée de 9 h

à minuit tous les jours afin de régler les petitspépins qui pouvaient surgir et s’occuper desaffaires du championnat. Il y avait la planifica-tion des cérémonies de clôture et du banquet àfinaliser en plus de répondre aux messages detéléphone et aux nombreux courriels.

Le bilinguisme dans la présentation duchampionnat a tenu le personnel occupé selonMacKenzie qui devait s’assurer de la disponi-bilité des communications dans les deuxlangues officielles. Cependant, l’équipe a béné-ficié de l’aide de plusieurs personnes afin defaciliter ce travail.

Des compagnies ont fait beaucoup de pro-motion au sujet de ce championnat, ce qui aplu aux organisateurs qui croyaient dans leurproduit. Moncton aura à nouveau démontré aumonde sans savoir faire et sa capacité d’ac-cueil.

Même si les journées ont été longues,MacKenzie indique qu’elle n’a pas eu de diffi-culté à se lever tous les matins pour se rendreau travail. Elle a misé sur les connaissancesdes employés, des bénévoles et de son adré-naline. Une ancienne joueuse de curling et unespectatrice de ce sport, elle n’a plus le tempsde jouer. Elle n’a pas eu la chance de voir tousles matches cette semaine, mais a appréciépouvoir quand même prendre quelques min-utes ici et là pour voir un peu d’action. Elle aparticipé à trois championnats canadiens etcomme elle le dit si bien, « j’aime beaucoup cesport », ce qui s’est démontré dans sondévouement pour accomplir sa tâche avec brio.

La grande finale du Championnat mondialde curling masculin Ford se tiendra ce soirafin de couronner une équipe championne etégalement mettre une fin excitante à cetévénement qui a su capter l’attention de gensà travers le monde pour les 10 derniers jours.

Chapeau au président James Lockyer etaux membres du comité organisateur qui onttravaillé d’arrache pied au cours des 18derniers mois afin d’assurer une prestationsans faille de ce championnat mondial quiprend de plus en plus d’importance suivantl’adhésion du curling aux Jeux olympiquesen 1998.

Les spectateurs ont été nombreux tout aulong de la semaine suivant d’impression-nantes cérémonies d’ouverture devant unesalle comble, une première, et un spectacletattoo digne de ses artistes et artisans tout en

étant un miroir de notre culture.Moncton était le lieu des célébrations du

50e anniversaire du championnat mondialqui a débuté en 1959 en Écosse lors de ren-contres entre ce pays hôte et le Canada. Lescélébrations ont réuni les grands noms ducurling mondial et plusieurs anciens champi-ons ont eu la chance de fraterniser et deraconter des histoires personnelles tout enprofitant du spectacle offert par les 12équipes présentes pour le titre 2009.

ParNormandLéger

Un Championnat à l’image de l’hospitalité maritime

MacKenzie a vécu toute une expérience

Lynn MacKenzie abien apprécié sonexpérience commecoordnatrice delʼévénement.

James LockyerVOIR CHAMPIONNAT P11


Something about this estimable news sheetthat might interest you.

It never gets the final story. Sorry about that.The Eye Opener, you see, does not publish

on the post-Worlds Monday. The way theMoncton organizing committee figures it, ifwe’re over budget after nine days, we won’tbe going for 10. Make sense?

Oh yes, and there’s something else. Thispublication would not exist without the effortsof the Moncton organizing committee, theWorld Curling Federation, Canadian CurlingAssociation and its sponsors. Between them,they fund the whole shebang. So, save a cheerand a tiger for them, if you please.

Now, what we’re asking from you today isthis. We set up today’s medal games in thislast edition. Hereafter, you’re on your own.The name of the winner of the 2009 FordWorlds will not be recorded for posterity inthe Eye Opener. Unless they’re planning topublish such a sheet in Italian next year atCortina d’Ampezzo.

Meantime, it has been a slice of heaven,folks. We at the Eye Opener would like tothank you for your interest. We’d like to thankall the competitors for their time and courtesy.We’d like to thank our supporters for theirs.And we’d especially, also specifically, like tothank Colin MacNeil of the TimesTranscript,Lynn McKenzie, Carmen Marshall, KellyMurphy, Jacques Robichaud and Norm Denisof the organizing committee. Special thanks,too, to Normand Léger, our man about theFrench language, for the great job he per-formed on our behalf.

Oh yes, and a particular salute to an al-ways-friendly gang of drivers. Great jobs,guys.

What else is there to say? Have a good finalday and don’t forget to reserve early for (a)the 2010 Dolomites bash in Cortina, and/orthe 2010 Ford Women’s Worlds at Swift Cur-rent, and/or the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier atHalifax’s Metro Centre.

Cheers.

Thanks, and we’llsee you next year!

