A bronze consolation

For Rachel Homan, it's going to be a trip to the bronze-medal game -- the one contest no one as competitive as her really wants to be in.
The Homan rink lost 8-7 to Scotland's Eve Muirhead in a game the skipper figured her team should have won, according to the Canadian Press.

Homan had last-shot advantage in the final end. With Scotland sitting two, the Ottawa skip attempted a double takeout but the stone jammed and Muirhead stole a point for the victory. 

“We played really well and we deserved the win,” Homan said. “It’s too bad it had to end that way but sometimes it happens.”

And Coach Earle Morris figured that it was one big heavyweight battle between what is likely the two best young skips in the world. 

“It’s one of the finest curling games I can ever remember our team being involved in,” Morris said. “It was a battle. It was like a boxing match out there. Both teams played really well and made some big shots. It was the kind of game that I think deserved to have the last one made, whether it was Scotland throwing the last shot or Canada throwing the last rock. 

“But it’s why we play. You can’t guarantee what the outcomes are going to be.” 

In the Ottawa Citizen, Gord Holder reported on the thoughts of Lisa Weagle, who said that there was no sweeping on the last shot by Homan, indicating it may have been wide. 

“We haven’t talked about it, but we didn’t really touch the brooms to it,” said Weagle, referring to herself and the other sweeper, Kreviazuk. “I guess, maybe, it was a little wide. It needed to curl up, but it didn’t.”

The final will be between Sweden and Scotland, pushing the victory drought for the Canadians to five years.