Carey’s rink in seventh place after losses at curling worlds

SILKEBORG, DENMARK Canada’s Chelsea Carey has some work to do to make the playoffs at the world women’s curling championship after dropping both of her games on Tuesday.

Scotland’s Sophie Jackson scored one point in an extra end for a 6-5 win over Canada and American Jamie Sinclair followed with a 13-6 victory over the Calgary-based rink.

Carey, who started the late draw in a tie for seventh place, fell to 3-4. The top six rinks in the 13-team field will make the playoffs.

Carey appeared to be in control until Scotland tied the game with a deuce in the eighth end and took a 5-4 lead with a steal of one in the ninth.

Canada forced the extra end with one in the 10th, but missed a chance to win when Carey’s last shot was heavy.

With the last shot in the 11th, Jackson cleared a Canadian stone off the four-foot ring to score the winning point.

“We’re just not getting rocks where we need them, when we need them,” said Dan Carey, coach of the Canadian foursome.

Carey started strong against the Americans by scoring three points in the first end. Sinclair scored five in the sixth end and tacked on four more points when Carey missed a long angle-raise tap.

The teams shook hands after eight ends.

In Draw 10 results, Sweden and South Korea joined idle China and Russia in a four-way tie for first place at 5-1. Sweden downed winless Finland 10-2, while the South Koreans thumped Japan 11-4.

Latvia picked up its first win of the tournament with an 11-8 win over host Denmark. Latvia improved to 1-5, while the Danes joined Finland at 0-6.

It has been 20 years since Canada missed the playoffs at this competition.