Canada falls to Scotland, will play China for bronze at world curling playdowns
Canada will play for bronze at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship.
Brad Jacobs and his Calgary-based team dropped a 7-4 semifinal decision to Scotland's Bruce Mouat on Saturday at the Temple Gardens Centre.
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Canada's Jacobs falls to Scotland's Mouat, will play for bronze at men's curling worlds
Canada will play China's Xiaoming Xu in the third-place game on Sunday. Scotland will play Switzerland's Yannick Schwaller for gold.
Schwaller defeated China's Xiaoming Xu 7-3 in the other semifinal.
Earlier in the day, Mouat eliminated defending champion Niklas Edin of Sweden 8-7 in a qualification game. Xu qualified with an 8-7 victory win over Norway's Magnus Ramsfjell.
Canada hasn't won world men's gold since Brad Gushue was victorious in Edmonton in 2017.