Canada’s Cathy King continued to roll along at the world senior women’s curling championship at Fredericton, N.B.
King and her Saville Centre rink of Carolyn Morris, Lesley McEwan and Doreen Gares trounced Japan’s Mikiko Tsuchiya 11-3 on Monday morning to improve to 3-0 in the Group A round-robin pool at the Grant-Harvey Center.
King called it “another solid win.” She scored three in the first end and held a 4-2 lead when she stole four points in the fifth end to take control of the game. Another three in the seventh finished things off.
Morris (91 per cent) and King (88) led the way for Canada, whose next game is 9 a.m. MDT Tuesday against New Zealand’s Liz Matthews (1-1).
“The Japanese team has been the best technically and strategically so far out of the teams that we have played,” said King, whose rink has outscored its opponents 40-6 through three games. “If it wasn’t for the skip falling out of the hack on a takeout attempt against four, the game would have been a lot closer.”
King is also familiar with Tsuchiya, who coaches the Japanese junior men’s team that has been living with Gibbons icemaker Tim Yeo for the last four years, “so they have curled many times over at our home club, the Saville Community Sports Centre.”
After the game, the King team returned to the hotel to “put up (our) lucky lady bug sticker for winning. The bigger the win, the bigger the sticker.”