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Demain, le championnat passera à l’his-toire comme étant l’un des mieux organisésaccompagné d’un accueil Maritime. Les 500bénévoles n’ont rien laissé à la chance afind’assurer un événement sans faille apparente.Les nombreux comités, le personnel ducomité organisateur et de la Ville de Monc-ton ont mi en place des installations horspaires qui ont su plaire aux joueurs et auxspectateurs.

Avec un budget de 2,5 millions $, on asu multiplier l’effet économique à plus de12 millions et les restaurateurs et autrescommerces ont joui de chiffres d’affairesqui ont reflété leur service. Les divertisse-ments au Rendez-vous Keith’s ont éténombreux et tous ont apprécié l’accessibil-ité aux meilleurs joueurs de curling aumonde. L’exposition historique des 50dernières années du curling a été appré-ciée, surtout les trophées et photos desgagnants.

Les spectateurs, certains munis dejumelles pour ne rien manquer, ont assisté àdes rencontres exceptionnelles. Ils ont été té-moins de stratégies, de lancers et de tac-tiques qu’ils ont pu analyser sous tous lesongles afin de mieux comprendre le jeu surla glace. Des lancers précis qui devaient sefrayer un chemin avec seulement quelquesmillimètres de passage à ceux qui avaientpour but d’enlever deux ou trois pierres oude nettoyer l’espace de jeu, rien n’a étélaissé au hasard au grand plaisir et émotionsde la foule.

L’Association canadienne du curling et laFédération mondiale du curling, avec sonprésident Les Harrison, de Moncton, saventque suivant le Balai d’argent Air Canada en1980, Moncton peut présenter des événe-ments mondiaux sans trop de difficulté enraison du soutien de la communauté et de l’-expérience et de la connaissances de sesbénévoles et employé.es. Les médias ontajouté un autre fleuron à la fiche de route deMoncton. Le repos des prochains jours a étégrandement mérité.

Le prochain grand rendez-vous masculinmondial de 2010 sera à Cortina, en Italie.Cette municipalité aura dur à faire pour dé-passer la barre élevée à Moncton.

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50/50 tickets will be sold for $1 each.The winning 50/50 ticket number shall be

posted on the main display board near the50/50 booth, as well as in the Patch as soonas possible after each ticket draw is made.

The winning ticket number will also beannounced over the public address systemfollowing the conclusion of play for eachcurling draw.

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Le numéro du billet 50/50 gagnant serainscrit sur le tableau d’affichage principalà proximité du comptoir de billets 50/50,de même que dans la zone « Rendez-vous», le plus tôt possible après chaque tirage.

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Brier 2010

The last time the Brier visited Halifax,more or less the centre of Canada’s fareast, they called it “A Shore Thing”.

Next year, when the Tim Hortons show re-turns to the Nova Scotia capital?

“It’s still A Shore Thing,” says rookiechairman Hugh Avery, who is ably supportedthis time around by veteran organizer Gra-ham Harris, chair of the 2005 Olympic trialsand a committee head during the 2003 Hali-fax Brier.

“Our message isn’t new,” says Avery. “Wethink if you can’t have a good time at a Brierin Halifax you just can’t have a good time,period.”

A lot of past Brier visitors to Halifax willagree. In spades.

Avery wasn’t even well known in his owncity’s curling circles when they unveiled theorganizing committee last November at theHalifax Metro Centre.

“I called myself Joe The Curler,” he re-calls, “because I’d just been watching thatelection south of the border at the time andthere was that story about Joe ThePlumber. And what I was trying to say wasI’m just an ordinary curler like everybodyelse.”

Halifax knows him now, of course.“This will be my last event,” says Harris.

”I felt this needs new flood and Hughstepped up to the plate so any experience Ican bring he’ll have to store and take it fromhere.”

Talk about tossing the pressure on your co-chair.

“We certainly are looking raise the bar andhave a record attendance for a Brier east ofWinnipeg again,” says Harris, who wasaround when they established that record —158,414 in 2003.

Ironically, all Halifax needs for the best at-tendance record east of Saskatoon is an addi-tional 6,662 people in the pews. That wouldsurpass Winnipeg’s attendance last year.

“The nice thing about a Brier is Halifax isthat we have a smaller venue, the Metro Cen-

tre, but it has a more homey atmosphere,”says Harris. “You can hang up your coats inthe hotel room, walk the pedways to thevenue, get down on the escalators to theBrier Patch, and never have to look at theweather. We think that’s special.”

Not that the weather in Halifax is certain

to be bad, bad, bad. Deep freezes aren’t thenorm. But an indoor Brier is something atwhich nary a soul would sneer.

“We recognize the current economic con-straints,” says Avery. “So we want to suggesta package here: The Brier and the tourist at-tractions of Halifax and area. We’ll be offer-

ing many opportunities for visitors to getboth experiences.”

