Mouat’s title win seals magnificent seven on home ice

Bruce Mouat led his team to yet another title at British Curling’ s December Super spiel in Stirling yesterday and in doing so completed a perfect cal - end ar year in domestic events.

With international competition ravaged by the Covid pandemic, Mouat has played in just nine men’s and mixed doubles tournaments in total, winning all seven of those that have been played in Scotland, as well as being part of the European team that beat Team Canada in the Ryder Cup-style Continental Cup in Canada at the start of the year.

That run began in early January, and Team Mouat have now ended the year as they started it, by claiming the December Superspiel title.

They clinched it by avenging their only defeat in the preliminary stage soft he tournament when they met Team Why te in the final, easing clear in the second half of the match to claim a 7-3 victory.

“We knew it was going to be a tight game ,” said Mouat.

"They beat us in the round-robin when we didn’t put in our best performance, so we knew we were going to have to play a bit better.”

Team Why te had star ted impressively, putting Mou at under pressure and forcing him to take a single at the opening end, then registering two at the second to move in front.

However, after a blanked third end, Mouat’ s men upped their game in claiming a two of their own at the fourth before taking control when they stole another shot at the next to move 5-2 ahead.

“The steal at the fifth was definitely the turning point,” said Mouat.

“They had probably been the better team in the first half, but then after that it changed and we managed to get a good force at the next end to secure our spot as front-runners and favourites going into the last two ends and the seventh end was really good where we played some simple shots, but played them really well."