All of a sudden, a big, fat ‘7’
mes Grattan didn’t see it coming, but all of a sudden it was staring him in the face. He had a shot for a seven-ender at the Tim Hortons Brier, presented by Mosaic.
That’s right. A seven! At the Brier!
The New Brunswick skip got the converted touchdown in the fifth end of a 12-5 win over British Columbia, skipped by Sean Geall, during Friday morning’s seeding draw.
“I’ve seen in the past where you kind of see it building up, but this one they had a few biters and all of a sudden they rolled out and ticked one, and he rolled out on his last one and I’m looking, ‘Where’s all the red ones now?’ I didn’t find one in the hack, so I thought maybe there’s eight in the rings already, but I found one out by the hogline. It was kind of weird because he just rolled out on his last one and left me an easy one,” said Grattan. “It was pretty tailor made.”
Geall could only smile and shrug, although he too, didn’t really see it coming because he thought he had New Brunswick in tough.
“We were a quarter-inch away from a steal. A steal of one or (giving up) a seven at that point wasn’t going to change the outcome of the game,” said Geall, who was behind 5-3 without the hammer at the time.
Grattan didn’t disagree with that assessment.
“If he makes the shot through the hole, I probably don’t have a shot against one. It’s foolish how that happens,” said the New Brunswick skip.