CHAMPERY, Switz. – Trevor Bonot’s foursome came up just short in Saturday’s gold-medal final at the World Mixed Curling Championship in Champery, Switzerland.
Scotland skip Grant Hardie made a double takeout with his final stone in the extra end to score three points and capture gold with an 8-5 win.
He was facing a pair of Canadian shot stones.
Bonot, whose team includes sister Jackie McCormick and husband-and-wife Kory and Megan Carr, were down 4-1 at the break, and the two teams traded points in the fifth and sixth. Bonot responded with two in the seventh and stole one in the eighth to force the extra end.
"It’ll take a minute to settle in that it’s only silver because we came so close, but I’m still very proud to take a medal home to Canada. We had the belief in our stones to fight back, the ice was a little different from what we had this morning, so we were just trying to get to grips with it,” Thunder Bay’s Bonot said in a release issued on the event’s website.
“We missed a couple of opportunities early and didn’t capitalise. The whole week they played great, I’m very proud of the team, it was a great run we had there."
Hardie said he wasn’t sure where to start, the elation just starting to sink in.
“The whole team played brilliant all week and especially the during the play-offs they came to the fore. I’m absolutely delighted. They came at us really hard at the end,” he said.
”They’re obviously a great team to get to the final and we just managed to hold on. I’d thrown that line, four or five times in the game, so I was pretty confident but obviously with it being for the win you’re always a little on edge. I had the line and the guys swept it through to make it. It is absolutely brilliant."
