Baltic Assignment

We completed our soujourn in the Baltics with an efficient victory against Lithuania. Possibly a little fortunate early on although Jamie played a great last stone at the first - strike and roll to freeze on a Lithuanian stone in the wings behind a guard and so lying shot. The Lithuanian skip was tempted into trying a split of ours with the possibility of counting two or three if he made it perfectly. It was, however, a very difficult shot to come round the guard. It did not curl enough, he freshed and England were one up.

After that we played very well so that the poor Lithuanian skip became accustomed to having to play increasingly difficult shots to try and unseat our heavily guarded shot stone. Not to be and the score gradually increased in England's favour. At the half way mark we were in command at 7-0. A single to us at the sixth and Lithuania shook hands. We never had last stone through-out the game.

In the big match of the morning round the previously unbeaten Russians beat the previously unbeaten Dutch. We play the Dutch tonight. Bring it on.