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Canada falls to South Korea after beating U.S. in men’s world curling championship

Published on April 06, 2021 at 04:44 AM

Canada's Brendan Bottcher lost 10-9 to unheralded South Korea after dominating the United States 10-1 at the men's world curling championship Monday.

Canada dropped to 5-2 with the loss. South Korea's Jeong Yeong-seok improved to 2-5.

Trailing 8-3 after seven ends, Bottcher scored four in the eighth end and stole two in the ninth to be up a point without last-rock advantage coming home. Jeong scored two for the win.

The Canadians thumped reigning Olympic champion John Shuster of the U.S. in the morning draw. Shuster shook hands after six ends.

READ MORE: Canada's Bottcher hammers Shuster of the U.S. 10-1 in men's world curling

The top two teams in the field of 14 earn byes to Saturday's semifinals. Teams ranked third to sixth play off in a qualification round with the winners advancing to the semifinals.

The gold and bronze-medal games are Sunday. Canada takes on Italy and China on Tuesday.

Watch below: Some Global News videos about Brendan Bottcher.

Team Bottcher is setting its sights on the World Men's Curling Championship

05:34 Team Bottcher is setting its sights on the World Men's Curling Championship 03:48 Edmonton's Team Bottcher confident about curling at Canada Cup in Leduc 02:09 Brendan Bottcher speaks about advancing to Tim Hortons Brier final 01:45 Brendan Bottcher making first trip to national curling championship
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