I’m usually pretty confident in putting the broom down, have been all week but today I was second-guessing a bit.” Heartbreaking to lose this in the hometown of Kamloops for Jimmy. “We got fooled with the ice, curled more than we had seen all week,” said a disappointed Morris. Against a great team like Koe, they were bang on, making everything it’s tough to come back.”Īlberta got three more in the seventh when Cotter tried to tuck his final rock between two Koe stones in the four-foot but was inches wide, leaving Koe a straight ahead double takeout for his triple and a 9-4 margin. Whether it’s in front of your home fans or wherever it’s no fun, you want to win, but that’s curling, that’s the way it goes. “It’s not much fun right now but one day we’ll look back and be proud of this. “We got caught with the ice conditions,” said Cotter. That left Koe a delicate tap back for three and his sweepers made sure it was successful for a 6-3 lead. was forced to take one in the fourth and in the fifth Cotter’s try to hit and roll behind cover slid wide to the wrong side of an Alberta rock. I know I’m going to miss it but I’m taking the year off.”Īfter blanking the third, B.C. I’m not the kind of guy to say I’m retiring and not coming back. “This might be my last year so I wanted to make sure I went out with a blast. “It’s a fantastic honour,” he said of the MVP. The Koe second has said he is taking next year off with his wife expecting another child this summer.Ĭarter Rycroft, Pat Simmons and Nolan Thiessen congratulate Kevin Koe on his shot for three in the fifth end. They dominated us in the 1-2 game and we felt we kind of owed them.” “It made a statement that hey, we’re here to play today. “Just to answer the bell was a big thing,” said Rycroft, who curled a solid 96 per cent.
We only missed one shot, Carter made a great triple, we had a couple of draws and that really gave us the confidence.” So to bounce right back with three in the next end (was great). We just wanted to actually blank that end and not get down. “The first three was the big one,” said Koe. (Photo, CCA/Michael Burns)ī.C., with third Jim Cotter who throws last stones, second Tyrel Griffith, lead Rick Sawatsky, alternate Jody Epp and coach Pat Ryan backing up Morris, got off to a good start with two in the first end when Alberta couldn’t execute a double and left Cotter an easy draw.īut Alberta came right back in the second with three after Rycroft made a perfect triple kill, Morris slid his first rock through the house and eventually Koe had a routine hit and stick for the three. Team Alberta celebrates its Tim Hortons Brier on Sunday.
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