Live Blog: Day five at the ECC

Tomorrow we’ll be back with some more round-robin action.

Sweden put three on the board in the eighth end, and their 8-3 lead was enough for Germany to concede defeat.

Türkiye pulled off a great performance tonight against Denmark and won by 6-1 in eight ends.

Lukas Klima’s double take-out attempt with his last stone wasn’t successful and resulted in a steal of two for Italy.

Italy 6, Czech Republic 4 after seven ends.

Germany skip Sixten Totzek made an absolutely beautiful double take-out to score two against Sweden and reduce his team’s deficit to two points.

Sweden 5, Germany 3 going into the eighth.

Scotland had a clinical performance tonight against Norway. They were leading the game by 8-1 after six ends. At this point, Norway conceded defeat.

Scotland stay undefeated, while Norway have a 2-5 win-loss record.

After five ends of play on Tuesday evening the scores are:

Italy 3-4 Czech Republic

Germany 1-3 Sweden

Denmark 0-4 Türkiye

Scotland 6-1 Norway

Spain 2-3 Switzerland

Klaudius Harsch 🇩🇪 going for the roll, but makes the thin double takeout 🔥#ECC2022 #curling
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— World Curling (@worldcurling) November 22, 2022

Scotland steal another single over Norway for the 4-0 lead, while Türkiye steal two for the 3-0 lead after three ends.

Scotland have opened their game strongly against Norway. After opening with a score of two points in the first end, a single-point steal in the second end gives Scotland a 3-0 lead.

After six sessions of round-robin play, undefeated Italy and Scotland secured their spots in the play-offs!

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After seven sessions of round-robin play, we have our first women’s teams to qualify for the play-offs!

Many congratulations, Denmark and Switzerland!

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“As a team we’re really happy! We showed up for this game, to win it, and we defeated the leaders. Now the target is the semi-finals. I think now we are a solid team, and our opponents have to think twice about us.”

Swiss fans are certainly happy as their team won over Scotland by 9-3 in eight ends.

Türkiye handed Denmark their first loss of the championship. After scoring four in the seventh, Türkiye stole one in the eighth to lead the game by five points, at 10-5. At this point, Denmark conceded the game.

Norway scored three points in the seventh end to take the lead in their game against Italy for the first time.

Italy 4, Norway 6 after seven ends.

Hungary scored two points in the seventh end against Sweden to reduce their deficit to two points.

Sweden 5, Hungary 3 after seven.

Great seventh end for the Turkish team as they go up 9-5 against undefeated Denmark.

Germany had an excellent game against Latvia and won by 10-3 in six ends. This was Germany’s fourth win of the event, while Latvia are still seeking their first victory.

Denmark scored a single in the sixth against Türkiye to tie the game at 5-5.

SWE 5-1 HUN

SCO 1-5 SUI

LAT 3-7 GER

TUR 5-4 DEN

ITA 3-3 NOR

Türkiye had a great start to their game against undefeated Denmark. After scoring one in the first end, they stole one in the second to lead by 2-0.

Rebecca Morrison 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 gets through a gap barely bigger than a stone to make a double takeout and lie three! 🤩#ECC2022 #curling
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— World Curling (@worldcurling) November 22, 2022

After scoring two in the first end, the Germans stole a single in the second to start by 3-0 against Latvia.

The women’s seventh round-robin session starts in 30 minutes.

Here is the programme:

Sweden v Hungary

Scotland v Switzerland

Latvia v Germany

Türkiye v Denmark

Italy v Norway

The competition of the B-Division takes place at the Oestersund Curling Hall. It is home to the Oestersund Curling Club, the home club of three-time world men’s champions, team Peja Lindholm.

Keep up with the action in the B-Division here.

Türkiye skip Ugurcan Karagoz: “This is our dream. This is our first experience of a top international tournament and it’s going well. This is the first step in our dream to have the men’s and women’s teams in the Olympics together.”

Sweden skip Oskar Eriksson: “Hopefully we can continue this run. We’re three and three now, with three more games in the round-robin. If we can keep winning, we’ve got a good chance. We’re making a few more shots here and there now, and taking away the big mistakes. It’s a learning process, as in every championships. Losing doesn’t help but we knew we hadn’t reached the level that we want to play at, so we’re not worried.”

Defending champions Scotland ran Denmark out of stones in the tenth end to keep their record perfect.

Scotland 7, Denmark 4.

After a blanked seventh end, the teams exchanged single points in the eighth and ninth ends to go into the tenth at 8-6, Italy leading against Switzerland.

After swapping single points in the eighth and ninth ends, Norway and Spain are tied again. 4-4, going into the tenth.

Türkiye had a great game this morning against Germany and won by 11-4 in eight ends.

Sweden were leading their game against Czech Republic by 5-2 after seven ends.

In the eighth Lukas Klima needed to draw against three Swedish counters with his last. His stone came up short, giving up a steal of three.

Czech Republic conceded the game after this with the final score of 8-2 to Sweden.

Spain stole a single in the seventh to tie the game at 3-3 against Norway.

Denmark stole a single in the sixth end to tie the game at 4-4 against Scotland.

SCO 4-3 DEN

NOR 3-1 ESP

SUI 5-5 ITA

CZE 1-3 SWE

GER 2-7 TUR

A little bit of luck and a lot of skill for Benoit Schwarz 🇨🇭, to make an angle takeout to score two 👏#ECC2022 #curling
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— World Curling (@worldcurling) November 22, 2022

Türkiye put a big score of four on the board in the fourth end against Germany.

The Turkish are leading the game by 5-2 going into the fifth.

So far unbeaten Scotland are leading by 2-1 after two ends against Denmark, who are seeking their first win of the event this morning.

Switzerland stole a single in the first end against Italy in the battle of two unbeaten teams.

We start the day with the men’s sixth session at 9 am (CET).

Here are the pairings:

Scotland v Denmark

Norway v Spain

Switzerland v Italy

Czech Republic v Sweden

Germany v Türkiye

Good morning and welcome to day five at the Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2022.

We will have two men’s sessions and one women’s session in both divisions.

Click here to see the schedule for the A-Division and here for the B-Division’s programme.