The Great Scots got the best of the Great White North at the 2025 BKT World Men’s Curling Championship … Read More
The Great Scots got the best of the Great White North at the 2025 BKT World Men’s Curling Championship … Again. Canada only lost two games in pursuit of gold during the nine-day event in Moose Jaw, Sask. But both came at the hands of Scotland, including one Saturday that saw it cut short Team
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The Great Scots got the best of the Great White North at the 2025 BKT World Men’s Curling Championship …
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Again.
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Canada only lost two games in pursuit of gold during the nine-day event in Moose Jaw, Sask.
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But both came at the hands of Scotland, including one Saturday that saw it cut short Team Jacobs’ dreams of global supremacy.
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A 7-4 loss in the event’s semifinal did in the crew from Calgary, breaking the hearts of Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert.
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“We fought, we battled, we tried …” said skip Jacobs, moments after the defeat. “We just needed to be a little bit more precise. We weren’t our sharpest — we weren’t our best.
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“I think our best up against that team and their best, I think we win. But that wasn’t what we had. And they were stronger than us.”
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At 5-4 Scotland, the semi came down to last rock in the 10th end with Jacobs banking on a tough angle-raise facing three for the win. A tricky triple-takeout with the right execution was the play. And after Jacobs was the best curler at the worlds for the entire ’spiel, there was no reason to doubt the call.
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But the raise only removed one Scottish stone and Canada lost the shooter, which could’ve forced an extra end.
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“We’re always going to play for the win there,” said Jacobs, without regret. “We know the odds are staked against us playing Scotland in an extra end, especially when (Scotland second) Bobby Lammie makes every double-peel in the world.
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“Just threw it pretty close, and I think we just had to basically sweep it all the way.”
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Canada only counted one with hammer in the first end.
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And Scotland fired back with a deuce in the second.
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Then Canada was held to just one again in the third, before Scotland blanked the next two ends in trying to maintain control and find a big end.
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“We can’t come out and go force, deuce, force, deuce …” Jacobs told TSN of falling behind 4-2. “That made it tough.
“Scotland came out firing. They were really precise and not missing, especially early in that game.”
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The sixth end saw Jacobs miss on both his shots — an over-curl and a shot to come up short on a freeze attempt — setting up what was shaping up to be a big end for the Scots. But Mouat couldn’t make his first one stick in the rings on a soft hit-and-roll and then lost his shooter on a possible hit-and-stick with hammer, so it amounted only to a deuce instead of three and possibly four for Scotland.
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And Jacobs rebounded in the seventh with a massive soft-double — with brilliant touch — to get the deuce back, retie the game and keep Canada alive.
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