Overview:
The USA Wheelchair Curling team continued to climb in the standings yesterday with two more wins at the World Wheelchair Championships in South Korea.
Submitted by Jim Force to Wausau Pilot & Review
The USA Wheelchair Curling team continued to climb in the standings yesterday with two more wins at the World Wheelchair Championships in South Korea. Skipped by Wausau Curling Club’s Matt Thums, the Americans came from behind to edge Scotland 7-6, and then beat arch-rival Canada 7-5 in the second game.
Thums was quoted earlier that the US team was “hitting the broom and getting their weight right” as they broke into the win column after losing their first three. He said the progress felt good.
The two victories not only felt good, they moved the US team up in the standings. They are now at 3-4, just two wins behind the leaders Korea, China, and Latvia.
The win against Scotland was classic come-from-behind curling. After breaking out to a 5-0 lead, the US team saw the Scots tie it up with a four spot, then lead 6-5 going into the last end. But Thums and teammates used the hammer (last shot) to notch a pair and win.
Against Canada, they rallied as well, scoring in the late ends to win by two.
Curling with Thums are Shawn Sadowski, Steve Emt, and Laura Dwyer, all with Wisconsin ties. The fifth member is Oyuna Uranchimeg from the Twin Cities.
Up next for the US are games tonight against Sweden and early tomorrow morning (our time) against Estonia.
The games are being played at the Olympic-style curling facility in Gangneung, South Korea.
Scores can be followed on livescores.worldcurling.org.
