Junior Women World Champions 2008

by Bill Nicol
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Scotland’s Girls do it all over again “WORLD JUNIOR CURLING CHAMPIONS”

OSTERSUND SWEDEN –

Scotland won its second straight global junior women's title with a 12-3 thrashing of hosts Sweden at the 2008 World Junior Curling Championships.

 

Seventeen year-old Eve Muirhead and teammates Kerry Barr, Vicki Adams, Kay Adams and Sarah Macintyre had lost two previous games to Sweden's Cissi Ostlund, including Saturday's 8-2 defeat in the semi-final. In the final, it was all Scotland, all the time as Muirhead's troops scored two in the second end, stole another two in the third, and stole a whopping six points in the sixth frame.

 

"It feels really good," said a nonchalant Muirhead, who shrugged off spectator chants to "kiss the ice" after the match.

 

"We knew early on if we could just stay on top of things we'd be fine."

 

Muirhead and Macintyre won the 2007 world junior crown with skip Sarah Reid. It marked the first back-to-back global junior women's victories for Scotland since Gillian Barr and Kirsty Hay turned the trick in 1992 and 1993, respectively.

 

Alternate Kay Adams stepped in to replace her sister Vicki on the eve of the playoffs, after Vicki suffered a fall and injured her leg.

Report Thanks to W C F site. (http://www.worldcurling.org/)

 

Read all about this amazing achievement and see loads of photographs with plenty of comment from Bobs Blog (Scottish Curler) http://curlingtoday.blogspot.com/

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