Nova Scotia team wins world senior men's curling championship

A Nova Scotia men's team captured the gold medal Saturday at the world senior men's curling championship in Ostersund, Sweden.

Skip Paul Flemming of Halifax and teammates Peter Burgess, Kris Granchelli and Martin Gavin defeated the U.S. 4-3 in the championship match to cap an undefeated week.

Flemming's team scored the deciding point with the final shot.

In a release from Curling Canada, Flemming said it might not have been the hardest shot of his career, but it was among them. He credited a Burgess shot for clearing a space for the deciding last rock.

"Peter kind of tidied it up there for me," he said. "I was just really feeling it on my last shot. I was just really seeing it, and we have really good sweepers, so I wanted to use them. They brought it back enough to make it."

The players celebrated a moment that has been decades in the making for all of them.

"We all have had jobs — I had opportunities to play higher competitive levels early on, but you know life is life," Burgess, whose brother Craig and nieces Karlee and Lindsey have won world curling titles, said in the release.

"This is a really cool opportunity to compete at this level, and to put the Maple Leaf on your back, and to win something like this for Canada is amazing."

Flemming said he was thrilled to share the win with his teammates.

"They were incredible, especially these last few games," he said. "It was well-earned, and quite honestly I feel like it was well-deserved. We worked really hard."

BACK TO BACK DOUBLE GOLD! The skipper makes the runback for the WIN and the super celly! 4-3 victory for Canada over the U.S.! <a href="https://t.co/SsOZxBoLch">pic.twitter.com/SsOZxBoLch</a>

The Canadian men have now won five straight men's titles since 2018. The