Stop Press: Estonia Result

This was like a European football tie in eastern Europe. You know you will have to grind out a result. It may not be pretty but get a result and it is all to play for at home. And that's the way it turned out, we ground out a result against Estonia. First 3 ends blank. Our mistake at the fourth and we let the Estonians go one up. Immediately we hit back with a well taken two so we were leading at the half way mark.

The second half also started brightly with our forcing Estonia to draw the tee and take one when faced with three of ours. They responded by reciprocating at the next end. At the eighth Jamie's last stone was an attempted freeze which was just short leaving the Estonian skip with one and having a very difficult draw for two. He failed, took only a single and we had last stone. The ninth was a poorer end for us and Jamie had to hit and lie against three with jis last. He just rolled an inch or two off nose and the Estonians were celebrating a steal of one. So one down going down the last end. Some great stones from all of the team and their skip was left with a difficult freeze attempt with his last. He came up a touch short but was lying shot. Jamie calmly pressed the trigger removing the Estonian counter for a three and the game.

A hard earned and far from pretty win. Afterwards back in the studio the verdict was "the boyz done good. It's always tough to come here and win, Harry (?) and that's what they done. They'll be happy tonight". And so we are.