“It’s a special year, too with theOlympics,” says Harris. “There’s no questionthe Canadian Curling Association wanted toget the Brier as far away from the Games asthey could get it. But we feel this benefits usfor a number of reasons. One, the televisionexperience just before our show should bringcurling awareness up a level and we’re goingto have good crowds. Two, when they builtthe venue in Vancouver they didn’t build itbig so we think that’ll be to our advantage.Three, the Olympics will be curling and theBrier’s the Brier, it’s like the Grey Cup, it’s aparty and down in Halifax we can match anyparty anybody else can come up with and,maybe, improve upon it.”

Adds Avery:“We listened to the feedback from the fans

at the Brier in Calgary. We heard what theyliked and didn’t like there, and I won’t giveaway too many secrets but I can assure youthat in many areas we’re equipped to handletheir concerns, that each and every day willbe special, that we’ve got a few tricks up oursleeves, things that are new even to Halifax,and we guarantee a good time.”


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“The first year was a huge experienceagainst Randy,” he recalled.

“It was the first time we’ve been in a reallybig crowd in a final. But we took a lot fromeach final. We’ve had the win, we’ve had thelosses and we’ve learned something everytime. Every one you go through better pre-pares you for the next one.”

Murdoch opines his team is “night and day”relative to the 2005 Victoria slugfest when sixteams wound up snarled atop the round-robinstandings with 8-and-3 records.

“In terms of improvement, that much bet-ter,” he said. “We had two different playersthen but it was a big learning experience forme. It made you realize how hard you have totrain and how many more shots you have tomake in order to beat Canada.

“We didn’t make many shots that day but thefollowing year we were back in the final andmade a lot of shots. Last year against Kevin,we gave him a bit of a jump and struggled toget back in it. But there were certainly chances.And I know we’ll get plenty of chances tomor-

row and hopefully we get our noses in frontagain and we can take it all the way.”

Everyone agrees, of course, that the key toa chance at beating Martin’s Canadians is toget an early jump.

Allowed Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud a fewdays back when the Canucks were sailingalong without a blemish:

“Most of the teams that have played themhave got off to really bad starts. I think ifCanada’s playing someone and it’s tied afterfive it may be a whole other game, you know?I don’t think it would stress them much. Butthey may start looking around. Everybody isexpecting them to win big now. They do itevery time. All I know about that is, it can’tlast forever. Sooner or later that dominance hasto end.”

Murdoch agrees.“Against Kevin, getting out in front is far

better than being behind. I don’t think manypeople win many games being behind Kevin.But if we do get behind we now know we’vegot the game to come back on these guys. It’sabout belief in yourselves and making shots.

“Without a doubt, I have more confident inplaying the last rocks than ever before. Theguys believe in me. They believe I’m going tomake my shots and over and above everythingelse that’s the most important thing. It installs

a lot of confidence in me and I know I canmake a lot of shots.”

Murdoch says it’s a mistake to fit your teamto one style of play.

“We’ve played a few styles this week,”he allowed. “You can play one style but Ithink it’s better to be able to adjust. Ice canchange and dictate that you have to play adifferent type of game. We have learned toplay a lot of styles. We’ve played a lot ofgood teams over here and good teams inEurope. You pick up a lot about how otherpeople play.”

And that may alter you choic of styleagainst a certain opponent.

Martin surmised Friday night that he’dadopt more defensive strategy if he faced theScots a third time. But Murdoch doubts it.

“I don’t think we’ll see much more defen-sive play from him,” said the Scottish skip. “Ithink they’ll come out and play hard from thefirst end. They’ll want to get on the board rightaway and post a deuce in the first couple forsure. I’ll be surprised if there’s any other sce-nario.”

One observer suggested Murdoch might begetting under Martin’s skin.

“I don’t know if we’re getting to them,” saidMurdoch. “But if we are it means we’re doingsomething right.”

SATURDAY3-4 GAME

10 a.m.Switzerland (Stoeckli) 101 001 001 01 — 5Norway (Ulsrud) 010 100 010 10 — 4

SUI S P % NOR S P %Struebin 22 80 91 Vad Pet’son22 76 86Eggler 22 75 85 Svae 22 81 92Hauser 22 72 82 Nergaard 22 74 84Stoeckli 22 69 78 Ulsrud 22 63 72TEAM 88 296 84 TEAM 88 294 84

SEMI-FINAL4 p.m.

Switzerland (Stoeckli) 001 000 021 1 — 5Canada (Martin) 110 003 100 0 — 6

SUI S P % CAN S P %Struebin 20 72 90 Hebert 19 74 97Eggler 20 67 84 Kennedy 20 76 95Hauser 20 72 90 Morris 19 67 88Stoeckli 20 68 85 Martin 20 72 90TEAM 80 279 87 TEAM 78 289 93

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