CHARLOTTETOWN — Bruce Mouat has caught all of them. Mouat and his Scottish squad scored a decisive 10-3 victory over Staff Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L., within the HearingLife Tour Problem males’s ultimate Sunday to cross off the final Grand Slam of Curling title from the listing.
Coincidentally, Mouat needed to defeat the one different males’s skip who had achieved the feat.
It’s the seventh Grand Slam title total for the crew of Mouat, third Grant Hardie, second Bobby Lammie and lead Hammy McMillan Jr., who’ve been sizzling out of the gate this season. Mouat gained two titles on tour in August and leapfrogged Italy’s Staff Joël Retornaz for No. 1 on this planet rankings.
Staff Mouat maintained that high type all week ending with an unblemished 6-0 report.
Mouat opened the ultimate with the hammer and made the two-point conversion with an open hit for a deuce within the first.
Gushue chipped and rolled into the four-foot circle within the third, however it wasn’t sufficient to depend for shot rock as Mouat stole one to pad his lead 3-0.
The 15-time Grand Slam champion Gushue recovered within the fourth and tapped for 2, nonetheless, Mouat matched with a success to depend a pair within the fifth to re-establish the three-point benefit.
Gushue was pressured to hit for a single within the sixth and Mouat poured on the stress within the seventh. Mouat was already sitting shot rock and pulled off a double takeout for a five-count to place the sport out of attain.
In the meantime, Saskatoon’s Staff Rylan Kleiter drew for the successful level within the further finish to edge Norway’s Staff Magnus Ramsfjell 6-5 to earn the Tier 2 males’s title.
Kleiter, third Joshua Mattern, second Matthew Corridor and lead Trevor Johnson obtain an invite to the WFG Masters in January.
UP NEXT
Ottawa’s Staff Rachel Homan faces Staff Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Man., within the ladies’s ultimate.
Halifax’s Staff Christina Black takes on Staff Sayaka Yoshimura of Japan on the Tier 2 aspect.
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